Pricing

Early access. Everything below is free today. Paid tiers are coming; we'll give registered developers notice before anything changes.

	Facts	Decisions
What	Conditions per spot: visibility, swell, wind, tide, water temperature, condition score, data quality	Ranked spot picks, best day in a window, confidence + caveats, branded spot card
Endpoints / tools	`/api/v1/conditions`, `/api/v1/spots`, `/api/v1/coverage` · `get_conditions`, `list_coverage`	`/api/v1/recommendations`, `/api/v1/best-day` · `recommend_spot`, `best_day`
Price	Free, no key	Free during early access
Key	Not needed	Optional now; will be required when metering starts
Limits	Fair-use caps per caller; point-by-point only	Per-call bounds (≤ 20 spots, ≤ 5 picks, ≤ 7 days); burst throttling

Coming #

Developer tier — a monthly allotment of free decision calls with an API key.
Paid tiers — higher decision volumes, priority support, and commercial-use terms for products that resell or embed KaiCast decisions.
Enterprise / partners — custom regions, SLAs, white-label cards.

Facts stay free. They exist so any agent can answer "what's the water like?" with real numbers.

Keys #

Keys will look like kc_live_… (production) and kc_test_… (testing) and will work for both the REST API and the MCP server. Send one as Authorization: Bearer <key> or X-KaiCast-Key: <key>; never in a URL.

Keys aren't issued yet — nothing needs one today. See API keys for what changes when they arrive. To talk volume, partnerships or a region you need, email dawson@kaicast.com.

Fair use #

Serve answers to people's questions; don't mirror or resell the dataset. There is no bulk endpoint by design.
Keep attribution — cite KaiCast from each response's source object — and the spot card's link to the full forecast.
Forecasts are estimates, not a safety guarantee — don't present them as one.