FXMacroData vs Statistics Sweden (SCB) API: Swedish CPIF and Labour Data for SEK Traders

This comparison is for FX traders, quant developers, and analysts who need Swedish macro data in code and are deciding whether to call the Statistics Sweden (SCB) PxWebApi directly or use FXMacroData. CPIF inflation, the Labour Force Survey, and the monthly GDP indicator drive what markets expect from the Riksbank, and they move EUR/SEK and USD/SEK on the mornings they print, so the choice matters for anyone who trades or models the krona.

The core finding is simple. SCB's PxWebApi is the official, free, keyless source of record for Swedish statistics, with every table in the Statistical Database, full history, and a CC0 licence that places the data in the public domain. FXMacroData reads the same official releases and adds what an FX workflow needs on top: second-level announcement timestamps on every row, one schema across 22 currencies, a cross-country release calendar, pair dashboards, and MCP access for AI assistants. Many SEK desks will use both.

Pricing And Access

Price is not a like-for-like commercial comparison. SCB publishes its open data free of charge: there is no paid tier, no registration, and no API key. The API's own configuration endpoint points to the CC0 public-domain dedication, and SCB's terms say you may use and disseminate the data without any requirement to state the source, while recommending "Source: Statistics Sweden" if you do. The terms add two conditions worth knowing: statistics in the database that come from another government agency should be credited to that agency, and you may not present a service as an official cooperation or partnership with SCB.

FXMacroData is a paid workflow product. The Always Free tier needs no key and covers USD data only, at 100 requests per day with USD announcements delayed 15 minutes. SEK data starts on the Individual plan at $50/month or $500/year, with a 14-day trial, 1,000,000 requests per month, and bursts of 300 per minute. The Business plan at $250/month or $2,500/year covers companies and teams of up to 10 people with the same allowance and priority support. Redistribution to your own users is a self-serve add-on at $10/month per block of up to 100 measured users.

Side-By-Side Comparison

* SCB terms, limits, formats, and publication times retrieved from its public PxWebApi page, open data terms page, API configuration endpoint, and publication-time notice in October 2026.

What The Official Data Shows

To show what the PxWebApi returns, the chart below is built from SCB table TAB6590, Consumer Price Index with fixed interest rate (CPIF), 2020=100, and table TAB6593, CPIF excluding energy, both pulled through the PxWebApi 2 data endpoint. CPIF is the measure the Riksbank targets at 2%, which is why it is the Swedish release that most often reprices the krona. In FXMacroData the headline series is SEK inflation, and CPIF excluding energy is the SEK core inflation series.

Coverage And Depth

SCB's Statistical Database is far deeper on Sweden than any FX data product. The CPIF family alone includes the index, monthly and annual changes, a constant-tax variant, the energy-excluded measure, detailed analysis groups, and a flash estimate that SCB has published since September 2024, roughly a week before the full CPI release. The Labour Force Survey splits by sex, age, country of birth, and type of data (seasonally adjusted, trend, or unadjusted). If your research question is about youth unemployment or rents within CPI, SCB is the right place to go, and FXMacroData will not replace it.

FXMacroData's coverage is designed the other way round: narrower per country, wider across countries. For SEK it carries the series an FX desk watches: CPIF and CPIF excluding energy, producer prices, unemployment from the Labour Force Survey, GDP, retail sales, trade and current account, wages, money supply, house prices, and the Riksbank policy rate. The policy rate is set and announced by the Riksbank rather than SCB, which is a useful example of the joining work FXMacroData does: SEK rows from two official publishers arrive in one consistent format. For the central bank side, including how the Executive Board uses CPIF, see our Riksbank guide; this article stays with the statistics.

Release Timing And Timestamps

SCB publishes on a fixed clock. Since 17 January 2022, new statistics have been released at 08:00 Swedish time on weekdays, moved from the 09:30 slot used since 2005, and SCB's publishing calendar lists dates in advance. CPIF for a given month usually lands in the middle of the following month: the August 2026 figures in the chart above were published on 14 September at 08:00 CEST, which is 06:00 UTC. In winter the same 08:00 slot is 07:00 UTC.

PxWebApi 2 is better than many official APIs on time representation. Each table reports an updated field in UTC to the second, so you can see exactly when the table last changed. The limitation is that this is one timestamp per table, and it is overwritten at the next update: the response does not tell you when each past observation was first published, which is what an event study needs. FXMacroData reads the same official release and stores an announcement_datetime in epoch seconds for every row, past and present, in the same field across all 22 currencies. Releases are typically available within seconds of official publication, against a target of one second, and the measured record is published at /release-speed, including the share of releases inside one second by source and every release that took longer.

API Design And Developer Experience

SCB launched PxWebApi 2 in the Statistical Database in October 2025, and it will replace PxWebApi 1, which still runs alongside it. Version 2 is built on the open-source PxWebApi project published under the PxTools organisation on GitHub, and it adds GET queries for any table, a table search, selection expressions such as top(12) for the latest periods, and a configuration endpoint that reports the limits and licence in machine-readable form. The learning curve is the identifier system: you look up a table ID such as TAB6590, then the variable codes (ContentsCode 000007ZM is the CPIF annual change) before you can ask for data, and JSON-stat2 returns values as a flat array you index against the dimensions.

FXMacroData uses named routes instead. The same indicator name works across countries, so switching from Swedish to US inflation is a change of currency code, not a new lookup. A SEK CPIF request looks like this:

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" "https://api.fxmacrodata.com/v1/announcements/sek/inflation"

{
  "updated": "2026-09-14T06:00:00Z",
  "source": "Statistics Sweden",
  "id": ["ContentsCode", "Tid"],
  "size": [1, 1],
  "dimension": { "...": "..." },
  "value": [0.7]
}

{
  "date": "2026-08-01",
  "val": 0.7,
  "prior": 0.7,
  "announcement_datetime": 1789365600
}

Rate Limits And Query Size

SCB's PxWebApi page and the API's own configuration endpoint both state a limit of 30 calls per 10 seconds and 150,000 data cells per request. The limit is per IP address, so as SCB notes, it can be shared by several colleagues behind the same office connection. SCB's older general open-data terms page still quotes lower figures of 10 calls per 10 seconds and 100,000 values per table, so it is worth reading the live configuration endpoint rather than hard-coding a number. For pulling a dozen headline series that is ample; for mirroring large tables, the cell cap means splitting queries.

FXMacroData's limits are 1,000,000 requests per month on Individual and Business, with bursts of 300 per minute, 5,000 per hour, and 20 concurrent requests. Because new releases can be pushed over SSE streaming, an FX application does not need to poll at all to catch the 08:00 print.

Licensing And Redistribution

This is a genuine SCB strength. CC0 is about as permissive as data licensing gets: you can use, republish, and build products on SCB statistics without even crediting the source, though SCB recommends "Source: Statistics Sweden" and asks that you credit other agencies whose statistics appear in the database. The main restriction is that you may not present a service as an official cooperation or partnership with SCB. For a fintech publishing Swedish statistics to clients, that is a clear and very open basis.

FXMacroData's Individual plan covers a trader's or analyst's own research, dashboards, and scripts; Business covers internal team use. If you show FXMacroData data to your own users, the Commercial Redistribution add-on is $10/month per block of up to 100 measured users or 1,000 public-feed followers, and it is self-serve.

Where Statistics Sweden Is Genuinely Stronger

Where FXMacroData Is Stronger

The gap opens as soon as Sweden is one of several countries in your model. EUR/SEK reacts to Swedish and euro-area data, and USD/SEK adds US CPI and Non-Farm Payrolls to the picture. With SCB alone you would add Eurostat, the ECB, the BLS, and the Riksbank as separate integrations, each with its own identifiers and time formats. With FXMacroData those rows share one schema and one timestamp field.

Around the releases, FXMacroData adds the context an FX desk uses: the cross-country release calendar, FX spot rates, government bond yields, commodities, Riksbank statements in the SEK press-release feed, pair dashboards, exports, and widgets. The MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor query the same records directly, so an assistant can answer "what did Swedish CPIF do this morning and how did EUR/SEK respond" with sourced rows rather than a web search.

Decision Matrix

Recommendation

Choose the SCB PxWebApi if your work is about Sweden itself: deep breakdowns, official citation, long history, or a Swedish data warehouse. It is free, keyless, openly documented, and public domain under CC0, and it is the source FXMacroData itself relies on for Swedish statistics.

Choose FXMacroData if Swedish data is an input to FX decisions. You get CPIF and the other SEK releases with second-level timing next to the euro-area, US, and other data that moves EUR/SEK and USD/SEK, without maintaining a separate integration per agency. Check the measured timing record at /release-speed, browse the API reference, and compare plans on the pricing page; the Individual plan includes a 14-day trial, and you can start it here.

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