Glossary
MAU-tiered pricing
MAU-tiered pricing is subscription pricing metered by how many monthly active users an app serves; Nutritionix records "free tier "limited to 2 monthly active users"; "$499/month Business (up to 200 MAU), $999/month Starter (up to 1,000 MAU) and MVP from $1,850/month, billed annually, all carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA"", per Datadory's 1,744-dataset catalog.
What is MAU-tiered pricing?
Subscription pricing metered by how many monthly active users an app serves, rather than by call count.
Nutritionix scales from a 2-MAU free tier to $999/month Starter at 1,000 MAU and MVP from $1,850/month, whereas Edamam meters API calls (100k for $14/month).
In this catalog it appears concretely: - Nutritionix (terms of use) — "free tier "limited to 2 monthly active users"; "$499/month Business (up to 200 MAU), $999/month Starter (up to 1,000 MAU) and MVP from $1,850/month, billed annually, all carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA"". - Contrast, Edamam (terms of use) — "$14/month (EnterpriseBasic Vision, 100k calls, 30-day trial); $69 EnterpriseCore, $299 EnterprisePlus".
Why does MAU-tiered pricing matter when choosing a dataset?
License language decides what you may ship to customers. Misreading it has ended product launches, and the gap between free to view and free to redistribute is where most of those failures begin.
The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the MAU-tiered pricing label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — free tier "limited to 2 monthly active users"; "$499/month Business (up to 200 MAU), $999/month Starter (up to 1,000 MAU) and MVP from $1,850/month, billed annually, all carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA". Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Nutritionix lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate MAU-tiered pricing in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Read Nutritionix's record on terms of use — "free tier "limited to 2 monthly active users"; "$499/month Business (up to 200 MAU), $999/month Starter (up to 1,000 MAU) and MVP from $1,850/month, billed annually, all carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA"" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything. 2. Read Contrast, Edamam's record on terms of use — "$14/month (EnterpriseBasic Vision, 100k calls, 30-day trial); $69 EnterpriseCore, $299 EnterprisePlus" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything. 3.
Related terms
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Frequently asked questions
What is an example of MAU-tiered pricing?
Nutritionix is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record on terms of use reads: "free tier "limited to 2 monthly active users"; "$499/month Business (up to 200 MAU), $999/month Starter (up to 1,000 MAU) and MVP from $1,850/month, billed annually, all carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA"". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than.
Is data described as "MAU-tiered pricing" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides MAU-tiered pricing?
Open Nutritionix next to Contrast, Edamam and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
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Datasets containing MAU-tiered pricing
6 datasets carry mau-tiered pricing in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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Nutritionix Natural Language & Grocery API
Data.gov Retail Catalog (552k+ Datasets Federated Search)
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Edamam Food Database API
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FAOSTAT Food and Agriculture Statistics
Area Code / Area Code (M49) / Area · Item Code / Item Code (CPC) / Item · Element Code / Element …+5 more
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