specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Cheniere Energy
providerId: cheniere-energy
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  Full read of www.cheniere.com on 2026-09-06 — the complete 36-URL sitemap, which contains no
  pricing, plans, signup or developer page — plus live anonymous access to
  https://lngconnectionapi.cheniere.com, which serves data without any commercial gate.
supersedes: >-
  This file replaces a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that asserted Free / Professional /
  Enterprise API tiers with request quotas, overage pricing and SLA elements. Cheniere has never
  sold API access and publishes no such tiers; the scaffold was fabricated by that sweep, not
  harvested, and has been removed.
plan_count: 0
note: >-
  There is no API pricing because there is no API product. The Cheniere LNG Connection
  informational-postings API is free and unauthenticated because FERC 18 CFR 284.13 requires an
  interstate pipeline to make these postings publicly available — it is regulatory publication,
  not a commercial offering. There is no signup, no key, no quota and no paid tier, and there is
  nothing for Cheniere to publish here.
  Cheniere's actual commercial products — long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements, integrated
  production marketing and spot cargoes — are negotiated bilaterally and are not sold, quoted or
  provisioned through any API.
plans: []
commercial_context:
  api_monetized: false
  access: public-unauthenticated
  driver: regulatory-publication
  regulation: FERC 18 CFR 284.13
evidence:
  - url: https://www.cheniere.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
    note: 36 URLs, all corporate. No pricing, plans, developer, signup or API page.
  - url: https://lngconnectionapi.cheniere.com/api/Page/GetPages
    status: 200
    note: Data served anonymously with no commercial gate of any kind.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com