Memberships are for organizations.

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ORCID membership is open to any organization interested in supporting our work, integrating ORCID metadata with their systems, adding trusted metadata to their researchers’ or users’ ORCID records, or participating in our governance. ORCID has over 1,200 member organizations—both direct and through consortia—including universities and research institutions, publishers and professional associations, funders, facilities, government agencies, service providers, commercial businesses, and other stakeholders in the research ecosystem.

Is your organization non-profit?

ORCID consortia are Communities of Practice. Not only do we offer reduced fees for consortia members, ORCID consortia are communities of practice that can share knowledge and pool resources, resulting in a cost-effective way to help accelerate integration into your systems and maximize the value of ORCID to your organization. Only non-profit organizations are eligible for ORCID consortia membership. If this applies to you, we encourage you to consider joining (or forming) a consortium.

Membership Types: Direct and Consortia

Access Levels

Beyond public access, ORCID offers two levels of access to members: Basic and Premium, with several additional benefits to Consortia members highlighted. Both include access to our Member API (Application Programming Interface), which allows your systems and applications to connect to the ORCID registry, including reading from and writing to individual ORCID records with the record holder’s permission.

The tables below outline the benefits of that we offer with our membership access levels.

Integrations

Benefit	Public Access	Basic Member Access	Premium and Consortium Member Access
Number of integrations	[画像:1] public API credential	[画像:1] member API credential	[画像:5] member API credentials
Additional integrations available for a fee	[画像:cross]	Cross mark	[画像:check mark]
Organizational ownership/ administration of API credentials	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]

Write Data to ORCID Records

Benefit	Public Access	Basic Member Access	Premium and Consortium Member Access
Add data to ORCID records*	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Update or delete data you’ve added to a record	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Access Affiliation Manager to add and update affiliation data	[画像:cross]	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark] (Consortia members only)

Read ORCID data

Benefit	Public Access	Basic Member Access	Premium and Consortium Member Access
Use Authenticated iDs in your workflows	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Search and retrieve public data	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Access the annual Public Data File	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Access trusted data*	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Synchronize with public data file on demand	[画像:cross]	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]
Receive record update notifications	[画像:cross]	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]
Read a summary of data via the /summary endpoint	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]

Sign in with ORCID

Benefit	Public Access	Basic Member Access	Premium and Consortium Member Access
Let your users sign in with ORCID	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Confirm security level of sign-in	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]

Support

Benefit	Public Access	Basic Member Access	Premium and Consortium Member Access
Learn from our Knowledge Base of technical documentation, and tutorials	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Access use cases, best practices, outreach resources, and sample communications	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Join the API Users group	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Get help from our dedicated support team	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark] (priority)
Onboard with a virtual orientation customized to your organization’s needs	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]

Other Benefits

Benefit	Public Access	Basic Member Access	Premium and Consortium Member Access
Experiment in our sandbox test environment	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Participate in public events hosted by ORCID	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Participate in working groups and community events	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Access on-demand Member and Integration Reports	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Access on-demand affiliation reports	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Nominate a representative to stand for election to the ORCID Board	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Vote in annual ORCID Board elections	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	Check mark
Participate in ORCID member-only events, such as town hall meetings	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]
Receive Member Connect Newsletter	[画像:cross]	[画像:check mark]	[画像:check mark]

*Subject to permissions granted by iD holders

Membership Administration

	Basic Member	Premium Member	Consortium Member
Membership Administration	Standard membership application and renewal process	Ability to accommodate specific procurement/legal requirements within predefined framework	Membership administered by Consortium Lead
Invoicing	Standard invoicing by email	Ability to adopt specific procurement processes	Invoicing administered by Consortium Lead

Fees

ORCID relies on organizational membership fees to support our work and ensure that it’s always free for researchers everywhere to obtain and use an ORCID iD. The fees we collect from members are used to sustain and improve the ORCID registry, support the enhancement of our products and services for the benefit of the global research community, and ensure open access to our Public API and annual Public Data File. Learn more about how we set our fees here.

Direct Membership Fees

To encourage maximum participation in ORCID and ensure equitable access to our services, we offer the following discounts:

• Non-profit and government organizations are eligible for a 20% discount on direct membership fees, which are reflected in the table below. An even greater discount is available to organizations who join us via a consortium see below.
• We have a 75% discounted fee available for start-ups and other organizations that have less than US200,000ドル in annual revenue in the previous fiscal year. This is our way of supporting new and/or smaller innovative initiatives within the scholarly community.

Eligibility for discounts will be re-evaluated at each membership renewal. Non-profit and small/start-up discounts are not applicable to consortium members.

Basic Access

Direct Membership Type	2025 Annual fee**	2026 Annual fee**
Commercial organizations	US$ 5,800	US$ 5,975
Non-profit and government organizations‡	US$ 4,635	US$ 4,775
Start-ups and other organizations with less than US$ 200k in annual revenue or funds	US$ 1,445	US$ 1,490

Premium Access
(consortium members automatically have premium access)

Direct Membership Premium Type	2025 Annual fee**	2026 Annual fee**
Small commercial organization with less than US$ 200M in annual revenue or funds	US$ 11,600	US$ 11,950
Small non-profit and government organizations with less than US$ 200M in annual revenue or funds ‡	US$ 9,270	US$ 9,550
Start-ups and other organizations with less than US$ 200k in annual revenue or funds	US$ 2,895	US$ 2,980
Large commercial organizations with more than US$ 200M in annual revenue or funds	US$ 28,985	US$ 29,855
Large non-profit and government organizations with more than US$ 200M in annual revenue or funds ‡	US$ 23,185	US$ 23,880
Additional integrations	US$ 3,480 per additional integration	US$ 3,585 per additional integration

** Our fees exclude any applicable taxes and are always invoiced in US$. Membership applies to a single legal entity and the revenue/grant/funding of that entity will be used to determine the applicable fee.

^‡Non-profit organizations should consider joining ORCID through a consortium and save on annual membership fees.

Consortium Membership Fees

In addition to lower fees and automatic premium access, membership through an existing or newly-established consortium carries the benefits of a community of practice, including a coordinated approach to ORCID implementation, technical and administrative support via your consortium lead organization as well as access to the Affiliation Manager which allows organizations to add affiliation data to their researchers’ ORCID records quickly, without the need for a developer or specialized IT knowledge.

Learn more about ORCID consortia here.

Note that only non-profit and government organizations are eligible for membership through consortia.

The table below shows the fees that we collect from our Consortium lead organizations, however some Consortia may charge separate, additional fees for their services, or apply a different fee structure to their members.

Please visit our Consortia page to see if there’s a consortium in your area that you can join, or if you can initiate the formation of a new consortium.

Membership Equity Program (MEP)

Our Membership Equity Program reduces our already discounted consortia membership fees by an additional:

• 80% for organizations from countries with Lower Income (LIC) economies*

• 50% for organizations from countries with Lower-Middle Income (LMIC) economies*

The Membership Equity Program also lowers the number of member organizations required to form a consortium to three (as opposed to five) for the initial year, ensuring you can start your consortium swiftly.

*as classified by World Bank income classificatio ns.