Is exchangerate.host down right now?

Q: Is exchangerate.host down right now?

Effectively yes for script/tutorial use — exchangerate.host answered our last plain GET with HTTP 200 (body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone) (checked 2026-09-11T19:00:22Z). We check api.exchangerate.host with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 0%.

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Is exchangerate.host down?

FAILING right now — answering HTTP 200 to plain requests: body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone.

Last checked 2026-09-11T19:00:22Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 0% · 7d: 0% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Failing streak began 2026-08-29T06:30:44Z or earlier (14 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days

Context: The once-keyless exchange-rates API now requires an access_key (it moved under apilayer): keyless requests answer HTTP 200 with success:false and no rates — old tutorial curls fail silently.

What we check: GET https://api.exchangerate.host/latest — a plain, keyless request from Cloudflare's network with an honest bot UA, exactly what a tutorial curl or an <img> tag experiences. OK = HTTP 2xx/3xx within 8s. No retries, no cookies, no API keys.

Need reference data you own?

If api.exchangerate.host is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you your own copy of the reference data — 250 countries (names, ISO codes, capitals, regions, currencies, flags) or 170+ currencies with dated sample rates — served as a queryable REST API in one pipe, no key, no monthly cap — free, no signup:

curl -s https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/data/countries.db.json \
| curl -s -X POST 'https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/projects/import?name=countries' \
    --data-binary @-
# then e.g. ?region=Europe or ?code=FR on /m/YOUR_ID/countries
# currencies + sample rates: /data/currencies.db.json (see /guides/mock-exchange-rates-api)

Read the honest exchangerate.host migration guide → (it also says when exchangerate.host is the better tool) or create your own mock API in one click.

README badge

Does your project's test suite or tutorial depend on api.exchangerate.host? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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Green = answering plain GETs, red = network-dead, amber = answering but with an error status. Every tracked service has one; there's also a summary badge for all 71.

Get pinged when it goes down

Subscribe any webhook URL — no account needed. One message when api.exchangerate.host goes down, one when it recovers (debounced: two consecutive hourly checks must agree, so a single blip never fires). Slack and Discord incoming-webhook URLs get a formatted message; anything else gets an HMAC-signed JSON POST.

Or from a terminal / CI script:

curl -X POST https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/status/watch \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"service": "exchangerate-host", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX"}'

Use "service": "*" to watch all 71 tracked services at once. The response includes an unsubscribe curl; 5 consecutive failed deliveries auto-unsubscribe. No webhook? Omit "url" to get a pollable subscription instead — GET the returned poll URL anytime for the transitions since your last poll. Full API details →

The same checker can watch your own URL: POST /api/status/monitor {"url": "https://api.example.com/health", "notify": "<webhook>"} — every 30 minutes, alert on down + recovery, free, no account. Monitor API →

Recent checks

Checked at (UTC)	Result	Time
2026-09-11T19:00:22Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	343 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:14Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	288 ms
2026-09-11T18:00:27Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	736 ms
2026-09-11T17:00:33Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	739 ms
2026-09-11T16:00:24Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	715 ms
2026-09-11T15:13:33Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	879 ms
2026-09-11T14:00:57Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	788 ms
2026-09-11T12:00:45Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	111 ms
2026-09-11T11:00:45Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	126 ms
2026-09-11T10:00:45Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	145 ms
2026-09-11T09:00:45Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	142 ms
2026-09-11T08:00:45Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	134 ms
2026-09-11T07:00:45Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	134 ms
2026-09-11T06:01:09Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	272 ms
2026-09-11T05:01:08Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	256 ms
2026-09-11T04:01:10Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	266 ms
2026-09-11T03:01:09Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	266 ms
2026-09-11T02:01:05Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	265 ms
2026-09-11T01:01:07Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	279 ms
2026-09-11T00:01:08Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	254 ms
2026-09-10T23:01:07Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	265 ms
2026-09-10T22:01:06Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	273 ms
2026-09-10T21:00:26Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	746 ms
2026-09-10T20:00:28Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	764 ms
2026-09-10T19:00:33Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	761 ms
2026-09-10T18:00:39Z	HTTP 200 body is a missing_access_key error envelope — keyless access is gone	785 ms

Bias disclosure: this page is run by Mockbird, a free hosted mock-API service. The status data is real and logged verbatim (pull it yourself), and the linked guides say when the incumbent wins.