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Sonar pricing and alternatives: App Store search API

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63% complete: 5 of the 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 35 plans by price. Appeeky's $149 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.149.
Plan: Free tier one of Sonar's 10 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/apps/search Sonar's only call for this API
API: App Store search API one of Sonar's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Sonar reads the App Store's results when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 8 key fields we check. Developer, Rating, Rating count, Category, Icon.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 900 calls a month.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/v1/apps/search. You set store to "ios". You can also send country and num. The call returns the App Store's results page.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Sonar: App Store search API alternatives

The table starts with Sonar's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Sonar's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Sonar, $290 yearlyAppSigma, $49.99 monthlySearchApi, $5,000 monthlySerpApi, $106,050 monthlyAppTweak, $9,990 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.794$0.9998$1.00$1.964$14.152
Completeness63%88%100%100%0%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$290$49.99$5,000$106,050$9,990
Enough for1,000 calls a day50,000 calls a month5,000,000 calls a month54,000,000 calls a monthabout 58,823 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
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 jurisdictionsanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone 18 or older

App Store search API pricing: plans compared

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.

  1. trysonar.app/aso-api
  2. trysonar.app/docs/api
  3. trysonar.app/docs/api/authentication
  4. trysonar.app/openapi.json
  5. trysonar.app/pricing
  6. trysonar.app/terms

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, not in the answer
  • Category
  • Version, not in the answer
  • Age rating, not in the answer
  • Icon
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search50
Also pays forGET /api/v1/keywords/metrics endpoint: 5 keywords/day per IP · from the same budget: GET /api/v1/apps/lookup endpoint · GET /api/v1/apps/aso-score endpoint · GET /api/v1/apps/extract-keywords endpoint · GET /api/v1/keywords/suggestions endpoint · GET /api/v1/charts/top endpoint
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch apps by keyword
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataAPI access is included with paid plans. You must not share API keys or use the API to build a competing product. Rate limits apply as described in our documentation. [...] You agree not to: Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or to violate any laws, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems or other users' accounts, Scrape, crawl, or otherwise extract data from the Service in violation of these Terms, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure, Resell or redistribute the Service without written permission
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for900 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day30
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.68 s
The call
You sendq, store "ios". Optional: country, num
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/apps/search
About the plan
PlanFree tier
Who can get itanyone
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

app ID, app name, developer name, rating, rating count, categories, icon

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