specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Department of Justice
providerId: department-of-justice
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-06'
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched every DOJ developer surface for a plan, tier, quota or price:
  https://www.justice.gov/developer, https://www.justice.gov/developer/api-documentation/api_v1,
  https://www.foia.gov/developer/, https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-api,
  https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-incident-based-reporting-system-nibrs-national-estimates-api and
  https://www.justice.gov/data. None exists. Supersedes the 2026-05-04 scaffold, which invented a
  "Free" tier with a 1,000-requests-per-month quota and a 10-requests-per-minute rate that DOJ has
  never published.
description: >-
  The Department of Justice publishes no plans and charges nothing. Every API in this record is a
  free public government service with no tiers, no metering, no billing surface and no paid
  upgrade path. This is the correct and expected shape for a U.S. federal executive department
  publishing public records under FOIA and the OPEN Government Data Act — the absence of a
  pricing page here is not a gap in the provider's programme.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
access:
  model: free-public
  signup_required: partial
  detail: >-
    Four of the five surfaces need no account at all — the DOJ News API, the BJS NCVS and NIBRS
    datasets and the FARA e-File feed all answered anonymous requests with 200 on 2026-09-06. The
    National FOIA Portal is the exception: it requires a free api.data.gov key, obtained through a
    self-serve form at https://www.foia.gov/developer/#api-key-signup with no payment step and no
    approval queue.
  signup_url: https://www.foia.gov/developer/#api-key-signup
  cost: '0.00'
  currency: USD
  metering: none
  overage: none
  note: >-
    The only consumption constraints are the rate limits recorded in
    rate-limits/department-of-justice-rate-limits.yml, and those are throttles, not billing tiers.
    Nothing in the DOJ surface converts usage into money.