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exchangerate.dev MCP Server

dev.exchangerate/mcp
answering

exchangerate.dev is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Free, source-labeled FX rates: 465 pairs across 31 currencies, majors update ~60s intraday.

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
290 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

convert
convert
Convert an amount from one currency to another at the current rate. Indicative developer-grade reference rates (aggregated market data + public reference rates), not for settlement or trading.
currencies
list_currencies
List all supported currencies with name, decimal precision, minor units, and whether the pair is derived (triangulated). Use this before other tools to discover valid currency codes.
docs
search_docs
Search the exchangerate.dev FAQ corpus via BM25. Returns the top-K matching questions and answers with relevance scores. Use before answering how-to / pricing / data-sourcing questions so you cite the canonical text instead of guessing from training data.
range
get_range
Get a daily time-series of exchange rates over a date range (business days). Capped at 366 rows per call; when has_more is true, pass next_cursor as the cursor parameter to fetch the next page. Indicative developer-grade reference rates (aggregated market data + public reference rates), not for settlement or trading.
rate
get_rate
Get the current — or historical, with date — exchange rate from one currency to another. Indicative developer-grade reference rates (aggregated market data + public reference rates), not for settlement or trading. Rates update ~60s for real-time currencies through the trading week when the live overlay is active; the source field on every response is the authoritative freshness indicator (live | ecb_daily | fred_daily) — rates fall back to ECB or FRED daily reference during market closures, data-source unavailability, or low liquidity. market_session on every response indicates open, weekend, or interbank_closed.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/ streamable-http answering 399 ms 13 min ago

exchangerate.dev — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can exchangerate.dev do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: convert, get_range, get_rate, list_currencies, search_docs. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is exchangerate.dev working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 290 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect exchangerate.dev?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does exchangerate.dev need an API key?
No. exchangerate.dev completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is exchangerate.dev?
It answers our handshake in 290 ms on average, which is faster than 47% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.