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What happens with my Strava API Application if my subscription expires?

  • July 7, 2026
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I maintain a private API application used strictly for our company’s internal, yearly movement challenge. We have about 40 employees participating, but the challenge only runs for one month out of the year.

Because this is a short-term internal event and not a commercial product, maintaining a 12-month subscription is difficult to justify. Additionally, our application was approved before the recent API updates and currently shows Standard Tier - Athlete Capacity: 999 on the dashboard.

I have a few questions regarding how the new subscription model handles temporary inactivity:

1. Month-to-Month Subscriptions: Can I subscribe for just the one month when our challenge is active, and let the subscription lapse for the other 11 months?
2. App State During Inactivity: What exactly happens to the API app during those 11 inactive months? Are the Client ID and Client Secret retained so we can simply hit "Reactivate" next year?
3. Token Validity: When we resubscribe and reactivate the app next year, will our users' existing Refresh Tokens still be valid, or will all 40 employees need to completely re-authorize?
4. Legacy Capacity Limits: If we maintain the required subscription during our active month, do we get to keep our legacy 999-athlete capacity, or will our app be forcefully downgraded to the new 10-athlete Standard Tier limit if the subscription pauses?