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's College London
providerId: kings-college-london
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  King's College London is a non-commercial higher-education institution and does not sell API
  access to the public. Corrected 2026-08-19: the June 2026 profile described "library,
  repository, course and open-metadata" plans that mostly did not exist. What does exist is
  three-tier and internal. Open metadata — the Pure OAI-PMH endpoint — is free and
  unauthenticated to anyone. The e-Research AI Hub and CREATE Cloud are chargeback services for
  King's affiliates: the AI Hub gives new accounts free starter tokens and meters use against a
  project budget thereafter, and CREATE Cloud gives every King's researcher one free-tier project
  (4 vCPU / 8GB memory / 40GB disk, best-effort support, development only) with paid quota sold
  in 1 vCPU + 2GB increments against grant and departmental budgets. There is no public signup
  for either. The remaining surfaces are vendor tenancies whose commercial terms are King's
  contracts with Elsevier, Figshare, Ex Libris, OpenAthens and Cosector, not published prices.
notes: >-
  No published per-seat or per-call commercial pricing. "Free / Open" reflects open
  public endpoints; "Affiliation / Credentialed" reflects access gated by institutional
  identity rather than payment.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk/CREATE/ai_hub/
- https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk/CREATE/cloud/cloud_pricing/
plans:
- id: kings-college-london-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: Public open APIs (metadata, library, repository, course data) offered at no charge, generally for non-commercial use.
  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: kings-college-london-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Credentialed
  type: free
  description: >-
    Institution-operated services gated behind King's SSO, VPN, client certificates or federation
    membership rather than payment — the AI Hub free token allocation, the CREATE Cloud free-tier
    project (4 vCPU, 8GB memory, 40GB disk, development use only, forum support), and the
    federated identity provider.
  entries:
  - label: Credentialed Access
    name: credentialed_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: kings-college-london-chargeback
  name: Internal Chargeback
  type: paid
  description: >-
    Metered research computing billed to grant and departmental budgets, not sold externally. AI
    Hub usage beyond the starter token allocation is charged against a project budget; CREATE
    Cloud quota is sold in 1 vCPU + 2GB memory increments, with SSD root disks charged per GB and
    RDS data storage charged per TB above 5TB. Published rates live on the e-Research grant
    costing pages; no per-call price list exists.
  entries:
  - label: Research Computing Chargeback
    name: research_computing_chargeback
    type: paid
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: unpublished
    userMultiplied: false
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com