CAD to USD exchange rate API
CAD/USD is the loonie priced in dollars — the direction Canadian exporters, sellers, and payroll systems actually think in: what is a Canadian dollar worth in US terms?
Sample rate
1 CAD = 0.7142 USD
Illustrative rate for display only — get a free API key for real-time CAD/USD data.
Get this rate in one request
curl "https://forex-feed.com/api/v1/latest?base=CAD&symbols=USD" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ff_live_YOUR_KEY"{
"success": true,
"data": { "base": "CAD", "rates": { "USD": 0.7142 } },
"meta": { "granularity": "20s", "plan": "unlimited" }
}curl "https://forex-feed.com/api/v1/pair-history?from=CAD&to=USD&start_date=2016-07-07&end_date=2026-07-07" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ff_live_YOUR_KEY"Who integrates CAD/USD?
Canadian businesses selling into the US, marketplaces paying Canadian creators in USD, and cross-border tax tooling all want CAD as the base. It's the exact reciprocal of USD/CAD, computed at full precision — no double-rounding drift between the two directions.
FAQ
Is CAD/USD just 1 divided by USD/CAD?
Mathematically yes, and the API derives it at full precision server-side — you never accumulate rounding error by flipping it yourself.
How much CAD/USD history is there?
Roughly ten years of daily data with OHLC, back to July 2016.
What plans include this pair?
All of them — latest rates on every plan; conversion and time series from the Developer plan up.
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Free API key, no credit card. Docs for latest rates and pair history · also see USD to CAD.