European Central Bank (ECB) — Statistics & Data vs Office of Financial Research (U.S. Treasury) comparison

European Central Bank (ECB) — Statistics & Data focuses on Inflation Rates, GDP, and Unemployment Rates while Office of Financial Research (U.S. Treasury) specializes in Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, and Interest Rates. They overlap in 5 categories, so choose based on your preferred workflow and pricing.

Good news—both European Central Bank (ECB) — Statistics & Data and Office of Financial Research (U.S. Treasury) offer free plans. You can try each platform without commitment and only pay when you need premium features.

Yes, both platforms offer API access for developers and quants who want to build custom integrations or automate their workflows.

Choose European Central Bank (ECB) — Statistics & Data if you need ECB Data Portal is the ECB’s primary delivery service for official ECB statistics, with data, metadata, publications and dashboards., and Free access and free reuse policy for publicly released ECB statistics; optional free ECB Data Portal account enables favourites, saved dashboards and email notifications on updates.. Go with Office of Financial Research (U.S. Treasury) if Short‑term Funding Monitor (STFM): curated repo/CP/CD/FF market charts plus **open REST API** (JSON, HTTPS) with series search, metadata, and spread endpoints; no tokens required., and U.S. Money Market Fund Monitor: interactive holdings transparency by asset type, counterparty, country; per‑chart **CSV download**. better fits how you invest.

Both cover Bonds. European Central Bank (ECB) — Statistics & Data also includes Currencies. Office of Financial Research (U.S. Treasury) adds coverage for Mutual Funds, and Hedge Funds.

Both platforms let you export data to spreadsheets (CSV, and JSON). This is useful for custom analysis or record-keeping.