Samirla: Philippine Commodity & Trade Intelligence

What you get

One feed for the prices that move your margins

Stop refreshing seven government pages. Samirla collects, cleans and serves the numbers through a single dashboard and API.

Price journey

Follow one commodity from the farm to the market and see exactly how much markup is added at each step, plus the full price history of every stage and how the spread has moved over time.

Farmgate₱42→ Wholesale₱68→ Retail₱95 vs NCR market₱92

Farmgate → wholesale → retail is the markup chain. The NCR public-market price (DA Bantay Presyo) sits alongside retail as a cross-check on the same consumer price, not a further step. Illustrative figures.

Developer API

Every number is available over a clean REST API with tiered access. New accounts include a 14-day API trial, so you can pull the data straight into your own tools.

curl -H "X-API-Key: <your-key>" \ samirla.com/api/v1/prices?commodity=Rice

Live price feed

National retail prices for 33 key commodities, refreshed from the PSA, with month-over-month change at a glance.

Trade flows

Monthly imports and exports by commodity and trading partner: value (USD) and volume, ranked by source and destination.

Fuel prices

Weekly NCR pump prices from the DOE: diesel, gasoline (RON 91-100) and kerosene, with week-on-week movement.

Inflation

Headline and per-category CPI & year-on-year inflation, so you can see which groups are driving the cost of living.

Trend history & export

Years of history per series with min / max / average and 30-day movement. Download any time series as CSV (Pro).

From the founder

Why I built Samirla

In college, I lost more hours than I'd like to admit just trying to find reliable Philippine data for my research. When I finally tracked something down, it was usually buried in a clunky government portal that was almost impossible to make sense of.

I saw a few brave attempts to open this data up, and I'm grateful for them, but most were still early and just as hard to navigate. I kept thinking the same thing every student, researcher, and small business owner probably thinks: the data exists, so why is it this hard to actually use?

So I built Samirla to answer that question. One clean place that makes sense of the numbers we already have, at a glance, and keeps them within reach for everyone, not just the people who know exactly where to look. I planned this for years, and I'm proud to finally bring it to life.

Nathaniel Ibabao · Founder, Samirla

Data sources

Built on official, public data

We aggregate and enrich publicly published statistics; we don't resell raw government files. 36 live datasets across 13 official sources:

PSA: Philippine Statistics Authority17 datasets

Retail prices monthly Farmgate prices monthly Wholesale prices monthly Imports by country monthly Exports by country monthly Inflation (CPI) monthly CPI, bottom 30% monthly Producer PPI monthly Agriculture PPI quarterly Construction materials monthly Rice & corn stocks monthly Palay & corn production quarterly Fisheries production quarterly GDP quarterly Labor force monthly Wages annual Population census

DA: Department of Agriculture

Bantay Presyo market prices (~30 NCR markets) weekly

DOE: Department of Energy2 datasets

NCR fuel pump prices weekly LPG prices monthly

BSP: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas3 datasets

USD/PHP reference rate daily Overnight policy rate (RRP) per meeting OF remittances monthly

Meralco

Electricity rates monthly

World Bank2 datasets

World commodity prices (Pink Sheet) monthly Development indicators (WDI) annual

FAO: Food & Agriculture Organization5 datasets

Food Price Index monthly Producer prices (FAOSTAT) monthly Production & yields (FAOSTAT) annual Food balance (FAOSTAT) annual Crop stress · NDVI (ASIS) monthly

NASA POWER

Regional rainfall & temperature monthly

NOAA2 datasets

Typhoon activity (IBTrACS) monthly El Niño / La Niña (ONI) monthly

NY Fed: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Global Supply Chain Pressure Index monthly

ECB: European Central Bank

EUR · JPY · CNY reference rates daily

UN Comtradecoming online

Global trade flows monthly

BIR · SSS · PhilHealth · Pag-IBIG

Tax & contribution schedules reference

Note: Core Philippine sources are the PSA (monthly retail, farmgate & wholesale prices, trade value/volume by country, CPI, PPI, stocks, production, labor and more; figures land a few weeks after period-end), the DA Bantay Presyo (weekly NCR market prices), the DOE (weekly fuel, monthly LPG), the BSP (daily USD/PHP, policy rate, remittances) and Meralco (electricity). Global context comes from the World Bank, FAO / FAOSTAT / ASIS, NASA POWER, NOAA, the NY Fed and the ECB. UN Comtrade global trade flows are being connected. The taxes & contributions tables are a curated reference of official BIR, SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG schedules; verify the current figure with the agency before filing. We present official published figures as-is.

Pricing

Free to use today. Premium is on the way.

No card required. Every account gets the full dashboard free, and Pro (full history, CSV & API) is coming soon.

Free

₱0/mo

All commodities · full dashboard
3 years of history
14-day developer-API trial
Free forever: no card, no expiry

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Pro Coming soon

Coming soon

Premium is in the works; the free tier is available now.

Full history + stats on every dataset
CSV export
Developer API (keeps going after the trial)
Forecasting & price correlation

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Enterprise

Custom

API keys & webhooks
Per-country trade data
Priority support & SLA

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FAQ

Questions, answered

Where does the data come from?

Official, public Philippine government data: the PSA (Philippine Statistics Authority) OpenStat database for retail prices, imports & exports by country, CPI/inflation and population, the DOE (Department of Energy) for weekly fuel pump prices, the DA (Department of Agriculture) Bantay Presyo for weekly NCR market retail prices, and the BSP (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) for the daily USD/PHP reference rate. We aggregate, clean and present the published figures as-is; we don't alter the underlying numbers.

How fresh is the data?

PSA prices, trade and CPI publish monthly; figures land a few weeks after period-end and we sync on a schedule. DOE fuel prices and DA Bantay Presyo market prices update weekly.

Do I need to pay to start?

No. The dashboard is free forever: all commodities, 3 years of history, no card required. New accounts also include a 14-day free trial of the developer API. Pro (full history, CSV export & ongoing API access) is launching soon.

Is my payment secure?

Yes. Payments are handled entirely by Lemon Squeezy (our merchant of record) on their secure hosted checkout, and we never see or store your card details.

Can I access the data via API?

Yes. Pro and Enterprise plans include API keys and full REST access. Generate a key in your dashboard under the API tab.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. When premium launches, you'll be able to cancel from your account page anytime and drop back to the Free tier, with no lock-in.

Work with us

Need data gathered, cleaned or presented?

Beyond the dashboard, we take on select data projects. If you have a dataset that needs cleaning, or a project where you want someone to gather, process and present data, we'd be happy to talk. (This is a side service, not our main product.)

Data cleaning

Messy spreadsheets, mixed formats or scattered records turned into a clean, usable dataset.

Gather & process

We collect from public or supplied sources, normalize and structure it for your needs.

Present & visualize

Dashboards, reports and charts that make your numbers clear and decision-ready.

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Philippine commodity & trade intelligence, decoded daily.

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