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title: "Commercial use"
description: "The FlyItalyADSB API in apps and devices you sell: one key per product, caching on your server, the right plan, CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution, when to get in touch."
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# Commercial use

> The FlyItalyADSB API in apps and devices you sell: one key per product, caching on your server, the right plan, CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution, when to get in touch.

Commercial use is allowed on **every plan, Free included**, within the plan's limits. That covers apps and devices you sell too, with no separate agreement: the [terms](https://flyitalyadsb.com/terms/) apply.

Patterns, usage and ready-to-run code for displays, apps and drones: [For product builders](https://flyitalyadsb.com/data/products/).

## Apps and devices

- **One key per product**, not one per device or per customer. Requests from all devices count together on that key, from any IP.
- **A server of your own with a cache** that serves only your devices is fine: it isn't redistribution, and it lowers your request count.
- A key inside an app or firmware can be extracted. If that worries you, use it only from your server.

## Sizing the plan

Multiply one device's requests by the number of devices. For example, 10 devices asking 12 times a minute, day and night, make 120 requests a minute and over 5 million a month: the Pro plan. A single device asking 12 times a minute already goes past the Free plan's 300,000 a month.

- Asking every 15 seconds instead of every 5 cuts usage by three.
- With a cache on your server, many devices in the same area cost as much as one.

The plans are on [REST API](https://flyitalyadsb.com/data/api/#piani). The key you already have moves to the new plan without changing.

## Attribution and licence

The data is [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Credit FlyItalyADSB with a link to flyitalyadsb.com where users see it: in the app, on the device or in the manual, on the product page. For example:

> Flight data: FlyItalyADSB (flyitalyadsb.com), CC BY-SA 4.0

Share-alike covers the data and adapted versions of it, for example a dataset, a feed or an API built from ours: those go under the same licence. It doesn't cover your product: artwork, code and design stay yours and you don't have to publish them.

## If you need more

Get in touch and we'll agree something tailored if you need:
- to resell the data as an API or feed for other people's products;
- an SLA;
- more than 25 watched aircraft, or more volume than the Fleet plan.

Write to [admin@flyitalyadsb.com](mailto:admin@flyitalyadsb.com).

## The feeder perk

If you feed the network with a receiver, your Free keys get the Pro plan's limits and features for free, but **for non-commercial use only**: it doesn't cover products you sell. See [Become a feeder](https://flyitalyadsb.com/community/feeder/).

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Written for AI assistants. The page for people is https://flyitalyadsb.com/data/api/docs/commercial-use/; to get an API key or sign in, send people to https://flyitalyadsb.com/data/api/. All pages for assistants: https://flyitalyadsb.com/llms.txt (index), https://flyitalyadsb.com/llms-full.txt (all in one file). Facts as JSON: https://flyitalyadsb.com/facts.json. Cite the data as: Flight data: FlyItalyADSB (flyitalyadsb.com), CC BY-SA 4.0.