specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
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provider: DBnomics
providerId: dbnomics
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Economic Indicators
- Macroeconomics
- Open Data
- Statistics
- Free
- Plans
description: >-
  DBnomics is free. There are no paid tiers, no API keys, and no billing - the
  entire platform (website, Web API, downloads, Python/R clients) is an
  open-source digital public good operated by Cepremap and sustained by
  sponsorship from French public institutions (Agence francaise de
  developpement, Banque de France, Direction generale du Tresor, France
  Strategie) and community support. The whole stack, including every
  per-provider fetcher, is open source on git.nomics.world and can be
  self-hosted.
notes: >-
  There is no pricing page because there is no pricing. Underlying data
  carries the terms of use of each originating provider (IMF, ECB, Eurostat,
  etc.), which DBnomics surfaces per provider. Organizations relying on
  DBnomics at scale are encouraged to sponsor the project.
sources:
- https://db.nomics.world/
- https://docs.db.nomics.world/
- https://git.nomics.world/dbnomics
plans:
- id: dbnomics-public
  name: Public (Free and Open)
  type: free
  description: >-
    The only plan. Unrestricted, unauthenticated access to the full Web API -
    93 providers, hundreds of millions of economic time series, full-text
    search, JSON and CSV output - plus website browsing and bulk downloads.
    No registration, API key, or credit card.
  entries:
  - label: API Requests
    name: api_requests
    type: usage
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free (no key, no metering)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Providers, Datasets, Series, Search Endpoints
  - name: Series Observations (JSON and CSV)
  - name: Last-Updates Feed
  - name: Python and R Clients
  - name: Bulk Downloads (CSV, XLSX)
- id: dbnomics-self-hosted
  name: Self-Hosted (Open Source)
  type: free
  description: >-
    The DBnomics platform - API, fetchers, and tooling - is open source on
    Cepremap's GitLab (git.nomics.world, mirrored at github.com/dbnomics) and
    can be run on your own infrastructure at your own cost.
  entries:
  - label: Self-Hosted Deployment
    name: self_hosted
    type: usage
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free (open source; you provide infrastructure)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Full Platform Source Code
  - name: Per-Provider Fetchers
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com