name: Copernicus Marine API Plans and Pricing
description: >-
  Copernicus Marine Service APIs are provided free of charge as part of the EU
  Copernicus Earth Observation Programme, funded by the European Commission and
  operated by Mercator Ocean International. There are no subscription tiers,
  request charges, data volume fees, or bandwidth limits. All marine data
  products are openly licensed and freely available to any user worldwide upon
  registration of a free account. The only service requiring no account at all
  is the CSW catalogue discovery API.
specificationVersion: '0.1'
plans:
  - name: Free Open Access
    description: >-
      All Copernicus Marine APIs are freely available to anyone worldwide at no
      cost. A free Copernicus Marine account (registered at
      data.marine.copernicus.eu/register) is required to access the Toolbox
      API and WMTS visualization service. The CSW catalogue service requires
      no account. There are no data volume quotas, no bandwidth limits, and no
      expiry on free accounts.
    url: https://marine.copernicus.eu/access-data/
    price: 0.00
    currency: EUR
    unit: request
    rateLimits:
      - name: Toolbox Data Download
        description: No volume or bandwidth quota; unlimited downloads with a free account
        limit: null
        period: unlimited
      - name: WMTS Tile Requests
        description: No published rate limits for tile visualization requests
        limit: null
        period: unspecified
      - name: CSW Catalogue Requests
        description: No published quotas; no authentication required
        limit: null
        period: unspecified
    features:
      - Ocean temperature, salinity, sea level, and current data
      - Sea ice concentration and thickness
      - Biogeochemical variables (oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll)
      - Global ocean analysis and forecast products
      - Regional sea products (Mediterranean, Black Sea, Arctic, Baltic, NW Shelf, IBI)
      - Satellite observation datasets
      - In situ observation datasets
      - Reanalysis (hindcast) products back to 1993
      - 10-day ocean forecasts
      - NetCDF, Zarr, CSV, Parquet download formats
      - No data volume or bandwidth quotas
      - WMTS tile visualization for all products
      - CSW catalogue discovery without authentication
      - Python library and CLI toolbox access
      - Docker image for containerized access