Free
$0 / month
- 2,500 units a month
- 10 requests a minute
- Hard cap, no overage
- REST API and MCP server
- Docs and email
Pricing
Plans for nutrition, fitness and recipe apps and AI assistants. A food lookup or search costs 1 unit.
Free during the launch. Every key gets the Free plan now. Developer and Pro are coming soon at the prices below; nothing can be bought or charged yet. Prices in US dollars, excluding VAT.
Developer
$19 / month
- 100,000 units a month
- 60 requests a minute
- Overage $0.20 per 1,000 units, capped at 3× the quota
- REST API and MCP server
- Email, 2 business days
Coming soon
Pro
$99 / month
- 2,000,000 units a month
- 600 requests a minute
- Overage $0.05 per 1,000 units, capped at 3× the quota
- REST API and MCP server
- Email, 1 business day
Coming soon
Enterprise
From $490 / month
- Volume and terms by contract
- Named contact, bulk snapshots, dietitian-review option
For example, the Developer plan covers 100,000 food lookups, or 100,000 searches a month.
What a unit buys
| Call | Units per call | Free | Developer | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search foods by name | 1 | 2,500 | 100,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Get a food by id | 1 | 2,500 | 100,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Look up a packaged product by barcode | 1 | 2,500 | 100,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Nutrients for a portion | 1 | 2,500 | 100,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Calculate a recipe | 1 unit per 5 ingredients (minimum 1) | |||
| Find cooking-yield references | 1 | 2,500 | 100,000 | 2,000,000 |
Errors cost nothing. Your usage by endpoint is on the account page and at GET /v1/usage.
How we compare
Prices read from each vendor's public pricing page with a web fetch on 2026-10-10 and transcribed into this file; where the vendor page was unreachable, a third-party source is named and the row is marked unverified. Prices are in the vendor's own currency; no exchange rates are applied. A human must re-check every row before the page is published.
| Vendor | Plan | Price | Included | Per 1,000 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NutrientGraph | Developer (coming soon) | $19 / month | 100,000 lookups | $0.19 | Source and date on every value |
| NutrientGraph | Pro (coming soon) | $99 / month | 2,000,000 lookups | $0.05 | Source and date on every value |
| Edamam Food Database API | Enterprise Basic | $14 / month | 100,000 | $0.14 | 50 calls/min; 30-day trial |
| Enterprise Core | $69 / month | 750,000 | $0.09 | 100 calls/min | |
| Enterprise Plus | $299 / month | 5,000,000 | $0.06 | 300 calls/min | |
| Enterprise Unlimited | On request | custom; human end-user requests only | |||
| Chomp Food API | Limited | $0 / month | $0.01 per request | pay per request | |
| Standard | $25 / month | $0.00 per request | plus per-request fee | ||
| Premium | $299 / month | $0 per request | plus a monthly active user fee | ||
| FatSecret Platform API | Basic | $0 / month | 5,000 calls/day, US data only, attribution required | ||
| Premier Free | $0 / month | startups under US$1M revenue and funding, non-profits; verification required | |||
| Premier | On request | price on request, by market access | |||
| Nutritionix (Syndigo) unverified Nutrition API | Paid plans | On request | no public price list could be read (pricing page returned HTTP 402 to our fetch); a third-party comparison cites about $449/month for full nutrient access, unverified |
Questions
What happens at the quota?
Free keys stop at the quota until the next month. When paid plans open: Developer and Pro keep working, with overage billed per 1,000 units up to the hard cap; then calls stop until the next month or until you raise the cap.
Can I cache and store results?
Yes, inside your own product. Every source we use allows commercial redistribution; attribution notices are in meta.sources. See the terms.
How do refunds work?
Cancel any time; the plan runs to the end of the paid month. See the refund policy (beta).
Is this medical or dietary advice?
No. NutrientGraph returns reference values copied from public food composition tables, with their sources. Advice for a person is a job for a qualified professional.