Datacite Plans Pricing
DataCite operates a membership-based model. Public metadata retrieval is free and open to everyone without authentication. DOI registration and metadata management (write access) require institutional membership. Fees cover annual membership participation plus a shared infrastructure fee adjusted for socioeconomic context. High-volume DOI registration incurs additional tiered fees above 100,000 DOIs per year.
Datacite Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for DataCite on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 6 plans, covering free and paid tiers, with named plans including Public Access (Unauthenticated), Identified Access, Consortium Organization Member, Institutional Direct Member, Consortium Lead Member, and 1 more.
Tagged areas include DOI, Persistent Identifiers, Scholarly Metadata, Research Data, and Open Science.
Plans
Free, open access to all DataCite REST API and GraphQL API read endpoints. No authentication required. Enables querying and retrieving DOI metadata records and the research data graph.
Free access with identification via User-Agent email header or mailto= query parameter. Higher rate limits than anonymous access. No membership fee required.
Organizations joining DataCite via a consortium lead. No annual membership fee but pays the shared infrastructure fee. Full DOI registration access up to 100,000 DOIs/year.
Direct institutional membership for organizations joining DataCite independently (not via consortium). Includes annual membership fee plus shared infrastructure fee.
Organizations that act as lead for a consortium of DataCite members. Annual membership fee plus shared infrastructure fee. Manages sub-members and their DOI allocations.
Additional fees for organizations exceeding 100,000 DOI registrations per calendar year.