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, in the API Commons Plans shape.
It defines 1 plan, covering freemium tiers, with named plans including Free Public Access.
This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
Tagged areas include Finance, Government, Economic Data, Free Public API, and Open Data.
generated, dated 2026-05-28.
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.