Plans
Plans is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for IPFS on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 4 plans, with named plans including Self-Hosted (Kubo Node), Public Gateway (Best-Effort), Public Delegated Routing (Best-Effort), Third-Party Pinning Services.
Tagged areas include IPFS, Distributed Storage, Content-Addressed, Decentralized, and Peer-to-Peer.
Plans
Run your own Kubo IPFS node to gain full access to the Kubo RPC API (/api/v0/*). Free and open-source under Apache 2.0 / MIT dual license. Full control over storage, pinning, and network configuration. Suitable for development, production infrastructure, and power users.
The IPFS Foundation provides public read-only gateways (ipfs.io, dweb.link, trustless-gateway.link) on a best-effort basis as a community resource. Not intended for production workloads or critical-path use. Throttling or banning applied for overuse or abuse.
The IPFS Foundation's public delegated routing endpoint at delegated-ipfs.dev provides content provider and peer discovery as a community utility. Enables lightweight clients to find content without a full DHT node.
Commercial pinning services (Pinata, Web3.Storage, Filebase, Infura IPFS, Lighthouse, etc.) integrate with the Kubo Remote Pinning API (/api/v0/pin/remote/*) to provide persistent, replicated storage with SLAs. Pricing and features vary by provider.