generated: '2026-08-14'
method: searched
source: https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/community-management
docs:
- https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/community-management
- https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/community-management/accessing-community-management
note: >-
  There is no pricing page and no priced tiers. crowd.dev was acquired by the Linux Foundation in
  April 2024 and the commercial product was retired: crowd.dev now 301s to the source repository,
  crowd.dev/pricing resolves to the same GitHub page, and lfx.linuxfoundation.org/pricing is a 404.
  The successor - LFX Community Data Platform - is offered at no charge, and the CDP Public API is
  reached with Auth0 machine-to-machine credentials issued by the Linux Foundation rather than
  bought. There is no self-serve API key, no metered plan, and no published quota attached to a tier;
  the only published quotas are the rate limits in rate-limits/crowddev-rate-limits.yml, which apply
  to everyone.

currency: USD
billing_model: none
plan_count: 1

plans:
- name: Community Data Platform
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: none
  free: true
  quota: null
  overage: null
  signup: https://cm.lfx.dev/project-groups
  evidence: >-
    docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/community-management - "To get started for free,
    sign up for Community Dats Platform" [sic], linking https://cm.lfx.dev/project-groups.
  eligibility: >-
    docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/community-management/accessing-community-management -
    "Only Linux Foundation employees will have access to LFX Community Data Platform."
    Project-group access for non-employees is requested through the LF support portal at
    https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/4.

api_access:
  self_serve: false
  mechanism: Auth0 machine-to-machine client credentials on the `cdp_public_api` audience
  issuance: >-
    Credentials are provisioned per consumer by the Linux Foundation (lfx-secrets-management), not
    through a signup form. ADR-0016 records the Akrites consumer receiving an RSA private key,
    client_id and credential kid by hand through a 1Password vault item.
  evidence: https://github.com/linuxfoundation/crowd.dev/blob/main/docs/adr/0016-akrites-cdp-public-api-authentication.md
  price: 0

historical:
  note: >-
    Pre-acquisition crowd.dev sold a hosted SaaS alongside the Apache-2.0 self-hosted edition.
    Those tiers are gone; no archived pricing is recorded here because none is currently published
    by the provider.