Banco Central de Costa Rica Exchange Rate API

Official Banco Central de Costa Rica rates for 10 Sept 2026: 1 USD = 446.61 CRC, 1 EUR = 524.02 CRC. All 2 currencies published, history back to 1999. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

Banco Central de Costa Rica: every CRC rate the bank publishes, as JSON. 2 currencies, archive back to 1999, latest table free on every plan. Get your API key.

About Banco Central de Costa Rica

The Banco Central de Costa Rica sets the reference tipo de cambio — official buying and selling colón rates for the US dollar, announced each business day and used across Costa Rican accounting and tax practice, plus a euro cross. This series is ingested from the Finance Ministry's open API, which republishes BCCR's reference rates; the provenance is disclosed because BCCR's own web service requires registration.

• Official website: www.bccr.fi.cr
• Official rate publication: Tipo de cambio de referencia (via Ministerio de Hacienda)

Quick start

One request for the pair you need — USD to CRC at the official Banco Central de Costa Rica rate:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/bccr/latest?source=USD&target=CRC" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Or the bank's full published table:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/bccr/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

On paid plans, any historical date or a time series:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/bccr/history?source=USD&target=CRC&from=2025-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Latest published rates (2026-09-10)

Banco Central de Costa Rica's newest published table, verbatim — the same rows the /latest endpoint returns at this moment. Values are CRC per 1 unit of each currency:

Download this table: Excel (.xlsx) CSV (paid plan required)

Base	Quote	Type	Rate
EUR	CRC	reference	524.02
USD	CRC	buy	446.61
USD	CRC	sell	451.08

Node.js / TypeScript client

A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — bccr-exchange-rate:

npm install bccr-exchange-rate

import { getRate } from 'bccr-exchange-rate';

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'CRC', { apiKey: 'art_live_...' });
console.log(pair.rate, pair.rate_date);

Zero dependencies, TypeScript types included, and it runs anywhere fetch exists — Node 18+, Bun, Deno, and edge runtimes.

Full reference — installation, all four functions, response shapes, error codes: bccr-exchange-rate documentation.

Why use the official Banco Central de Costa Rica rate?

A market rate is a moving target; the rate Banco Central de Costa Rica publishes is a fixed, citable figure that stays put once printed — which is why invoicing, customs, audit evidence, and statutory accounting in Costa Rica lean on it rather than on a live feed. Every response from this API carries the bank's own rate_date, and on days with no publication you get the most recent published table — the one compliance rules tell you to apply.

Pairs the bank doesn't print directly are resolved from its table (inverse or cross via CRC) and explicitly flagged "derived": true — so what the bank printed and what was computed are never confused.

Endpoints

• GET /api/v1/central-bank/bccr/latest — latest table or single pair (all plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/bccr/{YYYY-MM-DD} — the table for any date (paid plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/bccr/history — time series, up to 5,000 rows (paid plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/bccr/availability — publication calendar: the dates the bank actually published (all plans)

Full parameter reference in the API documentation. Every request counts toward your plan's monthly quota — rates change once per business day, so caching a published table locally makes a small quota go far.

Frequently asked questions

Does an exchange rate API exist for Banco Central de Costa Rica data?

Yes. This endpoint returns Banco Central de Costa Rica's official daily figures as JSON; the newest table is free on every plan.

How often are the rates updated?

Banco Central de Costa Rica publishes once per business day; the API ingests each new table shortly after publication (latest: 2026-09-10).

Are these really Banco Central de Costa Rica's official figures?

Yes. Every value comes from Banco Central de Costa Rica's own publication and is served unmodified, carrying the bank's publication date; computed pairs are explicitly flagged derived.

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