specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: CJ Affiliate
providerId: cj-affiliate
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-08-13'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Affiliate Marketing
- Affiliate Network
- Commission
- GraphQL
- Plans
description: 'CJ Affiliate is an affiliate marketing network, not a metered API product. The business
  model is affiliate commissions: publishers join advertiser programs and earn a share of the sales or
  leads they drive, and advertisers pay CJ network fees on that performance. The developer APIs (GraphQL
  Commission Detail and Product Search, plus the legacy REST APIs) are provided as a benefit of holding
  a CJ account and are accessed with a free personal access token - there is no separate per-call price
  list for the APIs themselves. Access to specific data (an advertiser''s product feed, commission records)
  is governed by your account type and program relationships, not by an API tier.'
notes: 'There is no public, reconciled per-request price for CJ''s APIs. Publisher membership in the network
  is free to join; advertiser-side network fees and commission terms are negotiated per program and are
  out of scope for an API price list. Rate limits, not dollar prices, are the primary constraint on API
  usage - see rate-limits/cj-affiliate-rate-limits.yml.

  Re-checked 2026-08-13: https://www.cj.com/pricing returns HTTP 404 - CJ publishes no pricing page at
  all. There is no API price list, no tiers and no metered plan; API access is a free entitlement of holding
  a CJ account, constrained by the documented 25 calls-per-minute rate limit rather than by dollars. Advertiser
  network fees and commission terms are negotiated per program and are not published.'
sources:
- https://www.cj.com/
- https://developers.cj.com/
- https://developers.cj.com/account/personal-access-tokens
- https://junction.cj.com/article/cj-affiliates-apis-5-things-you-should-know
plans:
- id: cj-publisher
  name: Publisher (Affiliate)
  type: free
  description: Free to join the network as a publisher. Once approved and joined to advertiser programs,
    you can create a personal access token and call the Commission Detail, Product Search, Link Search,
    and Advertiser Lookup APIs for the advertisers you work with. Revenue comes from commissions on the
    sales / leads you drive, not from the API.
  entries:
  - label: API Access
    name: publisher_api_access
    type: flat
    metric: access
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free with a CJ publisher account (commission-based network)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Commission Detail API (GraphQL)
  - name: Product Search API (GraphQL)
  - name: Link Search API (REST)
  - name: Advertiser Lookup API (REST)
  - name: Personal Access Token
- id: cj-advertiser
  name: Advertiser
  type: enterprise
  description: Advertisers run programs on CJ and pay network fees plus commissions on performance. Advertiser
    accounts can call the Commission Detail (advertiserCommissions), Publisher Lookup, and product-import
    / ads GraphQL APIs with a personal access token. Network fees and commission structures are negotiated
    per program.
  entries:
  - label: Program and API Access
    name: advertiser_program_access
    type: flat
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: negotiated network fees + performance commissions (contact CJ)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Commission Detail API (GraphQL)
  - name: Publisher Lookup API (REST)
  - name: Product Import / Ads API (GraphQL)
  - name: Performance Reporting
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://www.cj.com/ + https://developers.cj.com/ + CJ documentation corpus at https://production-docs-assets.p.cjpowered.com/
plan_count: 2
api_pricing_published: false
docs:
- https://www.cj.com/
- https://www.cj.com/join
- https://developers.cj.com/account/personal-access-tokens