XRates Blog — Currency API, Exchange Rates and Fintech Engineering

Multi-currency Pricing in Laravel: A Practical Guide

May 15, 2026 · XRates Team

How to build a robust multi-currency pricing system in Laravel — storing prices in a base currency, converting at request time, caching rates, and avoiding the rounding traps that bite in production.

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Free Exchange Rate API: How to Choose One in 2026

May 12, 2026 · XRates Team

An honest comparison of free exchange rate APIs in 2026 — Fixer, ExchangeRate-API, OpenExchangeRates, currency-api, Frankfurter, and XRates. Picking by free tier, refresh rate, sources and auth.

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Official XRates SDKs for PHP, JavaScript, Python, Go and Ruby

May 12, 2026 · XRates Team

Five official client libraries — same API surface, same error hierarchy, idiomatic for each ecosystem. Install with one line, ship in five.

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Aggregating Exchange Rates from Six Sources Without Losing Your Mind

May 9, 2026 · XRates Team

How XRates pulls rates from ECB, CBR, FloatRates, fawazahmed0 and IMF, reconciles disagreements, and serves a single consistent rate via a free REST API.

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