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Content License

Last updated 31 May 2026 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The tea content served by the THE TEA Content API — descriptions, fields, sensory profiles, recipes, harvest data, glossary, and translations — is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

What this means

• BY — Attribution. You must credit THE TEA and link back to thetea.app.
• NC — NonCommercial. The free tier is for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a paid plan (Expert or Guru) that grants commercial rights.
• SA — ShareAlike. If you remix or build upon the content, you must distribute your contributions under the same license.

Attribution string

Where you display data from the API, include a visible credit such as:

Tea data © THE TEA (thetea.app), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Commercial use

Subscribing to a plan that includes “commercial use” (Expert or Guru) grants you the right to use the data in commercial products for the duration of your subscription, subject to the Terms of Service. Attribution is still appreciated and, for redistribution, ShareAlike still applies to derivative datasets.

Scope

This license covers the content/data. The API software, documentation, and tooling are separate and are not granted under CC BY-NC-SA. Trademarks and the THE TEA name and logos are not licensed.

Bulk export

Plans that include bulk export provide a downloadable copy of the dataset for use within the licensed scope above. Re-publishing the full dataset as a competing public API is not permitted.

Questions

Licensing questions, including extended or enterprise licenses: mail@tea.support.