What is the euro short-term rate (€STR) today?

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

Price$0.002 per series returned (catalogue free) (HTTP API)

StatusOn the HTTP API

The ECB publishes the euro short-term rate (€STR) every TARGET business day for the previous day. The row gives latest_date and latest_value in percent, the change from the day before and the last observations, with a source_url to the ECB Data Portal.

Tool input

{
  "series": [
    "estr"
  ],
  "last": 5
}

Ask it from an AI agent (MCP)

Add the Apify MCP server with this tool to your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ...); it signs you in with OAuth or Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>. It works once the Actor is listed on the Apify Store; until then use the HTTP API or the remote MCP server at https://api.boscolabs.dev/mcp.

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=bosco_labs/eu-rates-inflation

Then ask:

Use the bosco_labs/eu-rates-inflation tool to answer: What is the euro short-term rate (€STR) today?

Call the Apify API

Runs the Actor and returns the rows in one request, billed to your Apify account ($0.002 per series returned (catalogue free) (HTTP API)). It works once the Actor is listed on the Apify Store; until then use the HTTP API or the remote MCP server at https://api.boscolabs.dev/mcp.

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": ["estr"], "last": 5}'

Call the Bosco Labs HTTP API

Bosco Labs HTTP API (beta): same input and rows, $0.002 per series returned (catalogue free) from prepaid credits. Get a key with a $0.50 free trial, or send the same call without a key and pay per call in USDC via x402 (no account).

curl https://api.boscolabs.dev/v1/eu-rates-inflation \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOSCO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"series": ["estr"], "last": 5}'

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

Snapshot taken 2026-11-06, source links in each row. First 1 of 1 rows (snapshot runs stop at 5 rows); long values shortened.

[
  {
    "schema_version": "1",
    "series": "estr",
    "title": "Euro short-term rate",
    "description": "Euro short-term rate (€STR), one value per TARGET business day.",
    "source": "ECB",
    "dataset": "EST",
    "series_key": "EST.B.EU000A2X2A25.WT",
    "frequency": "daily",
    "unit": "percent per annum",
    "latest_date": "2026-11-05",
    "latest_value": 2.442,
    "previous_date": "2026-11-04",
    "previous_value": 2.442,
    "change": 0.0,
    "observations": [
      {
        "date": "2026-10-30",
        "value": 2.44,
        "status": null
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-11-02",
        "value": 2.441,
        "status": null
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-11-03",
        "value": 2.445,
        "status": null
      },
      "... 2 more"
    ],
    "observation_count": 5,
    "source_url": "https://data.ecb.europa.eu/data/datasets/EST/EST.B.EU000A2X2A25.WT",
    "api_url": "https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/data/EST/B.EU000A2X2A25.WT?format=csvdata&lastNObservations=6",
    "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. Th...",
    "warnings": [],
    "error": null,
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T22:50:33+00:00",
    "duration_seconds": 0.14
  }
]

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