App Store search API pricing: plans compared

Name: App Store search API plans
Creator: Datacircle
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App Store search APIs side by side: the fields each returns, what 1,000 searches cost and how fresh their results are.


API	Score						Price			Not found	Charges			In their words	Data		Plan				Rate limit		Speed	The call			About the plan		Sources
API plan	Overall score	Price score	Data score	Cost to get started score	Bundle score	Performance score	$ per 1,000 searches	Billing	$ a month	$ per 1,000	Repeat free	Most per search	Also pays for	Their pitch	Freshness	Use data	Pay	You get	Enough for	Expires	Per second	Batch	Answer	You send	Method	Path	Plan	Who can get it	Read from
App Store search · 3 plans
DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/app_data/apple/app_searches/task_post, Setting Apple App Searches Tasks (standard queue)	N/A	88	N/A	82	93	N/A	$1.20	pay first			never	700	from the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API · Setting Apple App Searches Tasks (priority queue)	Access Google Play and App Store data with DataForSEO API. Build the foundation of your mobile analytics today with in-depth app data.		any search engine results page (SERP) data or content obtained through the Service, including but not limited to data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine providers, shall not be used to compete with or adversely affect the business interests of the search engine providers from which such data originates	$50	$50	about 41,666 calls	never	0.5	100	by polling or webhook	keyword (a query), one of location_name or location_code, one of language_name or language_code. Optional: priority "1", depth, tag, postback_url, postback_data, pingback_url	POST	/v3/app_data/apple/app_searches/task_post	Pay as you go	anyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine
SearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale Plan	N/A	81	N/A	62	99	N/A	$2.00	monthly	$500			200	from the same budget: 174 other calls	Get Apple App Store app details like ID, versions, screenshots, title, price, ratings, and more in localized JSON format.	live	Some public-domain content accessible through SearchApi may also be subject to intellectual property rights. In such cases, you may only use the content if you have the appropriate license or are otherwise permitted by law. Unless required by law or explicitly allowed by the owner, you must not, and must not allow your end-users or others acting on your behalf, to engage in the following activities with the Data obtained from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or source of the Data. Alter, remove, or conceal any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices associated with the Data. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels that indicate the origin or source of the material. [...] In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in these Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using our Services or any data obtained from it in any of the following ways: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial, or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, (f) to submit false or misleading information, (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of our Services or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of our Services or any related website, other websites, or the Internet, including accessing restricted features, content, or functionality by manipulating technical controls beyond your authorized access level, (i) to resell, redistribute or offer our Services to a third-party without prior written consent from us. [...] You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Services, use of the Services, or access to the Services without the express written permission by the Company.	$500	250,000 requests a month	250,000 calls a month		13.89	1	in the call	term (a query). Optional: country, lang, device, property, include_explicit, num	GET	/api/v1/search?engine=apple_app_store	Scale Plan	anyone
SerpApi, $275 monthly	N/A	27	N/A	66	0	N/A	$9.167	monthly	$275	$9.167	1 hour	200		SerpApi's Apple App Store Search Scraper API allows you to scrape apps in order. Title, id number, link, price, version, description and much more deeper information in a well-structured json format.	live	You may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws). You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us. In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, (f) to submit false or misleading information, (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet. [...] For all recurring plans except the Free, Starter, and Developer plans, SerpApi will assume the liabilities of scraping and parsing search engine results [...] provided your use of the data or service is not illegal.	$275	30,000 requests a month	30,000 calls a month	at renewal	1.67	1	in the call	term (a query), engine "apple_app_store". Optional: country, lang, num, disallow_explicit, property, category_id, device, no_cache, async, zero_trace, output, json_restrictor	GET	/search	Big Data	anyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence

DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/app_data/apple/app_searches/task_post, Setting Apple App Searches Tasks (priority queue)	N/A
DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/app_data/apple/app_searches/task_post, Setting Apple App Searches Tasks (standard queue)	N/A
SearchApi, free	N/A
SerpApi, free	N/A

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We add each plan's price, data, cost to get started, bundle and performance scores at their weights and scale the total to 100. Data and performance come from our benchmark, so until we benchmark the provider they are N/A, and so is the plan's overall score. A plan whose data score is 0 has an overall score of 0, whatever its other scores. Click or tap any score to see how we scored it. Move a weight to rank the plans by the new scores.

Price40

Price › $ per 1,000 searches
Not found › $ per 1,000

Data40

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.

Cost to get started10

About the plan › Who can get it
Price › Billing
Plan › Pay
Price › $ per 1,000 searches

On a pay as you go plan, the price of one result. On a tier that starts after a set number of monthly calls, the cost of those first calls.

Bundle10

Charges › Also pays for

Performance10

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.