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 Tokyo
providerId: university-of-tokyo
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  University of Tokyo is a non-commercial higher-education institution; its APIs are not sold
  as a commercial product. Its institution-operated public interfaces — two OAI-PMH endpoints, IIIF Presentation and
  Image, the Archives Portal item representations, and the repository records JSON API — are
  free and require no credential of any kind: no API key exists to issue and no registration
  is offered. Reuse of the underlying material is governed per-record and per-collection by
  the library's reuse conditions, not by a plan. There is no course, registrar or
  student-information API at any price. Administrative services (UTOL, the HPC portal, STEP10)
  are gated behind GakuNin SAML federation membership rather than payment.
notes: >-
  Re-verified 2026-08-19 under the university pipeline. No published per-seat or per-call commercial pricing. "Free / Open" reflects open
  public endpoints; "Affiliation / Credentialed" reflects access gated by institutional
  identity rather than payment.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-tokyo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- https://da.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/portal/help/api
- https://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/library/general/reuse
- https://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/api/records/
method: probed
generated: '2026-08-19'
plans:
- id: university-of-tokyo-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: >-
    Open metadata, harvesting and image interfaces offered at no charge and with no
    registration. Verified unauthenticated on 2026-08-19. Reuse terms are per-record.
  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-tokyo-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Credentialed
  type: free
  description: >-
    Administrative services gated behind the university's GakuNin-registered Shibboleth SAML
    identity providers rather than payment. Not self-service and not obtainable externally.
  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