Salesforce editions with API access

Editions with API Access

• Enterprise Edition
• Unlimited Edition
• Developer Edition
• Performance Edition

Editions without API Access

• Group Edition
• Essentials Edition
• Professional Edition (can be purchased as an add-on) 

API Notes:

• For Professional Edition organizations, all requests for API access must be purchased and can be processed contacting your Account Executive. If you don't have a designated Account Executive, contact our Sales Team.

Note: The Additional API Calls product doesn’t enable API access for Professional Edition. If you don’t have API access for Professional Edition and want to enable such access, you must order the Web Services API product.

The Additional API Calls product increases the permitted number of API calls for Professional Edition instances that have API access enabled. The Additional API Calls product can also be purchased to increase the permitted number of API calls if you’ve installed a Salesforce partner product that uses the Salesforce API and such use exceeds the standard API call limits.
 

• For API related limits refer to the Salesforce Developer Limits and Allocations Quick Reference.

• API add-on is not available Essential and lower editions. Customers who need the API in these editions are required to upgrade their org's edition to gain the API.

• If you need the API enabled for a Data Migration to a Professional Edition organization, you will need to contact your Account Executive and request that API be provisioned as courtesy. These requests should be for Data Migrations only and will be up to you and your Account Executive to determine the time frame of the API enabled.

There may be applications on the AppExchange that are permitted for the Group or Professional Editions even though it states that it requires API. Those applications will require appropriate authentication to provide blanket API access. Please contact the Developer of the application to determine if this authentication has been provided.
 
Note: Certified partner applications, such as the PE version of the Excel Connector, are granted an API token once they have completed a security review. This API token is sometimes referred to as a "Client ID". API requests identified with a certified partner application's API token are allowed to operate with Professional Edition organizations.