currencylayer (APILayer)
- Free allowance
- Free plan, USD 0: 100 API requests a month, daily updates, historical rates, HTTPS.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota100 requests a month on the Free plan
- Evidence
- documented23 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | Free plan, USD 0: 100 API requests a month, daily updates, historical rates, HTTPS. unit requests; metered on request-count; One request is any call with a valid key; time-frame and change queries and many currencies in one call count as one. The next plan up, Basic, is USD 14.99 a month for 10,000 requests. The pricing FAQ says quotes refresh every 60 minutes on Free and Basic, the general FAQ says every day on Free; the plan card says daily updates. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Rate per minute: not stated on the pages read. The timeframe endpoint spans up to 365 days; whether the Free plan includes it was not readable, because the plan table lost its check and cross marks. Bulk path: none on the free plan. |
| Binding | volume-quota 100 requests a month is spent in days of testing, and no per-minute rate is published. |
| Identity | email The free sign-up form asks for first name, last name, email, password, address, postal code, country and city (state in some countries), with a Turnstile check. The card block of the form is marked paid-only and hidden. |
| Egress | not metered in bytes; the 100 requests a month bound what a free key can pull |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Interface | rest GET /live and /historical with an access_key; /timeframe, /convert and /change are other endpoints, and their plan gate was not read endpoint: https://api.currencylayer.com/live |
| Tooling | any HTTP client |
| Composes with | 100 requests a month is a test allowance; a daily rate pull uses about 30, so little is left for history. |
| Reliability | At 100 percent of the allowance the FAQ says overage fees apply, and the plan table lists an Overage line; what the Free plan does past 100 requests was not read. |
| Notes | Free requests: 100 a month. Rate limit: no per-minute rate stated on the pages read. Bulk path: none on the free plan. |
| Evidence note | documented Quota, refresh and licence fields are read from the home page and FAQ; the sign-up fields are read from the form markup of the free sign-up page. The documentation pages did not read in full. No key was created. |
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Evidence 23
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/ | the Free plan card lists 100 API calls |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/ | the Free plan card lists daily updates |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/ | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/ | the Free plan card lists historical rates |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/ | the Free plan card lists no support |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/signup/free | the sign-up page lists the first plan, Free, at 100 requests a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/faq | the free allowance is 100 API requests a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/faq | any call with a key counts as one request |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/faq | the Free plan refreshes every day |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/faq | past 100 percent overage fees apply |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/ | paid plans start at USD 14.99 a month |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/signup/free | the sign-up form asks for a first name |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/signup/free | the sign-up form asks for an email address |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/signup/free | the sign-up form requires a postal code |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/signup/free | the card block of the sign-up form is marked paid-only and hidden |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/signup/free | the sign-up form carries a Turnstile check |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/faq | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/faq | the API covers 168 currencies and metals |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/ | Basic allows 10,000 requests |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/faq | time-frame and change queries and many currencies count as one request |
| 2026-11-02 | currencylayer.com/pricing/ | the pricing FAQ says quotes refresh every 60 minutes on Free and Basic |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.apilayer.com/currencylayer/docs/api-documentation | the docs list a historical endpoint |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.apilayer.com/currencylayer/docs/api-documentation | the docs list a live endpoint |
More fields 2
| bulk path | none on the free plan |
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| free requests | 100 a month |
Unknown values 1
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer