generated: '2026-07-27'
method: searched
source: https://developer-apim.aeso.ca/developer/products?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
docs: https://developer-apim.aeso.ca/products
summary: >-
  AESO's Azure API Management instance publishes exactly one product, "AESO Public API", and it is
  free. There is no paid tier, no metered pricing, no usage quota published, and no approval step —
  the product record itself declares approvalRequired false and subscriptionsLimit 1. The only
  gating is legal, not commercial: subscribing requires agreeing to AESO's site terms, which permit
  non-commercial, personal or educational use only.
plans:
- name: AESO Public API
  id: aeso-public-api-product
  price: 0
  currency: CAD
  billing: none
  free: true
  subscription_required: true
  approval_required: false
  subscriptions_limit: 1
  description: Subscribers can access the AESO public data through these APIs.
  terms: https://www.aeso.ca/legal/
  terms_summary: >-
    Material may be used and copied for non-commercial, personal or educational purposes provided it is
    not modified and copyright notices are not deleted. Any other use requires AESO's written permission.
  includes:
  - Actual Forecast Report API
  - AIES Gen Capacity API
  - Asset List API
  - Current Supply Demand API (v1 and v2)
  - Energy Merit Order Report API
  - Intertie Public Reports API
  - Load Outage Forecast API
  - Metered Volume Report API
  - Operating Reserve Offer Control Report API
  - Pool Participant API
  - Pool Price Report API
  - System Marginal Price Report API
  - Unit Commitment Data API
  signup: https://developer-apim.aeso.ca/signup
quotas:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No call quota, rate limit or throttling policy is published on the product, in the developer portal,
    in the APIM API Gateway Instructions PDF or in any OpenAPI document. No X-RateLimit / Retry-After
    headers were observed on live gateway responses (probed 2026-07-27). Per-request result size is
    bounded instead by documented date-range caps — e.g. the Pool Price Report returns "a maximum of
    1 year at a time".
free_alternative:
  name: AESO Energy Trading System (ETS) public reports
  price: 0
  key_required: false
  account_required: false
  base: http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports
  note: >-
    The same market data is available as CSV with no key and no account from AESO's long-running ETS
    report servlets. This is why AESO's market data counts as genuinely open regardless of the key on
    the newer gateway.