# BESS x402, pay as you go: App Store search API

> Search the Apple App Store for a keyword through Apple's official iTunes Search API and get up to 50 apps in store rank order with full details: developer, rating, price, version and update date. Use for keyword/ASO research or finding competitors.

BESS x402's x402 pay per call plan for the App Store search API costs $5.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. BESS x402's docs list all 8: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Price, Category, Version, Age rating, Icon.
We haven't run BESS x402 through [our App Store search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-app-store-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 193 plans for App Store search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 28% of the 193 plans.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Apple](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/apple/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [Stophy](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/stophy/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) are the best App Store search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go
- [App Store search API: the 13 best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-app-store-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/apps/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1apps~1search
- Sold by: BESS x402 (https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Developer: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Rating count: ✓
- Price: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Version: ✓
- Age rating: ✓
- Icon: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the Apple App Store for a keyword through Apple's official iTunes Search API and get up to 50 apps in store rank order with full details: developer, rating, price, version and update date. Use for keyword/ASO research or finding competitors.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit, country, store
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/apps/search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API key

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

position, results on page, country, app ID, bundle ID, age rating, currency, description, developer name, developer ID, developer website, category, primary category ID, icon, minimum OS version, price, rating, rating count, released at, size, app name, app URL, version, last updated

## BESS x402's plans (1)

- [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## BESS x402's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/apps/search`: [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402's APIs (13)

- [BESS x402: App Store API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store review API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company open jobs API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402: App Store search API alternatives

- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $4.589 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $500 monthly, BigData Plan, Enhanced speed](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/searchapi/500-monthly-bigdata-plan-enhanced-speed/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Marketplace for AI Agents, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/marketplace-for-ai-agents/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Searchwire, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/searchwire/10-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 7 days

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing