Energy Prices in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Track oil and gas prices from a cell. Returns the latest WTI close and daily change, refreshing in Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 2 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

energyprices.xlsxsample data

A2fx=VERVE("energyprices", "count")

Count

Date

2026-11-11

click any cell to see its formula2 credits / cell

Ways to use it

Live financial model

Drop =VERVE("energyprices", "count") into a cell and your model reads the latest number every refresh — no more pasting figures from a browser tab into a stale sheet.

Track a whole watchlist

Fill a column beside your list of tickers or currencies and every row updates together, so a hundred-row watchlist stays current on its own.

Dashboards that don't rot

Point a chart at the cell =VERVE("energyprices", "count") feeds and the chart re-draws as the data moves — a finance dashboard that's live instead of a Monday-morning snapshot.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("energyprices", "count")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("energyprices", "count")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

benchmark
Benchmark to price, or a comma-separated list (paid plans), or all. Defaults to wti.
=VERVE("energyprices", "count", "benchmark", "wti")
unit
Unit to price per: barrel, gallon or liter for crude and refined products; mmbtu, therm or mwh for natural gas. Defaults to each benchmark's published unit.
=VERVE("energyprices", "count", "unit", "gallon")
datePremium
Date to look up (YYYY-MM-DD). Returns the close on that day, or the latest trading day before it. Omit for the latest close.
=VERVE("energyprices", "count", "date", "2025-06-13")
historyPremium
Include a price series ending at the returned date: daily closes or the last close of each week.
=VERVE("energyprices", "count", "history", "daily")
daysPremium
Calendar days of history to include (1-3650). Daily history allows up to 366. Defaults to 30.
=VERVE("energyprices", "count", "days", "30")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name right after the inputs to land just that value in the cell.

Count
=VERVE("energyprices", "count")
Prices
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices")
Prices › Benchmark
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.benchmark")
Prices › Name
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.name")
Prices › Product
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.product")
Prices › Location
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.location")
Prices › Currency
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.currency")
Prices › Unit
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.unit")
Prices › Native Unit
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.nativeUnit")
Prices › Price
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.price")
Prices › Date
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.date")
Prices › Previous Close
=VERVE("energyprices", "prices.0.previousClose")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Energy Prices, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Energy Prices into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("energyprices", "count") into any cell. The argument after the inputs names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Energy Prices?

Energy Prices returns count, prices, prices.0.benchmark, prices.0.name and prices.0.product, plus 7 more — name any one of them after the inputs and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what Energy Prices returns?

Yes — Energy Prices takes "benchmark", "unit", "date" and "history", plus 1 more as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the inputs and the field, in any order, so =VERVE("energyprices", "count", "benchmark", "wti") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Can I fill a whole column of Energy Prices at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell and one call returns a value for every row, or drag =VERVE("energyprices") down like any spreadsheet function.

How many credits does each Energy Prices cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 2 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Energy Prices work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

How current is Energy Prices?

It draws on 12 benchmarks, served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and a cell looks up again whenever its inputs change.

Energy Prices

Live financial model

Track a whole watchlist

Dashboards that don't rot

Energy Prices, answered

Put Energy Prices in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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