Thingspeak Plans Pricing
ThingSpeak plans reconciled from thingspeak.mathworks.com/prices. Free plan is non-commercial and capped at ~3M messages/year. Paid licenses are sold in annual units of 33M messages/year (~90,400/day) under four license types — Standard (commercial/government), Home (personal), Academic (teaching/research), and Student.
Thingspeak Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for ThingSpeak on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 5 plans, covering free and license-unit tiers, with named plans including Free, Standard, Home, Academic, Student.
Tagged areas include IoT, Analytics, MQTT, and MathWorks.
Plans
Non-commercial use only. ~3M messages per year (~8,200/day) across a limited number of channels per user.
- REST + MQTT access for non-commercial projects
- MATLAB Analysis (limited compute)
- MATLAB Visualizations
- Public and private channels with read/write API keys
- React, ThingHTTP, TalkBack, TimeControl apps
Commercial, government, or other organizational use. Sold per annual unit. Each unit grants 33M messages/year (~90,400 messages/day) and a fixed number of channels/users.
- 33M messages/year per unit (~90,400/day)
- Commercial license
- Stacks across multiple units for higher throughput
- Full REST + MQTT access
- MATLAB Analysis & Visualizations
Personal use only. Same unit specification as Standard but restricted to non-commercial, non-academic, non-government use.
- 33M messages/year per unit
- Personal/hobbyist use only
Teaching and academic research at a degree-granting institution.
- 33M messages/year per unit
- Restricted to degree-granting institutions
Use in conjunction with courses offered at a degree-granting institution.
- 33M messages/year per unit
- Tied to coursework at a degree-granting institution
Sources
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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.