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Federal Reserve

The FRED API is a web service that allows developers to write programs and build applications that retrieve economic data from the FRED and ALFRED websites hosted by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Federal Reserve publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Category API, Related Tags API, Release API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Economics, Federal-Government, and Finance.

Federal Reserve’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 4 more developer resources.

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26.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
EconomicsFederal-GovernmentFinance

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 26.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 10.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 4.0 / 17
Access Clarity 2.7 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 5.0 / 9
Regulatory Posture 3.3 / 15
Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Federal Reserve Category API

The Category API from Federal Reserve — 3 operation(s) for category.

Federal Reserve Related Tags API

The Related Tags API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for related tags.

Federal Reserve Release API

The Release API from Federal Reserve — 2 operation(s) for release.

Federal Reserve Releases API

The Releases API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for releases.

Federal Reserve Series API

The Series API from Federal Reserve — 3 operation(s) for series.

Federal Reserve Source API

The Source API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for source.

Federal Reserve Sources API

The Sources API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for sources.

Federal Reserve Tags API

The Tags API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for tags.

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Open Collections 10

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category Related Tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category Release API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category Releases API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category Series API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category Source API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Reserve FRED Category Tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Federal Reserve Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Federal Reserve Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Federal Reserve Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Federal Reserve Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Federal Reserve Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Federal Reserve Agentic Access

13 operations

13 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: federal-reserve
name: Federal Reserve
description: The FRED API is a web service that allows developers to write programs and build applications that retrieve economic
  data from the FRED and ALFRED websites hosted by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/federal-reserve.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Economics
- Federal-Government
- Finance
tags_raw:
- Economics
- Federal Government
- Finance
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-reserve/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-category-api
  name: Federal Reserve Category API
  description: The Category API from Federal Reserve — 3 operation(s) for category.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Category
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-category-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-related-tags-api
  name: Federal Reserve Related Tags API
  description: The Related Tags API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for related tags.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Related Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-related-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-release-api
  name: Federal Reserve Release API
  description: The Release API from Federal Reserve — 2 operation(s) for release.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Release
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-release-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-releases-api
  name: Federal Reserve Releases API
  description: The Releases API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for releases.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Releases
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-releases-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-series-api
  name: Federal Reserve Series API
  description: The Series API from Federal Reserve — 3 operation(s) for series.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Series
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-series-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-source-api
  name: Federal Reserve Source API
  description: The Source API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for source.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Source
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-source-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-sources-api
  name: Federal Reserve Sources API
  description: The Sources API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for sources.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- aid: federal-reserve:federal-reserve-tags-api
  name: Federal Reserve Tags API
  description: The Tags API from Federal Reserve — 1 operation(s) for tags.
  humanURL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
  baseURL: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-reserve-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/federal-reserve-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/federal-reserve-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/federal-reserve-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/federal-reserve-board
- type: Website
  url: https://www.federalreserve.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred
- url: https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/press_all.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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