# Currencylayer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/currencylayer/  
**Website:** https://currencylayer.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Currencylayer is a real-time and historical foreign exchange rate JSON API delivering bank-grade exchange rate data for 168 world currencies and precious metals, sourced from 15+ commercial-grade providers. The service is delivered through the APILayer marketplace under a freemium subscription model with refresh cadence ranging from hourly on Free up to 60 seconds on Enterprise tiers.

## Kin Score — 52.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 69.9 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 39.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 77.6 |
| Access Clarity | 77.6 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Currencylayer Change API** — Currency change (margin and percentage) analysis between two dates.
- **Currencylayer Conversion API** — On-demand currency amount conversion.
- **Currencylayer Rates API** — Real-time and historical foreign exchange rate operations.
- **Currencylayer Symbols API** — Discovery of supported currency symbols.
- **Currencylayer Time Frame API** — Daily historical rates between two dates.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Currencylayer Agentic Access** — 6 operations

## Security (2)

- **Currencylayer Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Currencylayer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Currencylayer Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (7)

- **E-Commerce Multi-Currency Pricing** — Convert prices into the shopper's local currency at checkout using /convert and /live.
- **Treasury and Cash Reporting** — Daily mark-to-market of multi-currency balances using /timeframe and /change.
- **Travel and Fintech Apps** — Power in-app FX widgets, traveler wallets, and remittance quotes with /live.
- **Accounting and Ledger Reconciliation** — Look up the official end-of-day rate for any historical transaction with /historical.
- **Backtesting and Analytics** — Pull windowed rate history with /timeframe to feed quant or BI models.
- **Compliance and Audit Trails** — Reference an immutable end-of-day rate when auditing cross-border payments.
- **AI Agents and MCP Tools** — Expose live and historical rates to LLM agents via APILayer's MCP server pattern.

## Tags

Currency Exchange, Foreign Exchange, FX, Forex, Conversion, Historical Rates, Time Frame, Change Report, Precious Metals, APILayer, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/currencylayer/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.