specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Punk API
providerId: punkapi
created: '2026-05-29'
modified: '2026-05-29'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Food And Drink
  - Beer
  - Open Source
  - Free API
description: >-
  Punk API was always offered as a free, no-signup, no-key public REST API
  with no commercial pricing surface. There were no paid tiers, no metered
  usage, no quotas, and no SLAs. The service was funded as a community
  project by Sam Mason (sammdec / samjbmason). BrewDog decommissioned the
  hosted api.punkapi.com endpoint in 2023 and the supporting repositories
  (sammdec/punkapi-db, sammdec/punkapi-server) were archived on 2023-06-28.
  Teams that want the data going forward are expected to self-host the
  open-source server against the `punkapi-db` dataset (npm package) or use
  a community-maintained mirror. There is no plan surface to negotiate, sell,
  or upgrade.
sources:
  - https://punkapi.com
  - https://github.com/sammdec/punkapi
  - https://github.com/sammdec/punkapi-server
  - https://www.brewdog.com/diydog
plans:
  - id: punkapi-free
    name: Free (historical)
    type: freemium
    description: >-
      The only tier. Unlimited, anonymous, no-signup access to the Punk API
      read-only Beers surface. This is also the tier that community
      self-hosters reproduce verbatim.
    entries:
      - label: API requests
        name: api_requests
        type: flat
        metric: request
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '$0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Authentication
        name: authentication
        type: flat
        metric: varies
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 'none required'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: SLA
        name: sla
        type: flat
        metric: varies
        limit: 0
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 'none — best-effort community service (decommissioned in 2023)'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: List beers with ABV / IBU / EBC / date / ingredient filters
      - name: Get beer by id (1-325)
      - name: Get random beer
      - name: Pagination (page, per_page up to 80)
      - name: No rate limits documented or enforced
      - name: MIT-licensed source code on GitHub (sammdec/punkapi, sammdec/punkapi-server)
      - name: Recipe dataset distributed via npm as `punkapi-db`