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generated: '2026-05-23'
specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: McKinsey & Company
providerId: mckinsey-and-company
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Consulting
  - Management Consulting
  - Strategy
  - Professional Services
  - MBB
  - Open Source
description: >-
  McKinsey & Company does not publish a public commercial developer API
  or developer portal. Commercial engagements are priced as bilateral
  consulting contracts negotiated through the partnership on a
  time-and-materials, fixed-fee, or managed-services-subscription basis.
  Research outputs published through McKinsey Insights, McKinsey
  Quarterly, McKinsey Global Institute, the QuantumBlack AI report,
  podcasts, and books are made available free of charge through
  mckinsey.com and partner distribution channels. The firm's open-source
  software (Vizro, Agents-at-Scale ARK, ARK Marketplace, CausalNex,
  QuantumBlack Design System, qbstyles, and the LF-governed Kedro
  project) is released free of charge under permissive open-source
  licenses (Apache 2.0 and similar).
notes: >-
  No public developer API — placeholder only. Pricing is engagement-based
  and not consumable as an API plan. Free research and free open-source
  software are documented as separate plan tiers purely for inventory.
sources:
  - https://www.mckinsey.com/
  - https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us
  - https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights
  - https://github.com/mckinsey
  - https://github.com/kedro-org
plans:
  - id: mckinsey-engagement
    name: Partnership Consulting Engagement
    type: enterprise
    description: >-
      McKinsey sells strategy, transformation, digital, AI, operations,
      risk, sustainability, and implementation consulting work through
      bilateral engagement contracts negotiated with the partnership.
      There is no public API plan; pricing is set per engagement on a
      time-and-materials, fixed-fee, or managed-services-subscription
      basis.
    entries:
      - label: Engagement contract
        name: engagement_contract
        type: subscription
        metric: contract
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: contact McKinsey partnership engagement team
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Strategy and Corporate Finance engagements
      - name: Operations engagements
      - name: McKinsey Digital and Technology engagements
      - name: QuantumBlack AI and analytics engagements
      - name: Sustainability and energy-transition engagements
      - name: Risk, Resilience, and Cyber engagements
      - name: Leap business-building engagements
      - name: Implementation and managed-services engagements
      - name: No public developer API

  - id: mckinsey-insights
    name: McKinsey Insights and Quarterly Research Access
    type: free
    description: >-
      Free reader access to the firm's research surface: McKinsey
      Insights articles, McKinsey Quarterly, McKinsey Global Institute
      research, QuantumBlack AI Report and State of AI survey,
      industry-specific reports, The McKinsey Podcast and other
      specialty podcasts, and the McKinsey on Books program. Personal
      subscription is available through the mckinsey.com account
      surface.
    entries:
      - label: Public research access
        name: insights_access
        type: free
        metric: report
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 0
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: McKinsey Insights articles
      - name: McKinsey Quarterly
      - name: McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) reports
      - name: QuantumBlack AI Report and State of AI survey
      - name: The McKinsey Podcast and specialty podcasts
      - name: McKinsey on Books

  - id: mckinsey-open-source
    name: Open-Source Software Access
    type: free
    description: >-
      Free use of the firm's open-source projects under permissive
      open-source licenses (Apache 2.0 and similar). Includes Vizro,
      Agents-at-Scale ARK, the ARK Marketplace, CausalNex, the
      QuantumBlack Design System, and qbstyles on github.com/mckinsey;
      and the LF-governed Kedro project on github.com/kedro-org. No
      hosted or managed commercial offering is published at the
      corporate level around these projects.
    entries:
      - label: Open-source access
        name: open_source_access
        type: free
        metric: download
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 0
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Vizro (Apache 2.0)
      - name: Agents-at-Scale ARK
      - name: Agents-at-Scale Marketplace
      - name: CausalNex (Apache 2.0)
      - name: QuantumBlack Design System
      - name: qbstyles (Apache 2.0)
      - name: Kedro (Apache 2.0, LF AI & Data)
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
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  units:
  - negotiated
  - object
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    access: enterprise
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
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    - year
  - name: McKinsey Insights and Quarterly Research Access
    access: free
    model: free
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - object
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Open-Source Software Access
    access: free
    model: free
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - object
    periods:
    - month