Guardian Plans Pricing
The Guardian Open Platform offers a free developer tier and a commercial tier for businesses. The free tier provides instant access with generous rate limits suitable for non-commercial and personal projects. Commercial use requires a separate key request and negotiated terms.
Guardian Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for The Guardian on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering free and commercial tiers, with named plans including Developer (Free), Commercial.
Tagged areas include News, Media, and Content.
Plans
Free instant access for developers and non-commercial projects. Provides access to all article text, metadata, tags, sections, and editions. Images and video require a commercial subscription.
- Article text and body content
- Article metadata (byline, headline, date, URL)
- Search endpoint with keyword queries
- Sections endpoint (75+ sections)
- Tags endpoint
- Editions endpoint (UK, US, Australia)
- Single item retrieval by article ID
- Date range filtering
- JSON and XML response formats
- Pagination support (1-50 items per page)
Commercial license for businesses and organisations using Guardian content in products or services. Includes access to images, video, and higher rate limits. Pricing negotiated individually with The Guardian Open Platform team.
- All Developer tier features
- Image and multimedia access
- Higher rate limits
- Commercial usage rights
- Dedicated support
- Custom data licensing
Sources
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