# Rainforest API, $23 monthly: Amazon search API

> Search by keyword or category and return ranked products with ASINs—an alternative to the legacy “Item Search”

Rainforest API's Amazon search API on its Hobbyist plan. It costs $46.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 7 key fields we check: Price, List price, Sponsored, Delivery, Rating, Rating count, Bought last month.
Half 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](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/scrapingdog/500-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.056.
[Rainforest API](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/375-monthly/llms.txt), [Amazon Scraper API](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/amazon-scraper-api/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Amazon search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/23-monthly
- [Best Amazon search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-amazon-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.rainforestapi.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.rainforestapi.com/request`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.rainforestapi.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/parameters/search
- Sold by: Rainforest API (https://www.rainforestapi.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Price: ✓
- List price: ✓
- Sponsored: ✓
- Delivery: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Rating count: ✓
- Bought last month: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 44.8
- Price score: 1
- Data score: 67
- Cost to get started score: 84
- Bundle score: 96
- Performance score: 40

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $46.00
- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $23

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 pitch: Search by keyword or category and return ranked products with ASINs—an alternative to the legacy “Item Search”

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no 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 get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 7.05 s

## The call

- You send: type "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
- Method: GET
- Path: /request

## About the plan

- Plan: Hobbyist
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Rainforest API's plans (14)

- [Rainforest API, $23 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/23-monthly/llms.txt): $46.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $83 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/83-monthly/llms.txt): $8.30 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $375 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/375-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $2,200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/2200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.88 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $4,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/4000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $9,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/9000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $216 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/216-yearly/llms.txt): $36.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $792 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/792-yearly/llms.txt): $6.60 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $3,600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/3600-yearly/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $9,600 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/9600-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $21,120 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/21120-yearly/llms.txt): $0.704 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $38,400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/38400-yearly/llms.txt): $0.64 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Rainforest API, $86,400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/86400-yearly/llms.txt): $0.36 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Rainforest API's calls (1)

- `GET /request`: [Rainforest API, $23 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/23-monthly/llms.txt)

## Rainforest API's APIs (2)

- [Rainforest API: Amazon product API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/rainforest-api/23-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Rainforest API: Amazon search API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/rainforest-api/23-monthly/llms.txt)

## Rainforest API: Amazon search API alternatives

- [ScrapeHero, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/scrapehero/5-monthly/llms.txt): $11.111 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [SerpWow, $155 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/serpwow/155-monthly/llms.txt): $15.50 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [KeyAPI, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/keyapi/59-monthly/llms.txt): $17.70 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [SerpApi, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/serpapi/25-monthly/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live

## 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.

- https://docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/pagination
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/parameters/common
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/parameters/search
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/product-data-api/results/search
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/rainforestapi/response-codes
- https://trajectdata.com/ecommerce/rainforest-api
- https://trajectdata.com/pricing/rainforest-api
- https://trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
- https://www.rainforestapi.com/pricing