Exchange Rate API (exchange-rateapi.com)

exchange-rateapi.com/pricingCurrency exchange rate API (alias domain of AllRatesToday)data-apis/exchange-rateapiJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Free allowance: The pricing page of exchange-rateapi.com redirects to the AllRatesToday pricing page, so the Free plan is the AllRatesToday Free plan: 1 API key, 10 requests a minute, and a lifetime request total whose size is not published.
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: volume-quotathe AllRatesToday lifetime total of Free requests; its size is not published
Evidence: documented8 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	The pricing page of exchange-rateapi.com redirects to the AllRatesToday pricing page, so the Free plan is the AllRatesToday Free plan: 1 API key, 10 requests a minute, and a lifetime request total whose size is not published. unit requests; metered on request-count; The home page and the sign-up page of exchange-rateapi.com carry AllRatesToday content and AllRatesToday links. The terms page on exchange-rateapi.com names its own service, Exchange Rate API. See data-apis/allratestoday for the plan numbers.
Price	none stated
Limits	volume-quota (binding) the AllRatesToday lifetime total of Free requests; its size is not published source request-rate 10 requests a minute on the Free plan (AllRatesToday pricing page) source
Binding	volume-quota The lifetime total never resets, so it ends the key before the per-minute rate matters.
Identity	email The sign-up page is the AllRatesToday page: email and password, or Google or GitHub; no card.
Egress	not metered in bytes; the request total bounds what a free key can pull
Per-object cap	not stated
Interface	rest the same REST API as AllRatesToday, at allratestoday.com/api/v1/rates with a Bearer key endpoint: https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/rates
Tooling	any HTTP client; the same SDKs as AllRatesToday
Composes with	Use the AllRatesToday record data-apis/allratestoday for limits and data-apis/allratestoday-open for the keyless lane; this domain adds no separate quota.
Reliability	The terms on this domain say a call past the plan rate limit answers HTTP 429 and that persistent overuse may lead to suspension.
Notes	Free requests: the AllRatesToday lifetime total, size not published. Rate limit: 10 requests a minute. Bulk path: none on the free key; see data-apis/allratestoday-open. This record and data-apis/allratestoday describe one offer.
Evidence note	documented The pricing and sign-up pages read here are identical to the AllRatesToday pages, and a fetch of the pricing URL showed a redirect to allratestoday.com. No key was created.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1 request-rate 10 requests / minute

Evidence 8

date	source	what it proved
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/pricing	the pricing URL of exchange-rateapi.com ends on the AllRatesToday pricing page
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/	the home page of exchange-rateapi.com is the AllRatesToday home page
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/pricing	not published
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/pricing	latest central-bank tables are on the free plan
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/register	the sign-up page read from exchange-rateapi.com offers Google and GitHub
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/terms	the terms of exchange-rateapi.com ask users to cache responses
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/terms	not published
2026-11-02	exchange-rateapi.com/terms	past the plan limit the API answers HTTP 429

More fields 2

bulk path	none on the free key; the keyless AllRatesToday GitHub dataset is the bulk route
free requests	AllRatesToday lifetime total, size not published

Unknown values 1

retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer