New API plans for particular person builders and enterprise companions accessible November 4, 2026, whereas the SmartThings app and native integrations keep free.
Beginning on November 4, 2026, builders and enterprise companions utilizing SmartThings’ direct cloud APIs transfer to a structured entry mannequin. This doesn’t have an effect on the SmartThings app or native integrations.
SmartThings is introducing paid API plans for builders and enterprise companions. Following our current announcement, listed here are extra particulars on the transition.
Availability for the person Developer Plan: Notice that the SmartThings API Developer Plan shall be restricted to sure international locations upon launch. We are going to share the precise nation availability when the Developer Plan turns into accessible. The timeline under applies to all API Entry Apps. For questions, contact developer help.
Availability for the Enterprise Plan: The Enterprise Plan just isn’t restricted to particular international locations, topic to relevant legal guidelines and laws. Contact our crew at companions@smartthings.com to debate a Enterprise Plan tiered to your utilization or fill out our kind to be taught extra.
See the SmartThings Developer Middle beginning November 4, 2026 to join the person Developer Plan and to see extra particulars on each the Developer and Enterprise Plans.
What just isn’t altering with SmartThings:
- SmartThings App stays free1: Controlling linked Samsung units, home equipment, TVs, and Works with SmartThings (WWST) and different appropriate associate merchandise via the SmartThings cell app stays free.
- Automations & routines keep free2: Organising routines inside the SmartThings app doesn’t require a paid subscription.
Which SmartThings options are free and that are paid?
| Characteristic / Utilization | Free or Paid? |
| SmartThings Cellular App (Android/iOS)1 | Free |
| In-App Routines, Automations & Scenes2 | Free |
| Native Edge Drivers, Profiles, & Hub Integrations3 | Free |
| WWST Gadget Certification supported by SmartThings Take a look at Suite or Matter units | Free |
| Direct Open Authorization (OAuth) Cloud API Calls (Particular person Developer Use) | Paid |
| Enterprise API Utilization | Paid |
New pricing applies to enterprise API utilization and particular person builders who want to use our platform with third-party purposes through OAuth-enabled SmartThings API Entry Apps.
- Enterprise Companions: Enterprise platforms, short-term rental companies, vitality administration platforms, and enterprise companies utilizing the SmartThings API.
- Particular person Builders Utilizing Customized OAuth Apps: Particular person builders who name our cloud APIs instantly utilizing OAuth to combine SmartThings into customized dashboards, exterior automation platforms, or customized scripts.
Enterprise pricing is tiered by utilization quantity.
- For Present Enterprise Companions: Contact our crew at companions@smartthings.com to debate a Enterprise Plan tiered to your utilization.
- New to the SmartThings API? Are you evaluating SmartThings because the backend for what you are promoting? We’re at the moment onboarding new companions to debate SmartThings API capabilities, pricing, and scalability. Please fill out our kind to be taught extra.
What do the SmartThings API Developer and Enterprise Plans embrace?
For non-business, particular person builders who depend on customized OAuth API Entry Apps for their very own use, we’re introducing a devoted Developer Plan beginning November 4, 2026. It is a flat month-to-month price per developer account protecting registered particular person developer API Entry Apps utilizing OAuth.
The quota is as much as 100,000 cloud API calls per thirty days and as much as 10 energetic app installs throughout places.
The Developer Plan subscription is tied on to the developer account profile, to not particular person bodily {hardware} places. Customers can handle commonplace multi-location or multi-hub good residence environments underneath a single Developer Plan subscription, supplied the mixture cloud site visitors stays inside the Developer Plan’s utilization limits.
As well as, Developer Plan and Enterprise Plan subscribers obtain:
- Close to real-time occasions through Server-Despatched Occasions (SSE): We’re opening up our SSE API to Developer and Enterprise Plan subscribers, an occasion streaming connection that lets integrations obtain updates, as an alternative of constantly polling for modifications. It’s the identical know-how we’ve relied on for choose associate integrations, now being made broadly accessible. Occasion supply through webhook remains to be accessible because it has been.
- API Dashboard: Additionally with the launch, the upgraded Developer Middle expertise permits OAuth app registration and utilization monitoring by app in opposition to name and set up quotas.
Guidelines: Guidelines stay accessible within the Command Line Interface (CLI), Private Entry Tokens (PATs), Superior Net App (AWA), and the SmartThings Cellular App, however utilizing Guidelines via OAuth requires a paid Developer Plan or Enterprise Plan.
CLI: The CLI continues as a growth instrument for each paid and non-paid customers. Instructions related to creating and managing cloud API Entry Apps require a paid plan. Core CLI capabilities for different integrations together with machine profile creation, edge driver packaging, and Works with SmartThings certification stay unaffected and free to make use of.
PATs are supposed to help momentary, particular person developer testing and light-weight scripts inside commonplace platform limits, quite than ongoing integrations. Any future updates to token administration insurance policies shall be shared with customers.
AWA: The AWA stays accessible.
SmartThings API pricing timeline and key dates:
- Free Entry via November 3, 2026: Free API entry stays accessible via this date.
- November 4, 2026–December 15, 2026: If a plan just isn’t chosen on November 4, 2026, app house owners won’t be able to create new apps or edit current ones. Nonetheless, already-installed integrations will proceed to perform on this window.
- December 15, 2026 and after: If an API Entry App proprietor doesn’t choose a paid plan by December 15, 2026, entry to their API integrations could also be restricted, paused, or discontinued. Energetic API keys shall be deactivated, and automatic calls made by these purposes and downstream customers of these purposes shall be paused on the gateway stage. If the app has been shared with different places, these customers might also be affected.
These dates apply to all API Entry Apps, together with these owned by builders in international locations the place the Developer Plan just isn’t accessible. If in case you have questions on your scenario, contact developer help.
Plan particulars, pricing, and availability are topic to vary.
See the SmartThings Developer Middle beginning November 4, 2026 to join the person Developer Plan and to see extra particulars on each the Developer and Enterprise Plans.
For Enterprise Companions, contact our crew at companions@smartthings.com to debate a Enterprise Plan tiered to your utilization or fill out our kind to be taught extra.
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1 Requires downloading the SmartThings app and connection through cell community or the web.
2 Requires supported good units linked to a SmartThings hub or the SmartThings Cloud.
3 Requires a appropriate SmartThings hub machine.
