# authorship: written by API Evangelist tooling from the provider's own pages, 2026-08-30.
x-method: derived
specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Hamad Bin Khalifa University
providerId: hbku
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  Hamad Bin Khalifa University sells nothing through an API. Both interfaces it operates — the Fanar
  API and the Farasa Web API, each run by the Qatar Computing Research Institute — are free of
  charge and gated by a key you request rather than buy. Neither publishes a price, a paid tier or a
  billing surface; Fanar instead publishes a per-model rate-limit table and says higher throughput
  is arranged by contacting the team. This file was rewritten on 2026-08-30: the version it replaces
  described plans for library, course and repository interfaces the university does not operate.
notes: >-
  No commercial pricing exists to record. The only gate is registration, and the only quota is the
  published rate limit — see rate-limits/hbku-rate-limits.yml.
sources:
- https://api.fanar.qa/openapi.json
- https://api.fanar.qa/request/en
- https://farasa.qcri.org/
plans:
- id: hbku-fanar-requested-access
  name: Fanar API — Requested Access
  type: free
  api: Fanar API
  x-operator: institution
  description: >-
    Free API access granted on request at https://api.fanar.qa/request/en. Default quotas are
    per-model: 50 requests/minute for the chat, guard and poetry models, 10-20 requests/day for the
    speech, vision, image-generation and translation models. Higher or tailored limits are
    negotiated directly with the provider.
  entries:
  - label: Requested API Access
    name: requested_api_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: hbku-farasa-registered-access
  name: Farasa Web API — Registered Access
  type: free
  api: Farasa Web API
  x-operator: institution
  description: >-
    Free API access after registration at https://farasa.qcri.org. QCRI states the web service is
    free of charge and that registration exists for security rather than metering. No quota is
    published and none could be measured without a key.
  entries:
  - label: Registered API Access
    name: registered_api_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