specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: AOL
providerId: aol
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.aol.com/plans (404), https://help.aol.com/,
  https://api.login.aol.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-02'
description: >-
  AOL publishes no API plans or API pricing. This file replaces a 2026-05-04
  bulk-sweep scaffold that asserted Free / Professional / Enterprise tiers with
  request quotas and "TBD" prices for a provider that sells no API product. Those
  tiers did not exist. AOL's only API surface is its OpenID Connect provider,
  which is a sign-in integration offered at no charge alongside an app
  registration — there is nothing metered and nothing billed.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
note: >-
  AOL does sell CONSUMER subscriptions (the AOL Advantage plans — identity theft
  protection, tech support and premium mail bundles) but those are end-user
  products, not API plans, and they are not represented here. Their pricing pages
  could not be read as data either: https://www.aol.com/plans returns a Next.js
  404, and help.aol.com serves an 807-byte client-rendered shell for every path
  including /products/aol-advantage-plans, so no price, term or quota is present
  in any HTML AOL serves. No machine-readable pricing or catalog endpoint was
  found on any AOL host.
evidence:
- url: https://www.aol.com/plans
  status: 404
  fetched: '2026-09-02'
- url: https://www.aol.com/plans/
  status: 404
  fetched: '2026-09-02'
- url: https://help.aol.com/products/aol-advantage-plans
  status: 200
  fetched: '2026-09-02'
  note: >-
    200 but empty — an 807-byte SPA shell identical to every other help.aol.com
    path. A 200 that returns no content is a soft miss, not a published plan.
- url: https://api.login.aol.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
  status: 200
  fetched: '2026-09-02'
  note: No pricing, plan or metering metadata declared.
tags:
- Identity
- OpenID Connect
- Digital Media
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