Gutendex · Pricing Plans

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, in the API Commons Plans shape.

It defines 2 plans, covering free and open-source tiers, with named plans including Free Hosted, 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, Open Source, Free, and Project Gutenberg.

2 Plans API Commons Plans
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-29.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-29 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Plans

Free Hosted free

The publicly hosted gutendex.com instance is free of charge with no authentication, no quotas, and no commercial tier. Best-effort uptime, no SLA.

API access (request · month) 0.00 USD
Self-Hosted open-source

Run your own Gutendex instance from the MIT-licensed Django source. You bear hosting costs and operational responsibility; the software itself is free.

Software license (install · perpetual) 0.00 USD

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  • 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.
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