U S Geological Survey Plans Pricing
USGS APIs (Earthquake Catalog / FDSN, Water Data, ScienceBase, StreamStats, Seismic Design, Asset Identifier Service) are publicly accessible federal-government data services. There is no fee, no published commercial tier, and no documented monetary pricing. Use is governed by USGS terms and the federal information-quality guidelines rather than a paid plan structure.
U S Geological Survey Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for U.S. Geological Survey on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 1 plan, covering freemium tiers, with named plans including Public Open Data.
Tagged areas include Federal Government, Geological, Earth Science, Earthquake, and Hydrology.
Plans
All USGS web services are free to access. No registration or commercial tier; users are asked to follow USGS data citation and acceptable-use guidance.
- Earthquake Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services
- USGS Water Data APIs
- ScienceBase
- StreamStats Web Services
- Seismic Design Web Service
- Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
- USGS Water Services (Legacy)
Sources
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
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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/u-s-geological-survey-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.