specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Coursera
providerId: coursera
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: false
tags:
- EdTech
- Online Learning
- Catalog
- MOOC
- Plans
description: The Catalog API is publicly accessible without authentication for read-only catalog data.
  Coursera for Business and Coursera for Campus are sold via enterprise sales.
notes: No published API plan tiers. Catalog API is free/public.
sources:
- https://building.coursera.org/app-platform/catalog/
- https://www.coursera.org/business
- https://www.coursera.org/campus
plans:
- id: coursera-catalog-public
  name: Catalog API (Public)
  type: free
  description: Read-only catalog data is publicly accessible without authentication.
  entries:
  - label: Catalog Reads
    name: catalog_reads
    type: flat
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Public Catalog Read
- id: coursera-business-enterprise
  name: Coursera for Business / Campus
  type: enterprise
  description: Enterprise learning plans sold via sales; pricing not publicly posted.
  entries:
  - label: Subscription
    name: subscription
    type: flat
    metric: annual subscription
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: yearly
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Coursera for Business
  - name: Coursera for Campus
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com