The tenge street rate, as one daily number for your payouts
EMpulse gives remittance and payout teams the rate people in Kazakhstan actually pay for the tenge, next to the official one.
The task: pay out in tenge against the real market
If you pay out in tenge, you price a corridor with one rate and settle with another. The official window and the rate people meet in exchange offices and in USDT can differ, and that gap ends up in your margin or in your customer's pocket. Treasury and finance need one defensible number per day to set corridor prices and to check whether payouts were reconciled against the market.
Today's street rate of the tenge
As of 2026-11-08, the street rate for the US dollar in Kazakhstan is 442.0 KZT per USD, according to the EMpulse Street FX Index (45 sources, confidence high). The official rate is 447.1 KZT; the street premium is +4.5%.
How the index fits into your process
EMpulse publishes the street rate of the tenge against the US dollar and USDT, built from transaction-based market data and quotes from independent public market sources. Every figure carries a confidence class and the number of sources behind it, so you can see how far to rely on it. Pull it by API into your pricing and reconciliation jobs, and compare it with the official rate and with your own payout rate.
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Questions from treasury and payout teams
- Is this the official National Bank rate?
- No. The index shows the street rate, the rate people actually pay, and it is meant to be read next to the official rate, not instead of it.
- How do I know how much to trust a figure?
- Each figure comes with a confidence class and the number of sources behind it. Use them to decide how the number enters your pricing or reconciliation.
- Can I try it without paying?
- Yes. You can get a free API key. The plans below show what Starter and Pro add for heavier use.
- Is this investment advice?
- No. It is reference data for pricing and reconciliation, not a recommendation to buy or sell any currency.