# Amazon Creators API (Amazon), free: Amazon search API

> Search for products using keywords, filters, and browse nodes

Amazon Creators API (Amazon)'s Amazon search API on its Initial usage limit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Price.
We haven't run Amazon Creators API (Amazon) through [our Amazon search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-amazon-search-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 197 plans we rank by price cost $1.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 197 plans.
[Easyparser](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/easyparser/150-monthly/llms.txt), [Rainforest API](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/375-monthly/llms.txt) and [Amazon Scraper API](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/amazon-scraper-api/100-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Amazon search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/amazon-creators-api-amazon/free
- [Amazon search API: 8 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-amazon-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/concepts/api-rates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1/searchItems`
- API key: with the plan, on https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/concepts/api-rates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/operations/search-items?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Amazon Creators API (Amazon) (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Price: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: GetItems · GetVariations · GetBrowseNodes

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search for products using keywords, filters, and browse nodes

## Data

- Keep data: You will not store or cache Product Advertising Content consisting of an image, but you may store a link to Product Advertising Content consisting of an image for up to 24 hours. You may store other Product Advertising Content that does not consist of images for caching purposes for up to 24 hours, but if you do so you must immediately thereafter refresh and re-display the Product Advertising Content by making a call to Creators API, PA API or retrieving a new Data Feed and refreshing the Product Advertising Content on your application immediately thereafter. Unless otherwise notified by us, you may store individual Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (ASINs) for an indefinite period until the termination of this License. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if your application includes a client application, the client application may not store or cache Product Advertising Content.
- Use data: we hereby grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to: (a) copy and display Program Content solely on your Site, [...] (c) access and use Creators API, PA API, Data Feeds, and Product Advertising Content solely in accordance with the Specifications and this License. This license does not include any downloading, copying or other use of Program Content for the benefit of any third party, or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. [...] you will (a) use Program Content solely to send end users and sales to an Amazon Site and will not link any Program Content to, or in conjunction with any Program Content, direct traffic to any page of a site other than an Amazon Site [...] and (b) link each use of the Program Content solely to the related Product detail page or other relevant page of an Amazon Site and not to any other page. [...] You will not, and will not allow any third party to, use Program Content to, directly or indirectly, develop or improve large language or multimodal models, machine learning models or related technology. [...] You will not use Creators API, PA API, Data Feeds, or Product Advertising Content with any site or application, or in any other manner, that does not have the principal purpose of advertising and marketing an Amazon Site and driving sales of products and services on an Amazon Site. [...] You will not, without our express prior written approval, use any Product Advertising Content on or in connection with any site or application designed or intended for use with a mobile phone or other handheld device. [...] You will not, without our express prior written approval, access or use Creators API, PA API or Data Feeds for the purpose of aggregating, analyzing, extracting, or repurposing any Product Advertising Content or in connection with any software or other application intended for use by persons or entities that offer products on an Amazon Site, or in the direct training or fine-tuning of a machine learning and/or foundational model. [...] You will not (i) interfere, or attempt to interfere, in any manner with the functionality or proper working of Creators API or PA API, (ii) compile or use Product Advertising Content for the purpose of direct marketing, spamming, unsolicited contacting of sellers or customers, or other advertising activities, or (iii) remove, obscure, alter, or make invisible, illegible, or indecipherable, any notice, including any notice of intellectual property or proprietary right, appearing on or contained within Creators API, PA API, Data Feeds, Product Advertising Content, or Specifications. [...] You will not sell, resell, redistribute, sublicense, or transfer any Program Content or any application that uses, incorporates, or displays any Program Content, Creators API, PA API, or Data Feeds. [...] You will not exceed [...] any limit on calls per second set forth in any Specifications (or that we otherwise notify you apply) and you will not send files to or from Creators API or PA API that are greater than 40KB without our prior written approval. [...] You will include a date/time stamp adjacent to your display of pricing or availability information on your application if you obtain Product Advertising Content from Data Feeds, or if you call Creators API, PA API or refresh the Product Advertising Content displayed on your application less frequently than hourly. [...] If you display Product Advertising Content consisting of text on your application, you will include the following disclaimer in plain view to end users of your application: “CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS [IN THIS APPLICATION or ON THIS SITE, as applicable] COMES FROM AMAZON. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.” [...] You must clearly and prominently state the following [...] on your Site or any other location where Amazon may authorize your display or other use of Program Content: “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.”

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 8,640 requests a day
- Enough for: 8,640 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 8,640
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: at least one of keywords, actor, artist, author, brand or title, partnerTag, Content-Type header "application/json", x-marketplace header "www.amazon.com". Optional: availability, browseNodeId, condition, currencyOfPreference, deliveryFlags, itemCount, itemPage, languagesOfPreference, marketplace, maxPrice, minPrice, minReviewsRating, minSavingPercent, resources, searchIndex, sortBy
- Method: POST
- Path: /catalog/v1/searchItems

## About the plan

- Plan: Initial usage limit
- Who can get it: Amazon Associates accepted into the Associates Program who have referred qualified sales (the introduction asks for at least 10 qualifying sales in the past 30 days), only the primary account owner registering, for the marketplace they signed up in, access is lost after a consecutive 30 days without qualified referring sales and comes back within two days after referred sales are shipped

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, filters, ASIN, parent ASIN, title, product URL, image, categories, best sellers rank, subcategory ranks, brand, authors, manufacturer, product group, binding, EAN, ISBN, UPC, bullet points, model, color, size, adult product, product dimensions, item weight, price, price per unit, deals, availability, condition, seller, seller ID, currency

## Amazon Creators API (Amazon)'s plans (1)

- [Amazon Creators API (Amazon), free](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/amazon-creators-api-amazon/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete

## Amazon Creators API (Amazon)'s calls for this API (1)

- `POST /catalog/v1/searchItems`: [Amazon Creators API (Amazon), free](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/amazon-creators-api-amazon/free/llms.txt)

## Amazon Creators API (Amazon)'s APIs (2)

- [Amazon Creators API (Amazon): Amazon product API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/amazon-creators-api-amazon/free/llms.txt)
- [Amazon Creators API (Amazon): Amazon search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/amazon-creators-api-amazon/free/llms.txt)

## Amazon Creators API (Amazon): Amazon search API alternatives

- [Easyparser, free](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/easyparser/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Amazon Scraper API, free](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/amazon-scraper-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Litescrape, free, 5 free calls](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/litescrape/free-5-free-calls/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/merchant/amazon/products/task_post, Setting Amazon Products Tasks (priority queue)](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-merchant-amazon-products-task-post-setting-amazon-products-tasks-priority-queue/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [EveryInfra, free](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/everyinfra/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/operations/search-items?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/resources/browse-node-info?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/resources/images?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/resources/item-info?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/resources/offersV2?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/resources/parent-asin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/api-reference/resources/search-refinements?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/concepts/api-rates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/concepts/common-request-headers-and-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/license-agreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/migrating-to-creatorsapi-from-paapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/onboarding/register-for-creators-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/onboarding/sign-up-as-an-amazon-associate?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amazon-search-api-pricing