Spoonacular Plans Pricing
Spoonacular prices the Recipe and Food API as a set of monthly subscription tiers built on a points-based usage model. Every API call costs points (typically 1 point per request plus 0.01 points per result, with surcharges for nutrition data, image generation, and video extraction). Each tier includes a daily points quota; once exhausted, the Free tier returns HTTP 402 while paid tiers bill overage per additional point at the tier's overage rate. Daily quotas reset at midnight UTC. Plans above $250/month qualify for an SLA.
Spoonacular Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Spoonacular on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 5 plans, covering freemium, subscription, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Free, Cook, Culinarian, Chef, Enterprise.
Tagged areas include Food And Drink, Recipes, Nutrition, Meal Planning, and Usage Based.
Plans
No-cost tier for evaluation and small projects, hard-capped at the daily quota.
- All recipe, ingredient, product, menu item, meal planning, and wine endpoints
- 1 request/second, 2 concurrent requests
Entry paid tier for production apps with modest volume.
- All endpoints
- 5 requests/second, 5 concurrent requests
Mid paid tier with a higher daily quota and lower overage cost.
- All endpoints
- 10 requests/second, 10 concurrent requests
High-volume paid tier with the largest published daily quota and lowest overage cost.
- All endpoints
- 20 requests/second, 20 concurrent requests
Custom-negotiated tier with custom quotas, rate limits, and an SLA (99%-99.9% uptime).
- Custom quota, rate limits, and concurrency
- SLA 99%-99.9% uptime
- Priority support
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