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Rate limits, generation credits, caching rights, and schema access across tiers.

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Recipe API vs Spoonacular

Evaluate no-attribution usage, caching rights, generation, and pricing from a production perspective.

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Recipe API vs Edamam

Compare nutrition trust, structured data quality, and commercial readiness for your roadmap.

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Plans side by side

Every plan gets the full schema — 32 nutrients, structured instructions, dietary flags — with no attribution required.

Feature	Evaluation	Personal	Developer	Production	Scale Most popular
Price	$0/mo	$9/mo	$29/mo	$99/mo	$299/mo
Requests per day	50	200	500	2,000	10,000
Requests per month	50 lifetime	5,000	15,000	60,000	300,000
Unique recipes per month	50 lifetime	100	250	1,000	5,000
Generate requests per day	1	5	10	25	50
Generate requests per month	1 lifetime	50	150	500	1,200
Rate limit per minute	10	10	20	60	300
Caching rights	None	None (personal, non-commercial use)	24-hour local	7-day local	Persistent application cache
Card required	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Start free	Get started	Get started	Get started	Get started

Start free, upgrade in the dashboard — paid plans are billed through Stripe once you're signed in.

Which plan is right for you?

Evaluation

Taste the data

• Evaluate the API
• Hackathons & demos
• 50 recipes to explore

Personal

Build privately

• Personal projects & Claude connector
• Non-commercial recipe access
• 100 recipes/month

Developer

Build something real

• Side projects & AI agents
• Generate 150 recipes/mo
• 250 recipes/month

Production

Ship to production

• Production apps & AI agents
• 7-day local caching
• 1,000 recipes/month

Scale

Persist your recipe layer

• Persistent application cache
• Durable production recipe layer
• 5,000 recipes/month

Add-on

Image credits

AI food photography for your recipes — 500 credits for $125, one-time. Available on Developer and higher commercial plans from the dashboard.

Understanding rate limits

Per-minute limit

Burst protection that resets every 60 seconds. Prevents accidental API flooding.

Per-day limit

Rolling 24-hour window. Resets continuously based on your usage pattern.

Unique recipes per month

Tracks distinct recipes accessed per billing period. Re-requesting the same recipe doesn't count against this limit — only new recipes do. Encourages caching.

Generate credits

Generate requests are tracked separately with daily and monthly limits.

What happens if I exceed my limit?

You'll receive a 429 Too Many Requests response with a Retry-After header indicating when to try again.

Evaluation: lifetime allowances do not reset. Paid tiers: contact us for temporary increases if needed.

Have more questions?

Check our FAQ for answers about billing, technical details, and more.

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