Lead Price API - Live PB Spot Quotes & Historical Data | Metal Sentinel

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Lead Price API

Live PB spot quotes, historical OHLC and conversions into 180+ currencies from one REST endpoint, with sub-second responses and a free tier on RapidAPI.

Lead price today: 0.85 USD per pound (-0.01, -1.09%)

Day high
0.86
Day low
0.85
Bid / ask
0.85 / 0.85
Updated
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Live Response · try any currency

GET /api/metal-quote?symbol=PB&currency=USD
$ curl "https://metal-sentinel.p.rapidapi.com/api/metal-quote?symbol=PB&currency=USD" \
-H "x-rapidapi-host: metal-sentinel.p.rapidapi.com" \
-H "x-rapidapi-key: your_key"
currency
200 OK · application/json
{
"ID": 1793629923,
"results": [
{
}
]
}

Lead price by unit

Lead price per unit

Unit Equivalent Price (USD)
Per troy ounce 31.1 g 0.0582
Per gram 1 g 0.0019
Per kilogram 1,000 g 1.8706
Per pound 453.6 g 0.8485
Per tonne 1,000 kg 1,870.58

Calculated from the live mid price of 0.85 USD per pound. Pure metal value only; refining, fabrication and dealer margins are not included.

Today's session

USD per pound, from the same quote as the table above.

0.85 0.85 0.86
Day low Mid now Day high
Day high
0.86
Day low
0.85
Bid
0.85
Ask
0.85
Change
-0.01
Change %
-1.09%

Sample response

What the endpoint returns

GET /api/metal-quote?symbol=PB&currency=USD 
{
    "ID": 1793629923,
    "results": [
        {
            "symbol": "PB",
            "currency": "USD",
            "ask": 0.85,
            "mid": 0.85,
            "bid": 0.85,
            "high": 0.86,
            "low": 0.85,
            "open": 0,
            "close": 0,
            "timestamp": 1793629920,
            "change": -0.01,
            "changePercentage": -1.09,
            "unit": "POUND",
            "originalTime": "2026-11-02T09:31:43Z"
        }
    ]
}

Prices are per pound in the requested currency. timestamp is Unix seconds. See the OpenAPI spec for every field.

What moves the lead price

The lead price is quoted per tonne on the London Metal Exchange. Lead has the most concentrated demand of any base metal: around eighty-five percent goes into lead-acid batteries, and more than half of supply comes from recycling those batteries. That makes it the quietest of the exchange-traded metals, moving with car fleets and winter weather rather than with speculative flows. Metal Sentinel returns the live quote with the unit stated in each response.

  1. Battery replacement cycles

    Most lead demand is replacement batteries for cars already on the road, which makes it steadier than other base metals. Cold winters raise battery failures and seasonal demand.

    A cold winter kills batteries lead rises

  2. Recycling economics

    Secondary smelters supply over half of the market. Scrap availability, environmental rules and smelter margins decide how much recycled lead reaches the market.

    Scrap supply rises lead falls

  3. Mine supply with zinc

    Lead is usually mined together with zinc and silver, so mine output follows zinc economics rather than the lead price itself.

    Zinc mines expand lead falls

  4. Vehicle electrification

    Electric cars still carry a 12-volt lead-acid auxiliary battery, so demand erodes slowly. Grid storage and e-bikes in Asia add some new demand.

    EVs replace combustion cars lead falls

About Lead

What is Pb?

Lead is a dense, soft base metal with a low melting point. The great majority of modern demand comes from lead-acid batteries used in vehicles, telecoms backup power, and grid storage. Roughly half of annual supply comes from recycling spent batteries, which makes lead one of the most recycled metals in the world. Spot lead is quoted on the London Metal Exchange.

Where Lead is used

Real-world demand

Lead-acid batteries
Radiation shielding
Cable sheathing
Ammunition & weights
Soldering alloys

Lead market news

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Why Metal Sentinel

Built for teams shipping Lead pricing.

One API for live spot quotes, history and conversions, built for production apps.

< 1s

avg response

Trading-grade latency

Live lead spot quotes from primary market data feeds, delivered in under a second on average. Fast enough for dashboards, OMS hooks, and other price-sensitive workflows.

180+

fiat & crypto

Quote in any currency

Pass a currency code to get lead priced in any of 180+ fiat currencies or 90+ crypto tokens, without wiring up a separate FX feed.

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10+

metals

One API, every metal

Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, copper, nickel, aluminum, lead, and zinc, all with the same authentication and response shape.

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OHLC

historical

History + conversions

The same API also returns historical OHLC candles, FX conversions, and market status.

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to start

Free tier, no card

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Lead price questions

Questions people ask before they wire the lead price into a product.

Does the shift to electric vehicles reduce lead demand?

Only gradually. Electric vehicles use a lead-acid auxiliary battery for lights and electronics, and the installed base of combustion cars needs replacement batteries for years.

Why is lead less volatile than other base metals?

Replacement battery demand is predictable and recycling smooths supply. Lead rarely sees the speculative flows that move copper or nickel.

Which endpoint returns the lead price?

Call /api/metal-quote with symbol=PB and your currency. The symbol follows the chemical abbreviation from the Latin plumbum.