Global Exchange Rates Alternative: AllRatesToday API

Looking for a globalexchangerates.org alternative? AllRatesToday covers 129 institutions with official history back to 2000 (not 2024), a permanent free tier, real-time market rates on the same key, and an Official plan priced below their $49/mo entry point.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer

Global Exchange Rates (globalexchangerates.org) is an official exchange rates API built by Memento SRL, a Milan ERP consultancy and Microsoft Partner, for accounting and ERP teams: rates from 90+ central banks and tax authorities, 150+ currencies, JSON/XML/CSV plus FTP delivery, and AppSource-listed apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central and Finance & Operations. It is a credible product in its niche. AllRatesToday covers the same core job — official central-bank and tax-authority rates for accounting and compliance — with more institutions, much deeper history, a real-time market-rate feed on the same key, and a permanent free tier instead of a 30-day trial.

At a glance

Pricing and feature details are based on each provider's public pricing pages and may change. Check the vendor's site for the latest figures.

Why teams switch from Global Exchange Rates to AllRatesToday

1. Official history back to 2000, not 2024

This is the decisive difference for accounting workloads. Global Exchange Rates' historical data starts on 2024-01-01 (2025-01-01 for their blended internal rates). That covers current-period bookkeeping, but audits, restatements, transfer-pricing documentation, and late tax filings routinely reach back five, ten, or twenty years. AllRatesToday's official archives run to 2000 and earlier for the major sources — the ECB series starts in 1999, Swiss customs (BAZG) daily rates in 2000, Banxico's FIX in 1993, and the Swiss National Bank monthly series reaches all the way back to 1914. If an auditor asks which official rate applied on an invoice dated 2011, only one of these APIs can answer.

2. A permanent free tier, not a 30-day trial

Global Exchange Rates offers a 30-day free trial and then the meter starts at $49/mo for 30,000 requests. There is no cheaper tier for a small company that posts one rate a day. AllRatesToday's free tier does not expire: real-time rates included, no card required. It is meant for evaluation and personal use; business use and historical lookups need a paid plan from €4.99/mo.

3. Market rates and official rates on one key

Global Exchange Rates serves official and institutional rates only — there is no live market-rate feed. Most real systems need both: a live mid-market rate for price displays, converters, and treasury dashboards, and the official published rate for the ledger entry. AllRatesToday serves real-time mid-market rates (updated every 60 seconds, sourced from institutional foreign exchange market data, 160+ currencies) and the official central-bank and tax-authority tables under the same API key — one vendor, one bill, one integration.

4. Lower price at every step

AllRatesToday's paid plans start at €4.99/mo versus $49/mo. For a finance team that needs official rates with full history and publication dates, the Official Rates Business plan is €239/mo (€2,388/yr) for 1,000,000 requests — more than their $129/mo Enterprise plan, but with ten times the request allowance and 129 institutions rather than 90+. Daily imports for one bank are about 22 calls a month, so either vendor's allowance is far more than an ERP needs.

Coverage: 90+ sources vs 129 — what the numbers mean

Global Exchange Rates claims 90+ central banks and tax authorities and 150+ currencies. Our list is 129 institutions: 123 central banks plus HMRC, the US Treasury, Swiss BAZG and India's CBIC. If the specific institution you need is on their list and not ours, that settles it — though coverage requests move banks up our queue. On the tax-authority side their coverage is HMRC and Swiss customs, both of which we also carry, while we add the US Treasury quarterly rates and CBIC customs rates. And every one of our sources comes with the deep history above, where theirs starts in 2024.

Drop-in code example

Official central-bank rates are a single authenticated GET — here is the ECB reference rate for a specific invoice date:

// Latest official table for any covered source
fetch('https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/ecb/latest?source=USD&target=EUR', {
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer art_live_xxxxx' }
})

// Or the official rate for a past invoice date (paid plans), any date back to the source's archive start
fetch('https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/ecb/2011-06-30?source=USD&target=EUR', {
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer art_live_xxxxx' }
})

Table endpoints can also return CSV, XML, or XLSX directly — useful when the consumer is a spreadsheet or an ERP import job rather than code.

Pros and cons

FAQ

Does AllRatesToday have a free plan?

Yes — a free tier that never expires, including real-time market rates and the latest official central-bank tables. Global Exchange Rates offers a 30-day trial only.

How far back does historical data go?

Official central-bank archives reach 2000 and earlier for the major sources — ECB to 1999, Swiss BAZG customs rates to 2000, Banxico to 1993, and the SNB monthly series to 1914. Global Exchange Rates' history starts on 2024-01-01.

Do you have the same accounting integrations?

Partly. For Business Central we document the built-in Currency Exchange Rate Service (no code, no extension) and publish an open-source AL extension; Global Exchange Rates ships an AppSource app. We also have step-by-step guides for SAP, Xero, QuickBooks Online and Odoo, a Power Platform connector, an MCP server, SDKs for JavaScript, Python, PHP, Go, and Rust, and CSV/XML/XLSX output for import jobs. They are ahead on Salesforce, Zapier and Make.

Do you offer an SLA?

We publish measured uptime rather than a contractual SLA. If your procurement process requires refund-backed SLA terms, Global Exchange Rates' Enterprise plan includes one.

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