# Legacy plans

OpenAlex's plan lineup has changed over the years. The current annual plans are **[Member](/access/member/), [Member+](/access/member-plus/), and [Partner](/access/partner/)** — but if you signed up under an older name, here's what it means for you.

## Premium and Institutional

Before the current lineup, OpenAlex sold **Premium** (higher API limits and priority support for individual organizations) and **Institutional** (the same, plus training and advisory services for academic institutions) subscriptions.

**If you have an existing Premium or Institutional contract, it will be honored** — nothing about your agreement changes out from under you. In addition, you now receive all the newer Member-tier benefits at no extra cost:

- [Admin dashboard](/how-to/supporter-tools/#how-do-i-activate-the-admin-dashboard) — manage your organization's users and billing
- [Affiliation editor](/how-to/supporter-tools/#how-do-i-activate-the-affiliation-editor) — curate how affiliation strings match to your institution (academic & government)
- [Unsub access](/how-to/supporter-tools/#how-do-i-activate-unsub) (academic & government)
- [Advisory board nominations](/how-to/getting-involved/#how-does-the-community-advisory-board-work) and [quarterly supporter meetings](/how-to/getting-involved/#what-are-the-quarterly-supporter-roundtables)

When your contract comes up for renewal, you'll renew onto one of the current plans — your contact at OpenAlex will help you pick the tier that matches what you have today, or just email [sales@openalex.org](mailto:sales@openalex.org).

## Older API limits

You may find references around the web to older API tiers — for example a flat "100,000 calls per day" limit, or "polite pool" email addresses. Those describe retired systems. Today's model is [usage-based](/access/pricing/): $1/day free for every account, prepaid usage beyond that, and annual plans with much larger daily budgets. See the [API authentication docs](/api/authentication/) for how keys and budgets work now.