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API.SH pricing: Google Play search API

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86% complete: 6 of the 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run API.SH through our Google Play search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 140 plans for Google Play search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.905 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free Google Play search API plan.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.022. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.Scrappa, Stophy and AsoBeast are the best Google Play search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest API.SH plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
Call: GET /google-play/v1/search API.SH's only call for this API
API: Google Play search API one of API.SH's 99 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 24 hours old. You get results API.SH saved earlier.
  • 6 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Developer, Rating, Installs, Price, Category, Icon.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 500 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send q to GET /google-play/v1/search. You can also send country and lang. The call returns Google Play's results page.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API.SH: Google Play search API alternatives

API.SH alternatives: other Google Play search API providers by price

The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to API.SH's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

API.SH, $50 monthlyScrapewise, top-up from €5SerpApi, $52,000 monthlyPullbay, $9 monthlySearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale Plan
$ per 1,000 searches$2.00$1.688$2.00$2.00$2.00
Completeness86%43%86%57%57%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$50€5$52,000$9$500
Enough for25,000 pages a monthabout 3,333 calls26,000,000 calls a month4,500 calls a month250,000 calls a month
Freshness24 hourslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email addressanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. api.sh
  2. api.sh/docs/billing
  3. api.sh/docs/errors
  4. api.sh/docs/google-play-search
  5. api.sh/legal/acceptable-use
  6. api.sh/legal/terms
  7. api.sh/openapi/google-play.json
  8. api.sh/pricing

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, not in the answer
  • Installs
  • Price
  • Category
  • Icon
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,258 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle Play search
Data
Freshness24 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for500 pages a month
Expiresunused credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: country, lang
MethodGET
Path/google-play/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email address
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

language code, country, next page, app ID, Google Play URL, app name, icon, screenshots, rating, rating text, category, price, currency, description, developer name, installs, feature graphic, age rating, in-app purchases, credits used

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