starfeed.com - licensing for automated access
Updated 2026-10-24

starfeed.com is free for people. AI crawlers, AI agents and API or MCP clients need a paid key.
Checkout is not open yet; keys go on sale soon. Contact: starfeedpay@gmail.com

Plans (USD, billed by Creem as merchant of record; tax added where it applies):
- API Starter: USD 19 / month. 30,000 calls / month, 2 req/s. Internal or personal use of /api/v1 and /api/mcp results, with attribution and a link. Checkout not open yet.
- API Pro: USD 99 / month. 300,000 calls / month, 10 req/s. Results may be shown in commercial products and AI answers, with attribution and a link. Checkout not open yet.
- Crawler Licence: USD 199 / month. 500,000 fetches / month, 5 req/s, 3 connections. HTML pages, feeds and /llms-full.txt for AI search and answer (RAG) use, with attribution and a link. No model training. Checkout not open yet.
- Enterprise and Training: from USD 1,500 / month or USD 15,000 / year, by quote. Custom quota and rate. Custom quota and rate, API and crawling, training rights over starfeed.com's own text, bulk export, contract and invoice. Quote: mailto:starfeedpay@gmail.com
- Top-up: USD 10 one-time. +25,000 calls or fetches, valid 90 days. Extra calls or fetches on an active key, valid for 90 days. Checkout not open yet.

Auth: Authorization: Bearer sfk_... (API, MCP) or X-Starfeed-Key: sfk_... (crawlers).
No key: HTTP 402 Payment Required. Over quota or rate: HTTP 429 with Retry-After.

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.
- 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.

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.

Terms: https://starfeed.com/licensing
Machine-readable: https://starfeed.com/licensing.json
Contact: mailto:starfeedpay@gmail.com