Unsplash API's will be charged
I'm $ABC, one of the founders at Unsplash and I lead our API Partnerships.
We’re making an update to the pricing of the Unsplash API as of August 1 that I wanted to get in front of you right away.
Over the past few years, our API has grown to become the largest open image API used by more than 13,000+ partners. We’re now supporting some of the largest creative and publishing tools online. Our content also continues to be high-quality and curated by our in-house team, supporting a library close to 3M photos and growing.
We understand the responsibility we have in ensuring our API is always reliable, given we’re natively built into the internet’s most used tools. Because of this, we are deciding to dedicate more resources to our API to ensure it continues to serve our partners, and continue to make it the best photo API when it comes to engineering and content distribution.
Given this expansion of resources, we’re going to be charging a small fee based on monthly usage. We’re keeping this fee as low as possible. Based on $YOURAPP's usage of ~500k downloads and 1.9M requests a month, this fee would be $10K per month, but given you've been a partner of the API for quite some time, we would reduce this monthly fee to $5K per month.
This would take effect as of August 1st, and would be billed through invoice.
If there’s anything you’d like to chat about, happy to answer any questions by email or setup a time when it’s convenient for you.
Thanks,