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CalcIntel

About CalcIntel

Financial calculators with live Fed data.

What we do

CalcIntel runs mortgage, loan, and investment calculators against live FRED rate series so the numbers on your screen match the numbers in the market.

We focus on personal-finance decisions under current interest rates. Every page on calcintel.com is built from FRED (the St. Louis Federal Reserve economic database), cited and linkable so readers can trace any number back to its source.

Who this is for

CalcIntel is built for home buyers, refinancers, investors, and anyone negotiating a rate.

Why this exists

Public data on personal-finance decisions under current interest rates is technically free, but practically locked behind file formats, acronyms, and paywalled dashboards. CalcIntelexists to close that gap: take the raw federal and public-sector data, and turn it into pages a normal person can read in thirty seconds.

How we work

  • Primary source only. We pull from FRED (the St. Louis Federal Reserve economic database) and cite the exact dataset and version on every page.
  • No invented numbers. If a figure is not in the underlying public data, it does not appear on calcintel.com. We never generate synthetic statistics to fill gaps.
  • Refreshed on a schedule. Data is refetched on a published cadence — you can see the "Last updated" date on every dataset page.
  • Corrections welcome. Readers flag issues all the time. When the source fixes a record, CalcIntel follows.

Independence

CalcIntel is an independent publication. We are not funded, owned, or directed by any of the agencies, companies, or organizations that appear in our data. Hosting is paid for by advertising — see our Privacy Policy for details — and we do not take paid placements, sponsored rankings, or "remove-my-entry" fees.

History

CalcIntel launched in 2026 as part of a small portfolio of independent public-data sites. It has been maintained and updated continuously since.

Contact

Tips, corrections, data-partnership questions, and press inquiries: [email protected]. More options on our contact page.