Narwhal API
Economic release schedules alongside official indicators, FX and hosted MCP.
Investing.com API alternatives
Investing.com offers a website economic calendar and a free display-only widget. No official calendar API was found. Compare alternatives when an application needs calendar data rather than an embedded display.
Decision
Choose Narwhal for release schedules across 39 countries and areas through REST and MCP. Choose Trading Economics or FXStreet for consensus, or Finnhub for estimates and impact fields.
Provider shortlist
Narwhal API is owned and operated by Nusantara Ventures, LLC.
Trading Economics
Calendar consensus and forecasts alongside broad macro coverage.
EODHD
Economic events alongside market data and MCP on every plan.
Financial Modeling Prep
An economic calendar alongside indicators and Treasury rates.
Finnhub
Economic calendar estimates and impact fields.
FXStreet
An editor-curated calendar with consensus and update webhooks.
Compare the options
Best fit is not feature parity. Check the evidence and limitation together.
| Provider | Best for | Evidence checked | Important limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narwhal API | Economic release schedules alongside official indicators, FX and hosted MCP. | Calendar covers 39 countries and areas, with schedule precision and immutable versions; Free allows commercial apps. | No consensus, forecasts or importance ratings. |
| Trading Economics | Calendar consensus and forecasts alongside broad macro coverage. | REST, Excel and hosted MCP; Standard costs $199/month for 500 requests. | No ongoing free tier; the paid one-week Standard trial allows 100 requests. |
| EODHD | Economic events alongside market data and MCP on every plan. | Economic events require Equity Analyst at $59.99/month or All-In-One at $99.99. | Those are personal prices; commercial plans are priced separately. |
| Financial Modeling Prep | An economic calendar alongside indicators and Treasury rates. | Calendar requests cover date ranges up to 90 days; an official MCP server is available. | Individual plans are personal use; displaying or redistributing data needs a separate licensing agreement. |
| Finnhub | Economic calendar estimates and impact fields. | Calendar returns actual, estimate, previous and impact; an official MCP server is available. | Calendar is premium; historical events and surprises require Enterprise. Free is personal use. |
| FXStreet | An editor-curated calendar with consensus and update webhooks. | Licensed APIs and widgets provide actual and consensus values, with webhooks for updates. | Pricing requires sales contact; country count and history depth are not published. |
Choose by requirement
Choose the required fields
Narwhal has no consensus or importance fields. Trading Economics and FXStreet include consensus; Finnhub includes estimate and impact fields.
Keep schedule precision
Narwhal's calendar covers 35 countries and areas with schedule precision and immutable versions. Use those distinctions when scheduling jobs or tracking changes.
Compare commercial access
Narwhal Free allows commercial apps with 5,000 successful monthly requests. EODHD commercial plans are separate; Financial Modeling Prep display requires a separate agreement. FXStreet pricing requires sales contact.
Sources and review date
Each detailed provider page lists the first-party documentation used, its evidence boundaries, and its review date.
Reviewed:
- Investing.com evidence and sources
- Trading Economics evidence and sources
- Investing.com calendar widget investing.com
- Trading Economics calendar snapshot docs.tradingeconomics.com
- Trading Economics API pricing tradingeconomics.com
- EODHD plan pricing eodhd.com
- EODHD economic events documentation eodhd.com
- Financial Modeling Prep calendar site.financialmodelingprep.com
- Financial Modeling Prep plan pricing site.financialmodelingprep.com
- Finnhub economic calendar finnhub.io
- Finnhub plan pricing finnhub.io
- FXStreet calendar documentation docs.fxstreet.com
- FXStreet API questions docs.fxstreet.com