AfriRate
Last updated 9h ago

Pan-African exchange rates. Free REST API.

Official central-bank exchange rates from 6 African economies β€” fetched directly from each country's central bank. Free to read, free to query via JSON API.

Convert any pair

Mid-market reference rate. Free, no signup. Sourced from each country's central bank.

2,646.47
USD β†’ ZWGReference date: 2026-05-27

All countries

click a country for full pair list

Why AfriRate?

Direct from the source

Every rate comes straight from the country's central bank β€” RBZ, SARB, BoB, BoZ, BdM, RBM. No intermediaries, no spread, no third-party feed.

One consistent shape

Six central banks publish in six different formats. We parse all of them and republish in one clean JSON shape.

Free to read, free to build on

Free tier: 60 requests / minute, 300 / day. No credit card. Pay only when you scale.

For developers

Query any country's latest rates with one HTTP call.

GET https://afrirate.com/api/v1/rates/latest?country=ZW
Coverage: 6 countries live today. Next on the roadmap: Kenya (CBK), Nigeria (CBN), Ghana (BoG). Want a country added? Email us.