specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: FlightAware
providerId: flightaware
generated: '2026-09-10'
method: searched
source: https://www.flightaware.com/commercial/aeroapi/
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-10'
tags:
  - Aviation
  - Flights
  - Flight Tracking
  - Pricing
  - Metered
description: >-
  AeroAPI's published plans, read from the public pricing page on 2026-09-10. This REPLACES the
  2026-05-04 scaffold that previously stood here (a generated Free/Professional/Enterprise
  placeholder with invented quotas), which described nothing FlightAware actually sells. AeroAPI is
  not a quota plan — it is METERED PER RESULT SET, with the tier setting the monthly minimum, the
  rate ceiling, and which endpoint families are unlocked. Firehose is priced separately as a flat
  monthly rate for unlimited use, negotiated per data layer.
plan_count: 3
billing_model: metered-per-result-set-with-monthly-minimum
currency: USD
plans:
  - id: flightaware-aeroapi-personal
    name: Personal
    type: freemium
    monthly_minimum: '0.00'
    free_allowance: >-
      Up to $5 free per month, or $10 free per month for ADS-B feeders — i.e. the allowance is
      denominated in dollars of metered usage, not in requests.
    rate_limit: 10 result sets/minute
    historical_access: false
    foresight_access: false
    alerts_access: false
    sla: null
    support: community / self-serve
    description: >-
      Self-serve entry tier with no monthly minimum. Usage above the free dollar allowance is billed
      per result set at list price. No historical endpoints, no Foresight, no alerts.
  - id: flightaware-aeroapi-standard
    name: Standard
    type: paid
    monthly_minimum: '100.00'
    free_allowance: Covered by the monthly minimum.
    rate_limit: 5 result sets/second
    historical_rate_limit: 500,000 result sets/month
    historical_access: true
    foresight_access: false
    alerts_access: true
    volume_discount: true
    sla: null
    support: email
    description: >-
      Production tier. $100/month minimum against metered usage, historical endpoints unlocked,
      alerts unlocked, volume discounting applies above the first $1,000 of monthly usage.
  - id: flightaware-aeroapi-premium
    name: Premium
    type: paid
    monthly_minimum: '1000.00'
    free_allowance: Covered by the monthly minimum.
    rate_limit: 100 result sets/second
    historical_rate_limit: 500,000 result sets/month
    historical_access: true
    foresight_access: true
    alerts_access: true
    volume_discount: true
    sla: 99.5% uptime
    support: email and phone
    description: >-
      Highest tier. $1,000/month minimum, 100 result sets/second, Foresight predictive endpoints
      unlocked, a published 99.5% uptime guarantee, and email plus phone support.
volume_discounts:
  note: The first $1,000 of usage per month is always billed at list price.
  bands:
    - {from: '0', to: '1000', discount: '0%'}
    - {from: '1000', to: '2000', discount: '30%'}
    - {from: '2000', to: '4000', discount: '51%'}
    - {from: '4000', to: '8000', discount: '65%'}
    - {from: '8000', to: '16000', discount: '76%'}
    - {from: '16000', to: '32000', discount: '83%'}
    - {from: '32000', to: '64000', discount: '88%'}
    - {from: '64000', to: null, discount: '94%'}
  applies_to: [Standard, Premium]
unit_prices:
  unit: result set
  note: >-
    Per-call list prices are uniform across tiers; the tier gates ACCESS and RATE, not price.
    Range published as $0.001 to $0.200 per result set. A representative sample read from the
    pricing table on 2026-09-10 — the live page remains the source of truth.
  sample:
    - {operation: 'GET /flights/search', price: '0.050'}
    - {operation: 'GET /flights/{ident}', price: '0.005'}
    - {operation: 'GET /flights/{id}/position', price: '0.010'}
    - {operation: 'GET /flights/{id}/track', price: '0.012'}
    - {operation: 'GET /airports', price: '0.005'}
    - {operation: 'GET /airports/{id}/flights', price: '0.020'}
    - {operation: 'GET /foresight/flights/{ident}', price: '0.015', tier: Premium}
    - {operation: 'GET /foresight/flights/search/advanced', price: '0.060', tier: Premium}
    - {operation: 'GET /history/flights/{ident}', price: '0.020', tier: 'Standard, Premium'}
    - {operation: 'GET /history/flights/{id}/track', price: '0.060', tier: 'Standard, Premium'}
    - {operation: 'Alert management calls', price: '0.000', tier: 'Standard, Premium'}
    - {operation: Push alert delivery, price: '0.020', tier: 'Standard, Premium'}
related_products:
  - name: FlightAware Firehose
    url: https://www.flightaware.com/commercial/firehose/
    pricing_model: >-
      Flat monthly rate for unlimited use, dependent on which data layers are enabled and the scope
      of redistribution. Contact sales; no public price list.
agent_note: >-
  The cost-relevant fact for an autonomous consumer: `max_pages` multiplies the number of billed
  result sets in a single call, and there is no spend cap or budget parameter in the API. Poll
  GET /account/usage (AeroAPI 4.30.0+) to observe consumption.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com