specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Washington University in St. Louis
providerId: washington-university-in-st-louis
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
source: >-
  https://docs.civicdb.org/en/latest/api.html and
  https://data.wustl.edu/api-portal/api-portal-anypoint-access/, plus live probes 2026-09-01
reconciled: true
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  Washington University in St. Louis is a non-commercial higher-education institution and sells no
  API. Exactly one surface is free and self-service: CIViC, the McDonnell Genome Institute
  knowledgebase, reads anonymously over GraphQL and issues a free API key to any signed-in user for
  writes and a higher rate ceiling, with all content released CC0. The OAI-PMH endpoints on the two
  Elsevier-operated research repositories harvest free and unauthenticated. Everything else is not
  priced but gated: the MuleSoft Anypoint enterprise APIs are granted by internal ServiceNow
  request to WashU integrators, and CNDA and BALSA require an account. Access here is a function of
  institutional affiliation and federation membership, not payment.
notes: >-
  No published per-seat or per-call commercial pricing anywhere in the estate. "Free / Open"
  reflects the genuinely open endpoints — CIViC's GraphQL API and the two OAI-PMH harvest
  interfaces. "Affiliation / Credentialed" reflects access gated by institutional identity rather
  than payment. No earlier claim of library or course APIs survived re-probing; neither exists.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/washington-university-in-st-louis/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
plans:
- id: washington-university-in-st-louis-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: washington-university-in-st-louis-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