specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: ArcBest
providerId: arcbest
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-04'
generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched the ArcBest site for a published API price list - https://arcb.com/technology/shippers/API,
  https://arcb.com/technology/shippers, https://arcb.com/shippers/resources,
  https://arcb.com/pricing (HTTP 404, probed 2026-09-04), the arcb.com sitemap and the arcb.com
  llms.txt index of every page on the site.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
description: >-
  ArcBest publishes NO API plans, tiers or price list. API access is not a product you buy - it is an
  entitlement attached to a freight account. Existing customers sign in to arcb.com to reach the API
  documentation and their API ID; new customers are routed to
  https://arcb.com/contact-us/connect-with-sales. Expedite API credentials are issued by ArcBest
  support or the ArcBest Expedite team on request. What is priced is the freight itself, quoted per
  shipment through the API (Charge, ItemizedCharges), not the API calls.
pricing_model: account-entitlement
self_serve: false
evidence:
  - url: https://arcb.com/technology/shippers/API
    status: 200
    note: '"Existing customer? Sign in to arcb.com to access our API documentation. New to ArcBest? Connect with our team." No prices, tiers or quotas anywhere on the page.'
  - url: https://arcb.com/pricing
    status: 404
    note: Probed 2026-09-04.
  - url: https://arcb.com/contact-us/connect-with-sales
    status: 200
    note: The sales gate new API customers are routed to.
note: >-
  This file previously carried three invented tiers (Free 1,000 requests/month, Professional 100,000,
  Enterprise) written by an API Evangelist bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04 and labelled in its own text as
  "scaffold defaults". ArcBest publishes none of that. It has been replaced with the measured zero.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com