Pricing
Pay for the traffic, not the features
Every tier gets every endpoint and all of Great Britain and Ireland. What changes is how hard you can hit it.
Enough to build something real and find out if it works.
- Every endpoint, no feature gates
- 100 requests a day
- Bursts up to 30 a minute
- 3 push alerts (webhooks)
- 1 API key, 30 days of usage history
- Stops, timetables and live positions across Great Britain and Ireland
- Community support
For a project of your own that has outgrown the free tier.
- Everything in Free
- 1,000 requests a day
- Bursts up to 60 a minute
- 10 push alerts (webhooks)
- 3 API keys, e.g. testing and live
- 90 days of usage history, by key, with CSV export
- An email at 80% of your daily allowance, before anything is refused
- Early access to new data and endpoints
- Email support
- Cancel any time
For a product in front of real users.
- Everything in Personal
- 10,000 requests a day
- Bursts up to 300 a minute
- 50 push alerts (webhooks)
- 10 API keys
- Email support, one working day
- Cancel any time
For traffic that would rate-limit on Standard.
- Everything in Standard
- 100,000 requests a day
- Bursts up to 1,200 a minute
- 500 push alerts (webhooks)
- 25 API keys
- Priority support
- Higher limits on request
What counts as a request?
One call to one endpoint. Each tier has a daily allowance, which resets at midnight UK time, and a per-minute burst limit. Both are per account, shared by all its keys, and every response tells you where you stand in its headers, so you find your ceiling before your users do.
What happens if I go over?
You get a 429 until the limit resets: the next minute for a burst, midnight for the daily allowance. A request turned away by the burst limit doesn't count against your day. Nothing is billed by surprise, and the free tier stays free whatever it does.
Is any data held back on the free tier?
No. Same endpoints, same coverage, same live positions. The only difference between the tiers is throughput.
Where does the data come from?
Official open data: the Bus Open Data Service, the NaPTAN stop register, Network Rail's timetable, TfL and OpenStreetMap, which comes to 415,324 stops and 2,110,209 journeys at the last refresh. You can use it commercially. The data sources page lists each licence and the attribution line to show your users.