Live market rates for gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude, natural gas and 520+ other assets. One REST call returns clean JSON you can ship in minutes.
Mid-market prices tracked to LBMA, COMEX, NYMEX, ICE and CBOT markets, plus World Bank and IMF reference data. See our data sources
Every price tracks a named underlying market. Here is which one, symbol by symbol.
For actively traded commodities, CommodityPriceAPI returns the mid-market price: the midpoint between the live bid and ask, taken from real-time market feeds that track the underlying exchange and over-the-counter markets.
| Underlying market | What it covers | Example symbols |
|---|---|---|
| London bullion market (LBMA) | Gold and silver spot | XAU, XAG |
| London platinum and palladium market (LPPM) | Platinum and palladium spot | XPT, XPD |
| COMEX | Copper, spot and futures, including individual contract months | XCU-FUT, XCU-SPOT, XCU-FUT-{MMMYY} |
| NYMEX | WTI crude, natural gas, heating oil, RBOB gasoline, including individual contract months | WTIOIL-FUT, WTIOIL-FUT-DEC26, NG-FUT, HO-FUT, RB-FUT |
| ICE Futures Europe | Brent crude, including contract months, gas oil, UK natural gas | BRENTOIL-FUT, LGO, UK-GAS |
| ICE Futures U.S. | Coffee, cocoa, cotton, sugar No. 11, orange juice | CA, CC, CT, LS11, OJ |
| CBOT | Wheat, corn, soybeans, soybean oil and meal, oats, rough rice, including contract months | ZW-FUT, CORN, SOYBEAN-FUT, ZL, ZM |
| CME | Lumber, live cattle, feeder cattle, lean hogs | LB-FUT, LC1, FC1, LHOGS |
| World Bank and IMF | Monthly reference prices for agriculture, fertilisers, timber and minor metals | MAIZE, RICET5, COAL-AU, VANPENT |
Prices are mid-market reference prices, not exchange settlement prices, benchmark auction prices or executable quotes. A futures symbol follows the pricing of the exchange contract; it is not a direct exchange feed.
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Core features
Query live and historical prices for 520+ commodities — precious metals, energy, agriculture, and industrial materials — through a single JSON API instead of juggling multiple data vendors.
One API key, one REST call, one JSON response. Copy-paste examples take you from signup to your first live price in under 5 minutes — no SDK required.
$ curl "https://api.commoditypriceapi.com/v3/rates/latest?symbols=XAU" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
{ "success": true, "rates": { "XAU": 4141.4 } }Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper and WTI and Brent crude are refreshed every second on every plan, with bid and ask. Every other symbol updates as often as its market publishes.
Get any commodity price denominated in the currency you need with a single quote parameter. 150+ world currencies supported out of the box.
Simple monthly or annual plans with no long-term contracts. Start with an unlimited free trial for integrations, then upgrade, downgrade, or cancel whenever you like.
Key facts
Fetch the latest spot rates the moment markets move, or pull the closing rate for any past date — each is a single GET request to one endpoint.
Every response is clean JSON with a unit and timestamp per symbol, ready to drop straight into dashboards, alerts, or pricing engines.
The time-series endpoint returns day-by-day rates between any two dates, ready for charting — no client-side aggregation needed.
The fluctuation endpoint computes absolute and percentage change for you, so building 24-hour, 7-day, or 30-day movers takes 1 call instead of a data pipeline.
Latest, historical, fluctuation, time-series, and symbols — 5 predictable REST endpoints cover the full workflow, all authenticated with a single x-api-key header.
Interactive documentation and a live playground let you test real requests before writing a line of code, and responses stay plain JSON on every plan.
npx -y @commoditypriceapi/mcpSet up the MCP serverDocumentation
One x-api-key header, plain JSON back, and copy-ready examples in cURL, JavaScript, Python and PHP for every endpoint.
Endpoints
1Send a request
curl "https://api.commoditypriceapi.com/v3/rates/latest?symbols=XAU,WTIOIL-FUT" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"const res = await fetch(
"https://api.commoditypriceapi.com/v3/rates/latest?symbols=XAU,WTIOIL-FUT",
{ headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" } },
);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.commoditypriceapi.com/v3/rates/latest",
params={"symbols": "XAU,WTIOIL-FUT"},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
print(res.json())<?php
$ch = curl_init("https://api.commoditypriceapi.com/v3/rates/latest?symbols=XAU,WTIOIL-FUT");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"],
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($data);2Get JSON back
{
"success": true,
"timestamp": 1703866777,
"rates": {
"XAU": 2066.98,
"WTIOIL-FUT": 72.29
},
"metadata": {
"XAU": {
"unit": "T.oz",
"quote": "USD"
},
"WTIOIL-FUT": {
"unit": "Bbl",
"quote": "USD"
}
}
}Each of these has its own endpoint, refreshed every second on every plan, with bid and ask on every call. Everything else in the catalogue is one request away on /rates/latest.
Looking for something else? Browse all supported symbols.
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FAQ
Data sources, update frequencies, plans and limits. If your question isn't here, we usually reply within a day.
Contact supportWe have over 520 commodities available on our platform. Please take a look at the full list of available in our documentation.
For traded commodities we deliver the mid-market price, the midpoint between the live bid and ask, from real-time market feeds that track the underlying markets: the London bullion market (LBMA) for gold and silver, the London platinum and palladium market (LPPM) for platinum and palladium, COMEX for copper, NYMEX and ICE for energy, and CBOT and ICE for agricultural futures. Monthly reference series come from the World Bank, the IMF and official government and statistical agency releases, delivered as published. All prices are derived reference data, not a direct exchange feed.
Yes, XAU is priced on the London bullion market (LBMA). It is the mid-market price, the midpoint between the live bid and ask, updated every second around the clock. The twice-daily LBMA Gold Price auction, administered by ICE Benchmark Administration, fixes one price at 10:30 and 15:00 London time, while XAU follows the same market continuously in between.
The rate field is the mid: the average of the live bid and ask. The per-second symbols also return bid and ask, so you can show the spread or price either side.
Ten symbols are refreshed every second on every current plan: gold (XAU), silver (XAG), platinum (XPT), palladium (XPD), copper spot and futures (XCU-SPOT, XCU-FUT) and WTI and Brent crude, spot and futures (WTIOIL-SPOT, WTIOIL-FUT, BRENTOIL-SPOT, BRENTOIL-FUT). Each has its own endpoint, /v3/rates/latest/{symbol}, which returns bid and ask as well as the rate. On the legacy Lite plan they may be up to 10 minutes old.
A -SPOT symbol is a continuous cash price with no expiry date, so it moves smoothly — best for displays, conversions and alerts. A -FUT symbol follows the front-month exchange futures contract on a continuous basis — best when your numbers must match futures quotes. Neither is an exchange settlement or an official benchmark price.
You can check your usage for the month by going to the dashboard page or through the usage API.
No, we don't have any free plans. However, we do offer an unlimited free trial for integrations, and it does not require a credit card.
Yes, you can automatically extend your trial for up to three times if you choose to extend it within the trial period. Beyond the third extension, the process will require a manual review. You may submit a request to our support team, and after a thorough evaluation, we may approve an extension for your plan.
No, we don't provide refunds. However, you can cancel your subscription at any time.
No. The Basic, Standard and Advanced plans have no per-minute rate limit; only your monthly request quota applies. The legacy Lite plan is limited to 10 requests per minute.
