specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Canva
providerId: canva
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-13'
generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/ (public vs private integrations),
  https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/capabilities/ (plan-gated capabilities),
  https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/api-requests-responses/ (trial quotas),
  https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/canva-cli/ (private distribution requires Enterprise),
  https://www.canva.dev/docs/scim/ (SCIM is Enterprise-only),
  https://www.canva.dev/docs/audit-logs/ (audit logs are Enterprise-only)
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Apps
  - Automation
  - Brand Management
  - Collaboration
  - Design
  - Graphics
  - Marketing
  - Print
  - Templates
  - Visual Content
description: >-
  Canva does not price its APIs. There is no API price list, no metered tier, no per-call
  charge and no developer billing surface anywhere on canva.dev. API access rides on the
  END USER'S Canva subscription, and the developer-facing plan boundary is expressed two
  ways: (1) integration DISTRIBUTION — a public integration is reviewed by Canva and
  available to everyone, a private integration requires the developer's team to be on Canva
  Enterprise; and (2) per-user CAPABILITIES — premium operations declare
  `x-required-capabilities` and fail with 403 for users whose plan lacks them. What is billed
  is the seat, not the call.
plan_count: 0
pricing_published: false
api_priced_separately: false
metered: false
free_tier: >-
  Yes for development: a Canva account is enough to build against the Connect APIs and Apps
  SDK. What a free-plan USER can do through an integration is limited by capabilities.
gating_model:
  - dimension: distribution
    values:
      - name: Public integration / public app
        requirement: Canva review + integration requirements
        docs: https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/submission-checklist/
        cost: no published fee
      - name: Private integration / private app
        requirement: Canva Enterprise plan for the developer's team + team admin approval
        docs: https://www.canva.com/enterprise/
        cost: negotiated (Enterprise subscription)
  - dimension: capabilities
    description: >-
      Per-user feature flags tied to the user's Canva plan, checked with
      GET /v1/users/me/capabilities before calling. Missing capability = HTTP 403 naming the
      required capabilities.
    known_capabilities:
      - resize
      - analytics
    docs: https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/capabilities/
  - dimension: trial quotas
    status: preview
    description: >-
      Free-plan users receive a limited number of uses of certain premium operations (Canva's
      own example: 2 lifetime resizes). Responses carry trial_information.uses_remaining plus
      an upgrade_url; exhaustion returns 403 permission_denied.
    docs: https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/api-requests-responses/
enterprise_only_surfaces:
  - name: SCIM API
    url: https://www.canva.dev/docs/scim/
    note: Canva Enterprise single teams only.
  - name: Audit Logs
    url: https://www.canva.dev/docs/audit-logs/
    note: Canva Enterprise only; delivered to a customer-owned S3 bucket.
  - name: Private integrations and private apps
    note: Canva Enterprise plan required.
  - name: Print API
    url: https://www.canva.dev/docs/print/
    note: >-
      Not plan-gated but PARTNER-gated — only available to print partners in Canva's print
      fulfillment network.
end_user_subscriptions:
  note: >-
    Canva Free / Pro / Teams / Enterprise gate what a USER can do; they are consumer/business
    subscriptions rather than API plans, and their prices were NOT captured here because
    https://www.canva.com/pricing/ returned HTTP 403 to an unauthenticated machine client
    (Cloudflare bot challenge on the whole www.canva.com marketing surface). Recording the
    block rather than transcribing remembered prices.
evidence:
  - url: https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/capabilities/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/api-requests-responses/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.canva.com/pricing/
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.canva.com/enterprise/
    status: 403
plans: []
notes: >-
  plan_count is 0 deliberately: Canva publishes zero API plans. That is the finding. Anyone
  costing a Canva integration is costing Canva SEATS plus, for private integrations, an
  Enterprise contract — not API volume.