Czech National Bank vs VATComply.com

The Czech National Bank publishes its official daily fixing of the koruna against roughly 30 foreign currencies, sourced from interbank market quotes and released every working day around 14:30 CET (weekends and holidays carry over the last valid fixing). Beyond the legacy raw XML feed this entry links to, CNB also runs a modern JSON REST API with interactive Swagger documentation and date-parameterized historical queries — and, like the old feed, it requires no key or registration.

VATcomply bundles several EU compliance primitives behind one free, keyless API: VIES-backed VAT number validation, current VAT rates for all 27 EU member states, daily ECB foreign-exchange reference rates with history back to January 1999, IP-based geolocation, and IBAN validation. Rather than gating access behind an API key, it simply rate-limits anonymous callers, and it ships both narrative documentation on its homepage and a full interactive OpenAPI reference at a separate endpoint.