Goldprice.dev vs IG

Goldprice.dev is a commodity-pricing API returning live XAU/XAG/copper spot prices across 31 currencies (cross-checked via exchangerate.dev with an ECB fallback), COMEX gold futures and GLD ETF data, and over a decade of daily XAU/USD history, with every price citing its source and published methodology. Access is anonymous and keyless by default at a modest rate limit; a free API key raises throughput, and paid tiers add per-country physical dealer pricing, a volatility/probability surface, a real-time SSE/WebSocket feed, and an MCP server on every plan. A live Origin-header probe against the real API host (api.goldprice.dev) found no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, so CORS resolves to `no` — the stored `unknown` was unresolved, not confirmed open.

IG's trading API layers REST order execution and Lightstreamer-based streaming onto the same CFD, spread-betting, and forex engine behind IG's own platform, authenticated with an API key generated from a live account (a linked demo account then lets you sandbox trades risk-free). There's no separate API fee — access is included with any account and gated only by IG's standard per-key usage quotas, not a metered price. A live probe of the real API host (api.ig.com) returned `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` even on an error response, confirming CORS is open — correcting the previously-recorded `unknown`.