Metals Prices

Daily gold, silver, platinum and palladium prices per gram, broken down by the purity grades each metal is actually traded in — gold in 24K / 22K / 21K / 18K, the white metals in fineness (999 / 958 / 925 / 900, 950, …) — along with 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, and 1-year averages.

Prices are shown in Saudi Riyal (SAR) by default. Pick a different Display Currency in the extension preferences (SAR, AED, KWD, QAR, BHD, OMR, USD, EUR, GBP).

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Features

• Four metals — gold, silver, platinum and palladium, each with the purity grades it's sold in.
• Live spot price per gram for every grade of the selected metal.
• Daily change vs. the previous close (on the pure-metal row).
• Period averages (1M / 3M / 6M / 1Y) computed from real daily closes.
• Switching metals is free — one API request already returns every metal, so browsing between them never costs extra quota.
• On-demand history — opening the command loads only the recent ~30 days (so the current price and the 1-month average are ready instantly); the 3M / 6M / 1Y averages load only when you press them, and each shows exactly how many API requests it will use first.
• Remembers your selection — the metal and purity you last viewed is where the command opens next time.
• Selectable display currency — SAR, AED, KWD, QAR, BHD, OMR, USD, EUR, or GBP.
• Quota-friendly caching so it stays comfortably inside the free API tier.

Setup

This extension uses the metals.dev API.

1. Create a free account at https://metals.dev/pricing and copy your API key (the free tier allows 100 requests/month — plenty, thanks to caching).
2. Open Show Metals Prices. Raycast will prompt for metals.dev API Key before the command runs — paste the key there. You can change it later from the Action Panel → Open Extension Preferences.

How the data works

• Current prices come from the metals.dev latest endpoint, which returns all metals in a single response, already in the display currency per troy ounce; the extension converts them to per-gram per purity grade.
• Averages are computed from a daily history (the metals.dev timeseries endpoint, which likewise returns every metal per day), stored locally. To keep API usage low and predictable, only the recent ~30 days load automatically — enough for the 1-month average. Opening the command therefore costs just 2 requests the first time, and usually 0 afterward (results are cached for 12 hours).
• Longer averages load on demand. The 3M / 6M / 1Y rows start as "Not loaded" and show how many requests they need; press one to fetch and cache that window. Because a request carries every metal, loading a window for one metal loads it for all four. Once loaded, those days are immutable and never refetched.
• Prices are indicative spot values and may differ from local retail prices, which include making charges and dealer margins.

Purity conversion

Per-gram prices are derived from the pure-metal spot price:

• 1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 grams
• price_per_gram_pure = spot_per_troy_ounce / 31.1034768
• price_per_gram_grade = price_per_gram_pure × fineness

Gold uses the karat convention (fineness = karat / 24, so 24K is treated as pure); silver, platinum and palladium use parts-per-thousand fineness (925 sterling = 0.925, and so on).

Why only these four metals

metals.dev's latest endpoint also returns industrial metals (copper, aluminum, lead, nickel, zinc), but its timeseries endpoint returns only gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Industrial metals would therefore have no daily change and no period averages, and no meaningful purity grades — so this extension covers the four precious metals, for which every feature works.