System Status

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This page reports the live health of the data providers behind every price on Commodity.com. If a provider is degraded, individual price pages may show cached or “unavailable” data rather than a stale number presented as live.

System Status: Checking...
RolePrimary: futures, crypto, energy, agriculture
Coverage~25 commodities + 50 crypto
Cache TTL60 seconds
Rate Limit800 calls/day, 8/min
Last Check-
Response Time-

MetalPriceAPI

Checking
RoleIndustrial and strategic metals
Coverage~15 metals
Cache TTL1 hour
Rate LimitVaries by tier
Last Check-
Response Time-

OilPriceAPI

Checking
RoleUnique energy (coal, carbon, LNG)
Coverage~8 symbols
Cache TTL5 minutes
Rate LimitVaries by tier
Last Check-
Response Time-

CommodityPriceAPI

Checking
RoleGap filler (steel, rubber, food)
Coverage~15 commodities
Cache TTL2 hours
Rate LimitVaries by tier
Last Check-
Response Time-

How we measure status

We pull prices from multiple providers and cache responses server-side to stay inside rate limits. Each provider is checked on its own cache cadence (see the table above). A provider is live when our most recent fetch succeeded and returned valid data; degraded when recent fetches failed but cached data is still within its TTL; down when both live fetches and cached data are missing.

For the full list of providers, our fallback order, and how derived prices are calculated, see Data Sources & Methodology. For corrections or to report an error, see the corrections page.

Our commitment

We will never show a cached price as live. If a price cannot be sourced, the page will say so. This page is the single place where we publicly disclose outages and degradations in our data feeds.

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