CurrencyBeacon

Currency exchange rates REST API providing real-time mid-market rates for 170+ fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies, with 30 years of historical data, server-side conversion, timeseries analysis, and MCP server support for LLM integrations. Sourced from central banks and trusted financial institutions with 99.99% uptime.

CurrencyBeacon publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Conversion API, Currencies API, and Rates API. Tagged areas include Currency, Exchange Rates, Foreign Exchange, Cryptocurrency, and Financial Data.

The CurrencyBeacon catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

CurrencyBeacon’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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31.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Currency Exchange Rates Foreign Exchange Cryptocurrency Financial Data Historical Rates Currency Conversion

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 31.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 52.7 — up to +11.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

CurrencyBeacon Conversion API

Currency conversion operations

CurrencyBeacon Currencies API

Supported currencies information

CurrencyBeacon Rates API

Currency exchange rate operations

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

CurrencyBeacon conversion API

OPEN COLLECTION

CurrencyBeacon conversion currencies API

OPEN COLLECTION

CurrencyBeacon conversion rates API

OPEN COLLECTION

CurrencyBeacon API pricing

Not yet checked against CurrencyBeacon's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Developer Sandbox	Free
Basic	$10
Startup	$99
Professional	$599
Enterprise	—

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Currencybeacon Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Currencybeacon Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

CurrencyBeacon

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Currencybeacon Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

CurrencyBeacon — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ConversionResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurrencyInfo

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LatestRatesResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Conversion Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Currencies Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Latest Rates Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Timeseries Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Currencybeacon Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Currencybeacon Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Currencybeacon Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: currencybeacon
name: CurrencyBeacon
description: Currency exchange rates REST API providing real-time mid-market rates for 170+ fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies,
  with 30 years of historical data, server-side conversion, timeseries analysis, and MCP server support for LLM integrations.
  Sourced from central banks and trusted financial institutions with 99.99% uptime.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/currencybeacon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/currencybeacon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Currency
- Exchange Rates
- Foreign Exchange
- Cryptocurrency
- Financial Data
- Historical Rates
- Currency Conversion
tags_raw:
- Currency
- Exchange Rates
- Forex
- Cryptocurrency
- Financial Data
- Historical Rates
- Currency Conversion
apis:
- aid: currencybeacon:currencybeacon-conversion-api
  name: CurrencyBeacon Conversion API
  description: Currency conversion operations
  humanURL: https://currencybeacon.com
  baseURL: https://api.currencybeacon.com/v1
  tags:
  - Conversion
  tags_raw:
  - conversion
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/currencybeacon-conversion-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation
- aid: currencybeacon:currencybeacon-currencies-api
  name: CurrencyBeacon Currencies API
  description: Supported currencies information
  humanURL: https://currencybeacon.com
  baseURL: https://api.currencybeacon.com/v1
  tags:
  - Currency
  tags_raw:
  - currencies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/currencybeacon-currencies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation
- aid: currencybeacon:currencybeacon-rates-api
  name: CurrencyBeacon Rates API
  description: Currency exchange rate operations
  humanURL: https://currencybeacon.com
  baseURL: https://api.currencybeacon.com/v1
  tags:
  - Rates
  tags_raw:
  - rates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/currencybeacon-rates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/currencybeacon-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/currencybeacon-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/currencybeacon-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://currencybeacon.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://currencybeacon.com/api-documentation
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/currencybeacon
- type: Pricing
  url: https://currencybeacon.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.currencybeacon.com
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/currencybeacon
- type: Plans
  url: plans/currencybeacon-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/currencybeacon-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/currencybeacon-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

CurrencyBeacon API — frequently asked questions

Does CurrencyBeacon have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from CurrencyBeacon, including CurrencyBeacon Conversion API, CurrencyBeacon Currencies API and CurrencyBeacon Rates API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the CurrencyBeacon API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for CurrencyBeacon, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the CurrencyBeacon API?

CurrencyBeacon uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Currencybeacon Authentication.

How much does the CurrencyBeacon API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for CurrencyBeacon, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the CurrencyBeacon API ready for AI agents?

CurrencyBeacon has a Kin Score of 31.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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