specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Deakin University
providerId: deakin
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  Deakin University is a non-commercial higher-education institution and sells no API product.
  Corrected 2026-08-30: an earlier version of this file described "public open APIs (metadata,
  library, repository, course data)" that Deakin does not publish — those were figshare's, and the
  figshare contract has been removed from this repository. The only institution-operated
  machine-readable surface Deakin publishes is SAML 2.0 federation metadata at
  signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, which is free and unauthenticated to fetch by design, and
  whose actual use requires membership of the Australian Access Federation. Everything else that is
  callable under a Deakin name belongs to a platform Deakin buys.
notes: >-
  No published per-seat or per-call commercial pricing, and no self-service signup of any kind.
  "Free / Open" reflects the unauthenticated federation metadata document; "Affiliation /
  Federation" reflects access gated by institutional identity or AAF membership rather than payment.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/deakin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
plans:
- id: deakin-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: >-
    Unauthenticated, free to fetch: the SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor Deakin serves at
    signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth. No other institution-operated endpoint is openly readable.
  entries:
  - label: Open API Access
    name: open_api_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: deakin-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Federation
  type: free
  description: >-
    Actual use of Deakin's identity provider, its learning and research platforms, and its library
    resources is gated behind institutional SSO or Australian Access Federation membership rather
    than payment.
  entries:
  - label: Credentialed Access
    name: credentialed_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com