Fred Plans Pricing
The FRED API is a free public service operated by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. There is a single self-service tier — no paid plans, no enterprise SKUs. Access is gated only by a free 32-character API key. Use is constrained by a single published rate limit (120 requests per minute per key) and the FRED Terms of Use. Commercial redistribution of series sourced from third parties (e.g. S&P / Case-Shiller, NAHB) carries additional licensing obligations imposed by those sources, but FRED itself does not bill or meter consumers.
Fred Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for FRED on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 1 plan, covering freemium tiers, with named plans including Free Public Access.
Tagged areas include Finance, Government, Economic Data, Free Public API, and Open Data.
Plans
The only FRED API tier. Free access for any non-abusive use case — research, dashboards, mobile apps, AI agents. Requires a free API key.
- All FRED API endpoints (Categories, Releases, Series, Sources, Tags, Observations)
- All GeoFRED Maps API endpoints (Shapes, Series Group, Series Data, Regional Data)
- ALFRED real-time vintage support (realtime_start / realtime_end)
- Frequency aggregation (avg, sum, end-of-period)
- Unit transformations (lin, chg, ch1, pch, pc1, pca, cch, cca, log)
- XML, JSON, CSV, and XLSX response formats
- 800,000+ time series from 100+ data sources
- Free 32-character API key (instant, self-service)
Sources
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key.html
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/overview.html
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.