Metro Transit Plans Pricing
Metro Transit (the public-transit operator for the Twin Cities, MN, governed by the Metropolitan Council) publishes its real-time vehicle, schedule, alert, and trip-planner data as free open data. Static schedules are published as GTFS zip files; real-time vehicle positions, trip updates, and service alerts are published as GTFS-realtime protobuf feeds refreshed every 5 seconds. A REST API (NexTrip / schedule / alerts / trip planner) is also documented at svc.metrotransit.org. There is no API key, no usage cap, and no commercial tier — the data is offered to developers under open-data terms with attribution.
Metro Transit Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Metro Transit on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 1 plan, covering freemium tiers, with named plans including Open Data.
Tagged areas include Minneapolis, Minnesota, Public Transportation, Real-Time, and Transit.
Plans
Free, open access to Metro Transit's GTFS, GTFS-realtime, and REST APIs. No registration, no API key, and no published usage cap. Consumers should follow standard open-data etiquette (use Last-Modified / ETag, cache appropriately, attribute the source).
- GTFS Static Schedule (current + next week)
- GTFS-realtime Trip Updates
- GTFS-realtime Vehicle Positions
- GTFS-realtime Service Alerts
- NexTrip Real-Time Departures
- Service Alerts API
- Trip Planner API
- Schedule API
- Swagger / OpenAPI Documentation
- Historical GTFS Archive (back to 2020-11-28)
Sources
- https://svc.metrotransit.org/
- https://svc.metrotransit.org/swagger
- https://www.metrotransit.org/developers
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for plans
4 MCP tools reach this
find_plansBrowse and filter every plan in the catalog.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.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans/metro-transit-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.