Kitco is the name gold traders have trusted for market news and the Morning Fix since before most APIs existed. goldprice.dev is the developer API: JSON responses, 31 currencies, and MCP on every plan.
We could not find a published, self-serve developer API on kitco.com, so most rows compare a market-news-and-dealer site to a developer API rather than API feature to API feature. Source: kitco.com (price page + forum) as of 2026-07-25. Last verified 2026-07-25.
Which one to choose
Where Kitco wins
The trusted brand for gold market news and the physical trade.
Decades of market news and analysis. Daily commentary, mining-industry coverage, and video content from a newsroom, not something an API can replace. goldprice.dev ships price data, not journalism.
Historical charts back to 2000. Kitco's price page offers interactive charts across a multi-decade date range, built for browsing by eye. Our history is tier-windowed (30 days Free, 1 year Basic, full on Plus and Pro) and shaped for pulling into your own charts, not for browsing on our site.
The Kitco Morning Fix. A recognized daily reference price posted for each of several global trading hubs, a physical-bullion-trade convention goldprice.dev doesn't replicate.
A bullion-dealer arm, not just a chart. Kitco also runs online.kitco.com to buy and sell physical gold and silver directly. goldprice.dev is data-only, it doesn't sell metal.
Where goldprice.dev wins
Built to be called from code, not read off a screen.
An actual documented API. A REST API with an API key, a free tier, and versioned endpoints. We could not find a published, self-serve developer API on kitco.com, see the FAQ below.
JSON you can parse. Every response is structured JSON with unit-annotated fields, an is_stale flag, and per-source attribution via sources[].
MCP on every plan. A native Model Context Protocol server, including on Free, so an AI agent can query gold prices directly.
31 currencies, paid live. Gold spot in 31 currencies on every tier, computed from USD spot × FX, live on paid plans and 15 minutes late on Free. Kitco's public price page is USD-only.
The actual retail price, by country. Live dealer sell & buyback quotes with premium-over-spot across selected countries, from $19 Basic, what gold costs at a counter, not just the benchmark spot.
Free tier that fits a script. 5,000 calls/month, no credit card, no scraping required.
Who should pick which
This isn't really a competitive choice, it's two different jobs. Pick based on whether you're writing code or reading the news / buying metal.
Pick Kitco if…
You want gold market news, a trusted daily fix, or to buy physical metal.
You want to read market commentary, check the Morning Fix, browse decades of charts by eye, or buy or sell physical gold and silver directly.
→ kitco.com · free to browse.
Pick goldprice.dev if…
You're writing code that needs a live gold price.
You're building an app, a bot, an internal dashboard, or an AI agent that needs to fetch gold, silver, or copper prices programmatically, including what gold actually costs to buy in selected countries, with a documented API, rate limits, and MCP support.
→ Commercial use on every plan · No credit link needed.
Landed here by mistake?
If you want the daily news or a fix price to read, Kitco is the established name. If you're about to write a fetch call, you're in the right place.
We couldn't find a published, self-serve developer API or JSON feed on kitco.com, its own community forum has a thread from a developer asking exactly this question, where another user reports that the URL some people call an "API" returns an HTML page rather than JSON, and a moderator directs them to email Kitco support directly. If you need gold data in code, goldprice.dev is a documented REST API with JSON responses and an MCP server on every plan, including Free.
What is Kitco, exactly?
Kitco is a precious-metals market-news and data site, live spot prices, historical charts back to 2000, and daily market commentary, that also runs a bullion-dealer arm (online.kitco.com) for buying and selling physical gold and silver. It's not primarily built as a data source for other applications.
Does Kitco show gold prices in currencies other than USD?
Kitco's precious-metals price page (kitco.com/price/precious-metals) displays gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rhodium spot prices in USD. goldprice.dev serves gold spot in 31 currencies on every tier, computed from live USD spot × FX.
What's the Kitco Morning Fix?
Kitco publishes a "Morning Fix" price posted around 10:30 AM local time in each of several global trading hubs (Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, New York), a well-known reference point for the physical bullion trade. goldprice.dev doesn't publish a fix; it serves a continuously updating live spot price plus daily historical bars, meant to be pulled into code rather than read as a benchmark print.
Can I build a product on top of Kitco's price data?
Not through anything Kitco publishes as a supported integration. goldprice.dev is designed for exactly this: a documented REST API with an API key, 5,000 calls/month on Free, and a native MCP server so an AI agent can query gold prices directly.
Start with a free API key
5,000 requests a month on the free plan. No credit card.
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