Discogs Plans Pricing
The Discogs API is offered free of charge to all registered Discogs users. There is no metered pricing for API access — instead, Discogs enforces a tiered request-rate cap based on authentication mode (60 req/min authenticated, 25 req/min unauthenticated). Commercial monetization happens on the Discogs Marketplace, where Discogs takes an 8% transaction fee (capped at $150) plus payment-processor fees on each completed sale. These marketplace fees are reflected here as a usage-based "Marketplace Sales" plan because they meter actual money flow through the API.
Discogs Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Discogs on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Plans shape.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and usage-based tiers, with named plans including API Access (Free), Marketplace Sales.
This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
Tagged areas include Music, Marketplace, Catalog, Vinyl, and Community.
generated, dated 2026-05-29.
Plans
Free unlimited access to the Discogs REST API with rate-limit-based tiering.
- Discogs Auth (personal access token)
- Discogs Auth (consumer key + secret)
- OAuth 1.0a (delegated user authorization)
- Database read (artists, releases, masters, labels, search)
- User read (identity, profile, collection, wantlist, lists, contributions, submissions)
- Marketplace read (listings, fees, price suggestions, release stats)
- Marketplace write (orders, inventory CSV upload, listing CRUD)
- Image proxy retrieval (OAuth-signed)
- Monthly XML data dumps (artists, labels, masters, releases)
Transaction fees Discogs takes from sellers on completed Marketplace orders. Returned programmatically via the /marketplace/fee endpoint. These are operational costs the API exposes, not access fees for the API itself.
- Order management API
- Inventory listings API
- Bulk inventory upload (add/change/delete)
- Price-suggestions API
- Inventory export to CSV
Sources
- https://www.discogs.com/developers
- https://support.discogs.com/hc/articles/360001431534-How-Do-Discogs-Marketplace-Fees-Work
- https://support.discogs.com/hc/articles/360009334593-API-Terms-of-Use
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.