Transit Plans Pricing
Transit operates two distinct commercial surfaces. The Transit API for third-party partners is freemium: approved requesters get up to 5 calls per minute and 1,500 calls per month at no cost, with higher volumes arranged directly with the partnerships team. Consumer monetization is through the Transit Royale subscription ($2/month billed annually) which unlocks features like browsing future departures and lines farther away; several transit agencies sponsor Royale free for their riders.
Transit Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Transit on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering freemium, enterprise, and subscription tiers, with named plans including Transit API Free Tier, Transit API Partner Tier, Transit Royale.
Tagged areas include Public Transit, Real-Time, Trip Planning, Mobility, and Freemium.
Plans
Approved partner key with capped throughput. Sign-up requires submitting the request form; access granted after approval.
- Real-time transit departures
- Wheelchair accessibility information
- Service alerts
- Bike, scooter and carshare availability
- Multimodal trip planning
- URL scheme integration
Higher-volume access negotiated directly with the partnerships team for production signage deployments, embedded trip planners, and first/last-mile mobility integrations.
- Custom rate limits
- Production signage support
- Embedded trip planning
- First/last-mile mobility integration
Consumer subscription unlocking premium features in the Transit mobile app while keeping core navigation free for everyone.
- Look up departure times far into the future
- Browse lines farther away
- Free for riders of partner agencies (RTS Rochester, Dayton RTA, Denver RTD, St. Louis Metro Transit, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus)
- Free subscriptions on request for riders unable to afford it