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Real-time electricity prices for 43 European bidding zones. Build apps that find the cheapest hour, automate energy decisions, and save your users money.

43 Zones
30+ Currencies
<50ms Response
2015โ†’ History
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# Find the cheapest 3-hour EV charging window tonight curl https://api.sparkrate.io/v1/prices/DK1/cheapest?hours=3 # Response { "zone": "DK1", "currency": "DKK", "window": { "start": "2026-03-28T02:00", "end": "2026-03-28T05:00", "avg_price": 0.1842, "savings_vs_now": "62%" } }

What will you build?

Real-time electricity prices unlock a new generation of energy-smart applications.

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EV Charging

Find the cheapest hours to charge. Users save 30-60% on electricity by shifting to off-peak windows.

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Smart Home

Home Assistant, openHAB, Node-RED. Automate dishwashers, dryers, and pool pumps based on real-time prices.

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Heat Pumps

Pre-heat when electricity is cheap. COP ร— price = actual cost per kWh of heat โ€” optimize automatically.

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Battery Storage

Buy low, sell high. Price arbitrage with Tesla Powerwall, BYD, Sonnen, or vehicle-to-grid (V2G).

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Energy Dashboards

Build price comparison sites, monitoring tools, or embed live price widgets on your platform.

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AI Assistants

MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot. "What's the cheapest time to charge tonight?"

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Sparkrate gives you clean, ready-to-use electricity prices โ€” so you can focus on your product.

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Instant prices

Current hour, today, tomorrow, or any date back to 2015. Sub-50ms cached responses.

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Cheapest window finder

Ask for the cheapest 1-12 hour window. We find it across today and tomorrow โ€” ready to use.

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Local currency per kWh

Prices in DKK, SEK, NOK, PLN, or any of 30+ currencies. No conversion math needed.

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Stats included

Avg, min, max, and percentiles for every request. No post-processing required.

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MCP for AI agents

Built-in Model Context Protocol server. Give Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot live energy price tools.

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43 zones, one API

Nordics, Central Europe, Balkans, Iberia, Italy, Baltics, Ireland, Ukraine โ€” all the same format.

Simple, powerful endpoints

Everything you need to build energy-aware applications.

GET
/prices/{zone}/today

24 hourly day-ahead prices with stats

GET
/prices/{zone}/current

Current hour price + next 3h + daily comparison

GET
/prices/{zone}/tomorrow

Day-ahead prices (available after ~13:00 CET)

GET
/prices/{zone}/cheapest

Find cheapest window for EV charging, appliances

GET
/prices/{zone}/cost

Calculate actual cost for power ร— hours ร— timing

GET
/prices/compare

Compare prices across multiple zones side-by-side

GET
/prices/{zone}/stats

Aggregated statistics for any period

GET
/zones

All 43 zones with metadata and current prices

Full API Reference โ†’

43 zones. 31 countries. 30+ currencies.

Every major European electricity bidding zone โ€” Nordics to Balkans to Ukraine โ€” with automatic currency conversion.

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ DK1๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ DK2 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช SE1๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช SE2๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช SE3๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช SE4 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด NO1๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด NO2๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด NO3๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด NO4๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด NO5 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ FI ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช DE-LU๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ NL๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช BE๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท FR๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น AT๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ CH ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ PL๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ CZ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ SK๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ HU๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ SI ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช EE๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป LV๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น LT ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ ES๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น PT ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น IT-North๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น IT-CN๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น IT-CS๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น IT-South๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น IT-SAR๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น IT-SIC ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท GR๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท HR๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด RO๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ BG๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ RS ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ช ME๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฐ MK๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ UA-IPS ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช IE

Zone default currencies

EURDKKSEKNOK PLNCZKHUFCHFRON

Also available via ?currency=

USDGBPJPYCADAUD CNYINRBRLMXNTRY ISKNZDZARSGDHKD KRWIDRMYRPHPTHBILS

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