{
  "name": "starfeed.com licensing for automated access",
  "version": 1,
  "updated": "2026-10-24",
  "site": "https://starfeed.com",
  "key_required": true,
  "checkout_open": false,
  "merchant_of_record": {
    "name": "Creem",
    "url": "https://www.creem.io"
  },
  "who_pays": [
    "AI training crawlers",
    "AI search and answer crawlers",
    "user-triggered AI fetchers",
    "clients of /api/v1 and /api/mcp",
    "scrapers, SEO tools and feed readers"
  ],
  "free": [
    "People using a browser.",
    "Search engine crawlers that list starfeed.com in public search results, ad crawlers and link-preview bots.",
    "robots.txt, llms.txt, licensing.txt, licensing.json and sitemaps."
  ],
  "plans": [
    {
      "id": "api_starter",
      "name": "API Starter",
      "price_usd": 19,
      "interval": "month",
      "price": "USD 19 / month",
      "quota": 30000,
      "quota_unit": "calls",
      "rate_per_sec": 2,
      "concurrency": null,
      "max_keys": 1,
      "scope": "api",
      "use": "Internal or personal use of /api/v1 and /api/mcp results, with attribution and a link.",
      "training": false,
      "checkout_url": "https://starfeed.com/api/billing/checkout?plan=api_starter",
      "on_sale": false
    },
    {
      "id": "api_pro",
      "name": "API Pro",
      "price_usd": 99,
      "interval": "month",
      "price": "USD 99 / month",
      "quota": 300000,
      "quota_unit": "calls",
      "rate_per_sec": 10,
      "concurrency": null,
      "max_keys": 3,
      "scope": "api",
      "use": "Results may be shown in commercial products and AI answers, with attribution and a link.",
      "training": false,
      "checkout_url": "https://starfeed.com/api/billing/checkout?plan=api_pro",
      "on_sale": false
    },
    {
      "id": "crawl",
      "name": "Crawler Licence",
      "price_usd": 199,
      "interval": "month",
      "price": "USD 199 / month",
      "quota": 500000,
      "quota_unit": "fetches",
      "rate_per_sec": 5,
      "concurrency": 3,
      "max_keys": 1,
      "scope": "crawl",
      "use": "HTML pages, feeds and /llms-full.txt for AI search and answer (RAG) use, with attribution and a link. No model training.",
      "training": false,
      "checkout_url": "https://starfeed.com/api/billing/checkout?plan=crawl",
      "on_sale": false
    },
    {
      "id": "enterprise",
      "name": "Enterprise and Training",
      "price_usd": 1500,
      "interval": "month",
      "price": "from USD 1,500 / month or USD 15,000 / year, by quote",
      "quota": null,
      "quota_unit": "calls_or_fetches",
      "rate_per_sec": null,
      "concurrency": 6,
      "max_keys": 10,
      "scope": "all",
      "use": "Custom quota and rate, API and crawling, training rights over starfeed.com's own text, bulk export, contract and invoice.",
      "training": true,
      "checkout_url": "mailto:starfeedpay@gmail.com",
      "on_sale": true
    },
    {
      "id": "topup",
      "name": "Top-up",
      "price_usd": 10,
      "interval": "once",
      "price": "USD 10 one-time",
      "quota": 25000,
      "quota_unit": "calls_or_fetches",
      "rate_per_sec": null,
      "concurrency": null,
      "max_keys": 0,
      "scope": "all",
      "use": "Extra calls or fetches on an active key, valid for 90 days.",
      "training": false,
      "checkout_url": "https://starfeed.com/api/billing/checkout?plan=topup",
      "on_sale": false
    }
  ],
  "auth": {
    "api": "Authorization: Bearer sfk_...",
    "crawler": "X-Starfeed-Key: sfk_...",
    "key_format": "sfk_ followed by 43 base64url characters",
    "errors": {
      "402": "missing, invalid, expired, revoked or wrong-scope key",
      "429": "quota or rate exceeded; see Retry-After"
    },
    "quota_headers": [
      "X-Quota-Limit",
      "X-Quota-Remaining"
    ]
  },
  "licence": {
    "covers": "starfeed.com's own text and data: summaries, articles, briefings, profiles, rankings and ratings.",
    "excludes": "Third-party material: the linked outlets' reporting, photos under their own licences (for example Wikimedia CC BY-SA, whose credit must be kept) and embeds.",
    "attribution": "Source: starfeed.com plus a link to the page or the returned url.",
    "rules": [
      "No resale, sublicensing or bulk redistribution.",
      "A key belongs to one buyer; do not share or publish it.",
      "Keys are revoked for abuse. A full refund or a chargeback revokes the key.",
      "Model training only with the Enterprise and Training licence."
    ]
  },
  "terms": "https://starfeed.com/licensing",
  "text": "https://starfeed.com/licensing.txt",
  "contact": "mailto:starfeedpay@gmail.com"
}