What's the ECB deposit rate now, when did it last change, and how does euro-area inflation compare?

Answered byECB Rates & Euro Inflation API: policy rates, FX, €STR, HICP

Price$0.002 per series returned

StatusComing soon to the Store

One row per series. ecb_deposit_rate comes from the ECB and has one observation per rate change, so latest_date is the date of the last change; hicp:EA is euro-area annual HICP inflation from Eurostat. Each row has latest_value, previous_value, change, the last observations, unit, source_url and an attribution line to quote.

Tool input

{
  "series": [
    "ecb_deposit_rate",
    "hicp:EA"
  ],
  "last": 3
}

Ask it from an AI agent (MCP)

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Use the bosco_labs/eu-rates-inflation tool to answer: What's the ECB deposit rate now, when did it last change, and how does euro-area inflation compare?

Call the Apify API

Runs the Actor and returns the rows in one request, billed to your Apify account ($0.002 per series returned). It works once the Actor is live on the Apify Store.

curl https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/bosco_labs~eu-rates-inflation/run-sync-get-dataset-items \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"series": ["ecb_deposit_rate", "hicp:EA"], "last": 3}'

Call the Bosco Labs HTTP API

Bosco Labs HTTP API (beta, test mode): same input and rows, $0.002 per series returned (catalogue free) from prepaid credits. Get a key with a $0.50 free trial.

curl https://api.boscolabs.dev/v1/eu-rates-inflation \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOSCO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"series": ["ecb_deposit_rate", "hicp:EA"], "last": 3}'

Source: ECB statistics (data.ecb.europa.eu). The data are free of charge from the ECB; we charge for processing and delivery, not for the data. Eurostat HICP: © European Union, free of charge from Eurostat. The change field is computed by Bosco Labs.

Example output

Example output from the tool's documentation (not a run of this exact question).

{
  "schema_version": "1",
  "series": "ecb_deposit_rate",
  "title": "Deposit facility - date of changes (raw data) - Level",
  "description": "One observation per rate change; latest_date = when the current rate took effect.",
  "source": "ECB",
  "dataset": "FM",
  "series_key": "FM.B.U2.EUR.4F.KR.DFR.LEV",
  "frequency": "changes",
  "unit": "percent per annum",
  "latest_date": "2026-09-16",
  "latest_value": 2.5,
  "previous_date": "2026-06-17",
  "previous_value": 2.25,
  "change": 0.25,
  "observations": [
    { "date": "2025-06-11", "value": 2.0, "status": null },
    { "date": "2026-06-17", "value": 2.25, "status": null },
    { "date": "2026-09-16", "value": 2.5, "status": null }
  ],
  "observation_count": 12,
  "source_url": "https://data.ecb.europa.eu/data/datasets/FM/FM.B.U2.EUR.4F.KR.DFR.LEV",
  "api_url": "https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/data/FM/B.U2.EUR.4F.KR.DFR.LEV?format=csvdata&lastNObservations=13",
  "attribution": "Source: ECB statistics (ECB Data Portal, data.ecb.europa.eu). Values and metadata are reproduced unmodified and are available free of charge from the ECB. The `change` field is computed by Bosco Labs (latest_value - previous_value) and is not an ECB figure.",
  "warnings": [],
  "error": null,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T22:01:42+00:00",
  "duration_seconds": 0.16
}

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