Terms of Service

The agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and TCG Price API ("TCGPriceAPI", "we", "us") for using the TCGPriceAPI website, API and MCP server (together, the "Service"). By creating an account, getting an API key or using the Service, you agree to them. If you use the Service for a company, you agree for that company and confirm you can.

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, and old enough to make a binding contract where you live to buy a paid plan.

Your account and API key

You sign in with your email, Google or GitHub. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your API key secret: don't put it in code that runs in a browser or app where others can read it. If you think your key has leaked, replace it from your dashboard straight away. One account per person or company; don't create extra accounts to get more free requests.

Plans, limits and payment

Each plan has request limits shown on the pricing and rate limits pages. Requests over a limit are refused, not charged.

Paid plans are billed in advance, monthly or yearly, and renew automatically until you cancel. They are sold through Stripe's Managed Payments service, so Stripe, through its Link service, is the seller of record for your payment: your receipt and card statement show Link, and Stripe works out and collects any sales tax, VAT or GST for where you are and shows it at checkout before you pay. You can cancel any time from your dashboard or from your Link account; your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for and then ends. There is no free trial on paid plans. A Founder's Price, where offered, stays the same while your subscription stays active; if you cancel and come back later, the price at that time applies.

We may change prices or plans. Changes to a paid plan's price apply from your next renewal, and we'll email you before they do.

Yearly plans can be refunded in full if you ask within 14 days of the payment and have used less than a tenth of one month's requests on that plan. Monthly payments, and yearly payments outside those terms, are non-refundable, except where the law requires otherwise (such as a cooling-off period where you live) or where Stripe, as the seller of record, issues a refund under its own policies. No refund is due when access ends because these terms were broken. If something went wrong with a charge, contact us and we'll look at it.

How you may use the data

The Starter, Pro, Business, Enterprise plans allow commercial use: in apps or services you charge for, in stores, and in tools for your business. The Free plans are for personal, non-commercial projects.

You may store the data you fetch and show it to your users inside your own app, website or service while your plan is active. You may not resell or redistribute the raw data, publish it as a dataset or price feed, offer it through your own API, or use it to build a service that competes with TCGPriceAPI.

What's not allowed

• Getting around the limits, for example with several accounts or keys, or by sharing a key with others.
• Scraping or copying the website or the data outside the API, or overloading the Service.
• Downloading data in bulk beyond what your own app or service needs, or in a way that suggests it is being collected to redistribute.
• Probing, scanning or testing the Service's security, or trying to reach data that isn't yours.
• Using the Service for anything unlawful, or to harm other people.

About the data

Prices, listings and sales come from live marketplace data and are passed on exactly as reported. We don't round, average or estimate them, and we can't guarantee that every value is complete, current or correct. Prices can change quickly. The data is information, not financial or investment advice; decide for yourself before you buy or sell.

Card names, images and game names belong to their owners. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast, Bandai, The Pokémon Company or any game publisher.

Availability and changes

We work to keep the Service running and the data fresh, but it is provided "as is" and "as available", without a promise of uptime. We may change, add or remove features and endpoints; for changes that break existing integrations we'll give notice in the docs or by email where we reasonably can. The current state is on the status page.

Suspension and ending

You can stop using the Service and delete your account from your dashboard at any time. We may suspend or end access to an account or key that breaks these terms, misuses the Service, or puts it or other users at risk. Where reasonable, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

We monitor how the Service is used to keep it fast and fair for everyone. If an account's usage is far above normal for its plan, or shows the patterns of use these terms don't allow, we may limit, suspend or end its access straight away, and no refund is given for the rest of the period.

Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, TCGPriceAPI is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, such as lost profits, lost sales or decisions made using the data. Our total liability for any claim about the Service is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

You agree to cover us for claims that arise from your use of the Service in breach of these terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. For significant changes we'll email account holders before they take effect. Using the Service after that means you accept them.

Questions: [email protected].