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Rainforest API pricing and alternatives: Amazon search API

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100% complete: all 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$46.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 66 plans we rank by price cost $2.236 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is the most expensive of the 66 plans.Scrapingdog's $500 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.056.Rainforest API, Amazon Scraper API and Litescrape are the best Amazon search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Hobbyist one of Rainforest API's 14 plans
Call: GET /request Rainforest API's only call
API: Amazon search API one of Rainforest API's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Rainforest API reads Amazon's results when you call the API.
  • All 7 key fields we check. Price, List price, Sponsored, Delivery, Rating, Rating count, Bought last month.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $23 a month for 500 credits, enough for 500 calls.
  • One call. You call GET /request with type set to "search". The call returns Amazon's results page.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Rainforest API: Amazon search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planRainforest API, $23 monthlyScrapeHero, $5 monthlySerpWow, $155 monthlyKeyAPI, $59 monthlySerpApi, $25 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$46.00$11.111$15.50$17.70$25.00
Completeness100%71%71%86%86%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$23$5$155$59$25
Enough for500 calls a month450 calls a month10,000 calls a monthabout 3,333 pages a month1,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or over (its terms: "The Service may not be used by anyone under the age of 18.")anyoneanyoneanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence

Every Amazon search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi
  2. docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/pagination
  3. docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/parameters/common
  4. docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/parameters/search
  5. docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/results/search
  6. docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/response-codes
  7. trajectdata.com/ecommerce/rainforest-api
  8. trajectdata.com/pricing/rainforest-api
  9. trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
  10. rainforestapi.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Price
  • List price
  • Sponsored
  • Delivery
  • Rating
  • Rating count
  • Bought last month
Score
Overall score44.8
Price score1
Data score67
Cost to get started score84
Bundle score96
Performance score40
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$46.00
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$23
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: type=product · type=stock_estimation · type=sales_estimation · type=bestsellers · type=offers · type=reviews · type=review_comments · type=reviewer_profile · type=category · type=also_bought · type=seller_profile · type=seller_feedback · type=seller_products · type=questions · type=question_answers · type=autocomplete · type=author_page · type=store · type=charts · type=asin_to_gtin · type=formats_editions · type=wishlist
Overage
$ per 1,000 searches$60.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch by keyword or category and return ranked products with ASINs—an alternative to the legacy “Item Search”
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"ScraperAPI hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control." [...] "You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] in its sole discretion." [...] "You must not use (or permit a third-party to use) the Service: (i) in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or to act fraudulently or maliciously [...], (ii) in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems or security, or interfere with other users, (iii) to collect or harvest any information or data from the Service or our systems or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service, (iv) via use of a robot, spider, or other automated device to monitor or copy the Service or any information provided by the Service, other than as permitted by the robots.txt file for the Site, [...] (vii) develop or use any applications that interact with our Service without our prior written consent, (viii) bypass or ignore instructions contained in our communications [...]" [...] "All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI."
Plan
Pay$23
You get500 credits a month
Enough for500 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median7.05 s
The call
You sendtype "search". Optional: amazon_domain, search_term, number_of_results, fields, refinements, category_id, sort_by, exclude_sponsored, page, max_page, url, direct_search, include_html, customer_location, customer_zipcode, language, currency, associate_id, include_fields, exclude_fields
MethodGET
Path/request
About the plan
PlanHobbyist
Who can get itanyone 18 or over (its terms: "The Service may not be used by anyone under the age of 18.")
The 47 fields the plan's answer can hold

request URL, created at, processed at, time taken, search parameters, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, total results, page, total pages, position, ASIN, title, brand, product URL, image, sponsored, Amazon brand, Prime, Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market, coupons, deals, climate pledge friendly, gift guide, Amazon's Choice, best seller, authors, add-on item, availability, categories, rating, rating count, delivery, price, list price, price per unit, other formats, bought last month, carousel, related searches, filters, editorial recommendations, sponsored brands, sponsored videos

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