An MCP server that gives AI assistants the official exchange rates that tax, accounting and compliance work requires: the rates published by 121 central banks and 3 tax authorities (ECB, Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan, HMRC, US Treasury and more). These are not market estimates. Each answer carries the publisher's own rate date, and dates that fall on weekends or holidays use the rate that was legally in force. Works with no API key: the latest published table from every source is open, and the assistant can issue itself a free 7-day trial key for history, cross-bank comparison and publication calendars. Runs in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, or through the hosted endpoint with nothing to install.

Listed October 14, 2026 · Last updated October 22, 2026

Central Bank Rates MCP Server — @allratestoday/central-bank-mcp

Website: https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/ · Hosted endpoint (no install): https://allratestoday.com/api/mcp · Docs: https://allratestoday.com/mcp/

Give your AI assistant the official exchange rates that compliance, tax, and accounting actually require. A Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible client fetch published central-bank and tax-authority rates from 122 central banks and 4 tax authorities — ECB, Fed, Bank of Japan, HMRC, US Treasury, and more — via the AllRatesToday API.

After installation, your assistant can answer questions like:

"What is the ECB's official USD/EUR rate today?"
"What HMRC rate should I use for this March invoice?"
"Show me the Bank of Japan's official rate for every day of Q1."
"Compare the official USD/LKR rate across every central bank that publishes one."

⚖️ Official rates vs mid-market rates

Everything this server returns is an official published rate: fixed once the institution publishes it, carrying that institution's own publication date — the number tax authorities, auditors, and customs require. It is not the live market rate. For live mid-market rates (price display, conversion, anything that should track the market), use the companion server @allratestoday/mcp-server. The two can diverge by several percent — pick by use case. Methodology: allratestoday.com/official-rates-methodology.

🚀 Why this server?

🏛️ 122 central banks and 4 tax authorities — central banks (ECB, Fed, BOJ, SNB, RBI, …) plus tax authorities (HMRC, US Treasury, …), each served from its own published tables
📅 Point-in-time correctness — ask for any date; weekends and holidays roll back to the rate legally in force, and the response tells you which publication date applied
📊 Cross-bank comparison — one call returns every institution's rate for a pair, with min/max/median and spread stats
🧮 Honest derivations — with an API key, pairs a bank doesn't publish directly are cross-computed only within that bank's own table and flagged derived; banks are never mixed. Keyless serves only published pairs and their inverses
🔓 Works with no API key — installs and answers out of the box; the latest published table of every source is open
🧰 Six focused tools — small surface, easy for the model to use correctly
🔌 Works everywhere MCP does — stdio transport, MCP 1.x; Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, or any generic host

🔑 Get your API key (free)

A free key adds cross-bank comparison, cross-computed pairs and publication calendars — 300 lifetime calls, no credit card required. Dated (historical) tables and time series need a paid plan: free and trial keys get a 403 for them.

Register at allratestoday.com/register — 30 seconds
Verify your email
Copy your key from the dashboard (format: art_live_xxxxx)
Use it as ALLRATES_API_KEY in the configs below

Without one the server prints a short summary of keyless mode (below) on stderr and keeps running — it never exits, because an MCP server that exits breaks the host client's whole configuration.

🔓 Keyless mode — what works with no setup

Install it with no configuration at all and it starts, connects, and answers:

Tool	Keyless	What you get
`list_central_banks`	✅	Every covered institution (122 central banks, 4 tax authorities and the composite), from a catalogue bundled with the package (no coverage dates).
`get_official_rates`	✅	The latest published table of any source, or one published pair (or its inverse) from it, with the publisher's own `rate_date`. Cross pairs need a key.
`get_official_rates` with a `date`	🔑	One sentence explaining that dated tables need a paid plan.
`get_official_rate_history`	🔑	Same (paid plan).
`compare_official_rates`	🔑	One sentence explaining how to get a free key.
`get_publication_calendar`	🔑	Same.
`request_trial_key`	✅	Self-issues a 100-call, 7-day key with no account and adopts it for the session.

The keyless path reads the open, edge-cached /api/open/central-bank/{bank} endpoint (the exact attribution wording also ships in each response's attribution field).

Attribution. Keyless use requires a visible, followable link to AllRatesToday wherever the rates are shown (a footer, an about page, a README). With an API key it is appreciated but not required.

<a href="https://allratestoday.com">Exchange rates by AllRatesToday</a>

Markdown: Exchange rates by [AllRatesToday](https://allratestoday.com). Full wording: https://allratestoday.com/terms/#attribution.

🧩 Easiest install: the Claude Code plugin

If you use Claude Code, install the plugin instead of configuring this server by hand — it bundles both AllRatesToday MCP servers, two skills, and five slash commands (/rate, /convert, /official-rate, /fx-history, /add-currency-support):

/plugin marketplace add AllRates-Today/claude-code-plugin
/plugin install allratestoday@allratestoday

Everything below still applies for other MCP clients.

☁️ Hosted endpoint — nothing to install

The same six tools also run as a hosted Streamable HTTP MCP server, together with the five tools of the sibling AllRatesToday server — eleven in total on the hosted endpoint (this npm package itself exposes six). Paste the URL into any client that supports remote MCP — Claude.ai and Claude Desktop connectors, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Gemini CLI:

https://allratestoday.com/api/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http allratestoday https://allratestoday.com/api/mcp

Works keyless. With a key, send Authorization: Bearer art_live_… or, where the client only takes a URL, connect to https://allratestoday.com/api/mcp?api_key=art_live_…. Registry name: com.allratestoday/mcp. One-click Cursor / VS Code buttons: https://allratestoday.com/mcp/#hosted

📦 Installation

# Run without installing (recommended)
npx -y @allratestoday/central-bank-mcp

# Or install globally
npm install -g @allratestoday/central-bank-mcp
central-bank-mcp

Both commands launch the stdio MCP server and wait for a client to connect — your MCP client launches them as a subprocess.

🏁 Quick setup per client

Claude Code

claude mcp add central-bank-rates -- npx -y @allratestoday/central-bank-mcp
claude mcp env central-bank-rates ALLRATES_API_KEY=art_live_xxxxx

Restart Claude Code. Verify by asking: "Which central banks can you fetch official rates from?"

Cursor

Edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json inside your project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "central-bank-rates": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@allratestoday/central-bank-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "ALLRATES_API_KEY": "art_live_xxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config) and add the same mcpServers block as the Cursor example above, then restart Claude Desktop.

🧰 Tools

Tool	What it does	Plan
`list_central_banks`	All covered institutions with codes, metadata, latest date	Free (keyless: bundled catalogue)
`get_official_rates`	A bank's published table (or one pair), latest or for a given date	Keyless (latest) / Paid (dated)
`get_official_rate_history`	Date-by-date official series for one pair	Paid, billed ~1 call per month covered
`compare_official_rates`	One pair across every bank, with spread stats	Free (key required)
`get_publication_calendar`	Dates a bank actually published (no values)	Free (key required)
`request_trial_key`	Self-issue a 100-call, 7-day trial key (no account) and use it for the rest of the session	Keyless, 3 per IP per day

🔒 Privacy

Only the request parameters and your API key ever reach allratestoday.com — never conversation context.

📚 More from AllRatesToday

Central bank REST API docs
Per-bank npm SDKs
@allratestoday/mcp-server — live mid-market rates MCP server
Open data archive — the same published tables mirrored daily: Hugging Face · Kaggle (CC BY-NC 4.0)

🔗 Links

License

MIT © AllRatesToday

stdioLocal

Pick your client and paste the snippet. Each one is the same server, written the way that client expects it.

bash

Run the command below in your terminal.
Restart Claude Code, then check the connection with /mcp.

claude mcp add central-bank-rates -- npx -y @allratestoday/central-bank-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "central-bank-rates": {
      "env": {
        "ALLRATES_API_KEY": ""
      },
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@allratestoday/central-bank-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

code --add-mcp '{"name":"central-bank-rates","env":{"ALLRATES_API_KEY":""},"args":["-y","@allratestoday/central-bank-mcp"],"command":"npx"}'

[mcp_servers.central-bank-rates]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@allratestoday/central-bank-mcp"]

Runs locally on your device. Your client starts the server itself, so nothing has to be hosted.

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From the project README

bash

claude mcp add --transport http allratestoday https://allratestoday.com/api/mcp
claude mcp add central-bank-rates -- npx -y @allratestoday/central-bank-mcp

npx -y @allratestoday/central-bank-mcp

Tools11

Name	What it does
`get_exchange_rate`	Use this when the user asks 'what is X in Y?', 'convert X to Y', 'current rate of EUR/USD', or any single fiat-to-fiat exchange rate question. Returns { rate, source } meaning 1 source = rate target.
`get_historical_rates`	Fixed-window time series ending now: 'how has EUR/USD moved this week', 'last month of GBP/JPY', '1-year AUD/USD'. Returns { source, target, period, data: [{ date, rate, timestamp }] }. Sampling: 1d=h
`get_rates_authenticated`	One source against several targets in a single call ('USD vs EUR, GBP, JPY'), or the rate at a specific past datetime, optionally bucketed by hour/day/week/month. Returns { rates: [{ rate, source, tar
`list_currencies`	Call this when unsure whether a currency code is supported, or for 'what currencies do you support?' / 'what is the symbol for X?'. Returns { currencies: [{ code, name, symbol }], count } for 150+ ISO
`list_central_banks`	Call this FIRST when you need a bank code, or for 'which central banks do you cover?' / 'do you have rates from X?'. Returns every covered source — 122 central banks plus 4 tax authorities (HMRC, US T
`get_official_rates`	OFFICIAL rates a named institution published — 'what is the ECB rate for USD?', 'Bank of Japan rate on 2026-03-14', 'HMRC rate for invoicing'. These are the fixed, citable rates for compliance, tax, c
`get_official_rate_history`	Date-by-date series of one bank's OFFICIAL rates — 'ECB USD rate for every day of 2025', 'how did the CBSL rate move last quarter'. Returns { series: [{ date, rate, rate_type, derived, method }] }. Gi
`compare_official_rates`	One currency pair across ALL institutions at once — 'what does each central bank say USD/EUR is?', 'spread between official USD/LKR rates'. Returns every covered bank's latest official rate for the pa
`get_publication_calendar`	Which dates a bank actually published a rate table — 'did the ECB publish on 2026-01-01?', 'how often does the US Treasury publish?'. Dates only, no values, so it is on every plan (API key required, f
`get_reference_rate`	AllRatesToday's once-a-day, never-revised mid-market rate: the per-currency median of five samples in a five-minute window centred on 16:00 London, published each business day. Use it when the user ne
`request_trial_key`	Self-issue an AllRatesToday API key with 100 lifetime calls, valid 7 days, with no account and no email. Use it when another tool answered "needs an API key" and the user wants real-time rates, histor

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