gold-api.com's free tier is genuinely generous, unlimited real-time requests, no card, no catch on the headline number. Where we differentiate isn't “more free”, it's depth: every source attributed and per-country dealer prices gold-api.com doesn't ship at any price.
Feature-level comparison against gold-api.com's published homepage and pricing page. Email us if anything here is out of date. Source: gold-api.com + gold-api.com/pricing. Last verified 2026-07-13.
Which one to choose
Where gold-api.com wins
Free, unlimited, and dead simple.
Unlimited free real-time requests. No rate cap on live price calls, no credit card, genuinely free for a simple integration. Our Free tier is quota-limited (30 days of history, standard rate limits).
Dead simple. One endpoint, one number, nothing to configure. If all you need is “what's gold worth right now,” it's hard to beat for zero setup cost.
Silver and crypto on the same free key. Silver and Bitcoin prices ship free alongside gold, no separate product line to sign up for.
Where goldprice.dev wins
Every source visible, the whole gold stack, MCP on every plan.
Every source visible, not one blended number. Add ?include=sources and see exactly which feed(s) contributed, with source identifier and timestamps. gold-api.com returns a single price with no stated methodology.
Full daily history on Plus and Pro. gold-api.com's free tier caps historical/OHLC calls at 10/hour; unlimited history needs their $10/mo Premium plan. Our daily history runs to 1996 on Plus and Pro; Free covers 30 days and Basic one year. All plans have request caps.
MCP on every plan. A native Model Context Protocol server with nine tools, on Free too. gold-api.com has no MCP offering.
Built for the whole gold stack, not just spot. Per-country dealer prices from Basic ($19/mo). No new plan includes futures or settlements. gold-api.com ships a live spot number and stops there.
Published methodology + honest staleness flag. is_stale: boolean on every response, and a methodology doc naming every source category. gold-api.com discloses neither.
Who should pick which
Short version: pick gold-api.com if a free, unlimited, single spot number is genuinely all you need. Pick us if you need provenance, historical depth on Plus and Pro, or dealer prices.
Pick gold-api.com if…
You need a free, unlimited spot price and nothing else.
You're building a display widget, a hobby project, or an internal dashboard where a single live number is enough and you don't need to know where it came from.
→ gold-api.com · unlimited free real-time requests, no card.
Pick goldprice.dev if…
You're building for agents or quant tools, or you care about per-source provenance.
You're wiring gold into Claude, Cursor, or a custom agent; you need what gold actually costs at the counter in selected countries, not just a spot print; or you want full daily history on Plus or Pro before you bet production on a single blended number.
→ $19/mo · MCP in under 10 minutes.
Still deciding?
Start on Basic for $19/mo. Keep the one that doesn't make you angry at 2am.
For real-time price requests, yes, no rate cap, no credit card. Historical and OHLC calls are capped at 10 requests/hour on the free tier (unlimited on their $10/mo Premium plan). goldprice.dev's Free tier is quota-limited but includes 30 days of history at no cost, with no separate historical-endpoint cap.
Does gold-api.com disclose its data sources?
Not that's published, it returns a single price with no stated methodology or source breakdown. goldprice.dev's sources[] array (via ?include=sources) names every contributing feed with its source identifier and timestamps.
Does gold-api.com have MCP support?
Not as of this writing. goldprice.dev ships a native MCP server with nine tools on every plan, including Free.
Which is better for a simple 'what's gold worth' widget?
gold-api.com, if that's genuinely all you need, free, unlimited real-time requests, one call, no signup friction. goldprice.dev is the better fit once you need source provenance, historical depth on Plus and Pro, or per-country dealer prices.
Does gold-api.com show what gold costs to buy?
No, it's a live spot number, full stop. goldprice.dev's Basic tier ($19+) adds live dealer sell/buyback quotes across selected countries.
Start with a free API key
5,000 requests a month on the free plan. No credit card.
goldprice.dev