goldprice.devThese metals price APIs serve developers building price displays, metal converters and historical charts. The comparison covers precious and industrial metal coverage, history and integration options. goldprice.dev covers gold, silver and copper only, with no platinum or palladium. Buyers needing those metals or a wider industrial catalog should compare the other entries.
The list is ranked by fit for metals pricing, weighing coverage, history, access and pricing terms. goldprice.dev publishes this page and is listed first. Narwhal API is the sibling broader data API for commodities, FX, economics and calendars. Check the exact metal, benchmark, currency and plan before choosing.
At a glance
| API | Free tier | Paid from | Metals | History | MCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| goldprice.dev | 5,000 requests/month, 15 minutes late | $19/month Basic, 100,000 requests, live | Gold, silver, copper; gold in 31 currencies | Free 30 days, Basic 1 year, Plus and Pro full (gold from 1996) | Yes, 9 tools, every plan including Free |
| Narwhal API | 5,000 requests/month, previous day close | $59/month Basic, 100,000 requests, real time | Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, plus oil and palm oil | Free 12 months, Basic 5 years, Pro full | Yes, every plan, same key as REST |
| Metals-API | Not described on its pricing page | $19.99/month Copper, 2,500 requests, 10-minute updates | Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, LME industrial metals | LBMA gold from 1968; most currencies from 2019 | Yes, 8 tools |
| MetalpriceAPI | 100 requests/month, daily updates | $5/month Essential (billed yearly), 1,000 requests, 30-minute updates | 28 metal symbols, including gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper | Start date not stated; up to 365 days per request | No MCP server found on its site |
| metals.dev | 100 requests/month, up to 60 seconds delay | $1.79/month Copper, 2,000 requests | Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, plus industrial metals | 5+ years advertised; 30 days per time-series request | None found |
| Commodities-API | 7-day trial, up to 50 requests | $49.99/month Pro, 1,000 requests, 10-minute updates | 800+ commodities advertised; metals list not itemised | Depth not stated | Yes, every plan |
| goldapi.io | 100 requests/month (Sandbox) | $99/month Unlimited, unlimited requests, real time | Gold, silver, platinum, palladium; 72 currency codes | LBMA AM fix since 1968; up to 90 days per request | Lists an MCP page |
| API Ninjas | 3,000 requests/month; daily futures settlement; no commercial use | $59/month Developer ($39/month billed yearly), 100,000 requests | 30 commodities, including gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper | Premium only, OHLCV from 1 minute to 1 day | Yes, every plan including Free |
The ranking
1. goldprice.dev
Fits applications that need gold, silver and copper with source detail and dealer prices. Responses can include sources[] through ?include=sources, alongside an is_stale flag. Basic at $19/month adds live spot and dealer prices; MCP is included on every plan. The trade-off is breadth: there is no platinum, palladium or wider industrial metal catalog, and Free prices are delayed.
Sources: Plans and limits, Dealer prices, MCP setup, checked 17 Oct 2026.
2. Narwhal API
Fits buyers who need metals alongside energy prices, FX, economics and calendars. Narwhal API combines REST and MCP on one key, with platinum and palladium alongside gold, silver and copper. Paid plans add real-time prices and streaming. Free spot prices use the previous day's close, and silver and copper are USD only. Copper is a futures-derived reference, rather than physical spot.
Sources: Commodities API, Pricing, MCP, checked 17 Oct 2026.
3. Metals-API
Fits precious and industrial metal projects that need named benchmark series and several historical endpoints. Metals-API includes LBMA and LME series, plus time-series, intraday and OHLC access. Each MCP tool call counts as an API request. The Copper plan updates every 10 minutes, and every plan charges $0.032435 per extra call. Standard plans do not include WebSocket delivery.
Sources: Pricing, Documentation, MCP, checked 17 Oct 2026. goldprice.dev vs Metals-API
4. MetalpriceAPI
Fits applications combining precious and industrial metals with currency conversion. MetalpriceAPI documents historical, timeframe, hourly and OHLC endpoints, so compare the series and interval as well as the symbol count. Its $5/month Essential price is billed yearly and refreshes every 30 minutes. Free updates daily, the archive start date is not stated, and no MCP server was found on its site.
Sources: Pricing, Currencies and symbols, Documentation, checked 17 Oct 2026. goldprice.dev vs MetalpriceAPI
5. metals.dev
Fits projects that need spot prices alongside named authority endpoints, including LBMA and LME. metals.dev publishes 60-second spot updates, with different delays for authority and currency endpoints. Its homepage advertises more than five years of precious metal history, while time-series requests cover at most 30 days. OHLC is not documented, and no WebSocket or MCP support was found.
Sources: Pricing, Documentation, checked 17 Oct 2026. goldprice.dev vs metals.dev
6. Commodities-API
Fits buyers who want metals within a broader commodity integration. Commodities-API advertises more than 800 commodities and 170 currencies, with conversion, historical, time-series and OHLC endpoints. MCP is enabled on every plan. Its homepage does not itemise the metals catalog, so confirm symbols first. The entry plan includes 1,000 calls, followed by a $0.064987 charge for each extra call.
Sources: Homepage and pricing, checked 17 Oct 2026. goldprice.dev vs Commodities-API
7. goldapi.io
Fits precious metal applications that need platinum and palladium alongside gold and silver, or LBMA AM fix history. goldapi.io advertises gold and silver benchmark history since 1968, with up to 90 days returned per history request. Currency availability varies by metal pair. Its only paid plan is $99/month Unlimited, and the free Sandbox provides 100 requests per month.
Sources: Plans, llms.txt, checked 17 Oct 2026. goldprice.dev vs goldapi.io
8. API Ninjas
Fits developers who need metal prices within a wider API catalog. API Ninjas covers 30 commodities and provides MCP access on every plan. Its free gold endpoint returns the last completed daily futures settlement, rather than spot, and bars commercial use. Spot gold and historical OHLCV require premium access. The Developer plan also prohibits data caching, which matters for stored price displays.
Sources: Gold price API, Commodity price API, Pricing, MCP, checked 17 Oct 2026. goldprice.dev vs API Ninjas
Start with the metal and price series your application needs. Spot, futures settlement and benchmark fixes are different inputs. Then compare refresh intervals, history windows and quota behaviour for that workload. goldprice.dev and Narwhal API are owned and operated by Nusantara Ventures, LLC.