specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: TU Dresden
providerId: tu-dresden
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  TU Dresden is a non-commercial higher-education institution; its APIs are not sold
  as a commercial product. Public APIs (library, repository, course, and open-metadata
  interfaces) are offered free of charge, typically for non-commercial use. Most
  administrative and identity APIs are not openly self-service and require institutional
  affiliation, credentials, or federation membership rather than a paid plan.
notes: >-
  Reconfirmed 2026-08-30. No published per-seat or per-call commercial pricing anywhere in the
  footprint. "Free / Open" reflects the genuinely open endpoints — the OPARA DSpace REST API and
  both OAI-PMH interfaces, all of which answer anonymously. "Affiliation / Credentialed" reflects
  access gated by institutional identity rather than payment, which covers TUD:AI (keys issued
  from the university Self-Service Portal to TU Dresden and ScaDS.AI affiliates only, metered by
  a requests-per-minute cap rather than by price), the gated lecture-catalog auth_code, and the
  Pure web service. There is no paid tier and no public signup on any surface.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
plans:
- id: tu-dresden-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: Public open APIs (metadata, library, repository, course data) offered at no charge, generally for non-commercial use.
  entries:
  - label: Open API Access
    name: open_api_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: tu-dresden-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Credentialed
  type: free
  description: Administrative and identity APIs gated behind institutional SSO, client certificates, or federation membership rather than payment.
  entries:
  - label: Credentialed Access
    name: credentialed_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com