University Of Helsinki Plans Pricing
The University of Helsinki is a non-commercial higher-education institution and sells none of its APIs. Access is gated by AFFILIATION, not by payment. Its own Gravitee gateway (gw.api.helsinki.fi) enables three plan security types — apikey, oauth2 and jwt — and explicitly DISABLES keyless and sharedApiKey, so no gateway endpoint is callable anonymously. Portal self-registration is also off (localLogin.enabled false, userCreation.enabled false): a credential requires signing in with the HY Login Service, creating an application, and subscribing it to one API under one named plan. The plan is the authorization unit; there are no OAuth scopes anywhere in the estate. Two surfaces sit outside that model — the DSpace REST and OAI-PMH endpoints (Helda, HY Data Catalogue, Editori), which are anonymous by design, and the FinBIF Laji API, which issues a token to any email address on request.
University Of Helsinki Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for University of Helsinki on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering free tiers, with named plans including Free / Open, Affiliation / Credentialed (Gravitee plan subscription), FinBIF self-service token.
Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, and Plans.
Plans
Anonymous, no credential required. The DSpace HAL REST APIs (helda.helsinki.fi, datakatalogi.helsinki.fi), the three OAI-PMH endpoints, the Gravitee portal catalogue itself and every published OpenAPI. Verified live 2026-08-30.
Every API behind gw.api.helsinki.fi. Requires an HY Login Service (or Haka-federated) identity, a registered application, and a subscription to a named plan on that API. Credential is passed in the X-Api-Key header. Free of charge; the gate is affiliation, not money.
The one genuinely open credential in the estate. POST an email address to https://api.laji.fi/api-user and an access token is returned by email; no institutional affiliation is required. Used as an Authorization: Bearer token, optionally with a Person-Token identifying an end user.
Sources
- https://api.helsinki.fi/portal/environments/DEFAULT/configuration
- https://api.helsinki.fi/portal/environments/DEFAULT/pages/0ff46388-9523-430b-b463-889523630b2f/content
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-helsinki/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.