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title: "Pricing"
canonical: "https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing"
type: "cluster-index"
pages: "11"
last_reviewed: "2026-08-12"
publisher: "AIFitnessAPI"
---

# Pricing

> 11 pages. Each entry below shows the question the page owns, followed by its answer capsule.

## Fitbit API Pricing: What Does It Actually Cost?

- Question: fitbit api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/fitbit-api-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/fitbit-api-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

The Fitbit Web API is free to call - there is no documented per-request fee, and developer app registration is free. The costs that actually bite are the approval and OAuth setup effort, your own server and storage infrastructure, and the fact that each user must own a Fitbit device and account. Note that Fitbit is migrating to the Google Health API during 2026 and the successor's pricing model is not clearly public - verify current pricing before you build.

## Garmin API Pricing: What Does It Actually Cost?

- Question: garmin api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/garmin-api-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/garmin-api-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

Garmin does not publish pricing for its developer APIs. Access to the Health API and Activity API runs through the Garmin Connect Developer Program, which is partner-approval-only rather than self-serve, so commercial terms are settled privately in a partnership conversation rather than shown on a price list. The cost that reliably bites is user-side (your users must own a Garmin device) plus your own approval time and infrastructure. Some third-party reports mention a setup fee, but Garmin does not list pricing publicly, so verify any figure directly with Garmin.

## Strava API Pricing: What Does It Actually Cost?

- Question: strava api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/strava-api-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/strava-api-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

The Strava API has no per-call developer fee — you register an app and call it without paying Strava a usage bill. The nuance for 2026: Standard-tier developers now reportedly must hold a paid Strava subscription (reported around $11.99/mo in the US, varies by country) to keep API access, so a membership cost effectively gates Standard access. That developer subscription, plus the 2024-onward display and AI-use restrictions, is the real cost to budget. Verify every figure and date against Strava's current developer agreement and API Policy — the terms changed recently and vary by geography.

## Oura API pricing: what it actually costs

- Question: oura api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/oura-api-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/oura-api-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

The Oura API is free to call: there is no publicly listed developer or per-request fee, and you register an app and authenticate over OAuth 2.0 for free. The cost that actually bites is user-side: your users must own an Oura Ring, and as of 2026 Gen3 ring users reportedly need an active Oura Membership for their data to flow through the API. Treat the membership rule and any price as 'verify current terms' before you build against them.

## WHOOP API Pricing: What Does It Actually Cost?

- Question: whoop api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/whoop-api-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/whoop-api-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

The WHOOP API is free to call — there is no documented per-request fee — but developer access is gated by registration on the Developer Platform, and WHOOP requires developers to hold a membership. The cost that actually bites is user-side: WHOOP is subscription hardware, so every end user needs an active WHOOP membership for their data to flow through the API. WHOOP has changed its membership structure recently, so verify current terms before you budget.

## Health data aggregator API pricing: how Terra, Junction, Rook, and Spike charge

- Question: health data aggregator api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/health-data-aggregator-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/health-data-aggregator-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

Unlike most first-party wearable APIs, health-data aggregators are where a recurring API bill actually lands. Terra, Junction (formerly Vital), Rook, and Spike almost all price on active or connected users (per-MAU), usually tiered by user count with an enterprise 'contact sales' top tier, and sometimes a credit or event layer on top. The biggest cost driver is that your bill scales directly with your connected-user base. Specific per-MAU prices are mostly not publicly listed, and several vendor pricing pages could not be verified, so treat the model as reliable and every number as 'as of 2026, verify with the vendor.'

## What does a nutrition API cost?

- Question: nutrition api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/nutrition-api-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/nutrition-api-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

It depends which kind you pick. Commercial food APIs (Nutritionix, Edamam, Spoonacular) are paid, built on freemium or free-tier-then-paid models with an enterprise contact-sales tier. Two options are genuinely free: USDA FoodData Central (public domain) and Open Food Facts (open data) cost nothing to call. The cost that actually bites is often not the sticker price but the licensing and usage restrictions on the cheaper tiers, and the integration work the free datasets push onto you. Pricing changes often and most vendor pricing pages are gated, so treat every specific figure as 'as of 2026, verify current pricing.'

## Exercise Database API Pricing: What Does It Cost?

- Question: exercise database api pricing
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/exercise-database-api-pricing
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/exercise-database-api-pricing.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

It depends on which kind you pick. Paid gateways like ExerciseDB (via RapidAPI) and API Ninjas use a freemium, per-request model - a limited free tier, then paid tiers metered by request volume with overage charges. Free and open options like wger, exercisedb.dev, and free-exercise-db cost $0 for the software or data - you pay only your own hosting. The catch on the free side is licensing: two of the three are AGPL copyleft, which matters for closed-source products. Treat every specific quota or price as 'as of 2026 - verify on the live listing.'

## Are Fitness APIs Free? An Honest Overview

- Question: are fitness apis free
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/are-fitness-apis-free
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/are-fitness-apis-free.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

Many fitness APIs are free to call - most first-party wearable APIs (Fitbit, Oura, WHOOP) charge no per-request fee, and a few nutrition and exercise datasets are genuinely free and open. But 'free to call' is not 'free to use': aggregators are paid per connected user, Strava and Garmin break the pattern, and the biggest costs (user memberships, approval time, your own infrastructure) sit outside the API sticker. Pricing changed in 2026 and varies by country, so verify current pricing on each provider's own page.

## How Much Does a Fitness API Cost?

- Question: how much does a fitness api cost
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/how-much-does-a-fitness-api-cost
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/how-much-does-a-fitness-api-cost.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

There is no single fitness API price. Cost is driven by which pricing model you land in - free-to-call first-party APIs, per-MAU or per-connection aggregators, tiered freemium content APIs, or free self-host - and by hidden costs that usually dwarf the sticker. The cost that bites most is rarely the API fee itself: it is your own infrastructure, the maintenance time as providers change their terms, and the approval time before you can ship. Every specific figure in this space is volatile, so verify current pricing on the vendor's own page before you budget.

## Fitness API Free Tiers Compared: What Free Actually Includes

- Question: fitness api free tier comparison
- HTML: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/fitness-api-free-tiers-compared
- Markdown: https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/fitness-api-free-tiers-compared.md
- Last reviewed: 2026-08-12

Across the 25 items in this site's own State of Fitness APIs 2026 dataset, free means four different things: free to call with no per-request fee (12 items), a free tier that runs out (5 items), free open-source code or models where your engineering time is the bill, and free data whose licence obligations constrain what you can ship. Those categories behave completely differently over time, so comparing them as one thing is the mistake that wrecks a budget. Of the 12 free-to-call items only five carry no approval gate and no user-side cost, and every one of those five is a dataset or a model rather than a live personal-data feed. This page carries no dollar figures on purpose: prices are volatile, structures are stable, and the structure is what you design against.
