# Provenance stamped 2026-10-07 (roadmap#943): written by an API Evangelist sweep (undated — the file carries no date and git cannot supply one), not
# harvested from the provider. `method: generated` so the economics campaign may replace it with a
# dated, verbatim transcription; every figure below is unverified until it does.
method: generated
plans:
  - name: Free Public Access
    description: >-
      All CDC public APIs are freely available as a US government service. No
      subscription fee is required to access CDC WONDER, the Open Data API
      (data.cdc.gov via Socrata SODA), the Environmental Public Health Tracking
      Network API, the Content Syndication API, or PHIN VADS. APIs are provided
      as a public good with no cost.
    type: free
    url: https://open.cdc.gov/apis.html
    features:
      - Access to all CDC public datasets via Socrata SODA (data.cdc.gov)
      - CDC WONDER XML API for epidemiologic databases
      - Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API (JSON)
      - Content Syndication API (JSON/XML)
      - PHIN VADS vocabulary service (XML/REST)
      - No registration required for basic unauthenticated access
      - Optional app token registration for higher Socrata throughput
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models: []
  units: []
  plans:
  - name: Free Public Access
    access: free
    model: unstated
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []