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BLS Prices — Consumer Price Index (CPI) & Inflation

BLS Prices — Consumer Price Index (CPI) & Inflation MCP Connector for Claude

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Access the official source of US inflation data. Retrieve the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), Producer Price Index (PPI), and precise historic metrics on the cost of living using the BLS v2 API.

2 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect to the exact datasets used by the Federal Reserve and economists to measure US inflation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Prices MCP gives your agent direct access to consumer and producer price fluctuations.

What you can do

  • Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) — Fetch changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
  • Producer Price Index (PPI) — Track the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output.
  • Historical Metrics — Query up to 20 years of consecutive inflation data instantly.

How it works

  1. Sign up for a free BLS Developer API Key
  2. Provide the key in the settings
  3. Ask your AI to calculate current inflation or track price changes since 2010.

Who is this for?

  • Financial Analysts & Traders — Build models off real macroeconomic signals
  • Economists & Researchers — Direct access to historic US index data
  • Corporate Finance — Adjust projections and budgets to accurate inflation curves
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2 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

query_bls

Use this instead of specific endpoints if you intimately know the underlying numerical code. Up to 50 concurrent lookbacks allowed. Generic BLS v2 api timeseries query. Requires explicit BLS Series IDs

get_cpi_inflation

S. Consumer Price Index baseline. Identifies macroeconomic price shifts and consumer buying power anomalies. Get Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) data for inflation tracking

See how to talk to your AI agent using BLS Prices — Consumer Price Index (CPI) & Inflation.

What was the US inflation rate context in 2023?

📊 **Consumer Price Index (CPI) — 2023 Summary** The CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) ended 2023 at **306.746** (December), up from **296.797** in December 2022. This represents an annual inflation rate of approximately **3.4%** for the year, significantly lower than the 6.5% rate seen in 2022, signaling an overall cooling of price increases.

How much did prices rise from January 2020 to January 2024?

Based on the BLS CPI-U Index (CUUR0000SA0): - **Jan 2020:** 257.971 - **Jan 2024:** 308.417 Prices rose by **19.55%** over this four-year period, driven primarily by post-pandemic supply chain issues and housing costs.

Analyze the Producer Price Index over the last two years.

📉 **PPI Final Demand (PCUOMFGOMFG)** Over the last 24 months, the Producer Price Index for Final Demand shifted dramatically from a peak year-over-year increase of 11.7% in mid-2022 to hovering near 1-2% entering 2024, signaling that input cost pressures on businesses have largely normalized.

Subscribe, create a Free BLS Account at **data.bls.gov/registrationEngine**, and enter your API Key. No complex coding required — your AI will automatically parse the SeriesIDs to calculate inflation across decades without manual spreadsheet formatting.

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