A street-rate feed for the payment products you build in Africa
EMpulse gives wallet, payment and pricing teams the exchange rate people actually pay, against the US dollar and USDT, through REST and CSV.
The rate your users pay is not the rate on the screen
In many African markets the official rate and the street rate sit far apart, and your users price everything by the street rate. If your wallet, checkout or payout flow quotes only the official figure, your margins and your customers' trust suffer. You need a feed you can call from code, that tells you how much to rely on each figure.
Today's street rate, with its confidence and source count
118 active currencies, and growing — Currencies
Get the number first, add the fields later
Request a free key and call the REST endpoint, or pull a CSV, to get today's street rate for a currency against the US dollar and USDT. Every figure carries a confidence class and the number of sources behind it, so your code can decide when to use it and when to fall back. The index is built from transaction-based market data and quotes from independent public market sources. Add fields and wider access on the Starter and Pro plans when your product grows into them.
Get a free API key
Plans: a free key to start, Starter and Pro to grow
Free
$0
- RUB, UAH, EGP + your country's currency
- Site: latest hour. API: 1-day delay
- 100 requests/day
- The free level of every product, even without a key
Starter
from $39/mo
- Today's data and every active currency of the product
- 90 days of history, JSON or CSV
- 1,000 requests/day
- EM FX News & Sentiment — $39/mo
- EM Parallel FX Market Size — $49/mo
- Rail Health Index — $39/mo
- FX Rate Stack — $39/mo
- Street FX Index — $39/mo: 118 active currencies, and growing
- Unmet Demand Map — $39/mo
- USDT Liquidity & Premium — $39/mo
- All products — $99/mo
Pro
from $119/mo
- All of Starter, plus the full history
- Hourly series where they exist, MCP
- 10,000 requests/day
- EM FX News & Sentiment — $119/mo
- EM Parallel FX Market Size — $149/mo
- Rail Health Index — $119/mo
- FX Rate Stack — $129/mo
- Street FX Index — $149/mo: 118 active currencies, and growing · Same-day data · Hourly rates (intraday) · Official vs Street · FX Stress Signals · EM FX Events
- Unmet Demand Map — $129/mo
- USDT Liquidity & Premium — $119/mo
- All products — $249/mo
Payments in USDT (TRC-20). Yearly plans cost 15% less than monthly.
Questions from developers
- How is the street rate different from the official rate?
- The official rate is the one set or published by the authorities. The street rate is what people actually pay when they exchange cash or move value against the US dollar or USDT. EMpulse reports the street rate and labels it clearly.
- How do I know how far to trust a figure?
- Every figure comes with a confidence class and the number of sources behind it. You can read those fields in your code and decide how your product should behave.
- How do I get started?
- Create a free key, then call the REST endpoint or download a CSV. Start with the rate itself, and add more fields later on the Starter or Pro plan.
- Which currencies are covered?
- Coverage keeps growing. The index pages show the African currencies available today, each with its confidence and source count.
- Is this investment advice?
- No. It is a reference rate for pricing and display in your product, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.