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Best Google Play API in 2026

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DataForSEO, Sonar and Zembra are the best Google Play API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 3 providers. We list all three, ranked by score. For each one, we show its top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 apps cost. We rank 39 plans by price. Appeeky's $149 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 apps: $0.298.

  1. #1 DataForSEO: Google Play API

    DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go

    It returns 8 of the 9 key fields we check: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Installs, Price, Category, Version, Screenshots.

    Overall score
    71.9
    $ per 1,000
    $0.60
    Price score
    85
    • $ per 1,000 apps the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 39
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 apps than this plan: 1
    Data score
    66
    Cost to get started score
    82
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $50
    Bundle score
    93
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API and 8 more
    Performance score
    11
    • This call's median time on 30 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.519 s
    • Sonar, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.28 s
    • On 30 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 apps in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6593 out of 1 on those 20 apps. That gives this plan a Data score of 66 out of 100.

  2. #2 Sonar: Google Play API

    Sonar, $29 monthly

    It returns 4 of the 9 key fields we check: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Category.

    Overall score
    68.0
    $ per 1,000
    $0.967
    Price score
    83
    • $ per 1,000 apps the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 39
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 apps than this plan: 2
    Data score
    34
    Cost to get started score
    82
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $29
    Bundle score
    98
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 61 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 30 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.28 s
    • Sonar, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.28 s
    • We scored this provider on 4 of the 20 apps in our benchmark. We sent this provider those 4 apps on 30 October 2026.
    • This plan scored 0.4809 out of 1 on those 4 apps. We trust a score on 4 apps less than a score on all 20. So we lower this plan's Data score to 34 out of 100.

  3. #3 Zembra: Google Play API

    Zembra, top-up from $12

    It returns 3 of the 9 key fields we check: Rating, Rating count, Category.

    Overall score
    56.3
    $ per 1,000
    $50.00
    Price score
    7
    • $ per 1,000 apps the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 39
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 apps than this plan: 36
    Data score
    92
    Cost to get started score
    92
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $12
    Bundle score
    88
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Reviews · Find Listing · Match Listing · Social Media Information · Social Content Streaming and 2 more
    Performance score
    47
    • This call's median time on 30 October 2026, minus the baseline: 0.597 s
    • Sonar, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.28 s
    • On 30 October 2026, we sent this provider all 20 apps in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9159 out of 1 on those 20 apps. That gives this plan a Data score of 92 out of 100.

The Data score on Google Play APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how much of an app's Google Play page a provider's call returns. We call each provider and ask for the app by the app's package name. For each app, we count the parts the answer held, such as the price and the screenshots. We divide the number of parts the answer held by the number of parts we count for the app. We say an app has a part when any live provider's answer held that part. We count a part when the app's Google Play page shows that part. We read the app's Google Play details page in the US store within 4 minutes of calling the providers. We count each part from any provider's answer when fewer than two live providers found the app. We check each value against the app's Google Play page. A value that doesn't match the app's Google Play page counts as missing. For a part made of items, such as screenshots, we count the items in the answer. We count only the items that match the app's Google Play page. We divide the matching items by the most items any provider or the app's Google Play page showed. Then we average the results over all apps. Each app counts the same. An app the call didn't find counts as 0. We compare a provider that ran on fewer apps with the other providers on those same apps. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy apps. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer apps than the benchmark has.

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