specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Democracy Works
providerId: democracy-works
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-07'
generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.democracy.works/elections-api, https://www.democracy.works/search-social-ai,
  https://www.democracy.works/contact, https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2 and probes
  of https://www.democracy.works/pricing and https://data.democracy.works/api-signup
tags:
- Civic Tech
- Elections
- Government
- Nonprofit
- Voter Information
- Voting
description: >-
  Democracy Works publishes NO plans and NO prices for the Elections API. Access is sold
  through a partnership conversation: the product pages carry a "Request Pricing" call to
  action and the contract itself says "For pricing information and to obtain a test key,
  please contact us." plan_count is therefore 0 — a measured fact, not a missing file.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
pricing_model: contact-sales
public_pricing: false
self_service_signup: false
evidence:
- url: https://www.democracy.works/elections-api
  status: 200
  note: Product page. "Request Pricing" CTA; no tiers, quotas or prices anywhere on it.
- url: https://www.democracy.works/pricing
  status: 404
  note: No pricing page exists on the marketing site.
- url: https://data.democracy.works/api-signup
  status: 200
  result: dead
  note: >-
    The signup URL cited inside the live OpenAPI. Soft-404 — redirects to the homepage and
    serves it (body md5 matches a control probe of a nonsense path).
- url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  status: 200
  note: >-
    Contract text: "For pricing information and to obtain a test key, please contact us."
    and "To set up a bulk data export, contact partnerships@democracy.works."
contact:
  sales: partnerships@democracy.works
  form: https://www.democracy.works/contact
context:
  note: >-
    Democracy Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose stated revenue model is "primarily
    charitable giving, with some earned revenue from product partnerships" (their own
    llms.txt). Contact-sales pricing here reflects a partnership model rather than a
    withheld rate card — but the practical effect on a developer is the same: no price can
    be known without a conversation, and no plan can be self-served.
supersedes:
  method: generated
  date: '2026-05-04'
  note: >-
    This file previously carried three invented tiers (Free 1,000 req/month, Professional
    100,000 req/month, Enterprise) written by an API Evangelist bulk sweep. Democracy Works
    publishes none of that. The scaffold has been removed rather than annotated, because a
    plausible fabricated rate card is worse than an honest zero.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com