Invokely and Statista compared
Statista sells market, consumer and industry data, much of it from its own surveys and models, through yearly seat licences. Invokely serves official statistics from public agencies, with a source and citation on every value, through an MCP server and API that every plan includes.
In short
Choose Invokely when an agent, a spreadsheet or an app needs official figures it can cite and republish: population, GDP, prices, jobs, income, housing, health and more, for countries, US states and counties, EU regions and Spanish municipalities.
Choose Statista when you need market sizes, consumer survey results, company rankings or industry forecasts. Invokely does not offer those: it serves only what public agencies publish.
Side by side
| Feature | Invokely | Statista |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, Builder €19 a month, Pro €79 a month, or prepaid calls at €5 per 1,000. Billed monthly, cancel any time. | Basic free; Starter $199 and Personal $649 a month per seat, billed yearly; Professional by quote. Annual contract. |
| Free plan | 500 calls a month through MCP, full history, downloads in every format, citations and alerts. | Free statistics only, and 5 Research AI questions. |
| MCP server | On every plan, Free included. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client with OAuth or an API key. A trial endpoint answers 25 calls a day without an account. | Part of Statista Connect, an add-on sold through sales. Access by request since November 2025. |
| REST API | From Builder, or with prepaid calls. The same operations as the MCP server, described in OpenAPI. | Statista Connect, through sales, with no public price. |
| Where the figures come from | Official publishers only: statistics offices, central banks, Eurostat, the World Bank and other public agencies. | Third-party statistics, Statista's own surveys, and Statista models and forecasts. |
| Citations | Every value carries publisher, dataset, source URL and retrieval date, with a citation in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX or RIS, on every plan. | Each statistic names its source. Automated citations from the Personal plan. |
| Reuse and publication | Free to reuse with credit to the publisher, under each publisher's terms. | Publication rights on Professional and Enterprise only. Chart of the Day infographics under CC BY-ND 4.0. |
| Places | Every country, US states, counties and cities, EU regions, Spanish provinces and municipalities, and UK, Canadian and Australian regions. | Varies by statistic. Market forecasts cover about 40 countries. |
| Market sizes and forecasts | Not offered. Official projections only, such as World Bank population projections, shown apart from measured values. | About 400 industries in around 40 countries, on Professional. |
| Consumer surveys | Official survey results only, such as household spending and internet use. | Statista's own consumer surveys, as an add-on. |
| Revisions and past values | Every revision kept. Ask for a figure as it stood on any past date. | Not offered. |
| Release calendar and alerts | Release calendar with results, and alerts by email, webhook or feed when a figure is released or revised. | No release calendar. Email updates on a statistic. |
| Fact checking | check_claim verifies up to 20 stated figures against the source in one call. | Not offered. |
| Teams and sign-on | Team members free and unlimited on every plan. Single sign-on with Microsoft Entra, Okta, Google Workspace and other OIDC providers. | Priced per seat, up to 99 seats on Professional. Single sign-on on Enterprise. |
Why this matters for agents
An agent answering a question about unemployment in Texas needs the figure, the month it refers to, who published it and how to cite it, in one response. Invokely returns exactly that. It matches places by official codes instead of guessing from names, lists the candidates when two places share a name, and never mixes sources in one series: when no shared source exists, a comparison says so.
Using both
Teams that rely on Statista for market and consumer research can use Invokely for official figures inside their agents, spreadsheets and products. The two overlap less than it may seem.