Pricing
ShopAPIS pricing is credit-based: every successful API request spends credits, and you choose a plan tier that matches your monthly request volume. There are four tiers — Free trial, Pay-as-you-go, Business, and Enterprise — and the thing that scales between them is throughput: how many product requests (credits) you consume per month, your concurrency limit, and the level of support and SLA. You can start free with no card and upgrade when your volume grows.
One credit ≈ one successful product request. Failed lookups are not charged. Heavier operations (deep review pulls, large search result sets) may consume more credits per call — exact rates are shown live in your dashboard .
How the credit model works
Credits are the single unit you spend, regardless of which of the 70+ marketplaces you query. A request to Amazon and a request to Alibaba cost from the same balance, so you forecast spend in one number instead of per-site contracts. Your plan determines:
- Monthly credit allotment — the number of requests included before overage or top-up.
- Concurrency — how many requests you can run in parallel (higher tiers allow more parallel workers for batch jobs).
- Rate limit — requests per second/minute (see handling pagination & rate limits).
- Support & SLA — from community/email up to dedicated support and uptime commitments on Enterprise.
The four tiers
| Tier | Best for | What scales |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Evaluating the API, one-off tests | A capped pool of credits, no card required, full field schema |
| Pay-as-you-go | Spiky or low-volume usage | Buy credit packs; pay only for what you use; no monthly commitment |
| Business | Steady production pipelines | A large monthly credit allotment, higher concurrency and rate limits, priority support |
| Enterprise | High-volume / mission-critical | Custom credit volume, highest concurrency, SLA, dedicated support and invoicing |
The tiers above describe the shape of the model, not fixed dollar figures. Current credit allotments and prices per tier are always shown on your live account — check the dashboard for exact numbers before you commit.
What you get on every tier
The 40+ field product schema is identical on every plan — tiers change volume and support, not data quality. Whether you are on Free trial or Enterprise, each request returns the same normalized object: price, currency, availability, seller, rating, review count, variants, images, category and identifiers, documented on the e-commerce data API pillar. You do not lose fields or marketplaces by being on a smaller plan.
Choosing a tier
- Just exploring? Start on the Free trial — enough credits to run real product lookups and validate the schema against your use case.
- Bursty workloads (a quarterly catalog refresh, a research project)? Pay-as-you-go avoids paying for idle months.
- Always-on monitoring (repricing, daily price tracking)? Business gives you the concurrency and rate headroom a price-monitoring pipeline needs.
- Large catalogs, contractual SLA, procurement? Talk to us about Enterprise.