Musicbrainz Plans Pricing
MusicBrainz is operated by the MetaBrainz Foundation, a US 501(c)(3) non-profit. The public Web Service v2 is free to use under the Social Contract: no API key, no per-call billing, no commercial pricing tiers. The project is funded primarily by individual donations and "supporter" agreements with commercial users who consume the live data feed or commercial dumps at scale. Heavy commercial users are asked (not strictly required) to become MetaBrainz supporters at https://metabrainz.org/supporters and to negotiate replication / dump access through that programme rather than scraping the public web service.
Musicbrainz Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for MusicBrainz on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering free, donation, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Public Web Service, Donor / Individual Supporter, Commercial Supporter.
Tagged areas include Music, Metadata, Open Source, Non Profit, and Donation.
Plans
The default access tier for the public MusicBrainz Web Service v2 at https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2. No registration, no API key. All callers share the same 1 request per second per IP ceiling and must send a meaningful User-Agent. Suitable for personal apps, evaluation, research, and low-volume integrations.
- Public Documentation
- Community Forum Support
- All Read Endpoints (lookup, browse, search)
- Authenticated Submission Endpoints
- ISRC / ISWC / DiscID / URL Resolution
- Genre Taxonomy
- User Collections
Individual donor tier - same API access as the public tier, but the caller has chosen to support MetaBrainz financially via https://metabrainz.org/donate. Donations directly fund the public service. No technical privileges are granted, but the project's sustainability depends on this tier.
- All Public Tier Endpoints
- Public Donor Acknowledgement (optional)
- Direct Project Funding
The supported access path for commercial users with high-volume needs. Rather than scaling the public web service, commercial users replicate the MusicBrainz database locally using the Live Data Feed or commercial dumps. The "MetaBrainz Supporter" agreement covers replication access, commercial use of the CC-BY-NC-SA supplemental data, support, and a public acknowledgement. Tier amounts are negotiated based on company size and usage. See https://metabrainz.org/supporters and https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Live_Data_Feed.
- All Public Tier Endpoints
- Live Data Feed Replication
- Commercial Use of CC-BY-NC-SA Data
- Direct Support Channel
- Listed on Supporters Page
- Influence on Roadmap
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