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 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Category API, Related Tags API, Release API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Economics, Federal Government, and Finance.

The Federal Reserve catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Federal Reserve’s developer surface includes changelog, authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 15 more developer resources.

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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Economics Federal Government Finance

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 31.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 5.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 51/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it
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2 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 42.2 — up to +14.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 9

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

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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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Federal Reserve MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.stlouisfed.org over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Federal Reserve API pricing

Not yet checked against Federal Reserve's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Federal Reserve's documentation. All 5 limits →

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

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Federal Reserve

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Federal Reserve Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Federal Reserve API Rules

48 rules · 46 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

WellKnown

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

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
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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
- Federal-Government
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-reserve/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/federal-reserve-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/federal-reserve-vocabulary.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/federal-reserve-conformance.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/federal-reserve-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/federal-reserve-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/federal-reserve-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/federal-reserve-vendors.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.federalreserve.gov/privacy.htm
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/cp/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/federal-reserve-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/federal-reserve-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/federal-reserve-finops.yml
- 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
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:
  - Releases
  tags_raw:
  - 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

Federal Reserve API — frequently asked questions

Does Federal Reserve have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Federal Reserve, including Federal Reserve Category API, Federal Reserve Related Tags API and Federal Reserve Release API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Federal Reserve API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Federal Reserve, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Federal Reserve API?

Federal Reserve documents its authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Federal Reserve Authentication.

How much does the Federal Reserve API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Federal Reserve, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Federal Reserve have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Federal Reserve: Remote MCP server at mcp.stlouisfed.org over HTTP.

Is the Federal Reserve API ready for AI agents?

Federal Reserve has a Kin Score of 31.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 50.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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