# status

> The status endpoints of the Pokémon TCG API — Service status — each with its parameters, credit cost, minimum plan and a real response.

Source: https://pokemontcgapi.com/docs/api/status

No key yet? One call gets you one: `POST /v1/accounts/free` with an `Idempotency-Key` header and your email address returns a working key in the response. Keep the original Idempotency-Key and body for response replay for up to 24 hours, under the conditions in the quickstart. The trial is 800 credits over 30 days once the address is confirmed, no card; paid plans start at 29 € a month. See the [quickstart](https://pokemontcgapi.com/docs/quickstart) and the [pricing](https://pokemontcgapi.com/pricing).

`1` operation under `https://api.pokemontcgapi.com/v1`.

## Operations

| Operation | Endpoint | Cost | Plan |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Service status](https://pokemontcgapi.com/docs/api/status/get) | `GET /v1/status` | free, no key needed | free |

**[Service status](https://pokemontcgapi.com/docs/api/status/get)** — Catalogue counts, the age of each ingest job and whether the upstream contract still holds — the numbers this site quotes, straight from the service.