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The Danish fuel price API announcement tracker

From January 1, 2026 fuel providers in Denmark must offer an API to access their current fuel prices. I’ll update this post as each fuel provider announces their API with links to sign up and developer documentation.

Fuel providers above are initially ordered at random. The first providers to announce their API’s will float to the top.

Did I miss any? If you spot a new API announcement from a fuel provider in Denmark that’s not mentioned here please drop a comment below.

 

Exciting news! Retail fuel price API’s coming online from Jan 1 2026!

Alright, now we’ve got the details of what’s coming in January! From January 1, 2026 all fuel providers in Denmark are required create and maintain their own publicly available API that app and web developers can access that lists all fuel stations that sell gasoline or diesel products, along with offered fuel types, current fuel prices and the date of last update.

The fuel stations current prices must be listed for each location with annual sales of 250 m3 of motor gasoline and diesel, this may mean  that smaller stations will not be included in in this dataset. Also if the fuel provider doesn’t have a website then they can skip out.

Danish Competition and Consumer Authority (Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen) are the responsible authority under the Ministry of Ministry of Industry and Trade (Erhvervsministeriet).

Source: virk.dk and retsinformation.dk

What’s coming around the corner?

I expect fuel providers to begin outreach in the new year to app and web developers related to fuel prices who will consume this data, as of the 19th of December it’s still radio silence in my Inbox. Get in touch.

Fuel providers in Denmark typically have their own apps too, they’ll all be getting an overhaul with current price information to advertise their own stations.

The petrol station data blackout starts today.

The data blackout on petrol stations publishing their recommended retail price (RRP) has begun, we’ll be back online January 1st with – fingers crossed – better data!

The ruling from Erhvervsministeriet (Ministry of Business and Industry: Home) prohibits petrol and diesel companies from publishing recommended prices (RRP) for petrol, diesel and AdBlue products; electric charging seems to be unaffected.

The intention is to encourage competition between individual petrol stations as it has been too easy for petrol and diesel companies to monitor and adjust each other’s pump prices to follow published recommended prices but this data blackout has the unintended consequence of impacting all public websites and apps that also monitor and share recommended prices with motorists; like us, fuelfinder.dk and benzinpriser.dk!

Until January 1st we’re in a bit of a bind…

What would we like to see?

As a retail fuel price monitoring platform we’d love to know in real-time the actual pump price at all petrol stations, not just the recommended retail price that most stations use. OIL! and Go’on do this with published daily prices, will the others follow?

With real-time retail fuel price data we can confidently show pump prises at all petrol stations in Denmark, whether it’s your local Q8 and Circle K in Brabrand or out on the motorway to Copenhagen or Hamburg. We can also identify trends of the cheapest and most expensive petrol stations to help motorists save at the pump.

Stay tuned for more updates during this data blackout month as more information is published by Erhvervsministeriet and Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen.

3 Months Later

Here’s what’s been happening behind the curtain over the past quarter on benzinpriser.io

  • Shell daily feed is running
  • Oil! daily feed is running
  • Circle K daily feed is running
  • Changed to TwentyTwenty Theme
  • Fixed hidden fuel types on Fuel types and Brands pages
  • Mobile support for Brand pages
  • Added a language switcher between English, Danish and German
  • Daily price change shift is showing on all pages

What would you like to see on benzinpriser.io? Drop a comment below.

Is Denmark getting an early Christmas present? Retail fuel price reporting on the way!

The announcement is coming out shortly from the Minister of Transport Thomas Danielsen and Minister of Business and Industry Morten Bødskov.

Time to kick this website into a higher gear so it’s ready to consume official retail fuel reporting prices.

The government will strengthen competition in the gasoline and diesel market by increasing price transparency.

Increased competition must be strengthened through two specific initiatives:

  • Requirement that petrol companies publish current consumer prices – pump prices – online

  • Fuel companies are prohibited from publishing recommended prices in advance of price changes.

In relation to the first point, car owners will be able to find their way to cheap gasoline more easily before they get in the car.

Thanks TV2

Start at the start

benzinpriser.io has been quietly collecting data for some time… it’s time to whip this website into shape!

Here are some short and longer-term goals which I will tick off this Autumn/Winter here in Denmark.

Short term goals with high priority

  • [x] Migate from Google Compute Engine to Closte
  • [  ] Fix Highest and Lowest price today details for fuel types
  • [x] Re-schedule the crawl refresh to run at 5am CET each day
  • [x] Migrate to WPML and translate templates to Danish and German
  • [x] Switch Theme to TwentyTwenty dropping the left sidebar panel on Desktop

Long term goals with lower priority

  • [  ] Fix the Electric average price and crawl data from Electric providers in Denmark to present more accurate averages
  • [  ] Install API services and open up API usage to the general public
  • [  ] Add date range and date period filtering to Fuel type and Brand charts
  • [  ] Present table data for date periods with the opportunity to export to CSV/TSV/XSL
  • [  ] Add maps of current fuel stations per Brand