Transit Plans Pricing
Transit operates two distinct commercial surfaces. The Transit API for third-party partners is freemium: approved requesters get up to 5 calls per minute and 1,500 calls per month at no cost, with higher volumes arranged directly with the partnerships team. Consumer monetization is through the Transit Royale subscription ($2/month billed annually) which unlocks features like browsing future departures and lines farther away; several transit agencies sponsor Royale free for their riders.
Transit Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Transit on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering freemium, enterprise, and subscription tiers, with named plans including Transit API Free Tier, Transit API Partner Tier, Transit Royale.
Tagged areas include Public Transit, Real-Time, Trip Planning, Mobility, and Freemium.
Plans
Approved partner key with capped throughput. Sign-up requires submitting the request form; access granted after approval.
- Real-time transit departures
- Wheelchair accessibility information
- Service alerts
- Bike, scooter and carshare availability
- Multimodal trip planning
- URL scheme integration
Higher-volume access negotiated directly with the partnerships team for production signage deployments, embedded trip planners, and first/last-mile mobility integrations.
- Custom rate limits
- Production signage support
- Embedded trip planning
- First/last-mile mobility integration
Consumer subscription unlocking premium features in the Transit mobile app while keeping core navigation free for everyone.
- Look up departure times far into the future
- Browse lines farther away
- Free for riders of partner agencies (RTS Rochester, Dayton RTA, Denver RTD, St. Louis Metro Transit, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus)
- Free subscriptions on request for riders unable to afford it
Sources
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/transit-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.