specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Cogent Communications
providerId: cogent-communications
created: '2026-05-04'
# 2026-09-14: re-checked against Cogent's live site. There is no pricing page and no
# API price list; every network service is sales-quoted. Upgraded to method: searched
# with the probed evidence below.
method: searched
modified: '2026-09-14'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Internet
  - Network
  - Data Center
description: Cogent Communications is a Tier-1 Internet, Ethernet, and Colocation provider serving enterprise
  and net-centric customers. Cogent does not publish a public API price list or developer plans; commercial
  pricing for Dedicated Internet Access, IP Transit, Ethernet/MPLS/SD-WAN, Optical Wavelengths, and Colocation
  is quoted via sales. There is no public self-service API tier.
plan_count: 1
sources:
  - https://www.cogentco.com/en/products-and-services
evidence:
  - {url: 'https://www.cogentco.com/en/products-and-services', status: 200, fetched: '2026-09-14'}
  - {url: 'https://www.cogentco.com/en/contact/sales-inquiry', status: 200, fetched: '2026-09-14', note: 'the sales-inquiry form is the only route to a price'}
  - {url: 'https://www.cogentco.com/en/sitemap', status: 200, fetched: '2026-09-14', note: 'sitemap carries no /pricing or /plans page'}
notes: No public developer/API pricing published. Commercial network services are quoted; any API surface
  (e.g. customer portal at ecogent.cogentco.com) is gated behind an existing customer relationship.
plans:
  - id: cogent-communications-custom
    name: Custom (Sales-Quoted)
    type: enterprise
    description: All Cogent network services (DIA, IP Transit, Ethernet, MPLS, SD-WAN, Wavelengths, Colocation)
      are priced via direct sales engagement.
    entries:
      - label: Custom contract
        name: custom
        type: subscription
        metric: contract
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: contact sales
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Dedicated Internet Access
      - name: IP Transit
      - name: Ethernet / MPLS / SD-WAN
      - name: Optical Wavelengths
      - name: Colocation
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com