# EconDB 5,170 macro series and container-shipping data behind one API and one subscription. *https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/econdb · Stock Market Data APIs* ## Facts ### At a glance | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | EconDB | | Category | Stock Market Data APIs | | Job | macro | | Website | https://www.econdb.com | | Pricing model | subscription | | Free tier | true | | Open source | false | | Licence | none | | Self-hosted | false | | Tested hands-on | false | | Last updated | 2026-09-14 | ### Pricing | Tier | USD | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | 0 EUR | month | | Premium | 24.99 EUR | month | | Enterprise | on request | month | ### Coverage | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Asset classes | forex, bonds, commodities | | Markets | us, ca, uk, eu, asia, latam, au, global | | Works outside the US | true | | Data latency | eod | | Platforms | web | | AI features | assistive | ### Interfaces | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | API | true | | Webhooks | false | | Scripting | none | | Python | true | | Spreadsheet add-in | false | | MCP server | false | | Export | csv, json, api | ### Capabilities Yes: charting, alerts No: screening, scanning, backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, broker_import, tax_reporting, news, options_analysis *Verified: pricing 2026-09-14; capabilities 2026-09-14; coverage 2026-09-14.* ## What it is EconDB is a macroeconomic aggregator, run by Econdb Ltd of London, that has spent the last few years becoming a container-shipping data vendor. Both halves sit behind one subscription and, since a v1 API released on 29.07.2025, one REST endpoint. The macro half is the older one: 5,170 named indicator series across 242 geographies, drawn from 146 statistical agencies — Eurostat, the ECB, the World Bank, the BLS, the State Bank of Pakistan, Banco de la República — sitting on 13,834 raw source datasets underneath. Series carry house tickers rather than the provider's own codes, so US CPI is `CPIUS`. That is the opposite of the DBnomics bargain: shorter codes, and a lookup worked out on the BLS site does not transfer. The shipping half is what the site now leads with — port throughput and dwell times, vessel calls, schedules and positions, transshipment shares, service loops and point-to-point container volumes. How many ships that covers is not a quotable number: the vessel endpoint's own count climbed from 83,656 to 106,264 within a few minutes on 14.09.2026, so what it reports is an ingest in progress rather than a fleet. The sitemap says where the company's attention went: 1,079 maritime URLs against 190 for series. ## Pricing One product tier, at 24.99 euros a month billed month-to-month, or 249.90 euros a year for 17 per cent off — both read on 14.09.2026 from the endpoint the site's own checkout uses, so the monthly figure is not an annual-plan headline. The JavaScript bundle ships a stale fallback of £3.17 a month that no longer applies. Above that is an unpriced Enterprise arrangement, reachable only through an email address in the checkout panel. Below it, the free tier is real but narrow: a token comes back with no signup at all, expires in about 24 hours, and is accepted as a query parameter on the older `www.econdb.com/api` endpoints while the v1 API rejects it and wants an account token. Series pages render their full history in the browser without any account. ## Data & coverage History is genuinely deep where the source has it: US industrial production from January 1919, CPI from January 1947, real GDP from 1947Q1. Of the 5,170 series, 2,215 are monthly, 2,207 quarterly, 469 annual and 237 daily, counted on 14.09.2026. Geographic coverage is nominally worldwide, but the curated set is Eurostat-shaped — after the United States, the best-covered countries are Poland, Sweden, Hungary, Denmark and Czechia. Beyond the series there are government bond yield curves by country, commodity and oil-and-gas pages, a European retail-price tracker, and the shipping tables. Nothing here is exchange-priced or at market latency. ## Integrations REST over HTTP, JSON by default, CSV from an export control on series pages and a format parameter on the widget downloads. The v1 API is documented as OpenAPI 3.0.3 and rendered through both Redoc and Swagger, with Python and cURL samples per endpoint. Email alerts can be attached to individual tickers. A maritime chatbot at `/chat/` answers questions such as which vessels are waiting at Rotterdam, in natural language over the vendor's own data; it needs a login. The first-party Python client is `prognosis`, MIT-licensed, version 0.0.91 published 21.10.2022 and untouched since. It wraps the legacy API, not v1. The obvious package name, `econdb`, is not registered on PyPI by anyone. ## Limitations **Much of the catalogue is not being refreshed.** Across all 13,834 datasets, 38.4 per cent have not synced in over a year and 11.0 per cent synced within the last 30 days. The curated layer is better but not clean: of the 654 datasets behind the named series, 45.9 per cent synced within 30 days and 28.6 per cent have not synced in over a year. Counted from the API on 14.09.2026. **The flagship series show it.** US CPI ends at April 2026 with a published next-release date of 24.06.2026 that has already passed, and unemployment and PPI stop in the same month. Industrial production runs to June 2026 and real GDP to 2026Q2, so this is per-source drift rather than a dead pipeline — but the series a reader pulls first is four months behind an agency that publishes monthly. **There are no terms of use.** No licence, no privacy policy, no data policy — twelve likely URLs return 404, the rendered footer links to none, and the client bundle routes to none. Nothing grants you redistribution rights and nothing denies them, which for a paid product carrying other agencies' data is the most consequential gap on the site. **No rate limit is published anywhere,** including in the OpenAPI schema, so there is no number to design a backfill against. **Public API directories describe a service that no longer exists.** Several still say EconDB needs no authentication. It did once; it does not now. ## Alternatives [FRED](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/fred) is free, has 851,100 series against EconDB's 5,170, publishes an actual rate limit and carries point-in-time vintages — but it is US-centred and has no shipping data at all. [DBnomics](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/dbnomics) is the closer match on shape and also free: an aggregator over 93 providers that keeps each provider's own series codes instead of inventing house tickers. If the container-shipping tables are what you came for, neither substitutes, and that is the part worth paying for. ## FAQ ### Is EconDB free? Partly. Series pages render full history in the browser without an account, and a token issued without signup reads the older API for about 24 hours. Everything the site labels Premium, and the whole v1 API, needs the 24.99-euro subscription. ### Does the EconDB API need a key? Yes, and several public API directories still say otherwise. Both the legacy endpoint and the v1 endpoint returned 401 to an unauthenticated request for a series on 14.09.2026. ### Is the shipping data sold separately from the macro data? No. There is one subscription, one price and one v1 API whose tag groups are Shipping and Macro. The pricing endpoint returns a single figure, and the upsell copy describes the container indicators as what Premium adds. ### Does EconDB have stock prices? No. It carries macro indicators, government bond yields, exchange rates, commodity and retail prices, and container-shipping statistics. There are no equity quotes, no fundamentals and no options. ### Can I redistribute EconDB data? The site publishes no terms of use, licence or privacy policy at all, so there is nothing to read and nothing granted in writing. Treat each series as governed by the agency that produced it, and ask before republishing. ### Is there an official Python client? Yes, but it is old. The first-party package is prognosis, MIT-licensed, last published at version 0.0.91 on 21.10.2022, and it targets the legacy API rather than v1. The name econdb is unclaimed on PyPI. ## Also worth comparing - [DBnomics](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/dbnomics.md) — Macro series from 93 statistics offices and central banks behind one open API. - [Trading Economics](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/trading-economics.md) — Macro data for 196 countries with its own forecasts. No free key; the API starts at $199. - [ECB Data Portal API](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ecb-data-portal.md) — Euro reference rates, yield curves and €STR over keyless SDMX — with vintages. - [FRED](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/fred.md) — The Fed's macro database — 851,100 series, a free key and 120 requests a minute. - [IMF Data](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/imf-data.md) — Free, keyless SDMX access to IMF macro statistics — WEO included, forecasts and all. - [Alpha Vantage](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/alpha-vantage.md) — The API most people's first script talks to — free key, wide coverage, hard rate limits.