specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Saildrone
providerId: saildrone
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Maritime
  - Ocean Data
  - USV
  - Defense
  - METOC
description: >
  Saildrone does not publish a public, self-serve developer pricing tier. The
  Saildrone Public Mission API (BETA) at developer-mission.saildrone.com is
  gated behind contractual access — credentials (key/secret) are issued only as
  part of a Saildrone "Mission-as-a-Service" / Fully Managed engagement or
  through a partner programs (NOAA PMEL, US Navy, NASA, EUMETSAT). All commercial
  terms are negotiated per-mission, per-fleet, or per-dataset; revenue is
  recognized against the underlying USV deployment, not API calls.
  This plans file therefore documents the commercial *surfaces* rather than a
  published price list. Open data from past missions is available free via NOAA
  PMEL ERDDAP and NCEI for non-commercial use.
sources:
  - https://www.saildrone.com/service-model/fully-managed
  - https://www.saildrone.com/data-delivery/api
  - https://www.saildrone.com/data-delivery/mission-portal
  - https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/saildrone/data-access
plans:
  - id: saildrone-fully-managed-maas
    name: Saildrone Fully Managed (Mission-as-a-Service)
    type: contract
    description: >
      End-to-end managed USV missions — vehicle, crew, operations center, data
      delivery via API and Mission Portal. Pricing is per-mission, per-vehicle-day,
      and varies by platform (Explorer, Voyager, Surveyor, Spectre), mission
      profile, sensor payload, and area of operation. Contact Saildrone for
      a quote.
    entries:
      - label: Mission-as-a-Service engagement
        name: mission_engagement
        type: contract
        metric: missions
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: contract
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 'contact-sales'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: saildrone-developer-mission-api-beta
    name: Saildrone Public Mission API (BETA)
    type: gated
    description: >
      Access to live and historical mission telemetry via
      developer-mission.saildrone.com. Credentials are issued to authorized
      partners only — there is no self-serve signup. API access is bundled with
      a customer's underlying Saildrone engagement and is not separately metered
      or invoiced at the time of profiling.
    entries:
      - label: API access (bundled)
        name: api_access_bundled
        type: bundled
        metric: requests
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: contract
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: saildrone-mission-portal
    name: Saildrone Mission Portal
    type: gated
    description: >
      Web-based command and control portal for tasking and live multi-INT data
      visualization. Bundled with Fully Managed engagements. Not separately priced.
    entries:
      - label: Mission Portal access (bundled)
        name: mission_portal_access_bundled
        type: bundled
        metric: seats
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: contract
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: saildrone-open-data-pmel
    name: NOAA PMEL Saildrone Open Data
    type: free
    description: >
      Past Saildrone TPOS, Arctic, and partner mission data published as
      NetCDF / CSV / JSON via PMEL ERDDAP and NCEI. Free at point of use under
      open-data terms; not Saildrone-commercial.
    entries:
      - label: Open-data download
        name: open_data_download
        type: free
        metric: downloads
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false