Gutenberg Plans Pricing
Project Gutenberg and the Gutendex API are entirely free and open. There are no pricing tiers, subscription plans, or commercial offerings. The Gutendex API is a volunteer-maintained open-source project released under the MIT license. Direct access to Project Gutenberg content is also free with no registration required. For production workloads, self-hosting the Gutendex server using the open-source code is recommended.
Gutenberg Plans Pricing is the pricing profile for Project Gutenberg on the APIs.io network.
It defines 2 plans, with named plans including Free, Self-Hosted.
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 Books, Ebooks, Public Domain, Literature, and Library.
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Plans
Full access to the Gutendex API with no authentication, no API keys, and no usage fees. Provides access to metadata for 75,000+ public domain books including titles, authors, subjects, bookshelves, download links, and download counts.
Operators can deploy their own Gutendex instance using the open-source MIT-licensed Django application. This provides full control over availability, performance, and data freshness. Project Gutenberg publishes nightly XML/RDF catalog archives that Gutendex downloads and indexes.
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