# actuatorlist pricing

> actuatorlist is free. There is one plan, Free at $0. No paid plans, tiers, add-ons or trials exist, and no API key or account is needed.

## Plans

| Plan | Price | Billing | API key | Rate limit | Who it is for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | none | not required | 120 requests per minute per IP (REST API) | Everyone: people, scripts and AI agents |

This is the only plan. There are no paid plans, higher tiers, usage-based charges or enterprise contracts, and nothing to upgrade to.

## What the free plan includes

- The full catalog: 80 actuators from 31 brands in 6 categories, plus 22 robots with the motor in each joint.
- The website, including the leaderboard, all-actuators table, gallery and robot pages.
- The REST API at https://actuatorlist.com/api with an OpenAPI description at https://actuatorlist.com/openapi.json.
- The MCP servers: the catalog server at https://actuatorlist.com/mcp and the docs server at https://actuatorlist.com/mcp/docs, for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients.
- Markdown surfaces: a markdown twin of every page, https://actuatorlist.com/llms.txt, https://actuatorlist.com/llms-full.txt and this document.
- Read-only access to everything above, anonymously.
- Commercial use, as permitted by the MIT License (code) and CC BY 4.0 (data).

## Limits

| Limit | Value |
| --- | --- |
| REST API rate limit | 120 requests per minute per IP (HTTP 429 with Retry-After when exceeded) |
| Monthly quota | none |
| API key | not required |
| Account or sign-up | not required |
| Payment method | not required |
| Write access | none (read-only; corrections via GitHub) |
| Uptime SLA | none (best effort) |

## License

The code is published under the MIT License and the dataset under CC BY 4.0. Both are in https://github.com/Miyamura80/getactuators; the data license is https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You can copy, cache, adapt or redistribute the data, including commercially, if you credit "actuatorlist.com (Eito Miyamura)" and link the license. Product photos, logos and headshots are not covered: they belong to their owners and are shown only for identification. Third-party figures keep their original source citations.

## Costs you might still see

Actuator prices in the catalog are list prices from public manufacturer or retailer pages, in USD. actuatorlist does not sell hardware and takes no commission. Entries without a public price read quote only.

## Questions

Open an issue at https://github.com/Miyamura80/getactuators/issues. Agent guide: https://actuatorlist.com/agents.md. Authentication details: https://actuatorlist.com/auth.md.

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