# Will document images continue to be free?

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-document-images-continue-to-be-free/153>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 7:48am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-document-images-continue-to-be-free/153 "2015-07-17T07:48:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ben](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@ben](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 7:48am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-document-images-continue-to-be-free/153/1 "2015-07-17T07:48:59Z")

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The new document api is fantastic, and an enormous improvement on the old XML gateway. The Gateway however charged for documents (I believe - we didn’t use that functionality). Does anyone know if the new document api will continue to be free to download document images?

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**Author:** ![csmith](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/csmith/32/8_2.png) [@csmith](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/csmith)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:15am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-document-images-continue-to-be-free/153/2 "2015-07-17T10:15:32Z")

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Yes, all the information provided through the (currently beta) service will continue to be free 🙂

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**Author:** ![ben](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@ben](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:28am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/will-document-images-continue-to-be-free/153/3 "2015-07-17T10:28:51Z")

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That’s great news - I wanted to check so we didn’t base functionality on something that we would later be charged a pound a go for 😄