Pricing
Start with a free key. Every endpoint and full history on every tier: you pay for volume, not access. Embed adds signed responses, embed tokens and webhooks.
- Every endpoint, full history
- JSON + CSV responses
- Chart SVGs
- No card to start
- Everything in Free
- 20x the monthly quota: enough for daily pipelines, dashboards and backtests
- Same data, same endpoints, same history: you pay for volume, not access
- Everything in Analyst
- Signed responses: each payload is HMAC-signed so you can verify it came from us
- Embed tokens: drop a live chart into your own page
- Webhooks: get notified when a series updates
- Everything in Embed
- Higher limits on calls and rate
- SLA and priority support
No credit card for the free tier. You only add a card if you upgrade.
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Per-minute limit is 100 requests/minute on every tier. Monthly quotas reset at UTC midnight on the 1st.
Questions
Is there a free tier?
Yes. The free tier is 500 calls a month with no credit card. Every endpoint is open on the free tier, with the same full history as the paid tiers. Get a key at https://ausdata.io/get-started and you are live in about a minute.
Do I need a credit card for the free tier?
No. The free tier is 500 calls a month with no card. You only add a payment method if you upgrade.
How do I get Australian CPI (inflation) data via API?
Call the canonical CPI series with your key: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key" https://api.ausdata.io/v1/series/AU.CPI.YOY/latest returns the latest year-on-year CPI as a flat, source-attributed object. Drop /latest and add a period range for the full history.
How do I get the RBA cash rate via API?
Call the canonical cash-rate series: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key" https://api.ausdata.io/v1/series/AU.CASHRATE/latest returns the current Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate target. The same path without /latest returns the full history.
What data sources are covered?
Nine official Australian sources: the ABS, RBA, ATO, APRA, AIHW, ASIC, AEMO, WGEA, and BOM-aggregated weather. One API key reaches all of them, and every response carries the originating agency attribution.
Can I use it from Claude Desktop or another MCP client?
Yes. Each source ships as a free, MIT-licensed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on PyPI (for example pip install abs-mcp), and there is an ausdata-mcp server that reaches every source through the hosted gateway. Both give an agent search, describe, get_data and latest tools.
What does the free tier actually include?
Everything: every endpoint, full history on every series, JSON, CSV and chart SVGs. Nothing is locked away on Free. The paid tiers raise the monthly quota, and Embed adds operational features (signed responses, embed tokens, webhooks). You pay for volume, not access.
What counts as a call?
Each authed request to a data endpoint. Every response returns X-Quota-Used / X-Quota-Remaining headers so you can track it.
Is there a per-minute rate limit?
Yes, 100 requests per minute per key on every tier. A 429 includes a Retry-After header.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. Paid tiers are month to month. Cancel any time from the Stripe customer portal at https://billing.stripe.com/p/login/dRmeVd2Co1YI5iB5SL4F200 (sign in with the email you subscribed with).
What data licence applies?
CC-BY 4.0 (ABS, RBA, weather) or CC-BY 3.0 AU (ATO, APRA, AIHW, ASIC, WGEA), and AEMO under its own Copyright Permissions (not CC-BY). The exact attribution string is on every response.