flossypurseData · Plans
What's free, what's paid,
and why.
Every chart and report is free to read. The API and the MCP server hand the data to your code and your agents, and there each dataset can only go as far as its licence allows. This page lists every dataset and where it sits.
Charts and reports
Free
- No account needed.
- Every dataset on this page, including the 9 that are charts only.
Free API
Free
- A free FlossyPurse Studios account.
- 1,000 requests a month, over the API and MCP together. Each MCP tool call counts as one.
- The 5 free datasets below.
Data subscription
$9 CAD a month
- 50,000 requests a month included.
- Everything in the free API, plus the 24 paid datasets below.
- The account chat that builds dashboards from your questions.
- Paid monthly by card. Cancel any time.
Each key can make up to 1,000 requests in any 24 hours on any plan, refused ones included. A refused request is never counted against your monthly allowance.
Free API · 5 datasets
Comes with a free key. Sign in with your studio account and make one.
| Dataset | Licence | Why it's here |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of Canada rates and indexesBank of Canada | Bank of Canada Terms of Use, Disclosures and Disclaimers | The Bank of Canada's terms allow reuse, including commercial, with credit. It is free on the Bank's own site, so it is free here too. |
| Statistics Canada tablesStatistics Canada | Statistics Canada Open Licence | The Statistics Canada Open Licence allows any use, including commercial, with credit. |
| CMHC housing: starts, completions, rents, vacancy, absorptions, mortgage ratesCanada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (through Statistics Canada tables) | CMHC Licence Agreement for the Use of Data | CMHC's data licence allows publishing and selling, including in value-added products, as long as its notice goes with the data. |
| Municipality list: names, regions, populations, open-data linksFlossyPurse Studios Data | Ours to give: our own list of municipalities and their public data portals | We compiled it, so we can give it away. |
| Alberta open data catalogue search (titles, descriptions, links)Government of Alberta (open.alberta.ca) | Open Government Licence – Alberta | Catalogue entries on open.alberta.ca are published under the Open Government Licence - Alberta. |
Paid API · 24 datasets
Comes with a Data subscription. This is what unlocking gets you.
| Dataset | Licence | Why it's here |
|---|---|---|
| Alberta Regional Dashboard indicators by municipalityGovernment of Alberta (regionaldashboard.alberta.ca) | Open Government Licence – Alberta | Every indicator we serve has its own open.alberta.ca entry under the Open Government Licence - Alberta (50 entries checked 2026-10-24). Part of the paid plan. |
| Alberta open data: WCB employer records, non-profit listing, grant payments, causes of death, wildfire history, Alberta Activity Index, municipal financesGovernment of Alberta (open.alberta.ca) | Open Government Licence – Alberta | Each dataset's own licence field on open.alberta.ca reads Open Government Licence - Alberta (checked 2026-10-24). Part of the paid plan. |
| Alberta Wildfire: active and season fires (live map service)Alberta Forestry and Parks | Open Government Licence – Alberta | Published under the Open Government Licence – Alberta. Part of the paid plan. |
| Canada Energy Regulator: pipeline throughput, incidents, apportionment, crude productionCanada Energy Regulator | Open Government Licence – Canada | Published under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Part of the paid plan. |
| Canada Job Bank postings (counts by occupation, sector, city)Employment and Social Development Canada | Open Government Licence – Canada | open.canada.ca lists it under the Open Government Licence - Canada (checked 2026-10-24). Part of the paid plan. |
| IRCC permanent-resident admissionsImmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Open Government Licence – Canada | IRCC publishes its open data under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Part of the paid plan. |
| CanadaBuys federal tendersPublic Services and Procurement Canada | Open Government Licence – Canada | CanadaBuys tender notices are published under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Part of the paid plan. |
| Federal transfers to Alberta, federal contracts and federal grants in AlbertaDepartment of Finance Canada; Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Open Government Licence – Canada | open.canada.ca lists all three under the Open Government Licence - Canada (checked 2026-10-24). Part of the paid plan. |
| Infrastructure Canada projects in AlbertaInfrastructure Canada | Open Government Licence – Canada | Infrastructure Canada publishes its project list as federal open data under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Part of the paid plan. |
| CRA corporate tax statisticsCanada Revenue Agency | Open Government Licence – Canada | open.canada.ca lists it under the Open Government Licence - Canada (checked 2026-10-24). Part of the paid plan. |
| Facility greenhouse-gas emissionsEnvironment and Climate Change Canada | Open Government Licence – Canada | ECCC publishes the facility emissions data as federal open data under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Part of the paid plan. |
| Weather, air quality (AQHI), water levels and weather alertsEnvironment and Climate Change Canada | Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Services End-use Licence | ECCC's data server licence allows commercial use with credit. Part of the paid plan. |
| Active wildfires (Canadian Wildland Fire Information System)Natural Resources Canada | Open Government Licence – Canada | Natural Resources Canada publishes it as federal open data under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Part of the paid plan. |
| Earthquakes in AlbertaU.S. Geological Survey | U.S. Government public domain | USGS data is U.S. federal government work, which is in the public domain. Part of the paid plan. |
| City of Edmonton open data: permits, assessments, licences, fire incidents, trafficCity of Edmonton | City of Edmonton Open Data Terms of Use v2.1 | Edmonton's open data terms allow commercial use. Part of the paid plan. |
| City of Calgary open data: licences, crime and disorder, trafficThe City of Calgary | Open Calgary Terms of Use | Open Calgary's terms allow commercial use with credit. Part of the paid plan. |
| Strathcona County open data: assessments and permitsStrathcona County | Open Government Licence – Strathcona County | Published under the Open Government Licence - Strathcona County. Part of the paid plan. |
| City of St. Albert open data: assessments and permitsCity of St. Albert | Open Data Licence – City of St. Albert | Published under the Open Data Licence - City of St. Albert. Part of the paid plan. |
| Parkland County open data: assessed parcelsParkland County | Open Government Licence - Parkland County | Published under the Open Government Licence - Parkland County. Part of the paid plan. |
| Town of Stony Plain open data: permits, assessments, business directoryTown of Stony Plain | Open Government Licence - Stony Plain | Published under the Open Government Licence - Stony Plain. Part of the paid plan. |
| Other Alberta municipalities' open data portalsAlberta municipalities (Leduc, Spruce Grove, Red Deer, Lethbridge and others) | Municipal open data licences | Each portal publishes under its own open data licence. Part of the paid plan. |
| Alberta Public Service salary disclosure, aggregates only: disclosed employees, median and total compensation by ministry and yearGovernment of Alberta (open.alberta.ca) | Open Government Licence – Alberta | The dataset's own licence field reads Open Government Licence - Alberta (checked 2026-10-27). That licence excludes personal information, so only aggregates by ministry and year are stored or served, never a row about one person. Part of the paid plan. |
| Alberta resource revenue by source (royalties, bonuses, rentals), fiscal years 1970/71 onGovernment of Alberta, Energy and Minerals (open.alberta.ca) | Open Government Licence – Alberta | The dataset's own licence field reads Open Government Licence - Alberta (checked 2026-10-27). Part of the paid plan. |
| Alberta sole-source service contracts: counts and value by ministry and quarter, value by vendor for the largest organisationsGovernment of Alberta (open.alberta.ca) | Open Government Licence – Alberta | The dataset's own licence field reads Open Government Licence - Alberta (checked 2026-10-27). Vendors are named only when they are plainly organisations; contracts with individuals appear only in totals. Part of the paid plan. |
Charts only · 9 datasets
On our free charts and reports, for anyone to read. Never served through the API or MCP, on any plan, because the licence doesn't allow it or we haven't confirmed that it does.
| Dataset | Licence | Why it's here |
|---|---|---|
| AESO electricity market: pool price, supply and demand, load forecastAlberta Electric System Operator (AESO) | AESO terms of use: non-commercial, personal or educational use only | AESO's terms allow non-commercial use only, so we show it on our free charts and never sell or serve it through the API. We have asked AESO for permission. |
| Alberta Major Projects (the inventory, and the Regional Dashboard's major-projects counts drawn from it)Government of Alberta, Alberta Major Projects | Licensed for non-commercial use only | Alberta Major Projects data is licensed for non-commercial use only, so it stays on our free charts and never goes through the API. We have asked for permission. |
| Regional Dashboard indicators that are not published as open data (unemployment rate, weekly earnings, crime severity index and nine others)Government of Alberta (regionaldashboard.alberta.ca) | Not published under an open licence | These indicators have no open-data entry, and the Regional Dashboard treats anything without one as restricted. Charts only until that changes. |
| AER well licencesAlberta Energy Regulator | AER terms (not yet read) | We have not yet confirmed that the AER's terms allow resale. Charts only until we do. |
| Neighbourhood assessment trends (University of Alberta)University of Alberta | Not yet read | We have not yet confirmed that this dataset's terms allow resale. Charts only until we do. |
| 511 Alberta road conditions, events and alertsAlberta Transportation (511 Alberta) | 511 Alberta terms (not yet read) | We have not yet confirmed that 511 Alberta's terms allow resale. Charts only until we do. |
| MLAs, MPs and electoral districts (Represent, by Open North)Open North (Represent API) | Represent API terms (not yet read) | We have not yet confirmed that the Represent API's terms allow resale. Charts only until we do. |
| House of Commons votes and debates (OpenParliament)openparliament.ca | openparliament.ca terms (not yet read) | We have not yet confirmed that openparliament.ca's terms allow resale. Charts only until we do. |
| Federal election results and political contributionsElections Canada | Elections Canada terms (not yet read) | We have not yet confirmed that Elections Canada's terms allow resale. Charts only until we do. |
How we decide
- We read each publisher's licence before we serve its data. If the licence says non-commercial, the data stays on the charts.
- If we haven't read a licence yet, the data stays on the charts until we have. Data we haven't listed is never served.
- When one answer mixes several datasets, it goes no further than the most restricted one in it.
- Every API answer carries the notice its licences ask for, in the
X-Data-Licence-Noticeheader (and in MCP answers as text). Keep it with the data when you republish.
If the API says no
- 403, “charts only”: the data is on our free charts but its licence keeps it out of the API for everyone, or we haven't confirmed that it allows it yet. No plan changes that.
- 402, “comes with a Data subscription”: a paid dataset asked for with a free key. Subscribing unlocks it.
- 429: the free monthly allowance or a key's daily limit is used up. The answer says which; the monthly one also says when it resets.
Each refusal names the dataset and its licence, and links back to this page.
The API and MCP docs list every endpoint and tool. Where the data comes from links each publisher.