specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: King Saud University
providerId: king-saud-university
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  King Saud University is a non-commercial public institution and sells nothing
  programmable. Its Open Data distribution surface at data.ksu.edu.sa is free and
  entirely unauthenticated — no account, key or registration — and is governed by
  the KSU Open Data Licence, which grants use "to all persons without
  discrimination or charge" in return for source attribution. Its identity plane
  at iam.ksu.edu.sa is also free, but it is not self-service: the OAuth client
  registration endpoint it advertises returned HTTP 404 to an anonymous request on
  2026-09-01, so a client must be issued by the university.
notes: >-
  No commercial pricing of any kind. "Free / Open" is the open-data surface, which
  needs no credential at all; "Affiliation / Credentialed" is the identity plane
  and the gated end-user applications, where access is granted by institutional
  relationship rather than payment. Verified by live probe 2026-09-01.
method: probed
sources:
- https://data.ksu.edu.sa/ar/node/1178
- https://iam.ksu.edu.sa/.well-known/openid-configuration
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/king-saud-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
plans:
- id: king-saud-university-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: The KSU Open Data distribution files at data.ksu.edu.sa — JSON, XML, RDF/XML, CSV and XLSX — served anonymously at no charge under the KSU Open Data Licence.
  entries:
  - label: Open API Access
    name: open_api_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: king-saud-university-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Credentialed
  type: free
  description: The OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect / SAML identity plane at iam.ksu.edu.sa and the gated end-user applications behind it, where a client or account is issued by the university rather than bought.
  entries:
  - label: Credentialed Access
    name: credentialed_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