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 Exeter
providerId: university-of-exeter
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  University of Exeter is a non-commercial higher-education institution and publishes no
  commercial API pricing of any kind. Exactly one Exeter-hosted API serves data without a
  credential - the WordPress REST API on news.exeter.ac.uk. Everything else the institution
  operates (the MyExeter platform API at api.exeter.ac.uk, Moodle web services on ELE, the
  Shibboleth IdP, the Entra ID tenant) is gated by institutional affiliation or federation
  membership rather than by payment, and none of it offers a self-service signup.
notes: >-
  No published per-seat or per-call pricing and no published plans document - the two plans
  below are a derived characterisation of observed access conditions, not a published Exeter
  price list. "Free / Open" covers only news.exeter.ac.uk/wp-json/;
  "Affiliation / Credentialed" covers every other surface. Corrected 2026-09-01: the prior
  version described free "library, repository, course and open-metadata interfaces", none of
  which Exeter operates - the repository is a Figshare tenancy and no library or course API
  was found.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-exeter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- https://news.exeter.ac.uk/wp-json/
- https://api.exeter.ac.uk/user/profile
plans:
- id: university-of-exeter-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: >-
    The single unauthenticated Exeter-hosted API - the WordPress REST API at
    news.exeter.ac.uk/wp-json/ - is served at no charge with no registration.
  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: university-of-exeter-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Credentialed
  type: free
  description: >-
    The MyExeter platform API (OAuth2/Cognito), Moodle web services (wstoken), the Shibboleth
    IdP and the Entra ID tenant are gated behind institutional identity or federation
    membership rather than payment. No price, and no route to a credential for an
    unaffiliated developer.
  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