Wikipedia Plans Pricing
Wikipedia and all native Wikimedia Foundation APIs (MediaWiki Action API, MediaWiki Core REST API, Wikimedia REST API v1, Wikidata Query Service) are free of charge under the Wikimedia API usage guidelines - the only requirement is a contactable User-Agent and respect for rate limits. The commercial tier is operated separately by Wikimedia LLC under the Wikimedia Enterprise brand, with a Free developer plan and a Paid plan whose pricing is custom (contact sales) and based on data egress beyond the free allocation.
Wikipedia Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Wikipedia / MediaWiki on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Plans shape.
It defines 3 plans, covering freemium and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Wikimedia Foundation Free APIs, Wikimedia Enterprise Free Developer Plan, Wikimedia Enterprise Paid Plan.
This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
Tagged areas include Open Knowledge, Encyclopedia, Knowledge Graph, Enterprise, and Snapshot.
generated, dated 2026-05-29.
Plans
Free use of all native Wikimedia Foundation APIs subject to the usage guidelines.
- Anonymous read access
- OAuth 2.0 write access
- Cached anonymous reads at ~200 RPS
- 300+ language editions
- Real-time SSE EventStream
- Bulk dumps at dumps.wikimedia.org
- SPARQL 1.1 over 100M+ Wikidata items
Free developer tier of Wikimedia Enterprise. No credit card required.
- 920+ datasets across 360+ languages
- Help center / FAQ support
- Open feedback form
- Machine-readable license info on every response
Commercial tier of Wikimedia Enterprise with unlimited usage, daily/hourly cadence, realtime stream, and SLA support. Price is custom - pay only for data egress beyond free allocation; contact sales.
- Unlimited Snapshot, On-demand, Realtime requests
- Daily snapshots
- Streamed + hourly batched realtime feed
- Up to 99% SLA
- Dedicated support team
- Priority feedback recognition
- Structured Contents beta access
Sources
- https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/pricing/
- https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_API_Usage_Guidelines
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