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Check the latest WTI or Brent price, daily range, change, and data timestamp.
Prices are shown in USD per barrel. The update time comes from the data provider. Market data is for reference only and is not investment advice.
Choose WTI or Brent crude oil to retrieve the latest quote
There is no single crude oil price that covers every grade, delivery point, and contract. Market reports therefore use benchmarks. West Texas Intermediate, usually shortened to WTI, is a major reference for light sweet crude in the United States. Brent is widely used when pricing crude linked to Europe, Africa, and seaborne international trade. Quality, location, freight, and contract conditions differ, so the two benchmarks can trade at different prices.
This page retrieves a snapshot for either WTI or Brent and presents the latest price, open, previous close, intraday high and low, absolute change, percentage change, and source time. The result comes from a third-party data API. It is not an exchange order book, a guaranteed executable quote, a refinery purchase price, or a retail fuel-price forecast.
wti for WTI and blt for Brent.Changing the benchmark clears the previous result so that a WTI response is not accidentally read as Brent. The copy action produces a semantic, labeled text block rather than raw provider field names.
The latest price is the most recent value included in the provider response. Open is the starting reference for the reported trading day, while previous close is normally the reference used for the daily change. High and low describe the range observed so far; they are not forecasts. Change is generally latest price minus previous close, and percentage change generally divides that difference by previous close.
A dash means the upstream response did not contain a usable value; the page does not invent one. Prices are displayed in U.S. dollars per barrel according to the API contract. Another website may show spot crude, a specific futures month, a continuous series, or a settlement value under a similar label. Compare benchmark, contract month, timestamp, time zone, unit, and delay policy before treating two numbers as equivalent.
Suppose WTI has a previous close of USD 76.20 per barrel, opens at 76.45, reaches a high of 77.10 and a low of 75.90, and the latest snapshot is 76.80. The absolute change is about +0.60 and the percentage change is about +0.79%. That says the snapshot is above the prior close and in the upper part of the recorded range. It does not prove that the next move will be higher.
Now suppose Brent is 80.10 against a previous close of 81.00. Its negative change only describes the relationship to its own prior close. WTI can rise while Brent falls because regional supply, shipping constraints, contract structure, and active trading hours differ. Save the benchmark and timestamp with the value; a number without those labels is incomplete evidence.
Prices react to expected global supply and demand. Producer policy, unplanned outages, commercial inventories, refinery operations, seasonal transport demand, economic expectations, and substitution costs can all alter the perceived balance. Geopolitical events may add a risk premium through possible supply disruption or higher freight costs, but an event does not guarantee a particular direction or magnitude.
Currency moves, interest rates, futures positioning, and the shape of the forward curve also matter. The U.S. Energy Information Administration explains that spot and futures prices represent delivery at different times, while inventories can buffer shocks. A headline such as “inventories fell” or “production was cut” therefore needs context. This lookup confirms reported market data; it does not produce a trading signal.
The page is useful for newsroom fact checks, routine energy-market monitoring, pre-meeting procurement context, classroom demonstrations, and personal research. It does not place orders, manage positions, set stops, predict prices, or stream tick-by-tick updates. When the provider returns an empty value, an implausible number, or an old time, query again later and verify against the relevant exchange, regulator, or contractual source.
Crude oil is volatile, and neither a current nor a historical observation guarantees future performance. Investment, hedging, valuation, and settlement work should record the source, timestamp, time zone, unit, and benchmark definition and then receive appropriate professional review. ToolKK labels the provider fields for readability but does not alter the returned numerical values.
The explanatory material uses public descriptions from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and official WTI and Brent contract pages from CME Group and ICE. These references support definitions and interpretation only; they do not mean that the organizations supply or endorse the data shown by this tool.