Flickr Plans Pricing
Flickr offers a single, free-of-charge developer API. There is no metered or tiered commercial pricing surface for API usage itself: any developer can request an API key online and use the API to build a non-commercial app at no cost. Commercial use of the API is allowed only with prior permission from Flickr; commercial keys are reviewed manually by Flickr staff and have no published price list. End-user Flickr accounts (Free / Pro) have a separate consumer pricing surface that is unrelated to API access.
Flickr Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Flickr on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Non-Commercial API Key, Commercial API Key.
Tagged areas include Photography, Photos, Social Media, and Developer API.
Plans
Free API key for personal, artistic, free, or non-commercial projects. Standard option; granted on request with a short usage description.
- All flickr.* methods (read + write)
- OAuth 1.0a HMAC-SHA1 authentication
- Photo upload (synchronous and asynchronous)
- PubSubHubbub push subscriptions
- Flickr Commons access
Permission-only commercial API key. Required for any commercial use of the Flickr API. Submitted via the same online application portal as non-commercial keys but with a commercial-use description; reviewed and approved by Flickr staff. No published price list — terms are negotiated.
- All flickr.* methods
- Commercial-use rights subject to Flickr's API Terms of Use
- OAuth 1.0a HMAC-SHA1 authentication
- Photo upload (synchronous and asynchronous)
- PubSubHubbub push subscriptions
Sources
- https://www.flickr.com/services/api/
- https://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.api_keys.html
- https://www.flickr.com/services/developer/
- https://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/
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