specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: API Football
providerId: api-football
created: '2026-05-04'
generated: '2026-09-02'
modified: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: https://www.api-football.com/pricing
tags:
  - Sports
  - Football
  - Soccer
  - Live Scores
  - Statistics
description: >-
  Published plans and pricing for API-Football. THIS FILE REPLACES A 2026-05-04
  SCAFFOLD that invented a Free / Professional / Enterprise ladder with TBD
  prices and a 1,000-request monthly quota — none of which API-Sports publishes.
  The real ladder is self-serve, priced monthly in US dollars, and metered in
  requests PER DAY. There is no enterprise "contact us" tier in the self-serve
  ladder; the differentiator between tiers is volume and historical depth, not
  features — every paid plan carries every endpoint and every competition.
plan_count: 4
currency: USD
billing_period: month
billing_notes: >-
  Subscriptions are handled through Stripe or PayPal. The provider advertises no
  auto-renewal and offers prepaid plans.
plans:
  - id: api-football-free
    name: Free
    type: freemium
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    verified: false
    description: >-
      Free tier with a 100-request daily allowance. Access to every endpoint
      without exception; the constraint is volume and historical range, not
      feature gating.
    entries:
      - label: API Requests
        description: Daily request allowance, reset at 00:00 UTC; unused requests are lost
        name: api_requests
        type: quota
        metric: requests
        limit: 100
        timeFrame: day
        geo: global
        domains: []
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: All endpoints
      - name: Public documentation
      - name: API-Football
  - id: api-football-pro
    name: Pro
    type: paid
    price: '19.00'
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    verified: false
    description: Entry paid tier, 7,500 requests per day.
    entries:
      - label: API Requests
        description: Daily request allowance
        name: api_requests
        type: quota
        metric: requests
        limit: 7500
        timeFrame: day
        geo: global
        domains: []
        unit: 1
        price: '19.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: All endpoints
      - name: All competitions
      - name: API-Football
  - id: api-football-ultra
    name: Ultra
    type: paid
    price: '29.00'
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    verified: false
    description: 75,000 requests per day.
    entries:
      - label: API Requests
        description: Daily request allowance
        name: api_requests
        type: quota
        metric: requests
        limit: 75000
        timeFrame: day
        geo: global
        domains: []
        unit: 1
        price: '29.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: All endpoints
      - name: All competitions
      - name: API-Football
  - id: api-football-mega
    name: Mega
    type: paid
    price: '39.00'
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    verified: false
    description: 150,000 requests per day.
    entries:
      - label: API Requests
        description: Daily request allowance
        name: api_requests
        type: quota
        metric: requests
        limit: 150000
        timeFrame: day
        geo: global
        domains: []
        unit: 1
        price: '39.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: All endpoints
      - name: All competitions
      - name: API-Football
higher_tiers:
  note: >-
    The pricing page advertises plans scaling to 1,500,000 requests per day above
    the four named tiers. Their names and prices were not captured and are not
    invented here.
  max_advertised_requests_per_day: 1500000
overage:
  model: none-recorded
  detail: >-
    No overage or metered burst price was captured. The metering model observed
    is a hard daily allowance rather than a billable overage.
  verified: false
alternate_channel:
  name: RapidAPI
  url: https://rapidapi.com/api-sports/api/api-football
  detail: >-
    API-Football is also sold through the RapidAPI hub against the edge host
    api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com. Marketplace plan names and prices are set on
    RapidAPI and are NOT the same objects as the direct plans above; they were not
    captured.
evidence:
  - url: https://www.api-football.com/pricing
    status: 403
    note: >-
      cf-mitigated: challenge — the provider's pricing page is served to our
      crawler as a Cloudflare managed challenge. Tier names, prices and daily
      quotas above were recovered from search-engine extracts of that same
      provider page and of the provider's own getting-started guide, and every
      figure carries verified:false until a direct read succeeds.
  - url: https://api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com/v3/status
    status: 401
    note: confirms the RapidAPI resale channel is live
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com