---
title: "Gold through the gold fund and gold's own price"
method: GET
path: "/api/commodities/gold"
tags: ["Short URLs"]
---

# Gold through the gold fund and gold's own price

`GET /api/commodities/gold`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.prereason.com`
- URL: `https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/gold`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Gold through the gold fund and gold's own price. GLD's share price and the World Bank's monthly average gold price per troy ounce, with what is said to move them: the 10 year real Treasury rate, the dollar fund (UUP), speculators' net position in COMEX gold futures (CFTC) and the gold miners' fund (GDX), each with its measured relationship to GLD. Commodity market data for research agents. Alias for `GET /api/context?briefing=commodities.gold`. Paid per request over x402 or MPP with no API key, or read with a key on the Basic plan or above.

## Query parameters

- `format` 'json' | 'markdown'
- `date` string

## Response `200`

commodities.gold data

## Other responses

- `401`: Authentication required
- `402`: Payment required. The body is an x402 v2 payment quote naming this resource, its price in USDC, and the accepted networks. Pay and retry with the payment header, or authenticate with an API key instead.

## Changes

- **2026-10-06** `5589dc1b96b1`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/prereason/apis/prereason-api/changes/api/commodities/gold/get.md)

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