About TickBase

TickBase is a lightweight market data aggregation platform focused on exchange rates, precious metals, and time-series market data. We collect, normalize, cache, store, and expose market data through a single, unified API so developers can ship without stitching together vendors and formats.

Why we built it

Reliable market data is harder to consume than it should be: every provider has a different schema, base-currency model, and rate-limit scheme. TickBase takes an opinionated approach — a USD-pivot model where only USD-denominated data is collected and any other base is derived on read — so results are consistent, auditable, and easy to reason about.

What we cover today

• Foreign exchange — latest, historical, and conversion.
• Precious metals — gold, silver, platinum, and palladium spot prices.
• Time-series & OHLC — for charting and backtests (rolling out on paid plans).

The platform is designed to expand into broader market data — additional commodities, macroeconomic indicators, and custom feeds — without changing the shape of how you call it.

How it's built

TickBase is a focused, service-separated system: a background collector pulls and normalizes data from trusted upstreams, a read-only Go API serves it with edge caching and per-key rate limiting, and an account service handles keys, plans, and billing. The priorities are simplicity, scalability, and low operational overhead.

Get started

Create a free account and get your first API key in under a minute — no card required. Sign up or read the API documentation.