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Metals-API

Metals-API provides a free, simple, and lightweight JSON API for current and historical precious metals rates and currency conversion. It supports real-time and historical data for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and other metals in 170 world currencies.

Metals-API publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Analytics API, Conversion API, Rates API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Currency, Financial Data, Gold, Precious Metals, and Silver.

Metals-API’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, pricing, signup flow, and 3 more developer resources.

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33.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs
CurrencyFinancial DataGoldPrecious MetalsSilver

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Access Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 23/100 · 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 0 / 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 Surface 0 / 5
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APIs 4

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

Metals-API Analytics API

Time series, fluctuation, and OHLC analytics.

Metals-API Conversion API

Currency and metal conversion endpoints.

Metals-API Rates API

Real-time and historical precious metals rates.

Metals-API Reference API

Symbols and reference data.

Open Collections 6

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Metals Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Metals Analytics Conversion API

OPEN COLLECTION

Metals Analytics Rates API

OPEN COLLECTION

Metals Analytics Reference API

OPEN COLLECTION

Metals-API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Metals Api Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Metals Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Metals Api Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Metals Api Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Metals Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Metals Api Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 Signup
Signup

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: metals-api
name: Metals-API
description: Metals-API provides a free, simple, and lightweight JSON API for current and historical precious metals rates
  and currency conversion. It supports real-time and historical data for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and other metals
  in 170 world currencies.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/metals-api.png
tags:
- Currency
- Financial Data
- Gold
- Precious Metals
- Silver
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metals-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-03-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: metals-api:metals-api-analytics-api
  name: Metals-API Analytics API
  description: Time series, fluctuation, and OHLC analytics.
  humanURL: https://metals-api.com/
  baseURL: https://metals-api.com/api
  tags:
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metals-api-analytics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation#access_key
- aid: metals-api:metals-api-conversion-api
  name: Metals-API Conversion API
  description: Currency and metal conversion endpoints.
  humanURL: https://metals-api.com/
  baseURL: https://metals-api.com/api
  tags:
  - Conversion
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metals-api-conversion-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation#access_key
- aid: metals-api:metals-api-rates-api
  name: Metals-API Rates API
  description: Real-time and historical precious metals rates.
  humanURL: https://metals-api.com/
  baseURL: https://metals-api.com/api
  tags:
  - Rates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metals-api-rates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation#access_key
- aid: metals-api:metals-api-reference-api
  name: Metals-API Reference API
  description: Symbols and reference data.
  humanURL: https://metals-api.com/
  baseURL: https://metals-api.com/api
  tags:
  - Reference
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metals-api-reference-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://metals-api.com/documentation#access_key
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/metals-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/metals-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/metals-api-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zyla-labs
- type: Portal
  url: https://metals-api.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://metals-api.com/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://metals-api.com/signup
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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