Rest Countries Plans Pricing
Plans for REST Countries (restcountries.com). The hosted instance is a fully free, community-run, open-source service distributed under MPL-2.0. There is no commercial pricing surface — only soft fair-use limits and an implicit best-effort SLA. Self-hosting the open-source distribution is an option for organizations that need stronger guarantees.
Rest Countries Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for REST Countries on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering free and open-source tiers, with named plans including Free (Hosted), Self-Hosted (Open Source).
Tagged areas include Countries, Geography, Geocoding, Open Source, and Reference Data.
Plans
Free, public, unauthenticated access to the hosted REST Countries v3.1 API. No sign-up, no API key, no per-account quota. Subject only to soft fair-use rate limiting at the edge.
- Public Documentation
- Community Support (GitHub / GitLab Issues)
- All v3.1 Endpoints
- No Authentication Required
- REST Countries v3.1
Run REST Countries inside your own infrastructure from the upstream Java/Maven build (github.com/apilayer/restcountries mirror or the gitlab.com/restcountries/restcountries canonical source). Provides full control over uptime, latency, version pinning, and capacity at zero licence cost under MPL-2.0.
- MPL-2.0 Source Code
- Maven Build
- Full Endpoint Parity
- Self-Managed Capacity
- Self-Managed SLA
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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.