Live Platinum Price

Overview

The API polls live precious metal markets and delivers spot rates across troy ounces, grams, and kilograms. By default, responses return quotes in USD with 24-hour price change amounts and directional trends. Upgrading to a paid plan lets you convert prices into 172 world currencies, view 24-hour high and low ranges, or pull 24 hours of hourly price snapshots. Use it for today's platinum price per troy ounce (oz), per gram or per kilogram. The last 30 daily closes are stored too: paid plans get the 7- and 30-day change and the 30-day high, low, average and volatility, and daily=true returns the closes themselves.

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Formula

One function covers the whole catalog: the first argument names the source, the next are its inputs, and the field after them says which single value lands in the cell. Formulas covers the grammar that applies to all of them.

=VERVE("platinumprice", "gram")

=VERVE.CALL("platinumprice", "gram")

Inputs

Required inputs are positional, in the order below, followed by the field. Everything else is passed as a "name", value pair after that — the same shape as SUMIFS. Premium inputs are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Passing an option

=VERVE("platinumprice", "gram", "currency", "USD")

=VERVE.CALL("platinumprice", "gram", "currency", "USD")

What lands in your sheet

The field — the argument after the inputs — is what makes the formula resolve to one cell. Its value is a dot-path from the table below, so swapping it is how you pull a different value — one formula per column.

Seeing everything at once

Leave the field out and the formula returns the whole response instead: two columns, field name on the left and value on the right, spilling from the cell you typed in.

=VERVE("platinumprice")

=VERVE.CALL("platinumprice")

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Each one is exactly what the field argument accepts, so swapping it is how you pull a different value into a cell. On a plan without a Premium field the cell reads #PREMIUM(field) rather than a value, so a locked field never looks like a real answer.

When a cell doesn't fill

A failed lookup returns readable text starting with #ERR rather than a spreadsheet error, because Excel cannot show a custom message on a real error — you would get a bare #VALUE! with no reason. The trade-off is that IFERROR() will not catch it; test with LEFT(cell, 4) = "#ERR" instead. Error handling covers the rest.

Before the formula works

The add-in reads the API key you saved once in the side panel — the key never goes in the formula, so a shared sheet does not leak it and a collaborator without access simply sees the last calculated values.

1. Install the add-in for Google Sheets or Excel.
2. Open the side panel and sign in, or paste a key from your dashboard.
3. Type the formula above into any cell.

Supported Currencies

170+ world currencies supported including fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and precious metals.

Use cases

Jewelry Inventory Valuation

When revaluing finished jewelry stock, retail catalog systems calculate replacement costs based on spot platinum prices per gram.

Bullion Checkout Rates

Bullion dealers lock in customer checkout totals by converting ounce rates into local purchase prices right before payment capture.

Scrap Metal Intake

Price scrap catalytic converters accurately by referencing live per-kilogram platinum values and day-over-day change directions during intake.

Commodities Portfolio Tracking

To monitor precious metal allocations, wealth management dashboards track spot rates and 24-hour price shifts to calculate daily asset swings.

Other ways to use Live Platinum Price

Set up Live Platinum Price on VerveSheets, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveSheets account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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