# Provenance stamped 2026-10-07 (roadmap#943): written by an API Evangelist sweep (undated — the file carries no date and git cannot supply one), not
# harvested from the provider. `method: generated` so the economics campaign may replace it with a
# dated, verbatim transcription; every figure below is unverified until it does.
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plans:
  - name: Open Access
    description: >
      Free and open access to the STRING database and REST API for all users,
      both academic and commercial. All data is provided under the Creative
      Commons BY 4.0 license. No registration or subscription required for
      standard API endpoints.
    url: https://string-db.org/cgi/access?footer_active_subpage=licensing
    price: 0.00
    currency: USD
    billing: free
    features:
      - Full access to all standard REST API endpoints
      - Protein-protein interaction network data
      - Functional enrichment analysis
      - Homology and similarity data
      - Network visualization (image, SVG, high-resolution)
      - Multiple output formats (JSON, TSV, XML, PSI-MI)
      - Access to 12,535 organisms and 59.3 million proteins
      - Over 20 billion interactions available
      - Commercial use permitted under CC-BY 4.0
    limits:
      - Wait 1 second between API calls (recommended)
      - No parallel script execution
      - Large-scale data requests should use downloads instead of API
      - GET requests subject to URL length limits; use POST for large queries
  - name: Values/Ranks Enrichment (API Key)
    description: >
      Free tier with API key required for advanced GSEA-like enrichment
      analysis on ranked protein datasets. API key obtained via the
      /api/json/get_api_key endpoint at no cost.
    url: https://string-db.org/help/api/
    price: 0.00
    currency: USD
    billing: free
    features:
      - All Open Access features
      - GSEA-like enrichment analysis on ranked protein lists
      - Up to 1000 concurrent analysis jobs
      - No lifetime job limit
      - Asynchronous job submission and status checking
    limits:
      - API key required (free, obtained via API)
      - Up to 1000 concurrent jobs
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  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - free
  units: []
  plans:
  - name: Open Access
    access: other
    model: free
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []
  - name: Values/Ranks Enrichment (API Key)
    access: other
    model: free
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []