Fooddata Central Plans Pricing
FoodData Central API access plans and pricing tiers from USDA
Fooddata Central Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for FoodData Central on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, with named plans including Demo Key, Standard (Free), High Volume (Custom).
Tagged areas include Health and Public APIs.
Plans
Limited access key for testing and evaluation purposes without registration.
Full API access available at no cost after registering for a data.gov API key. Provides 1,000 requests per hour per IP address. Suitable for most applications. All data is in the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal licensing.
Higher request rate limits available upon request by contacting FoodData Central. Intended for applications that exceed the standard 1,000 requests/hour threshold.
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
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Tools for plans
4 MCP tools reach this
find_plansBrowse and filter every plan in the catalog.apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans/fooddata-central-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.