FAQ
Common questions
Is the free tier really free?
Yes. 100 API calls a month, no credit card, instant self-serve key at
/developers. The interactive map at
/map is unlimited and free to explore.
What exactly am I paying for?
The data is from official open sources (Eurostat, Israel CBS, World Bank, Dubai DLD, GASTAT, Qatar PSA) under their open licenses. What you pay for is the work: cleaning it, making it comparable across places and time, the English metric labels (we hand-translated all 837 Israeli ones from Hebrew), the cited source for every figure, and the API/CSV delivery.
Can I use the data in client-facing work — reports, client dashboards, publications?
Self-serve purchases and the Pro API are licensed for internal use: your own analysis, models and internal decks. If you publish our data to clients or the public — advisory reports, client dashboards, market reviews — you need the Professional license ($2,400/yr), which grants publication rights with attribution and includes the full revision log and the Pro API. Academics and journalists: see the free tiers below instead.
What does "12 months of updates" on the Full DB mean?
Your one-time purchase includes every refreshed snapshot we publish for 12 months after purchase (data refreshes quarterly, or when a source releases a new year). After that, your last snapshot is yours to keep — renew only if you want to stay current. Domain and Country packs are single dated snapshots without updates.
API subscription vs. one-time dataset: which do I want?
Buy a
dataset if you want the full CSV to work with offline. Subscribe to the
API if you want live, queryable, always-current access in your app or pipeline. Many people start with a dataset and add the API later.
Is this a forecast or a rating?
Neither. SkyMind is a
descriptive dataset of official figures with a transparent, reproducible scoring methodology: it shows what the published statistics say and makes them comparable. It does not predict events or rate financial instruments. Full method at
/methodology.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, monthly billing, cancel anytime from your Stripe-managed subscription. Your key stays active to the end of the paid period.
I'm at a university / school. Is it really free?
Yes — students, teachers and academic researchers get the
full database and API for free, for teaching and academic research. We just verify you're with an institution first (an institutional email, or a link to your faculty/student page), and ask that you cite SkyMind.
Apply for academic access.
I'm a journalist. Any access?
For editorial use we often provide the data and custom cuts free in exchange for a credit + link.
Email us.
Official figures only, made comparable and traceable to source — transparent and reproducible methodology, not a forecast.
Underlying data belongs to the publishing agencies and is used under their open-data licenses.