specVersion: "API Commons Plans 0.1"
provider: new-york-times-company
modified: 2026-05-23
notes: |
  The New York Times Company's public developer program at developer.nytimes.com
  offers a single, free, self-service tier. Developers register an account, create
  an "app", enable one or more APIs against that app, and receive an api-key that
  is passed as a query-string parameter on every request. There is no published
  paid tier, no per-call billing, and no documented enterprise upgrade path for
  the public APIs. NYT's commercial syndication products (NYT Licensing) are sold
  outside this developer surface and not represented here.
plans:
  - id: developer-free
    name: Developer (Free)
    description: |
      Self-service developer tier covering all 11 public APIs. Free of charge.
      Rate limits are enforced and documented to be subject to change.
    type: free
    price:
      amount: 0
      currency: USD
      interval: monthly
    eligibility: anyone
    signupURL: https://developer.nytimes.com/accounts/create
    requires:
      - email address
      - confirmation
    apis:
      - article-search-api
      - top-stories-api
      - most-popular-api
      - times-newswire-api
      - archive-api
      - books-api
      - movie-reviews-api
      - times-tags-api
      - semantic-api
      - geo-api
    rateLimits:
      reference: rate-limits/new-york-times-company-rate-limits.yml
    termsOfUse:
      url: https://developer.nytimes.com/terms
    attributionRequired: true
    attributionGuidelinesURL: https://developer.nytimes.com/attribution
    paymentRequired: false
    creditCardRequired: false
    overage: not-supported
    upgradePath: not-published
deprecated:
  - id: community-api
    name: Community API
    note: |
      Marked deprecated by NYT in the spec itself; documented daily limit was
      "5000 requests per day (rate limits are subject to change)".