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Best eBay search API in 2026

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Scrappa, PerceptLayer and PrismCrawl are the best eBay search API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 8 providers and rank all 8 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 searches cost. We rank 109 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.15.

Every eBay search API provider we score, ranked

  1. Scrappa, $250 pack: Overall score 65.3, Accuracy score 35, $0.25 per 1,000 searches
  2. PerceptLayer, $399 pack: Overall score 59.6, Accuracy score 35, $0.80 per 1,000 searches
  3. PrismCrawl, $50 pack: Overall score 58.6, Accuracy score 21, $0.23 per 1,000 searches
  4. ScraperAPI, $475 monthly, Scaling: Overall score 54.8, Accuracy score 24, $0.475 per 1,000 searches
  5. ScrapeUnblocker, €29 monthly: Overall score 54.6, Accuracy score 39, $0.96 per 1,000 searches
  6. Spidra, $249 monthly, Pro: Overall score 54.5, Accuracy score 48, $1.992 per 1,000 searches
  7. AnyAPI, top-up from $10: Overall score 51.0, Accuracy score 19, $1.20 per 1,000 searches
  8. Bright Data, top-up: Overall score 28.9, Accuracy score 43

We haven't benchmarked 20 other eBay search API providers yet:

  1. #1 Scrappa: eBay search API

    Scrappa, $250 pack

    It returns 5 of the 7 key fields we check: Price, Condition, Sold count, Shipping, Sponsored.

    Overall score
    65.3
    $ per 1,000
    $0.25
    Price score
    82
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0.25
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 109
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 7
    Accuracy score
    35
    Cost to get started score
    70
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $250
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 2,423 other calls
    Performance score
    80
    • This call's median time on 3 November 2026, minus the baseline: 4.885 s
    • AnyAPI, the fastest benchmarked provider: 3.89 s
    • On 3 November 2026, we sent this provider all 20 searches in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.3522 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan an Accuracy score of 35 out of 100.
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  2. #2 PerceptLayer: eBay search API

    PerceptLayer, $399 pack

    It returns 4 of the 7 key fields we check: Price, Sold count, Shipping, Sponsored.

    Overall score
    59.6
    $ per 1,000
    $0.80
    Price score
    69
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 109
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 39
    Accuracy score
    35
    Cost to get started score
    67
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $399
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 1,658 other calls
    Performance score
    73
    • This call's median time on 3 November 2026, minus the baseline: 5.333 s
    • AnyAPI, the fastest benchmarked provider: 3.89 s
    • On 3 November 2026, we sent this provider all 20 searches in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.3521 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan an Accuracy score of 35 out of 100.

  3. #3 PrismCrawl: eBay search API

    PrismCrawl, $50 pack

    It returns 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Price, Condition, Shipping.

    Overall score
    58.6
    $ per 1,000
    $0.23
    Price score
    83
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: $0.23
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 109
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 5
    Accuracy score
    21
    Cost to get started score
    82
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $50
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 125 other calls
    Performance score
    48
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 8.11 s
    • AnyAPI, the fastest benchmarked provider: 3.89 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 searches in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.2053 out of 1 on those 20 searches. That gives this plan an Accuracy score of 21 out of 100.

How we tested

On 31 October and 3 November 2026, we sent 8 providers the same list of 20 searches, or fewer. Each plan's Overall score adds five parts at their weights, scaled to 100. Price and Accuracy weigh 40 each, and Cost to get started, Bundle and Performance weigh 10 each. We score all 8 providers and rank them by their top plan's Overall score.

The Accuracy score on eBay search APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of a search's results page a provider's call returns. We send each provider the words of a search, as a buyer types them on ebay.com. We have no copy of eBay's page to check an answer against, so we compare the providers' answers. For each search, we count the parts the answer held, such as the products and each product's price. We divide the number of parts the answer held by the number of parts we count for the search. We count a part on a search when a live provider's answer held that part. We count each part from any provider's answer when fewer than two live providers found the search. We add each part from the searches that two live providers found. A results page shows the same parts on every search. For a part made of items, such as the products, we count the items in the answer. We divide that number by the most items any answer held for that search. We count no more than 240 items, the most eBay shows on one page. Each product has details, such as the price. We count the share of a provider's products that have each detail. We drop a provider's price for a product when two other live providers agree on a different price. We compare two prices when we made both calls within 30 minutes of each other. Some providers pass each call to one of several sources. For these providers, we count only the parts that all of their sources return. We average the results over all searches. Every search counts the same. Some providers ran on fewer searches. We compare each of them with the other providers only on the searches that provider ran on. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy searches. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer searches than the benchmark has.

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