# AppBrain, free, GET /info/search: Google Play search API

> You can search and browse apps and fetch information about apps using the AppBrain API for Google Play app information. This information includes an app’s description, icon or feature graphic URL, used libraries and a lot more.

AppBrain's Free plan for the Google Play search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. AppBrain's docs list all 7: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Installs, Price, Category, Icon.
We haven't run AppBrain through [our Google Play search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-play-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 157 plans for Google Play search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free Google Play search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-play-search-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-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/google-play-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/scrappa/50-pack/llms.txt), [Stophy](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/stophy/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) and [apiapk](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/apiapk/29-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Google Play search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/free-get-info-search
- [Google Play search API in 2026: the 7 best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-play-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.appbrain.com/docs/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.appbrain.com/v2/info/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.appbrain.com/docs/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.appbrain.com/docs/api/specification?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AppBrain (https://www.appbrain.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Developer: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Rating count: ✓
- Installs: ✓
- Price: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Icon: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 550
- Also pays for: from the same budget: getapp call · browse call

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: You can search and browse apps and fetch information about apps using the AppBrain API for Google Play app information. This information includes an app’s description, icon or feature graphic URL, used libraries and a lot more.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: about 41 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, sort, filter, category, offset, limit, platform
- Method: GET
- Path: /info/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: app developers with an AppBrain developer account with API access, anyone else emails contact@appbrain.com

## The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

app ID, version, version code, app name, short description, description, category, price, size, age rating, minimum OS version, maximum OS version, supports external storage install, released at, last updated, crawled at, installs, estimated downloads, estimated downloads last 30 days, rating, rating count, rating distribution, plus-one count, comment count, icon, feature graphic, video, developer name, developer email, developer address, developer website, screenshots, permissions, libraries

## AppBrain's plans (4)

- [AppBrain, free, GET /info/search](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/free-get-info-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AppBrain, $499 monthly, Small, GET /info/search](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/499-monthly-small-get-info-search/llms.txt): $119.76 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AppBrain, $999 monthly, Medium, GET /info/search](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/999-monthly-medium-get-info-search/llms.txt): $47.952 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AppBrain, contact us, Enterprise, GET /info/search](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/contact-us-enterprise-get-info-search/llms.txt): 100% complete

## AppBrain's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /info/browse`: [AppBrain, free, GET /info/browse](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/free-get-info-browse/llms.txt)
- `GET /info/search`: [AppBrain, free, GET /info/search](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/free-get-info-search/llms.txt)

## AppBrain's APIs (4)

- [AppBrain: App Store API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/appbrain/free/llms.txt)
- [AppBrain: Google Play API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-apis/appbrain/free/llms.txt)
- [AppBrain: App Store search API pricing, 4 plans, GET /info/browse](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/appbrain/free-get-info-browse/llms.txt)
- [AppBrain: App Store search API pricing, 4 plans, GET /info/search](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/appbrain/free-get-info-search/llms.txt)
- [AppBrain: Google Play search API pricing, 4 plans, GET /info/search](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/appbrain/free-get-info-search/llms.txt)

## AppBrain: Google Play search API alternatives

- [ASOdesk, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/asodesk/39-monthly/llms.txt): $39.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack/llms.txt): $40.005 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [AppTweak, $1,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/apptweak/1990-yearly/llms.txt): $42.288 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Asolytics, $1,899 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/asolytics/1899-yearly/llms.txt): $63.30 per 1,000, 86% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://api.appbrain.com/v2/swagger.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://www.appbrain.com/docs/advertiser-tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://www.appbrain.com/docs/api/appbrain-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://www.appbrain.com/docs/api/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://www.appbrain.com/docs/api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://www.appbrain.com/docs/api/specification?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://www.appbrain.com/docs/intelligence-tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://www.appbrain.com/docs/publisher-tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing