{
  "id": "openalex-api",
  "name": "OpenAlex API",
  "category": "apis",
  "summary": "Index of half a billion scholarly works with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, available via API and bulk download.",
  "description": "Pricing per OpenAlex docs: $1 of free API usage per day, then pay-as-you-go or annual plans; a free public snapshot bucket is also available.",
  "url": "https://openalex.org",
  "docs": "https://help.openalex.org/",
  "tags": [
    "dataset",
    "research",
    "papers",
    "scholarly"
  ],
  "pricing": "freemium",
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "llms_txt": "https://help.openalex.org/llms.txt",
    "auth": "api-key"
  },
  "related": [
    "semantic-scholar-api",
    "arxiv-api"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://openalex.org",
    "https://help.openalex.org/llms.txt",
    "https://api.openalex.org/works?per-page=1"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-02",
  "updated": "2026-10-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "OurResearch",
  "longform": [
    {
      "type": "stack",
      "id": "research-agent",
      "title": "Research agent stack",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/stacks/research-agent/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/stacks/research-agent.json"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/openalex-api/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/openalex-api.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/openalex-api.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/apis/openalex-api.json"
  }
}