FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server
The ultimate U.S. economic data Mega-Server: 19 tools covering time series, releases, categories, regional GeoFRED data, tags, and 107 data sources — 816,000+ series from the Federal Reserve in one integration.
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What is the FRED MCP Server?
The FRED MCP Server gives AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to FRED via 19 tools. The ultimate U.S. economic data Mega-Server: 19 tools covering time series, releases, categories, regional GeoFRED data, tags, and 107 data sources — 816,000+ series from the Federal Reserve in one integration. Powered by the Vinkius - no API keys, no infrastructure, connect in under 2 minutes.
Built-in capabilities (19)
Tools for your AI Agents to operate FRED
Ask your AI agent "Complete macro briefing: GDP, unemployment, inflation, and Fed rate" and get the answer without opening a single dashboard. With 19 tools connected to real FRED data, your agents reason over live information, cross-reference it with other MCP servers, and deliver insights you would spend hours assembling manually.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client. Powered by the Vinkius - your credentials never touch the AI model, every request is auditable. Connect in under two minutes.
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FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server capabilities
19 toolsKey: 32991 (Money/Banking), 10 (Employment), 32992 (National Accounts), 32455 (Prices). Get a FRED category by ID
Start from root (0) to explore top-level categories. Get child categories of a category
Supports filtering by frequency, units, and tags. Get series within a category
Get tags for a category
Shapes: bea, msa, frb, necta, state, country, county, censusregion. Get geographic shape files for mapping
Supports date filtering, unit transformations (pch, log), and frequency aggregation. Get actual data values for a FRED time series
Use get_series_group first to find the series_group ID. Get cross-sectional regional economic data
IDs: 10 (Employment), 53 (GDP), 46 (CPI). Get details for a specific release
Omit release_id for full economic calendar. Get release dates for economic data
Release 10 contains UNRATE, PAYEMS, and hundreds more. Get all series within a release
Use IDs like GDP, UNRATE, CPIAUCSL, FEDFUNDS, DGS10. Get metadata for a specific FRED series
Example: usa;gdp returns US GDP series. Get series matching specific tags
Enter a FRED series ID to discover the group ID. Get series group info for GeoFRED
Filter by macro or regional. Get recently updated FRED series
Essential for ALFRED-style vintage analysis. Get historical revision dates for a series
List all FRED economic data releases
List all FRED data sources
Returns matching series with title, frequency, units, popularity. Use order_by=popularity to find the most-used series. Search 816,000+ economic time series by keyword
Search or browse FRED tags
What the FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server unlocks
The definitive Mega-Server for U.S. economic intelligence. Why install 5 servers when one does it all?
What you can do
- 📊 Series (5 tools) — Search, retrieve data, metadata, updates, and vintage revisions for 816,000+ time series
- 📰 Releases (4 tools) — Track economic data releases, dates, and discover series within each release
- 📁 Categories (4 tools) — Navigate the FRED taxonomy tree to discover and filter data
- 🗺 GeoFRED (3 tools) — Regional economic data by state, county, MSA, and Fed district
- 🏷 Tags & Sources (3 tools) — Intelligent tag-based discovery + all 107 official data providers
Popular Series
GDP · UNRATE · CPIAUCSL · FEDFUNDS · DGS10 · SP500 · M2SL · MORTGAGE30US
Who is this for?
Power users, macro analysts, and AI agents that need comprehensive U.S. economic intelligence without managing multiple integrations.Frequently asked questions about the FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server
Why choose the Full server instead of individual ones?
The Full server bundles all 19 tools from all 5 domain-specific servers in a single integration. Ideal for multi-disciplinary AI agents that need to combine time series data with regional analysis, release monitoring, and tag-based discovery — all in one query session.
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