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 Southern California
providerId: usc
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reconciled: false
generated: '2026-06-03'
method: derived
source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/usc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  University of Southern California is a non-commercial higher-education institution; its APIs are not sold
  as a commercial product. USC publishes no price list, no plan page and no self-service key
  issuance for any API. The institution-operated surfaces that are public - the Shibboleth/SAML
  identity provider metadata and the FaceBase ERMrest catalog - are keyless and free. The one
  full REST API on a USC host, the Orange Logic Cortex API at digitallibrary.usc.edu/API, is
  free of charge but requires a token that is not self-service. Verified 2026-08-30; this file
  describes an absence of commercial terms, not a published plan.
notes: >-
  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/usc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
plans:
- id: usc-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: usc-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