specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Packback
providerId: packback
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- EdTech
- AI
- Discussion
- Writing Feedback
- LTI
- Plans
description: >-
  Packback is sold as an institutional / per-student educational SaaS product,
  not as a metered developer API. Pricing is not publicly published as
  self-serve tiers; it is negotiated per institution, course, or program, and
  in many adoptions a per-student course-materials fee is charged (often paid
  by the student through the LMS / course-materials channel, or covered by the
  institution through an inclusive-access agreement). Because there is no public
  developer API, there are no token, request, or call-based usage plans to
  reconcile. The plan entries below describe the commercial packaging honestly
  and are marked unreconciled because exact figures are not publicly listed.
notes: >-
  Specific per-student and institutional prices are not published on Packback's
  public site and vary by product mix, enrollment, and contract term. Contact
  Packback sales for a quote. Reconciled is false because no public price list
  exists to verify.
sources:
- https://packback.co/
- https://packback.co/platform/
- https://packback.co/lti-integration/
plans:
- id: packback-per-student
  name: Per-Student / Course Access
  type: subscription
  description: >-
    Student or course-level access to Packback products (Questions /
    Discussions, Writing, Deep Dives) for the duration of a course or term,
    frequently delivered through inclusive-access / course-materials billing
    via the LMS. Exact per-student price is not publicly listed.
  entries:
  - label: Per-Student Course Access
    name: per_student
    type: subscription
    metric: students
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: term
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales (per-student, not publicly listed)
    userMultiplied: true
  elements:
  - name: Packback Questions / Discussions
  - name: Packback Writing
  - name: Packback Deep Dives
  - name: AI Coaching and Feedback
  - name: LMS / LTI Access
- id: packback-institutional
  name: Institutional / Site License
  type: enterprise
  description: >-
    Department-, program-, or institution-wide licensing with negotiated terms,
    onboarding, LTI integration support, and administrative analytics. Pricing
    negotiated with Packback sales.
  entries:
  - label: Institutional Agreement
    name: institutional
    type: flat
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Site / Program Licensing
  - name: LTI Advantage Integration (Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, Schoology, Google Classroom, ClassLink, Clever)
  - name: Single Sign-On and Gradebook Sync
  - name: Admin Analytics and Support
- id: packback-lti-library
  name: Open-Source LTI 1.3 PHP Library
  type: free
  description: >-
    Packback's open-source LTI 1.3 tool-provider PHP library is freely
    available under its repository license via GitHub and Packagist. It is a
    developer building block for LTI tool providers, not access to a Packback
    product API.
  entries:
  - label: lti-1-3-php-library
    name: lti_php_library
    type: free
    metric: license
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: perpetual
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free (open source)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: github.com/packbackbooks/lti-1-3-php-library
  - name: packbackbooks/lti-1p3-tool (Packagist / Composer)
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com