Nutritionix API Pricing: Plans, Active-User Limits and Trials

What Nutritionix charges#

Nutritionix publishes its plan table on its API page. As we read it on November 4, 2026:

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"API plans are billed annually." The page also says: "If you have a freemium app business model, sell a hardware product, or have more than 100K monthly active users, please contact us to discuss a customized pricing plan to fit your needs." Every page on this site about Nutritionix is collected in the Nutritionix API overview; to call it, see the Nutritionix API integration guide.

The free trial is no longer public#

The plan table still shows a free Business Trial with a "Request an API Key" row, but Nutritionix's developer portal tells a different story: "due to increased misuse of free trial accounts, we are no longer able to maintain a public free-access tier." Instead, for "a commercial, research, or enterprise application", its team will "provide a limited trial account tailored to your use case" after you contact sales. The API page's FAQ adds: "we no longer offer non-commercial free trials." Plan for a sales conversation before your first API key.

Our arithmetic#

Our calculations from the list prices, not a quote from Nutritionix:

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Because billing is annual, the commitment is the yearly figure, not the monthly one. Your 201st monthly active user moves you from Starter to MVP, doubling the list price.

Non-profits. "For non-profits on annual pricing plans over $6K/year, we offer a 10% discount." By our arithmetic Starter, at $5,988 a year, sits just under that line; MVP clears it, so the discount would be about $1,199 a year.

What the price buys#

Nutritionix's API page describes natural-language food logging ("Turn spoken text into precise nutrition analysis"), autocomplete search, common foods built from the USDA database and curated by its dietitians, and "over 1M grocery foods with barcodes and 203K restaurant foods". The table's other rows are Natural Language Engine, Barcode Scanning, Derived Wellness Claims, Caching Allowed, Request Database Additions, Support and an uptime guarantee of 99.9%. Which plan gets which of those is shown with marks that did not come through in the page text we read, so confirm the row you care about, caching above all, with Nutritionix.

Bulk licensing instead. If you would rather hold the data, Nutritionix sells "a monthly export of our entire database in CSV format" under Bulk Database Licensing, priced by contact.

The company behind it. The site's footer reads "© 2026 Syndigo LLC", and its homepage says "Our full website is temporarily offline while we roll out major upgrades", with the database and API "still available" to registered partners.

Evaluating Nutritionix on price#

If Nutritionix is the API you are evaluating, check four things first:

• Your monthly active users. The plan limits are 2, 200 and 1,000, and Nutritionix's pages we read do not define a monthly active user; ask how it counts one.
• Caching. If you plan to store results, confirm that your plan allows caching.
• Attribution. It is required on every plan below Unicorn, which offers a removable option.
• Your business model. Freemium apps and hardware products are sent to a custom plan, so the table may not apply to you at all.

How it compares#

Nutritionix's entry price is higher than most nutrition data sources this site covers, several of which are free. Nutrition API pricing compares the field, Nutritionix vs Edamam the closest commercial pair, and Nutritionix alternatives the free and paid options if the plans do not fit.

What we could not verify#

• Which features each plan includes; the plan table's marks are images.
• How Nutritionix counts a monthly active user.
• Which plans the Support and uptime rows apply to: the page text shows three values each for four plans.
• Whether a Business Trial key can still be requested self-serve, since the developer portal says trials now go through sales.

Plans above are from Nutritionix's pages as read on November 4, 2026. Re-read the live API page before you sign.