Supercharge your AI with Commodities. Track Live Prices for Gold, Oil, Crops, and Metals.
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Commodities MCP provides instant access to real-time futures prices for over 30 global commodities. Track gold, oil, natural gas, wheat, copper, and more across energy, metals, and agriculture using a single connection.
Get market intelligence on precious metals, industrial raw materials, and food staples.
What your AI can do
Get agriculture commodities prices
Gets current futures prices for major food and farming commodities like wheat, corn, and coffee.
Get brent crude oil price
Retrieves the international benchmark price for Brent crude oil.
Get coffee price
Provides the current futures market price for coffee beans globally.
Fetch the immediate futures price for a single item, like gold or copper.
Retrieve current pricing across large groups of goods, such as all major energy commodities or precious metals.
Pull and compare the prices of several different commodities in a single request.
View every commodity code, category, and exchange that the API tracks.
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Commodities MCP: 12 Tools
These tools let your agent fetch highly specific, real-time futures prices for every major commodity category—from precious metals to global crops.
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Start using Commodities on VinkiusGet Agriculture Commodities Prices
Gets current futures prices for major food and farming commodities like wheat, corn, and coffee.
Get Brent Crude Oil Price
Retrieves the international benchmark price for Brent crude oil.
Get Coffee Price
Provides the current futures market price for coffee beans globally.
Get Copper Price
Delivers the latest futures price data for copper, an industrial metal.
Get Crude Oil Price
Checks the current US benchmark price for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil.
Get Energy Commodities Prices
Returns a combined view of prices for key energy sources, including crude oil and natural gas.
Get Gold Price
Fetches the immediate futures price for gold bullion.
List All Commodities
Lists every available commodity, its code, and which exchange it trades on.
Get Natural Gas Price
Provides the current market price for natural gas, a key energy source.
Get Precious Metals Prices
Lists up-to-date futures prices for all major precious metals: gold, silver...
Get Silver Price
Gets the current futures market price specifically for silver.
Get Wheat Price
Retrieves the latest futures price data for wheat.
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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
The Model Context Protocol standardizes how applications expose capabilities to LLMs. Instead of operating in isolation, your AI gains direct access to external platforms, live data, and real-world actions through secure, standardized connections.
This connection provides 12 powerful capabilities that interface natively with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other compatible AI platforms. No middleware. No custom integration required.
Getting market data used to be a mess of tabs and spreadsheets.
Before this MCP, figuring out the current price for everything was a multi-step process. You'd open Bloomberg, check Reuters, then manually switch between separate screens for energy futures, precious metals quotes, and commodity exchanges like CBOT or CME. Copying those numbers into a single analysis sheet felt tedious; you were always playing catch-up with market changes.
Now, your agent handles it all automatically. You just ask for the full picture—say, 'What's the status of energy markets?'—and the MCP consolidates data from multiple sources (like `get_energy_commodities_prices`) instantly. The result isn't a link to 10 tabs; it’s one clean, actionable answer.
Commodities MCP: Instant Access to Global Price Data
You no longer have to manually track down the correct price feed for every single asset. Whether you need a general view of all available goods using `list_all_commodities`, or you just want the latest quote on platinum via `get_precious_metals_prices`, the connection is direct.
What’s different now is speed and completeness. You get reliable, real-time futures data across 30+ commodities in a single workflow. Your analysis moves from 'I hope this number is right' to 'Here are the facts.'
What your AI can actually do with this
This MCP connects your AI agent directly to a massive stream of real-time futures market data. You stop guessing about commodity prices and start acting on facts. Whether you're tracking the volatility of gold or needing the current price for WTI crude oil, everything is available instantly.
Your agent can pull specific quotes—like checking the latest wheat futures or getting a full snapshot of energy markets including Brent and natural gas. It can also compare multiple commodities at once, letting you see how silver prices move relative to gold. This capability makes your AI feel like an actual commodity analyst on retainer.
Because this data is housed within Vinkius's MCP catalog, you connect once from any compatible client, giving your agent access to the entire breadth of financial market tools. It’s raw, structured data that lets you understand complex market dynamics and make decisions based purely on current pricing.
019d7578-a8dc-73fb-96c4-ba02afa6eec0 Here's how it actually works
The bottom line is your AI client gets live market quotes without needing any external database lookup or manual API keys.
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Ask your agent for a specific price, like 'What is the current copper futures price?'
The agent calls the appropriate tool and returns the real-time pricing data directly into the chat or workflow.
Who is this actually for?
Commodity Traders need this to monitor minute-by-minute price shifts. Procurement Managers use it daily to nail down input costs for metals and energy. Financial Analysts rely on it to run market comparisons for reports, while Agricultural Planners track staple crop prices year-round.
Uses the MCP to monitor real-time futures pricing across metals, oil, and soft commodities to spot immediate trading entry points.
Checks input costs for raw materials like aluminum or natural gas when planning large purchases, ensuring they buy at the lowest possible time.
Runs comparisons between different asset classes—say, oil vs. gold—to model portfolio risk and write market reports.
Tracks the seasonal pricing of crops like corn or wheat to determine the best time for planting or hedging their harvest against price drops.
What Changes When You Connect
Know the difference between specific quotes and market snapshots. You can check a single commodity price using get_coffee_price, or grab an entire sector view by calling get_energy_commodities_prices.
Stop managing dozens of separate data feeds. The MCP lets you compare metals (gold, copper) alongside energy (oil, gas) in one workflow, giving a true picture of market health.
When planning inventory or investment, you can pull all necessary data points at once by running get_precious_metals_prices, ensuring you don't miss any major asset class.
Need to know what other data is available? Use the list_all_commodities tool. It lists every commodity code and exchange (CME, NYMEX) so your agent knows exactly what to query next.
You can run a full market comparison by pulling multiple quotes in sequence, for example checking both get_wheat_price and get_natural_gas_price to gauge global supply pressures.
See it in action
Evaluating investment risk
A portfolio manager needs to know how interconnected different markets are. They ask their agent, 'Compare gold prices with WTI crude oil and natural gas.' The agent uses get_gold_price, get_crude_oil_price, and get_natural_gas_price to provide a single comparative report.
Optimizing supply chain timing
A manufacturing company needs to buy copper wiring and aluminum parts. They ask their agent for the latest industrial metal prices, running two separate checks using get_copper_price and also checking general precious metals with get_precious_metals_prices.
Agricultural planning after a storm
A farm cooperative needs to know if their crops are stable. They ask for current pricing on multiple grains, triggering the agent to use get_agriculture_commodities_prices to check wheat, corn, and soybean prices simultaneously.
Responding to geopolitical news
A hedge fund analyst needs immediate data after a major political announcement. They ask for the current status of 'safe-haven assets,' prompting the agent to use get_gold_price and compare it against stable industrial metals using get_copper_price.
The honest tradeoffs
Treating data feeds as general search
Asking the agent, 'What's a good price for oil?'—this is too vague and doesn't specify which benchmark (WTI or Brent) you need.
Be specific. Ask for the US benchmark by calling get_crude_oil_price, or ask for the international standard using get_brent_crude_oil_price. Don't leave it up to interpretation.
Only checking one commodity at a time
Running separate, single queries every time you want to know about two different staples—one for cocoa and another for wheat. It wastes time.
If the commodities are related, use the specialized tools. For instance, check general food staples with get_agriculture_commodities_prices instead of running individual calls.
Forgetting what data is available
Trying to find prices for a commodity you've never heard of and wasting time on unsupported queries.
First, run list_all_commodities to see the full catalog. This tells your agent exactly which codes and exchanges are supported before you start querying.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
Use this MCP if your work requires comparing real-time price action across different asset classes—specifically metals, energy, or agriculture. You need accuracy at a specific moment in time, whether it's checking the difference between get_brent_crude_oil_price and get_natural_gas_price. Don't use this if you are only doing basic historical research; for that, look for a dedicated data history tool. Also, don't use this just to list commodities; run list_all_commodities first, then proceed with targeted tools like get_silver_price or get_precious_metals_prices when you have codes.
Questions you might have
What commodities are available and which exchanges trade them? +
The API offers 30+ commodities across 5 categories: Precious Metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium on CME/NYMEX), Energy (WTI crude, Brent crude, natural gas on NYMEX/CME), Agriculture (wheat, corn, soybean, coffee, cocoa, sugar, cotton on CBOT/CME), Livestock (live cattle, feeder cattle, lean hogs, Class III milk on CME), and Industrial Metals (copper, aluminum on CME). Use the list_all_commodities tool to see the complete catalog.
How do I get a Commodities-API key and what are the usage limits? +
Visit https://www.omkar.cloud/api-key and sign up for a free account. The free tier includes 5,000 API requests per month. Paid plans start at $25/month for 100,000 requests. Rate limit on free tier: requests are counted monthly. After exceeding your limit, you'll receive HTTP 429 errors.
Are these real-time prices or delayed? +
The API provides near real-time futures prices that are updated periodically throughout trading hours. Prices reflect the latest available futures contract data from CME, NYMEX, and CBOT exchanges. During market hours, updates are frequent. Outside trading hours, prices reflect the last traded values. Each price response includes an updated_at timestamp showing when the data was last refreshed.
Can I get prices for multiple commodities at once? +
Yes! Use the specialized tools get_precious_metals_prices, get_energy_commodities_prices, or get_agriculture_commodities_prices to fetch multiple related commodities in a single call. You can also call individual commodity tools like get_gold_price, get_crude_oil_price, etc. for specific quotes. Each tool is designed to give you the most relevant prices for that market segment.
When I call `list_all_commodities`, what specific metadata do I get for each commodity? +
The tool lists all supported commodities along with their associated codes and primary exchanges. This is essential because the data you pull later, like using get_wheat_price, requires the correct code to function properly.
How should I use both `get_crude_oil_price` and `get_brent_crude_oil_price`? +
You use these two tools when you need a full global picture of oil pricing. Remember that get_crude_oil_price tracks the US benchmark (WTI), while get_brent_crude_oil_price covers international benchmarks.
What kind of insight does running `get_copper_price` give an analyst? +
The copper data serves as a critical industrial benchmark, often called 'Dr. Copper.' By tracking this price, you get a key indicator used to gauge the overall health and economic stability of global markets.
Does running `get_natural_gas_price` provide context for broader energy market analysis? +
Yes. Natural gas is a major component of the energy sector, needed alongside oil data. Using this tool helps you calculate important energy spreads and understand heating/electricity generation costs.
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