Gold Price Today - Spot Price API
Access timestamped gold spot pricing data through our API. Use the returned source timestamp to judge freshness before using a value in production workflows.
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About Gold as an Investment
Market Overview
Gold is one of the world's oldest and most trusted stores of value. As a precious metal, it serves as a hedge against inflation, currency devaluation, and economic uncertainty. Central banks hold significant gold reserves as part of their monetary policy.
Why Track Gold Prices?
- Hedge against inflation and currency risk
- Portfolio diversification and risk management
- Economic indicator for market sentiment
Frequently Asked Questions About Gold Prices
What is the current gold price today?
The latest available gold price is $4473.10 per troy ounce, updated 494 minutes ago. Check the source timestamp before using the value in production workflows.
How often is the gold price updated?
Our gold prices are updated regularly during market hours, providing timestamped data from global precious metals markets when source values are available.
What factors affect gold prices?
Gold prices are influenced by:
- Inflation: Higher inflation typically drives gold prices up
- Interest Rates: Lower rates make gold more attractive
- USD Strength: Weaker dollar usually means higher gold prices
- Geopolitics: Uncertainty drives safe-haven demand
Why is gold considered a safe-haven asset?
Gold is considered a safe-haven asset because it maintains value during economic uncertainty, acts as a hedge against inflation and currency devaluation, has intrinsic value, and isn't tied to any single government or economy.
How can I get gold price data via API?
You can access live gold price data through our REST API with a free tier of 7-day free trial (10,000 requests). Simply sign up for an API key and make requests to our /prices endpoint with the gold commodity code.
Integrate Gold Price API Data
Get timestamped gold price data through the same API path used by this page. Start with a free API key and scale as your business grows.
curl "https://api.oilpriceapi.com/v1/prices/latest?by_code=GOLD_USD" \ -H 'Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY'
There is no single true spot gold price. Intraday XAU/USD is an over-the-counter composite: each vendor derives its quote from dealer quotes and active futures, and vendors legitimately disagree. The only prices with formal benchmark status are the LBMA Gold Price auctions, run twice daily. This page serves a spot gold value in US dollars per troy ounce, assembled from multiple concurrent sources; the method notes below describe how those sources are measured.
What the benchmark actually is
The LBMA Gold Price is set in electronic auctions at 10:30 and 15:00 London time, administered by ICE Benchmark Administration, in US dollars per troy ounce, under a methodology aligned with the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks. Between auctions there is no official price - only the OTC market's continuously moving composite, which is what any real-time gold quote, including this one, represents.
Method note: measuring our own sources against the benchmark
We collect gold from several sources concurrently, and they disagree - on one observed request in August 2026, two of our sources were 60 dollars per ounce apart at the same moment. In August 2026 we backtested each source's auction-time value against the published afternoon benchmark auction print across 44 trading days. Mean absolute deviation ranged from 0.12% for the best source to 0.49% for the worst; notably, the source that looked biased when compared against the other sources proved to be the most accurate against the benchmark - the majority ran high, and majority is not truth.
From that backtest we declared a source-precedence order, and as of August 2026 the serving path is instrumented to log, continuously, which source was served against which source the precedence order prefers. The served value itself still follows most-recent-write while that instrumentation accumulates evidence; switching serving to strict precedence is a deliberate, announced step, not a silent one. Inter-source spread is monitored as a quality signal rather than averaged away.
Spot versus futures
COMEX gold futures trade nearly around the clock and are linked to London OTC spot by arbitrage: futures price approximately equals spot plus carry to the delivery month. Quotes labeled 'gold price' may be either a spot composite or a front-month future - near contract expiry, or when interest rates move sharply, the difference is visible. As elsewhere on this site, a quotation is fully specified only when it names its instrument.
Gold FAQ
Who sets the gold price?
No single entity. The LBMA Gold Price auctions, administered by ICE Benchmark Administration twice each London business day, provide the formal benchmark. Continuous intraday quotes are over-the-counter composites derived from dealer activity and futures, and they vary slightly by vendor.
Why does your gold price differ from another site's by a few dollars?
Both are OTC composites built from different inputs at slightly different times. We measured our own concurrent sources as much as 60 dollars per ounce apart on a volatile day in August 2026. Vendor-to-vendor differences of a few dollars per ounce are the normal texture of an OTC market, not an error in either quote.
What is the difference between XAU/USD and gold futures?
XAU/USD is a spot composite quoted in dollars per troy ounce. Futures are exchange contracts for specific delivery months, priced at spot plus carry. They track closely through arbitrage but are distinct instruments, and they diverge measurably near expiry and when short-term interest rates move.