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Apple pricing: App Store search API

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100% complete: all 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Apple through our App Store search API benchmark yet.Half of the 101 plans we rank by price cost $1.389 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 101 plans.Sonar, AppSigma and DataForSEO are the best App Store search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: iTunes Search API Apple's only plan
Call: GET /search Apple's only call for this API
API: App Store search API one of Apple's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 8 key fields we check. Developer, Rating, Rating count, Price, Category, Version, Age rating, Icon.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send term and country to GET /search. You set entity to "software". You can also send media, attribute, callback, limit, lang, version and explicit. The call returns the App Store's results page.
  • 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 search API alternatives

Apple alternatives: every App Store search API provider ranked

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

This planApple, freeSonar, free tierAppSigma, freeDataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/app_data/apple/app_searches/task_post, Setting Apple App Searches Tasks (priority queue)AppTweak, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%63%88%50%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published900 calls a month200 callsabout 416 pages, oncenot published
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyonebusinesses 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 jurisdictionsnew accounts, one each, not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone 18 or older with a billing card

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
  • Age rating
  • Icon
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search200
Start fee$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: lookup requests
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Search API allows you to place search fields in your website to search for content within the iTunes Store and Apple Books Store.
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
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendterm, country, entity "software". Optional: media, attribute, callback, limit, lang, version, explicit
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlaniTunes Search API
Who can get itanyone
The 39 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, results on page

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