Simple, honest pricing
BestAfricanFX is free to use. Official central-bank and government reference rates are always free — we only charge for the proprietary analytics we build on top of them: history, trends, projections and provider intelligence. Upgrade to Plus for professional FX intelligence, Pro for advanced market analytics, or talk to us about Enterprise data feeds and bespoke research.
Free
African FX Comparison
Always free. No card required.
- Unlimited rate comparisons across every corridor
- Official central-bank & government reference rates — always free
- Payout & user-rating provider ranking
- Official-vs-market spread on corridor pages
- 30-day rate history charts
- Up to 3 saved corridors
- Free twice-daily rate summary for up to 2 corridors
Plus
Professional FX Intelligence
$9.99 / month when available.
- Everything in Free
- All-country morning market briefings
- High/low target rate alerts
- Devaluation & revaluation alerts on official rates
- Up to 20 alerts, as often as 3× a day
- Full provider rate history for every provider
- Relative-movement summary table
- Trends: momentum, seasonality & provider consistency
- Spread & volatility analytics
- Unlimited saved corridors
Pro
Advanced Market Intelligence
$49 / month when available.
- Everything in Plus
- Rank-trajectory charts (provider rank over time)
- Market-regime detection (per-currency macro state)
- Provider-behaviour-by-regime analysis
- Official-rate distortion detail & devaluation log
- Historical data exports & downloads
- Provider margin vs official benchmarks
- Provider comparison dashboard (vs selected or all competitors)
- Up to 50 alerts
Enterprise
For banks, fintechs & institutions
Custom pricing for data, feeds & research.
- Everything in Pro
- Live rate feeds & programmatic API access
- Full historical rate & spread archives
- Proprietary first-party demand intelligence — never published publicly
- Extended history — full-year and licensed multi-year horizons
- Per-refresh performance & benchmarking dynamics
- BAFx Diagnostics — prescriptive per-provider position analysis
- BAFx Diagnostics — historical review up to 12 months, custom competitor benchmarking & forward forecast
- Custom modelling, backtests & bespoke research
- Branded / white-label market intelligence reports
- Bulk data exports & priority support
Compare plans
| Feature | Free | Plus | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compare & discover | ||||
| Rate comparisons | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Official central-bank / government rates | ||||
| Provider ranking (payout & rating) | ||||
| Official-vs-market spread | ||||
| Saved corridors | 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| History & analytics | ||||
| Rate history window | 30 days | Full history | Full history | Multi-year |
| All-provider history charts | ||||
| Spread & volatility analytics | ||||
| Relative-movement summary table | ||||
| Trends (momentum, seasonality, consistency) | ||||
| Rank-trajectory charts | ||||
| Market-regime detection | ||||
| Provider-behaviour-by-regime | ||||
| Official-rate distortion detail | ||||
| Provider margin vs official benchmarks | ||||
| Provider comparison dashboard | ||||
| BAFx Diagnostics (prescriptive position analysis) | ||||
| Diagnostics — historical review (up to 12 months) | ||||
| Diagnostics — custom competitor benchmarking | ||||
| Diagnostics — forward forecast projection | ||||
| Historical data export & download | ||||
| Alerts | ||||
| Twice-daily rate summary | Up to 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Active alerts | 2 | 20 | 50 | Custom |
| High/low target alerts | ||||
| Devaluation & revaluation alerts | ||||
| Alert frequency | 2× / day | 3× / day | 3× / day | Custom |
| Morning market | ||||
| Home-corridor morning briefing | ||||
| All-country morning briefings | ||||
| Data & enterprise | ||||
| Live rate feeds & API | ||||
| Full historical archives & bulk exports | ||||
| Custom modelling & research | ||||
| Branded / white-label reports | ||||
| Priority support | ||||
Need data at scale?
Enterprise clients get live feeds, full historical archives, custom research and branded reports. Tell us what you’re building and we’ll put together a plan.
BestAfricanFX is a comparison platform and never holds or transfers your money. Paid plans are coming soon — subscriptions aren’t open just yet.