Comparison
Metal Sentinel vs. Metals.live
Metals.live ran a free endpoint, api.metals.live/v1/spot, that returned gold, silver, platinum and palladium prices in US dollars without an API key. It began returning errors in 2023, and metals.live now redirects to a domain-for-sale page. Metal Sentinel covers the same four metals and six more, in 180+ currencies, with a free plan.
metals.live ยท Last reviewed November 2026
Side-by-side
| Feature | Metal Sentinel | Metals.live |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Online, quotes refreshed every 15 seconds | Offline since 2023, domain for sale |
| Metals covered | Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, copper, nickel, aluminum, lead, zinc | Gold, silver, platinum, palladium |
| Currencies | 180+ fiat and crypto | US dollars only |
| Price fields | Bid, ask, high, low, daily change | One price per metal |
| Historical / time-series | Yes | No longer available |
| API key | Free key from RapidAPI | None required while it was online |
| Embeddable widgets | Yes, included for free | No |
| Free tier | Yes, 7,500 requests/month on RapidAPI | Was free, now offline |
Where Metal Sentinel wins
- A maintained API with quotes refreshed every 15 seconds
- Six more metals: rhodium, copper, nickel, aluminum, lead and zinc
- Prices in 180+ fiat and crypto currencies
- Bid, ask, daily high and low, and historical series
- Embeddable price widgets included for free
What happened to Metals.live
Archived copies of api.metals.live/v1/spot show it returning prices until January 2023. By September 2023 the endpoint answered with a 502 error, and in November 2026 metals.live redirects to a domain-for-sale listing. Any code that still calls it gets no data, and there is no newer version to upgrade to.
Switching from api.metals.live
Before
GET https://api.metals.live/v1/spot
After
GET https://metal-sentinel.p.rapidapi.com/api/metal-quote?symbol=AU¤cy=USD
- Subscribe to the free plan on RapidAPI and send your key in the X-RapidAPI-Key header.
- Request one metal per call with symbol AU, AG, PT or PD. Four calls replace one /v1/spot call.
- Read the price from the bid and ask fields. They come back as numbers, not strings.
- Plan your polling around the free limit of 1,500 requests a day. That covers all four metals refreshed about every four minutes.
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