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Apple pricing: App Store API

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100% complete: all 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 appsWe haven't run Apple through our App Store API benchmark yet.Half of the 105 plans we rank by price cost $1.20 per 1,000 apps or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 apps of the 105 plans.AppSigma, Sonar and DataForSEO are the best App Store API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: iTunes Search API Apple's only plan
Call: GET /lookup Apple's only call for this API
API: App Store API one of Apple's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 9 key fields we check. Developer, Rating, Rating count, Price, Category, Version, Size, Age rating, Screenshots.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send id to GET /lookup. You can also send entity, limit and sort. The call returns a listing for each app you send.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit, "will remove any Promo Content immediately upon request from Apple". Use data: with conditions.

Apple: App Store API alternatives

Apple alternatives: every App Store API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 apps.

This planApple, freeAppSigma, free, GET /applications/{id}, Get a single iOS application by App Store IDSonar, free tierDataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/app_data/apple/app_info/task_post, Setting Apple App Info Tasks (priority queue)AppTweak, freeFoxData, free
$ per 1,000 apps$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%44%100%78%33%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published1,000 calls900 calls a monthabout 833 calls, oncenot published10,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownstoredliveunknown1 dayunknown
Who can get itanyonebusinesses only: its terms say the Service is for business use and not for personal or consumer purposes, to users at least 18 with authority to bind their organization, outside embargoed or sanctioned jurisdictionsanyonenew accounts, one each, not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone 18 or older with a billing cardanyone of legal age of majority

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/iTuneSearchAPI/index.html
  2. itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1232780281
  3. itunes.apple.com/search?term=crm&entity=software&limit=200
  4. performance-partners.apple.com/search-api

Product details

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

  • Developer
  • Rating
  • Rating count
  • Price
  • Category
  • Version
  • Size
  • Age rating
  • Screenshots
Price
$ per 1,000 apps$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: search requests
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchID-based lookups are faster and contain fewer false-positive results.
Data
Keep datano limit, "will remove any Promo Content immediately upon request from Apple"
Use dataPromotional content in the API, "including previews of songs, music videos, album art and App icons only to promote store content and not for entertainment purposes", Promo Content "(i) is placed only on pages that promote the content on which the Promo Content is based, (ii) is proximate to a “Download on iTunes” or “Download on App Store” badge (as approved by Apple) that acts as a link directly to pages within iTunes where consumers can purchase the promoted content, [...] (v) is not used for independent entertainment value apart from its promotional purpose, and (vi) is not used to promote any other goods or services"
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second0.33
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid. Optional: entity, limit, sort
MethodGET
Path/lookup
About the plan
PlaniTunes Search API
Who can get itanyone
The 38 fields the plan's answer can hold

app ID, app name, app URL, bundle ID, kind, description, version, release notes, released at, version date, price, currency, rating, rating count, current version rating, current version rating count, age rating, age rating reasons, categories, category IDs, category, primary category ID, developer name, developer ID, developer URL, developer website, seller, size, languages, minimum OS version, icon, screenshots, iPad screenshots, Apple TV screenshots, supported features, compatibility, Game Center, VPP license

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