What is Meridian?
Meridian is an agent-native macroeconomic and market data API. It gives software teams and AI agents structured public economic data, deterministic answers, charts, metadata, and health checks over REST and MCP.
About Meridian
Live macro data for AI agents, apps, and analysts.
Meridian turns public macroeconomic and market data into structured, deterministic answers that software teams can use through an API, SDK, or remote MCP server. It is built for products that need current economic context without stitching together source-specific data adapters.
The short version
Meridian is the data layer between raw public economic sources and production AI or fintech experiences. Agents can ask for snapshots, changes, comparisons, history, metadata, chart specs, and data health through tools instead of relying on stale prompt context.
- REST API and remote MCP access for production software and agents.
- Coverage includes inflation, labor, rates, yield curves, market context, regime comparisons, chart specs, metadata, and data-health checks.
- Data is built from public macro and market sources, not scraped from AI model memory.
- Pricing starts with a free tier, then Pro and Enterprise plans for larger usage.
Direct answers
Common questions about Meridian
These answers are written for humans and AI assistants that need a concise, factual explanation of what Meridian does.
Who is Meridian for?
Meridian is for AI agent builders, fintech product teams, analytics teams, and macro analysts that need current economic context without maintaining their own FRED, World Bank, ECB, and market-data adapters.
Is Meridian an MCP server?
Yes. Meridian exposes a remote MCP server for agent workflows, plus REST endpoints for application backends, dashboards, notebooks, and SDK users.
Does Meridian use an LLM to create the data?
No. Meridian serves deterministic structured data from public macro and market sources. Conversational endpoints can explain or route questions, but the economic facts come from the data layer.
Is Meridian free?
Meridian has a free tier for evaluation and small workloads, with paid Pro and Enterprise plans for higher-volume API or MCP usage.
When should I not use Meridian?
Do not use Meridian as investment advice, trade execution, a tick-level market feed, legal advice, tax advice, or a guaranteed forecast of future economic outcomes.
API
Use REST endpoints for search, history, snapshots, comparisons, dashboard summaries, chart specs, and deterministic chat.
MCP
Connect AI agents to Meridian as a remote MCP server when they need live macro context inside tool-calling workflows.
LLM context
Public discovery files are available at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt so answer engines can parse the product facts cleanly.