specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: https://www.bep.gov/services/currency-accessibility/us-currency-reader-program
provider: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
providerId: bureau-of-engraving-and-printing
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
tags:
  - Currency
  - Engraving
  - Federal Government
  - Money
  - Printing
  - Security Printing
description: >-
  The Bureau of Engraving and Printing publishes no API plans and no API pricing, because
  it publishes no API. BEP is a U.S. Department of the Treasury manufacturing bureau: it
  prints Federal Reserve notes and other government security documents. Its two public
  services — the U.S. Currency Reader Program and Mutilated Currency Redemption — are
  free-of-charge citizen services delivered by paper application and postal mail, not
  metered API products. There is no developer portal, no sign-up, no tier, no quota and
  no price on any BEP-controlled host. plan_count is 0 as a measured fact, not a gap.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
access_model:
  self_serve: false
  free_tier: false
  trial: false
  public_signup: false
  gate: none
  onboarding: >-
    Not applicable. The U.S. Currency Reader Program is requested with a paper/PDF
    application form mailed to the National Library Service for the Blind and Print
    Disabled; mutilated currency is redeemed by shipping the damaged notes to BEP's
    Mutilated Currency Division. Both services are free to the citizen and neither is
    programmatically accessible.
  contact: https://www.bep.gov/contact-us
notes:
  - >-
    This file previously carried a three-tier Free/Professional/Enterprise scaffold with
    invented quotas (1,000 and 100,000 requests per month), invented rate ceilings and
    TBD prices, written by the 2026-05-04 bulk sweep. BEP has never published any of it
    and it has been removed.
  - >-
    BEP's only free-tier-shaped published artifacts are the EyeNote mobile apps for iOS
    and Android — free end-user currency identifiers, not an API product with a plan.
supersedes:
  method: generated
  date: '2026-05-04'
  reason: Scaffold defaults replaced with a searched, honest zero.
evidence:
  - url: https://www.bep.gov/services/currency-accessibility/us-currency-reader-program
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.bep.gov/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.bep.gov/api
    status: 404
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com