Tmdb Plans Pricing
TMDB does not operate a self-serve commercial pricing surface. Non-commercial use of the TMDB API (personal projects, hobby apps, research, OSS) is free behind an API key generated from your account settings — there is no published per-call price or paid tier. Commercial use (charging users, monetised products, ad-supported content, AI/ML training on TMDB data, sublicensing) requires a separate written agreement with TMDB negotiated by email; pricing is custom and not published. A cache TTL cap of 6 months applies to all uses. Use the rate-limits artifact for live request limits and the FinOps artifact for an internal cost-tracking shape — neither implies a public price list.
Tmdb Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for The Movie Database on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Non-Commercial, Commercial.
Tagged areas include Catalog, Entertainment, Metadata, Movies, and TV.
Plans
Free, attribution-required use for personal projects, hobby apps, research, and OSS.
- Full TMDB API v3 surface (148 paths)
- TMDB API v4 user/list endpoints
- Image CDN access
- Daily ID exports
- Watch provider data (JustWatch-sourced)
- Community forum support
Required for any use that charges end users, monetises TMDB content, trains AI/ML systems on TMDB data, or sublicenses access. Pricing is negotiated bilaterally with TMDB and not published.
- Full TMDB API surface for revenue-generating use
- AI/ML training rights (when negotiated)
- Sublicensing rights (when negotiated)
- Custom rate-limit accommodations
- Direct support channel
Sources
- https://www.themoviedb.org/api-terms-of-use
- https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/getting-started
- https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/rate-limiting
- https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for plans
4 MCP tools reach this
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.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans/tmdb-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.