Central Bank of Venezuela Exchange Rate API: Official VES Rates as JSON

The Central Bank of Venezuela publishes the official exchange rates that accounting, tax, and customs practice in Venezuela reference — published official rates, not moving market prices. This guide shows how to pull them as JSON: via a REST endpoint or the zero-dependency central-bank-of-venezuela-exchange-rate npm package.

The rate the law requires, dated the way the law dates it

Venezuelan accounting and tax practice are required to use the BCV reference rate, and each published rate legally applies on its Fecha Valor — the business day after the trading session it summarises. The API dates every rate by that Fecha Valor, so the value you fetch for a date is the value that legally applied on it. Where the parallel market diverges — as it often has — the official print is precisely what filings must cite.

Why official rates, not market rates

A live mid-market feed answers "what is USD/VES trading at right now?" — the right tool for checkouts and dashboards. But accountants, auditors, and tax authorities ask a different question: "which rate were you required to use for this date?" That answer comes from the Central Bank of Venezuela’s published rates, and it never changes after publication.

Get the latest rates (REST)

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/bcv/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

The response is the bank's most recent published table — every rate and the publication date. The latest rates are available on every plan, including the free tier (300 requests/month, no credit card).

The npm SDK

npm install central-bank-of-venezuela-exchange-rate

import { getRate, getLatestRates } from 'central-bank-of-venezuela-exchange-rate';

// One pair at the official rate
const pair = await getRate('USD', 'VES', { apiKey: 'art_live_...' });
console.log(pair.rate, pair.rate_date);

// The bank's full published table
const table = await getLatestRates({ apiKey: 'art_live_...' });
console.log(table.rate_date, table.rates.length);

Zero dependencies, TypeScript types included, and it runs anywhere fetch exists — Node 18+, Bun, Deno, and edge runtimes.

Historical rates for an invoice date

import { getRatesForDate, getHistory } from 'central-bank-of-venezuela-exchange-rate';

const day = await getRatesForDate('2026-08-18', { apiKey: 'art_live_...' });

const series = await getHistory(
  { source: 'USD', target: 'VES', from: '2026-01-01' },
  { apiKey: 'art_live_...' }
);

Historical dates and time series need a paid plan; the latest rates stay free.

Published vs derived pairs

If the Central Bank of Venezuela does not print a pair directly, the API resolves it from the bank's published rates — an inverse, or a cross via VES — and flags it derived: true with the method used. Official and computed values are never silently mixed, which is exactly the distinction an auditor will ask about.

The archive

We hold the full 21-currency bulletin with buying and selling sides back to 2020, and the USD series back to 2016 — through the 2018 and 2021 redenominations era into the current bolívar.

FAQ

Does the Central Bank of Venezuela have an official exchange rate API?

The bank publishes its official rates on its own site, and AllRatesToday serves the same published rates as clean JSON via REST or the central-bank-of-venezuela-exchange-rate npm package. The latest table is free.

How do I get the official Venezuela exchange rate for a past date?

The rates-for-date endpoint returns the official table for any archived date; non-publication days resolve to the most recent published date and are flagged, so audit trails stay honest. Historical dates require a paid plan; latest rates are free.

Is this the parallel ("black market") rate?

No. This is the official BCV reference rate — the only rate Venezuelan filings, audits and legal settlements may use. Parallel-market quotes are not official data and are not served.