---
title: "Latest price"
method: GET
path: "/price/{network}"
tags: ["Network & price"]
---

# Latest price

`GET /price/{network}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://sochain.com/api/v3`
- URL: `https://sochain.com/api/v3/price/{network}`
- Auth: one of:
  - none
  - API key in header `API-KEY`
  - API key in query parameter `api_key`

The latest price, in US dollars or the currency asked for. Testnets: always 0.00000000.

## Path parameters

- `network` 'BTC' | 'LTC' | 'DOGE' | 'ZEC' | 'BTCTEST' | 'LTCTEST' | 'DOGETEST' | 'ZECTEST', required

## Query parameters

- `currency` 'AUD' | 'BRL' | 'CAD' | 'CHF' | 'CNY' | 'CZK' | 'DKK' | 'EUR' | 'GBP' | 'HKD' | 'HUF' | 'IDR' | 'ILS' | 'INR' | 'ISK' | 'JPY' | 'KRW' | 'MXN' | 'MYR' | 'NOK' | 'NZD' | 'PHP' | 'PLN' | 'RON' | 'SEK' | 'SGD' | 'THB' | 'TRY' | 'USD' | 'ZAR'

## Response `200`

Success.

- object
  - `status` 'success', required
  - `data` PriceData, required
    - `value` string, required: An exact decimal amount of coins with 8 decimals. Signed amounts may start with '-'. Parse as an integer of the smallest unit, not a float.
    - `currency` string, required: USD, or the currency you asked for.
    - `as_of` integer: When the latest price was taken (Unix time). On the latest price only.

## Other responses

- `400`: A bad parameter or body; the message says which.
- `401`: An invalid key, no key where one is needed (buckets, webhooks, /account_info), a locked account or expired plan, or both the month's requests and the keyless rate used up. Kept as 401, with this message, for v3 compatibility.
- `404`: Not found: an unknown network, or an argument the network doesn't know.
- `429`: Without a key, past the day's 2,500 lookups from this IP while SoChain is busy (Retry-After: 60), or past the day's most (Retry-After: seconds to 00:00 UTC). With or without one, too many requests in flight at once (Retry-After: 1, not counted).
- `503`: Briefly unavailable; retry with backoff. May carry Retry-After.

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