Research & Grey LiteratureDatasetNewAdded 2026-11-13

RxNorm API (NLM RxNav)

US clinical drugs: RxNorm concepts, ingredients, NDCs and relationships, via a keyless API

Freeauth: noneCustom✓ verified Nov 13, 2026

Free?: FreeFree keyless REST API.
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Commercial use?: Read the termsProvider's own terms, not a standard licence

The fine print

License note: Custom: no licence is needed for the RxNorm API, with one exception (SNOMED CT content in RxClass, under the UMLS licence). An optional higher rate uses a free UMLS account key; it is not a paid tier. Signal Lab links only.
Required attribution: Not required; credit NLM RxNav as the source.

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// Overview

RxNorm API (NLM RxNav)

The US National Library of Medicine's RxNav suite offers a keyless REST API for RxNorm, the normalized names and codes for clinical drugs, with concept lookups, NDC mappings and related-drug queries as JSON or XML.

Coverage

US clinical drugs: RxNorm concepts, ingredients, NDCs and relationships, via a keyless API.

Good for

#research-grey-literature#health#drugs#vocabularies#api#government

Verdict

A drug-vocabulary source for normalising medication names and codes, alongside nlm-mesh-rdf-api. Licence: Custom: the API page says "With one exception, no license is needed to use the RxNorm API." and the Terms of Service say "The APIs (RxNorm, RxTerms, Prescribable RxNorm, and RxClass) may be used free-of-charge." The exception is SNOMED CT content in RxClass, which needs a UMLS licence. Rate limits: the Terms of Service say "NLM requires that users of the APIs (RxNorm, RxTerms, Prescribable RxNorm, and RxClass) send no more than 20 requests per second per IP address." Signal Lab links only.

// Limits

Free limits & license

Price	Free
Auth	none
Free tier	Free keyless REST API.
Rate limit	No more than 20 requests per second per IP address (RxNav Terms of Service).
License	Custom (see note)
License note	Custom: no licence is needed for the RxNorm API, with one exception (SNOMED CT content in RxClass, under the UMLS licence). An optional higher rate uses a free UMLS account key; it is not a paid tier. Signal Lab links only.
Last verified	Nov 13, 2026

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// Full record · catalog.json

name: RxNorm API (NLM RxNav)
slug: rxnorm-api
category: Research & Grey Literature
domain: Research & Grey Literature
type: Dataset
sitePageUrl: https://signal-lab.qdt.ai/datasets/rxnorm-api
providerUrl: https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/APIs/RxNormAPIs.html
badge: Free
auth: none
freeTierLimits: Free keyless REST API.
rateLimits: No more than 20 requests per second per IP address (RxNav Terms of Service).
docsUrl: https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/APIs/RxNormAPIs.html
coverage: US clinical drugs: RxNorm concepts, ingredients, NDCs and relationships, via a keyless API.
lastVerified: 2026-11-13
evidenceUrls: https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/APIs/RxNormAPIs.html
https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/REST/rxcui.json?name=aspirin
https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/TermsofService.html
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/web_policies.html
tasks: research-grey-literature
health
drugs
vocabularies
api
government
license: Custom
licenseUrl: https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/TermsofService.html
licenseNote: Custom: no licence is needed for the RxNorm API, with one exception (SNOMED CT content in RxClass, under the UMLS licence). An optional higher rate uses a free UMLS account key; it is not a paid tier. Signal Lab links only.
attribution: Not required; credit NLM RxNav as the source.

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Request · get_entry

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "rxnorm-api"
    }
  }
}

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