specVersion: "FinOps Framework / FOCUS-aligned 0.1"
provider: new-york-times-company
modified: 2026-05-23
notes: |
  The developer.nytimes.com surface has no billable cost model: every API on
  the public developer portal is free under the Developer (Free) plan. There
  are no invoices, billing accounts, usage meters, or cost attribution
  surfaces exposed to API consumers. Because there is no chargeback or
  showback dimension at the public-API layer, NYT has no FOCUS-compatible
  billing data to publish. NYT's commercial syndication offering (NYT
  Licensing, content-syndication contracts, internal data products) is
  managed off-portal via direct sales and is out of scope for this file.

billingModel:
  type: free-only
  invoicing: none
  metering: enforced-only-for-rate-limits
  paymentMethods: []
  currency: USD

costDrivers:
  - dimension: api-calls
    metered: false
    chargedFor: false
    behavior: |
      Excess calls trigger HTTP 429 and are denied rather than billed.
      Rate-limit semantics live in rate-limits/new-york-times-company-rate-limits.yml.
  - dimension: response-bandwidth
    metered: false
    chargedFor: false
    notes: |
      Archive API responses are flagged at ~20MB each; this is a developer
      cost (transfer, parse, store) but is not billed by NYT.
  - dimension: storage-or-redistribution
    metered: false
    chargedFor: false
    governedBy: terms-of-use + attribution-guidelines

attribution:
  required: true
  guidelinesURL: https://developer.nytimes.com/attribution

costAllocation:
  showback: not-applicable
  chargeback: not-applicable
  tagging: not-applicable

contractualSurface:
  termsURL: https://developer.nytimes.com/terms
  attributionURL: https://developer.nytimes.com/attribution
  contact: mailto:code@nytimes.com