Not one source
Your API does not depend on a single source that could fail. The price keeps flowing however a source stumbles, so your price never stops because one source did.
Gold and silver prices, moment by moment, for your systems, via API.
Barq is an API platform you integrate into your shop and your platform, supplying them with a live gold and silver price through one API and a live stream.
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An honest signal with every price, when to trust it, and when to wait.
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Sell price
Gold price per gram in Saudi Riyal
24K
502.23
22K
460.38
21K
439.46
18K
376.68
Silver per gram
7.36
The market is open
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Market hours
The market runs around the clock except for a daily break from 12:00 AM to 1:00 AM.
It is closed on Saturday and Sunday (Riyadh time).
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Live stream
A price that refreshes more than once a second, reaching your system the same instant via a live stream.
Barq catches the market move more than once every second, so nothing slips past you, and pushes every update to your system the instant it happens over the live stream (WebSocket), with no polling and no wait.
A live stream refreshing more than once a second
It catches the market's fast moves first, so you never get an old price.
Arrives the instant it happens
A live push to your system over the stream, with no repeated polling and no delay.
The platform behind the price you build on
Barq has one job and does it with full professionalism, keeping the price your system consumes through its API live, correct and fresh at every moment.
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It never stops. The price keeps flowing to your API even when its sources stumble, so no single point of failure can bring it down.
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It never lies. Every price carries an explicit state signal, live now, or the market is closed, or it is stale and not to be relied on.
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It arrives instantly. The update reaches your system the moment it happens over the live stream, with no delay and no repeated polling.
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It knows the market. It tells a real market close apart from a source outage, so it never mixes a correct frozen price with a stale one.
Six pillars that make Barq a layer you build on with confidenceThree pillars that make Barq a layer you build on with confidence
It looks after itself
A layer that needs no watching and no intervention. Integrate it and forget it. Whatever happens behind the scenes, the price that reaches you stays live and correct.
It never lies
Every price carries an explicit state you read before you trust it, live, market closed, or stale. So you never build a financial decision on a dead price without knowing.
It knows the market
It tells market holidays and breaks apart from a source outage, and tells you which, so a correct closing price stays "closed" rather than "stale", and it resumes the moment the market opens.
It arrives the instant it happens
A live stream delivering every update to your system at the same instant, not by repeated polling, so your experience is built on a genuinely live price.
A stable contract for your system
A price delivered through a documented API with a stable data contract, ready for direct consumption, without an update breaking what was built on it.
The live gold and silver price, through an API you build your system on
Barq is an API platform first and last. Request the price whenever you want from the API, or receive it the instant it changes over the live stream, and every price arrives within a stable data contract with its explicit state, ready for direct consumption in your system.
Instant API read
A single call returns the latest price for the metals in the currency you choose, with the gold karats and the state of each price.
Live stream over WebSocket
Subscribe once and every update reaches you at the same instant, with no repeated polling.
A stable data contract
A documented API with a full reference for its endpoints, fields and errors, so your developer integrates without a conversation.
In finance, the wrong price is worse than no price.
So Barq was built around one idea, never to lie to the system that builds on it.
A platform genuinely live in production, feeding gold-sector systems today through its API, built for the Gulf and Saudi market.
Frequently asked questions
What is Barq?
Barq is a software service (API) platform that supplies gold-sector systems with the live gold and silver price, integrated through an API and a live stream, delivering a fresh price at every moment alongside an explicit signal that says when to trust it. It runs live in production today.
How does Barq keep prices accurate?
It draws the price from more than one independent source, verifies it before adopting it, and attaches an explicit state (live, market closed, or stale) to every price its API returns, so you never build a decision on a price you cannot rely on.
What happens when a source fails?
The price reaching your API does not stop. Barq switches immediately to the next best source, pauses the faltering one until it recovers, then brings it back. It is designed so that no single point of failure can bring it down.
Does Barq tell a market close apart from a source outage?
Yes. Barq knows the market hours in Riyadh time and expresses that in the price state you receive, so a correct closing price stays labelled "market closed" rather than "stale", while the price becomes "stale" the moment a source drops during trading.
When does the metals market open and close?
The market runs around the clock every day of the week except for a short daily break, and it is closed on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, in Riyadh time. You can see the full schedule and a live countdown to the next open or close in the Market hours section.
How do systems consume Barq prices?
Through one documented API, an instant read on demand, or a live stream carrying every update. The full integration details are on the Developers page.
How do I start using Barq?
There are no subscriptions currently. Barq is a live platform serving the gold-sector ecosystem, and the first step is a conversation that understands your need, then your access token is issued. Get in touch to register your interest.
An API you can rely on starts with a conversation.
Barq today powers the prices of a full gold-sector ecosystem. If you run a gold shop or a platform, or you are building a product that needs a reliable live price integrated via an API, tell us what you need, and let us see how it serves you.
Register your interest
No subscriptions now, but a conversation that understands your need first, then an access token to the API.