A$ · Oceania
Australian Dollar (AUD)
The Australian dollar is a commodity currency: its value tracks the prices of what Australia sells to the world, particularly iron ore and energy, and it is sensitive to Chinese demand as a result.
Reference reading
1.448AUD per 1 USD
Read 10 Nov 2026, 15:30 UTC, source last published 10 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC, quoted against USD.
166 currencies in this reading
One AUD buys
- USD
- 0.690608
- NZD
- 1.2278
- JPY
- 109.1314
- CNY
- 4.6178
- GBP
- 0.514296
Where the Australian Dollar circulates
It is also a regional anchor. Several Pacific states use it directly, which makes the currency's real footprint larger than Australia's population suggests.
- Domestic pricing in Australia and in Pacific states that use the dollar directly.
- Commodity-linked contracts where the currency moves with the underlying price.
- A liquid proxy for Asian growth in portfolios, which is why it trades heavily outside Australia.
How it is quoted, and what to watch
Display the symbol as A$ (or the AUD code) outside Australia and New Zealand, where a bare $ is ambiguous. The catalogue returns the provider's symbol, so check it against your audience before rendering.
Reading AUD from the API
Ask for AUD as the base and every quote in the response is re-expressed against it — the reading, the catalogue and the account balance all arrive together.
Crosses are the quotient of two published quotes, so a pair you need but we do not list is still one division away.
curl · re-quote the catalogue against this currency
curl -s "https://fiatagent.base44.app/api/v1/rates?base=AUD" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FIAT_AGENT_KEY"AUD questions, answered
Why does the Australian dollar track commodity prices?
Because resource exports dominate the economy, so expectations for those prices move the currency before they move the trade data.
How do I distinguish AUD from USD in a price list?
Use the AUD currency code with Intl.NumberFormat, or prefix with A$. Storing the code alongside every amount avoids the ambiguity entirely.
Quote AUD without a subscription.
The open endpoint needs no key. A key opens with a 5,000-request signup bonus and reaches every stored reading by date.