specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.acus.gov/ (full footer and navigation), https://www.acus.gov/data,
  https://www.acus.gov/eaja, https://sourcebook.acus.gov/ — searched for any pricing,
  plans, tiers, subscription or API key page on 2026-08-30
provider: Administrative Conference of the United States
providerId: administrative-conference-of-the-united-states
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-30'
tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Administrative Law
  - Open Data
description: >-
  ACUS publishes nothing for sale and no API plans. It is an independent federal agency
  funded by congressional appropriation; its recommendations, reports, the Federal
  Administrative Procedure Sourcebook, the EAJA Awards Database and the Federal
  Administrative Adjudication Database are all free to the public with no account, no
  key, no tier and no quota. This artifact replaces a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that
  asserted Free / Professional / Enterprise tiers with request quotas, overage pricing,
  SLAs and webhook subscriptions — none of which exist.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
pricing_model: none
pricing_url: null
signup_required: false
api_key_required: false
evidence:
  - url: https://www.acus.gov/
    status: 200
    finding: >-
      No pricing, plans, subscribe, sign-up or developer link anywhere in the site
      navigation or footer. Footer links are agency governance and content pages only.
  - url: https://www.acus.gov/data
    status: 200
    finding: >-
      The agency's data page describes its Evidence Act obligations and names a Chief
      Data Officer. No paid data product, no API key, no terms of use for data.
  - url: https://eaja.acus.gov/
    status: 200
    finding: Open public database UI, no account, no paywall.
  - url: https://sourcebook.acus.gov/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=json
    status: 200
    finding: Live API answers anonymously with no credential and no billing surface.
note: >-
  A federal agency with no charge model is a legitimate plan_count of 0, not a gap. This
  file exists so the zero is recorded as a measured fact with method and evidence rather
  than being inferred from an absent file.
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