We may provide a limited API service free of charge or at discounted rate to students and researchers to support their work. Do you want to request a custom free / discounted plan? Don’t hesitate to contact us and we will review your request. Each situation is unique, but there are some general principles that will apply to all applications:

• Purpose of the work must be specific and be directly related to your studies or research.
  The API key will be granted for specific educational or non-profit research purposes only. Data obtained under this arrangement must not be used, either directly or indirectly, for any other private or business purposes, in part or in full.
  
• You custom plan will be limited term (this could from a week up to several months) and its quotas will be adjusted according to the specific needs of your work.
  
• Credits to AeroDataBox API must be given clearly visible in your work or paper.
  We may request a link to or a copy of your end work or publication to verify that.
  
• We reserve a right to request a confirmation of you working on a specified project and/or studying in a specified educational institution
  This may be, but is not limited to: requesting a copy of your student ID, coming in contact with your tutor, etc.).
  
• General terms of use are still applicable to any student API key, unless contradicting to this page.

This list might seem a bit daunting, but all of these conditions are largely common sense. Obviously, we cannot enforce each one of these conditions. That is why every student plan is to be issued with a grain of trust that a key will be used responsibly!

What information do we need from you?

To expedite processing, make sure to include each of the following details in your initial request to us:

1. The name of your educational institution.
   💡It will be a great idea to contact us from the e-mail assigned to you by your education institution. E-mail domain of your institution may make your request more credible.
   💡Please ensure that the e-mail address you’re writing from is able to receive reply messages from outside the network of your educational institution, or provide us an alternative e-mail to reach out to you. Otherwise, we won’t be able to respond to you! You may as well include an alternative e-mail address to reach out to you.
   
2. A brief description of the purpose or your project.
   The purpose must:
   – be specific (too vague or too general descriptions are generally not very trustworthy);
   – be academic (e.g., you’re doing a project for your school, university, or college);
   – not raise reasonable suspicion that a key will be used for business or any other non-academic purposes.
   💡 General trial requests, requests for in-house corporate training, etc. won’t be accepted.
   💡 Solely the fact of being student will not qualify you request for approval. Your request should be directly related to your studies, it must not be just a side project that you’re doing while studying.
   
3. A list of API endpoints you want to use.
   💡 Requests for using all endpoints at once are not likely to be accepted.
   
4. An (approximate) estimate of how many calls you expect to make for each endpoint in the list above.
   💡 Estimates can be difficult, we know. But without this information, we won’t be technically able to assign you a custom student plan. We need to enter actual numbers into the setup form.
   💡 Requests for unlimited or too intensive use won’t be accepted.
   💡 The most of the requests we approved were around equivalent of or below ULTRA plan quotas.
   
5. An estimate when and for how long you will need the custom plan (is it a week, a month, or a semester?). Please provide the date range (when you plan to start and end using the API).
   💡Requests for perpetual, unspecified or too lengthy periods of time won’t be accepted.
   
6. Your username on RapidAPI or API.Market
   💡 To invite you to a custom (free or discounted) plan, we need to know your username or email on the respective API Marketplace that you would like to use.
   💡 Subject to technical requirements of a specific API Marketplace we may ask you to subscribe to our free plan first, before we will be able to send the invite, that’s why it will be a good idea if you subscribe to it beforehand.
   💡 Free plans are not supported on Sulu Hub.

Please note that custom plans for students & researchers is our voluntary initiative. No-one is automatically entitled to them. We may sometimes refuse issuing a key for any reason, which may be not necessarily related to your work (for instance: there are technical issues currently, the load on the API is at capacity, there are too many students or free API keys active at the moment, etc.).