Turn economic release dates into application data with Narwhal's REST and hosted MCP interfaces. Connect a calendar to country indicators, public holidays and FX through one account. Investing.com offers an economic calendar for readers on its website.
Choose Narwhal when your application or agent needs economic release dates as structured responses, with a documented API and commercial app use on the free tier.
The comparison covers economic calendar access: a website for reading and an API for applications.
| Requirement | Narwhal API | Investing.com economic calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | ✓ 3,000 requests/month | Public API tier: Not published |
| Cheapest paid plan | Basic: $60/month; $600/year available | Public API price: Not published |
| Update speed | Dataset schedule; timestamps retained | Not published as an API |
| History | Free: 12 months; Basic: 5 years; available records only | Not published as an API |
| Coverage | Economics, FX, holidays and published commodities | Website economic calendar |
| Interfaces | REST and MCP; WebSocket not published | Public data API not published |
| SDKs | Not published | Not published |
| Commercial use on free tier | ✓ Commercial apps; resale needs Enterprise | ✗ Personal, non-commercial licence |
Investing.com does not publish an official calendar API price.
| Requests per month | Narwhal API | Investing.com economic calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | Free: $0/month | Not published |
| 10,000 | Basic: $60/month | Not published |
| 100,000 | Basic: $60/month | Not published |
List October 2026 economic releases
Investing.com provides a website calendar without a public API for retrieving economic releases.
# Change: URL and key
curl --get \
"https://api.narwhalapi.com/v1/economics/calendar" \
--data-urlencode "start_date=2026-10-01" \
--data-urlencode "end_date=2026-10-31" \
--data-urlencode "limit=25" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Narwhal Free includes 3,000 successful requests each month and permits commercial apps. Use that allowance for a dashboard, scheduled data fetches or an agent integration. Move to Basic for 100,000 monthly requests as usage grows, with the same account and authentication.
REST and hosted MCP reach the same data through one account. Your application can fetch JSON while an agent uses the hosted tools, with every successful call counted once against the shared allowance. One quota makes the combined workload straightforward to budget.
Narwhal's economics catalogue spans 36 countries, with a coverage table for each indicator. Country and indicator paths organize requests around the data your application uses. Combine observations with FX, public holidays and release dates to build country dashboards through the same account.
Investing.com is the better pick when you want to consult an economic calendar online without building software. Its website provides the reading interface, so you can look up events directly. It does not publish an official calendar API in the cited material. Its terms restrict automated extraction and provide a personal, non-commercial licence; that makes the website a browsing option rather than the data interface for a customer application.
Yes. Narwhal Free includes 3,000 successful requests per month, commercial app use and both REST and hosted MCP access. The release calendar returns structured data for your own calendar interface or scheduled workflow.
Its terms restrict automated extraction and give a limited personal, non-commercial licence. A browser-visible calendar is not an API permission grant. Use an authorised data interface when building a calendar that will be served to other users.
Replace the request URL and authentication, then map the JSON response into your application's fields. The examples use standard fetch in JavaScript and requests in Python, so integration fits an ordinary HTTP client. Keep your key on the server and carry the response's units, dates and missing values into your display or calculations.
The shared cap applies to successful REST and MCP requests together. There are no automatic overage charges. Basic includes 100,000 monthly requests; quotas reset each month even when you pay yearly.
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