₹ · Asia
Indian Rupee (INR)
The rupee is one of the most remittance-heavy currencies in the world: large flows from Indian workers abroad mean the rate is shaped by transfers as much as by trade. It is also a managed currency, with the central bank active in the market rather than leaving the level entirely to price discovery.
Reference reading
93.9231INR 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 INR buys
- USD
- 0.010647
- GBP
- 0.007929
- AED
- 0.039101
- SGD
- 0.013623
- EUR
- 0.009502
Where the Indian Rupee circulates
The rupee's symbol and its number grouping are both distinctive — Indian digit grouping is lakh and crore, not thousands and millions. If your audience is Indian, a Western grouping is instantly noticeable.
- Remittance corridors from the Gulf, North America and Europe, where the received amount is the number that matters.
- Domestic retail pricing, where lakh and crore grouping is the norm.
- Cross-border services invoicing for a large export sector, especially software.
How it is quoted, and what to watch
For an Indian audience, render amounts with the en-IN locale so grouping follows the lakh/crore convention. Keep the stored value as a plain number — grouping is a display decision, and storing grouped strings breaks arithmetic later.
Reading INR from the API
Ask for INR 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=INR" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FIAT_AGENT_KEY"INR questions, answered
How do I show Indian digit grouping?
Use Intl.NumberFormat('en-IN', { style: 'currency', currency: 'INR' }). The locale, not the currency code, controls grouping.
Is the rupee freely floating?
Not exactly. It trades in the market, but the central bank intervenes, so treat it as a managed currency when you model or explain moves.
Quote INR 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.