name: OpenTripMap FinOps
description: Financial operations guidance for managing OpenTripMap API costs
url: https://dev.opentripmap.org/price
guidance:
  cost_model:
    type: subscription
    billing: monthly
    currency: USD
    notes: >
      OpenTripMap uses a flat monthly subscription model rather than per-request
      billing. Costs are predictable and fixed per billing cycle regardless of
      actual request volume within plan limits.
  plans_overview:
    - name: Free
      monthly_cost: 0
      daily_request_limit: 5000
      cost_per_request: 0
      use_case: Prototyping, development, non-commercial personal projects
    - name: Starter
      monthly_cost: 19
      daily_request_limit: 50000
      cost_per_thousand_requests: 0.013
      use_case: Small commercial apps, MVPs, low-traffic production services
    - name: Pro
      monthly_cost: 99
      daily_request_limit: 500000
      cost_per_thousand_requests: 0.0066
      use_case: Mid-sized production applications, travel platforms
    - name: Enterprise
      monthly_cost: custom
      daily_request_limit: unlimited
      use_case: High-volume commercial deployments, data aggregation pipelines
  cost_optimization:
    - tip: Cache POI responses locally to reduce redundant API calls
      impact: high
      notes: ODbL license explicitly permits caching and pre-fetching of data
    - tip: Use bounding box (bbox) queries instead of individual place lookups where possible
      impact: medium
      notes: Batch fetching reduces total request count for geographic area scans
    - tip: Request only the language/fields you need to minimize processing overhead
      impact: low
      notes: Specify lang parameter to avoid defaulting to multi-language lookups
    - tip: Monitor daily usage against plan limits to avoid service interruption
      impact: high
      notes: No automatic upgrade on limit breach; requests return 429 errors
    - tip: Start with Free plan for development and upgrade only when moving to production
      impact: high
      notes: Free plan supports 5,000 requests/day which is sufficient for testing
  billing_contact: support@opentripmap.com
  payment_methods:
    - PayPal
    - Credit Card