The street TRY rate for your business, by API
EMpulse publishes the street lira rate against the US dollar, with a confidence class and the number of sources next to every figure.
Today's street rate
As of 2026-10-28, the street rate for the US dollar in Turkey is 49.99 TRY per USD, according to the EMpulse Street FX Index (6 sources, confidence high). The official rate is 49.84 TRY; the street premium is +2.9%.
The task: a rate you can build into a system
A business in Turkey that prices goods, issues invoices, pays suppliers or holds lira and dollar balances needs to know the official rate and also the rate people actually pay. Checking this by hand means visiting several places, with no history and no way to say how reliable a figure is. Finance and product teams need a feed they can read automatically, not a screenshot.
How the index solves it
EMpulse builds the street TRY rate from transaction-based market data and quotes from independent public market sources. Every figure carries a confidence class and the number of sources, so you can see how firmly it is supported. Read it on the site, or pull it through the API into your pricing, accounting or reporting and keep the history alongside the official rate.
Get a free API key
Plans: free key, Starter and Pro
Free
$0
- RUB, UAH, EGP + your country's currency
- 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: 91 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: 91 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 and answers
- What is the street rate?
- It is the rate at which people actually exchange lira for US dollars (or USDT) in the market, as opposed to the official rate. EMpulse publishes it as an index.
- Can I try the API for free?
- Yes. You can get a free key and start calling the API. The plans below show what Starter and Pro add to the free tier.
- What does the confidence class mean?
- It shows how well a figure is supported by sources. A figure backed by fewer sources gets a lower class, so you can decide how to use it in your own process.
- Is this investment advice?
- No. The index is information about the market rate, not a recommendation to buy or sell any currency.