Gutendex Plans Pricing
Gutendex is a free, open-source web API distributed under the MIT license. The hosted instance at https://gutendex.com is offered free of charge with no API key, no signup, and no commercial tier. Operators who need higher throughput or guaranteed availability can self-host the Django application from github.com/garethbjohnson/gutendex on their own infrastructure.
Gutendex Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Gutendex on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering free and open-source tiers, with named plans including Free Hosted, Self-Hosted.
Tagged areas include Books, Open Source, Free, and Project Gutenberg.
Plans
The publicly hosted gutendex.com instance is free of charge with no authentication, no quotas, and no commercial tier. Best-effort uptime, no SLA.
- Full /books and /books/{id} access
- No API key required
- All query parameters available
- Public domain ebook metadata for 70,000+ Project Gutenberg titles
Run your own Gutendex instance from the MIT-licensed Django source. You bear hosting costs and operational responsibility; the software itself is free.
- MIT-licensed source code
- Django + Django REST Framework stack
- Nightly Project Gutenberg catalog sync via management command
- Self-determined rate limits and scaling
Sources
- https://gutendex.com
- https://github.com/garethbjohnson/gutendex
- https://github.com/garethbjohnson/gutendex/blob/master/license
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