Pricing
AeroDataBox API is currently available
on several marketplaces
See pricing details of each marketplace below. Special arrangements available for students & researchers.
RapidAPI
Free plan available: ❌ (the lowest plan is just 0.99 USD per month)
Pricing model: subscription-based, tiered, monthly quotas per Tier
| BASIC | PRO | ULTRA | MEGA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price, monthly | $ 0.99 USD | $ 5 USD | $ 30 USD | $ 150 USD |
| Tier 1, max calls per month | 600 | 3,000 | 30,000 | 300,000 Overages: $ 0.00025 per call |
| Tier 2, max calls per month | 300 | 1,500 | 15,000 | 150,000 Overages: $ 0.0005 per call |
| Tier 3, max calls per month | 100 | 500 | 5,000 | 50,000 Overages: $ 0.0015 per call |
| Tier 4, max calls per month | 10 | 50 | 100 | 500 |
| Free tier, max calls per month | 10,000 | 50,000 | 250,000 | 500,000 |
| Rate Limiting | 30 calls per minute | 30 calls per minute | 60 calls per minute | 120 calls per minute |
| Feature: Airline Fleet Page Size Maximum permitted number of records returned from a single “Airline fleet” endpoint call | 10 | 10 | 25 | 50 |
| Feature: Aircraft Includes Allow including registrations history and/or aircraft image as a part of a single “Get aircraft” or “Airline fleet” endpoint call | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Feature: Historical Airport Delays | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Restriction: Flight Data Availability Limit Subject to Data Coverage, flight data and all derived data (statistics, delays, etc.) may be available for up to specified amount of days in the future and in the past | ± 365 days | ± 180 days | ± 210 days | ± 365 days |
API.Market NEW
Free plan available: ✔️
Pricing model: subscription-based, tiered, monthly quotas per API units
API.Market supports monthly subscriptions, however does not provide tiered pricing. Instead, each API call has a fixed cost, expressed in API Units, which counts towards the total quota of your subscription. Thus, it makes it impossible to completely match the pricing that we have on RapidAPI.
So, we adjusted the pricing in a such a way that for each tier you can make up to twice as much calls than for the same tier within the same plan on RapidAPI as long as you do not call other tiers. It makes it beneficial if you only use endpoints from maximum one or two different tiers. However, if you extensively use more tiers, this pricing model may be less beneficial for you than on RapidAPI.
| BASIC | PRO | ULTRA | MEGA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price, monthly | FREE* | $ 5 USD | $ 30 USD | $ 150 USD |
| Total API units included | 1,200 | 6,000 | 60,000 | 600,000 |
| Cost of Tier 1 API Call, units | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cost of Tier 2 API Call, units | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Cost of Tier 3 API Call, units | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Cost of Tier 4 API Call, units | 60 | 60 | 300 | 600 |
| Cost of Free Tier Call, units | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rate Limiting | 1 call per second | 1 call per second | 2 calls per second | 3 calls per second |
| Overage | No | No | No | Yes, $0.00025 USD per credit |
| Features & Limitations | Same as RapidAPI | Same as RapidAPI | Same as RapidAPI | Same as RapidAPI |
What are Tier 1, Tier 2, etc.?
Each API endpoint has different technical and computational complexity. Depending on it, we nominate some endpoints as more expensive and less expensive by assigning them a Tier category.
This is not the same as endpoint group (Flight API, Aircraft API, etc.). Each group may contain endpoints from several Tiers. The higher the Tier number, the more expensive the endpoint.
Tiers are unified across all marketplaces, but pricing of each Tier may differ!
You can find which endpoints belong to which Tier in our documentation.
Do you have free trials?
We temporarily reinstated our free plans on API.Market as a part of our summer 2024 promotion!
In the past, we used to provide free access to our Basic plan, which is an excellent plan for trying the API. Unfortunately, this option was often abused by customers creating multiple accounts and continuing using our API this way for extended periods of time. Effective July 2023 we discontinued completely free access to AeroDataBox API and put a symbolic fee for the lowest of our plans.
Do you provide free or discounted access for students?
Yes, we do, actually. Special terms apply.
Why charging at all?
Even a relatively small enthusiast-driven project, like AeroDataBox, processes gigabytes of data in a very complex manner daily. It requires constant attention from highly qualified professionals involved with the project and regular payments for the server infrastructure. In a modest attempt to compensate for these expenses and volunteering, our API is made public at a very low cost.