specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: OpenAPI Generator
providerId: openapi-generator
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-06'
generated: '2026-08-06'
method: searched
source: https://openapi-generator.tech + https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator
tags:
  - Code Generation
  - Documentation
  - Open Source
  - OpenAPI
  - SDK
description: >-
  OpenAPI Generator has no commercial plans. It is a community-governed
  Apache-2.0 open-source project: the CLI, the library, the Maven/Gradle/sbt
  plugins, the Docker image and the hosted Online Generator API are all free,
  with no sign-up, no API key, no metering and no paid tier. This file previously
  carried scaffold free/pro/enterprise tiers with invented request quotas and
  prices; those were never published by the provider and were removed on
  2026-08-06.
pricing_model: free-open-source
license: Apache-2.0
license_url: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/blob/master/LICENSE
signup_required: false
api_key_required: false
metered: false
plans:
  - id: openapi-generator-open-source
    name: Open Source
    type: free
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    description: >-
      The entire product. Install the CLI via npm, Homebrew, Scoop, PyPI, Docker,
      a JAR or JBang, or embed the library from Maven Central. No account, no
      key, no limits enforced by the project.
    url: https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/installation
    entries: []
  - id: openapi-generator-online
    name: Hosted Online Generator
    type: free
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    description: >-
      The public hosted generation API at api.openapi-generator.tech. Anonymous
      and free. No SLA, no status page, no published rate limit, and the deployed
      build trails the current release line — a convenience surface, not a
      supported service.
    url: https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/online
    entries: []
funding:
  model: volunteer / community
  note: >-
    Governance sits with the OpenAPI Generator core team
    (https://openapi-generator.tech/team). No commercial entity sells or supports
    the project; the docs point to GitHub Issues, Slack and Stack Overflow for
    help.
evidence:
  - {url: 'https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/installation', http_status: 200, paid_tier_documented: false, fetched: '2026-08-06'}
  - {url: 'https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/faq', http_status: 200, commercial_offering: false, fetched: '2026-08-06'}
  - {url: 'https://api.openapi-generator.tech/api/gen/clients', http_status: 200, credentials: none, fetched: '2026-08-06'}
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com