Jokeapi Plans Pricing
JokeAPI is a free, open source, donation-funded REST API. There is no paid tier, no metered plan, and no commercial offering — every request is free and unauthenticated, subject only to the published rate limits. Operating costs are covered by GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Ko-fi, and PayPal donations. The single "plan" below reflects that reality so consumers and tooling have a consistent surface to read.
Jokeapi Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for JokeAPI on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and subscription tiers, with named plans including Free (Public), Self-Hosted (Open Source).
Tagged areas include Jokes, Humor, Open Source, and Free.
Plans
Free, no-signup, public REST API. Rate-limited at 120 requests per minute per IP (5 per minute on /submit). MIT-licensed, donation-funded.
- Seven joke categories (Any, Misc, Programming, Dark, Pun, Spooky, Christmas)
- Six blacklist flags (nsfw, religious, political, racist, sexist, explicit)
- Safe-mode switch
- Six joke languages (en, de, cs, es, fr, pt)
- JSON, XML, YAML, plain-text response formats
- CORS-enabled
- No authentication required
- Community joke submission via POST /submit
JokeAPI is open source under the MIT license. Anyone can clone the repository, host their own instance, and bypass the public rate limits entirely. There is no fee, no support contract — operating costs and moderation are entirely on the operator.
- MIT license — modify and redistribute freely
- Full source on git.sv443.net (mirrored on GitHub)
- Customizable joke catalogue
- No rate-limit enforcement unless you add one
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