plans:
  - name: Free Open Access
    description: Fatcat provides its full REST API at no cost as a free and open scholarly infrastructure project funded by the Internet Archive and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. All read and write operations are available to registered editors at no charge.
    url: https://guide.fatcat.wiki/http_api.html
    price: 0.00
    priceCurrency: USD
    billingCycle: none
    features:
      - Full read access to all entity types (releases, containers, creators, files, filesets, webcaptures, works)
      - Lookup by external identifiers (DOI, PMID, arXiv ID, ISBN-13, ISSN-L, ORCID, etc.)
      - Changelog and editgroup history access
      - Write access via authenticated editor accounts (Bearer token)
      - Access to QA/staging environment at api.qa.fatcat.wiki
      - Public metadata dumps available for bulk access
    limitations:
      - No explicit SLA; service may have periodic downtime due to low-cost infrastructure
      - Potential future rate limiting if service load requires it
      - Write access requires account registration via OAuth2 (Internet Archive, ORCID, GitHub, or Wikimedia)