specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: University of California, Los Angeles
providerId: ucla
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  UCLA is a non-commercial higher-education institution and does not sell API access. There is no
  price, no tier and no meter anywhere on the developer portal. Access to all seven published
  contracts is free of charge but is not free of process: a developer signs in with a UCLA logon,
  creates an App, subscribes it to one or more API Products, and a campus unit approves the
  request. There is no public registration, no sandbox and no trial credential, so the practical
  plan for an unaffiliated caller is "none". The only genuinely open UCLA surface is the signed
  SAML metadata for its identity provider, which requires no credential at all.
notes: >-
  Verified 2026-08-19. "Free / Open" applies only to anonymously readable metadata (the seven
  OpenAPI documents themselves and the InCommon SAML metadata). "Affiliation / Credentialed"
  applies to every callable endpoint. Access requests go through
  https://developer.api.ucla.edu/ and api-support@it.ucla.edu.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucla/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
plans:
- id: ucla-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: ucla-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