NVD · Pricing Plans

Nvd Plans Pricing

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a US Government (NIST) service. APIs are free to use and there is no commercial pricing. Anonymous and API-key access are the only tiers — the API key is free and only changes the rate limit. Use of the data is subject to the NVD Terms of Use.

Nvd Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for NVD on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 2 plans, covering freemium tiers, with named plans including Public (No API Key), With API Key.

Tagged areas include Security, CVE, CPE, Vulnerability, and CVSS.

2 Plans API Commons Plans

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SecurityCVECPEVulnerabilityCVSS

Plans

Public (No API Key) freemium

Default access tier with no registration. Free, with the lowest rate limit.

API requests (requests · usage) 0.00 USD

NVD CVE API
NVD CVE Change History API
NVD CPE API
NVD CPE Match Criteria API
NVD Source API
National Vulnerability Database API

With API Key freemium

Free access tier obtained by completing a request form, agreeing to terms of use, and validating an email address. Higher rate limit (50 requests / 30 seconds vs 5 / 30 seconds).

API requests (requests · usage) 0.00 USD

10x rate limit vs anonymous
NVD CVE API
NVD CVE Change History API
NVD CPE API
NVD CPE Match Criteria API
NVD Source API

Sources

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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.

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