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10 Year Treasury Yield API

The 10-year Treasury yield — the benchmark long rate that anchors mortgages, corporate spreads, and the 2s10s recession signal.

Retrieve the 10 Year Treasury yield programmatically with the Treasury Yield API. The current value is available on the full yield curve, and the complete history is available as a time series using the year_10 maturity code.

As of the latest reading, the 10 Year Treasury par yield was 4.72%. Data is sourced from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and updated every business day.

Current 10 Year yield

The 10 Year rate is included in the current yield curve from /v1/treasuryyield (field year_10 in rates):

{
  "date": "2026-08-10",
  "type": "par",
  "maturity": "year_10",
  "rate_pct": 4.72
}

Historical 10 Year yield

Get the 10 Year time series from /v1/treasuryyieldhistorical?maturity=year_10:

{
  "type": "par",
  "maturity": "year_10",
  "data": [
    {
      "date": "2026-08-05",
      "rate_pct": 4.7
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-06",
      "rate_pct": 4.69
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-07",
      "rate_pct": 4.65
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
      "rate_pct": 4.72
    }
  ]
}

Related

  • Treasury Yield API — full curve (par, real/TIPS, and bill rates) plus 2s10s / 3m10s spreads.
  • The 10 Year yield is the long leg of the 2s10s spread — see spread_2y10y in the par response.
  • Interest Rate API — central bank policy rates and benchmark rates (SOFR, EURIBOR).
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1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/treasuryyieldhistorical?maturity=year_10" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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