specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Ares Management
providerId: ares-management
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance: originally written by the API Evangelist bulk sweep of 2026-05-04 (roadmap#35);
# re-searched 2026-09-18 against ares.com / aresmgmt.com and confirmed as a recorded absence.
method: searched
modified: '2026-09-18'
plan_count: 0
reconciled: false
tags:
- Alternative Investment
- Credit
- Private Equity
description: Ares Management does not publish a public API plans / pricing page. This artifact records
  the absence of a self-serve commercial surface; see notes for research findings.
notes: >-
  Ares Management publishes no API plans or pricing page and no developer program of any kind. Searched 2026-09-18: the ares.com sitemap (1,055 URLs) carries no pricing, developer, API or docs page; www.ares.com/openapi.json, /api-docs and every /.well-known/ discovery path 404; developer.aresmgmt.com and api.aresmgmt.com are wildcard-DNS hosts with nothing listening. Investor access runs through gated client portals (Ares Connect) under individual agreements, not a self-serve tier.
sources:
- https://www.ares.com/sitemap.xml
- https://www.ares.com/us/private-wealth/investor-resources
- https://www.aresmgmt.com
plans:
- id: ares-management-contact-sales
  name: Contact Sales
  type: enterprise
  description: No published self-serve plan. Commercial access is arranged directly with the provider;
    quotas and pricing are governed by individual customer agreements.
  entries:
  - label: API Access
    name: api_access
    type: flat
    metric: varies
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Negotiated Commercial Terms
  - name: Partner Onboarding
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com