# Federal Reserve

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/federal-reserve/  
**Website:** https://www.federalreserve.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

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.

## Kin Score — 27.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 48.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 22.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Federal Reserve Agentic Access** — 13 operations

## Security (2)

- **Federal Reserve Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Federal Reserve Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Federal Reserve Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Economics, Federal-Government, Finance

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/federal-reserve/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.