exchangerate.dev MCP Server

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answering

exchangerate.dev is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

Free, source-labeled FX rates: 10,296 pairs across 144 currencies, all update ~60s intraday.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 96%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

319 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 13

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 19 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

15 Oct 2 tools appeared get_official_rate, list_official_rate_tables

15 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_rate, get_usd_index

8 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten4 times that day convert, get_range, get_rate

30 Sep a tool description was rewritten start_checkout

30 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for start_checkout

15 Sep a tool appeared get_usd_index

20 Aug a tool description was rewritten get_rate

19 Aug a tool appeared start_checkout

and 1 more, back to 19 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check exchangerate.dev every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

official

get_official_rate

Get the exchange rate a government authority published for a date (tax, customs, central bank), with the period it is valid for. These are the published values, not market rates. Every plan gets the rate valid today; a past date needs a paid plan. Pairs the authority does not publish are refused.

list_official_rate_tables

List the countries and rate types with government-published exchange rates (for example IDN tax, GBR customs, USA government-reporting). Country codes are ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; use them with get_official_rate.

convert

convert

Convert an amount from one currency to another at the current rate. Indicative developer-grade reference rates (live 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 (live market data + public reference rates), not for settlement or trading.

rate

get_rate

Get the current (or, with date, historical) exchange rate from one currency to another. Indicative developer-grade reference rates (live market data + public reference rates), not for settlement or trading. Rates update ~60s for real-time currencies through the trading week when the live feed is active; the source field on every response is the authoritative freshness indicator (live | ecb_daily | market_daily); rates fall back to official daily reference data during market closures or data-source unavailability. market_session on every response indicates open, weekend, or interbank_closed.

start

start_checkout

Open a billing URL for an explicitly selected eligible plan. After human confirmation, a Free account without a subscription receives a one-hour Stripe Checkout URL; an existing subscriber receives Stripe billing management instead. Plans not offered to the account are refused. Cancellation creates nothing and account identifiers are never accepted from the model.

usd

get_usd_index

Get the latest independently calculated USD index. dxy-reconstructed uses the published six-currency basket formula but is not the official index. usd-strength is the versioned exchangerate.dev equal-weight 13-currency index, with 2026-01-02 = 100. Both require a complete, time-aligned basket.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.exchangerate.dev/v1/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	388 ms	10 min ago

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exchangerate.dev — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can exchangerate.dev do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: convert, get_official_rate, get_range, get_rate, get_usd_index, list_currencies and 3 more. 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 319 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 in the form 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 9 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 319 ms on average, which is faster than 44% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.