Discogs Plans Pricing
The Discogs API is offered free of charge to all registered Discogs users. There is no metered pricing for API access — instead, Discogs enforces a tiered request-rate cap based on authentication mode (60 req/min authenticated, 25 req/min unauthenticated). Commercial monetization happens on the Discogs Marketplace, where Discogs takes an 8% transaction fee (capped at $150) plus payment-processor fees on each completed sale. These marketplace fees are reflected here as a usage-based "Marketplace Sales" plan because they meter actual money flow through the API.
Discogs Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Discogs on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and usage-based tiers, with named plans including API Access (Free), Marketplace Sales.
Tagged areas include Music, Marketplace, Catalog, Vinyl, and Community.
Plans
Free unlimited access to the Discogs REST API with rate-limit-based tiering.
- Discogs Auth (personal access token)
- Discogs Auth (consumer key + secret)
- OAuth 1.0a (delegated user authorization)
- Database read (artists, releases, masters, labels, search)
- User read (identity, profile, collection, wantlist, lists, contributions, submissions)
- Marketplace read (listings, fees, price suggestions, release stats)
- Marketplace write (orders, inventory CSV upload, listing CRUD)
- Image proxy retrieval (OAuth-signed)
- Monthly XML data dumps (artists, labels, masters, releases)
Transaction fees Discogs takes from sellers on completed Marketplace orders. Returned programmatically via the /marketplace/fee endpoint. These are operational costs the API exposes, not access fees for the API itself.
- Order management API
- Inventory listings API
- Bulk inventory upload (add/change/delete)
- Price-suggestions API
- Inventory export to CSV