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 League
providerId: api-league
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-02'
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: https://apileague.com/pricing/
# 2026-09-02: REPLACED the 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold. That version invented three tiers
# (Free / Professional / Enterprise) with invented quotas (1,000 and 100,000 requests/month)
# and "TBD" prices. API League publishes FOUR named tiers, prices them in dollars, meters in
# TOKENS PER DAY rather than requests per month, and has no enterprise tier at all. Every
# number below is read off the provider's own pricing page.
plan_count: 4
description: >-
  API League's published pricing. The unit is a TOKEN, not a request: each endpoint has a token
  cost that also varies with how the parameters are set, and the per-endpoint cost is stated on
  each endpoint's documentation page. Allowances are DAILY and reset at midnight UTC. The free
  tier hard-stops with HTTP 402 when the daily allowance is gone; every paid tier instead bills
  per-token overage. Each tier also carries its own request-rate and concurrency ceiling, which
  is why the same numbers appear in rate-limits/api-league-rate-limits.yml.
currency: USD
billing_period: month
metering_unit: token
quota_period: day
quota_reset: midnight UTC
uptime_target_all_plans: 99.9%
plans:
  - id: api-league-free
    name: Free
    type: freemium
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    description: >-
      Non-commercial evaluation tier. Hard-stops at the daily allowance — there is no overage,
      the API returns HTTP 402 and no further calls succeed until the midnight-UTC reset.
      Requires a backlink to apileague.com on the consuming site or app.
    entries:
      - {label: Daily Token Allowance, name: tokens, type: quota, metric: tokens, limit: 50, timeFrame: day, unit: 1, price: '0.00'}
      - {label: Overage, name: overage, type: metered, metric: tokens, limit: 0, timeFrame: day, unit: 1, price: 'none — requests are refused (HTTP 402)'}
      - {label: Request Rate, name: rate_limit, type: rate, metric: requests_per_minute, limit: 60, timeFrame: minute, unit: 1}
      - {label: Concurrent Requests, name: concurrency, type: rate, metric: concurrent_requests, limit: 1, unit: 1}
    elements:
      - {name: Uptime Guarantee, value: 99.9%}
      - {name: Support, value: Discord}
      - {name: Backlink Required, value: 'yes — <a href="https://apileague.com/">API League</a>'}
      - {name: Commercial Use, value: 'no'}
  - id: api-league-rookie
    name: Rookie
    type: paid
    price: '7.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    description: The entry paid tier — commercial use permitted, no backlink obligation, per-token overage.
    entries:
      - {label: Daily Token Allowance, name: tokens, type: quota, metric: tokens, limit: 500, timeFrame: day, unit: 1}
      - {label: Overage, name: overage, type: metered, metric: tokens, unit: 1, price: '0.006'}
      - {label: Request Rate, name: rate_limit, type: rate, metric: requests_per_second, limit: 2, timeFrame: second, unit: 1}
      - {label: Concurrent Requests, name: concurrency, type: rate, metric: concurrent_requests, limit: 5, unit: 1}
    elements:
      - {name: Uptime Guarantee, value: 99.9%}
      - {name: Support, value: Discord}
      - {name: Backlink Required, value: 'no'}
      - {name: Commercial Use, value: 'yes'}
  - id: api-league-pro
    name: Pro
    type: paid
    price: '39.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    description: Production tier with email support and a 10x allowance over Rookie at a lower per-token overage.
    entries:
      - {label: Daily Token Allowance, name: tokens, type: quota, metric: tokens, limit: 5000, timeFrame: day, unit: 1}
      - {label: Overage, name: overage, type: metered, metric: tokens, unit: 1, price: '0.004'}
      - {label: Request Rate, name: rate_limit, type: rate, metric: requests_per_second, limit: 10, timeFrame: second, unit: 1}
      - {label: Concurrent Requests, name: concurrency, type: rate, metric: concurrent_requests, limit: 10, unit: 1}
    elements:
      - {name: Uptime Guarantee, value: 99.9%}
      - {name: Support, value: Email}
      - {name: Backlink Required, value: 'no'}
      - {name: Commercial Use, value: 'yes'}
  - id: api-league-champion
    name: Champion
    type: paid
    price: '199.00'
    currency: USD
    billing_period: month
    description: >-
      The top published tier. Note this is a self-serve price, not a "contact sales" tier —
      API League publishes no enterprise or custom plan.
    entries:
      - {label: Daily Token Allowance, name: tokens, type: quota, metric: tokens, limit: 50000, timeFrame: day, unit: 1}
      - {label: Overage, name: overage, type: metered, metric: tokens, unit: 1, price: '0.002'}
      - {label: Request Rate, name: rate_limit, type: rate, metric: requests_per_second, limit: 20, timeFrame: second, unit: 1}
      - {label: Concurrent Requests, name: concurrency, type: rate, metric: concurrent_requests, limit: 20, unit: 1, note: 'The pricing table states 20 concurrent requests; the rate-limiting documentation page states 10 for Champion. The two provider pages disagree — see rate-limits/api-league-rate-limits.yml.'}
    elements:
      - {name: Uptime Guarantee, value: 99.9%}
      - {name: Support, value: 'Scheduled phone'}
      - {name: Backlink Required, value: 'no'}
      - {name: Commercial Use, value: 'yes'}
enterprise_tier:
  published: false
  note: >-
    There is no enterprise / custom / contact-sales tier. Every published plan is
    self-serve and priced. The prior scaffold invented one.
alternate_channel:
  name: RapidAPI
  note: >-
    The terms of use state a subscription may be taken out "on our website or on rapidapi.com",
    and billing is managed wherever the subscription was created. RapidAPI plan tiers are not
    reproduced here — only the provider's own published pricing is.
  source: https://apileague.com/terms/
tags:
  - API Marketplace
  - Pricing
  - Freemium
  - Usage-Based
  - Tokens
evidence:
  - {url: 'https://apileague.com/pricing/', status: 200}
  - {url: 'https://apileague.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting/', status: 200}
  - {url: 'https://apileague.com/terms/', status: 200}
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com