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Should I use FiscalData?

An official website of the U.S. government - fiscaldata.treasury.gov

Worth it. Use it if you need authoritative U.S. federal fiscal data — it is free, official, and has a public API. Skip it if you wanted financial software; this is raw government data, not a tool.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 20+ public sources; no commercial review coverage — it is a free government data portal.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo support evidence in sources reviewed
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

Public access

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes

Best for

  • Economists and researchers
  • Financial journalists
  • Developers building on Treasury APIs
  • Policy and budget analysts

Not for

  • Anyone needing private-company or market financial data
  • Intraday traders — flagship data updates daily, not real-time
  • Teams wanting accounting, budgeting, or bookkeeping software
  • Anyone expecting vendor support, SLAs, or onboarding

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Third parties sell scrapers of this free data — don't pay for what's free

low

Daily publishing cadence; check statement timestamps before building time-sensitive workflows

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Free official U.S. Treasury fiscal datasets and reports
  • Public API for programmatic access, including Daily Treasury Statement data
  • Historic U.S. financial data now available
  • Widely cited by state treasurers and academic researchers

Cons

  • U.S. federal fiscal scope only — no state, local, or private data
  • Daily updates at best; flagship statement is daily, not real-time
  • No vendor support or SLAs; transparency site, not a product

Sources & method

Analyzed 10/05/2026 - 10 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x3review x4security x1news x2

Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 10

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. Free, authoritative, unrestricted public access
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Self-serve downloads plus documented public API
  • Feature depth: 4/5. Deep Treasury datasets, historic archives, API endpoints
  • Support quality. No support evidence in sources reviewed
  • Security posture: 4/5. Official .gov with published security page
  • $0 Price Entire site and API are free
  • Yes Free tier No paid tiers exist
  • Hundreds of thousands Downloads Per Fiscal Service Year in Review
  • U.S. Treasury Operator Bureau of the Fiscal Service

Pricing

Public access

$0

  • All datasets and published reports
  • Public API access
  • CSV/JSON downloads

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Redditors and analysts routinely cite Fiscal Data as the go-to source for U.S. debt and spending figures, and Treasury reports hundreds of thousands of downloads.

Companies that use it

  • Missouri State Treasurer (Economic Dashboard citations)⁹
  • NBER working-paper researchers10
Full analysis

Based on 20+ public sources; no commercial review coverage — it is a free government data portal.

Free official U.S. Treasury data: datasets plus API for debt, spending, rates. Great for research; not a finance tool.

Methodology

Based on 20+ public sources; no commercial review coverage — it is a free government data portal.

Sources

  1. FiscalData.Treasury.gov homepagefiscaldata.treasury.gov
    official
  2. Daily Treasury Statement datasetfiscaldata.treasury.gov
    official
  3. FiscalData product security pagefiscaldata.treasury.gov
    security
  4. Treasury's fiscal data site growing by leaps and boundsfedscoop.com
    news
  5. USAspending Year in Review — downloadsx.com
    news
  6. US Treasury Fiscal Data Scraper on Apifyapify.com
    review
  7. api-evangelist Fiscal Data API reviewgithub.com
    review
  8. Reddit r/dataisbeautiful using Fiscal Datareddit.com
    review
  9. Missouri Economic Dashboard Data Citationstreasurer.mo.gov
    official
  10. NBER working paper citing Treasury datanber.org
    review

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