Creators API alternative

Locked out by the Creators API 10-sales rule? Here's the alternative.

Our API returns curated Amazon product recommendations in under 100 ms. A keyword search identifies the most relevant products and, where appropriate, groups them into matching categories or price ranges. Within each group, our ranking algorithm selects the strongest products using Amazon-reported sales, ratings, review counts, and seller and brand signals. Every result includes detailed product, seller, brand, category, pricing, and performance statistics beyond those available through Amazon's official Creators API (formerly the Product Advertising API / PA-API). Our continuously updated dataset ensures fast, reliable, and up-to-date results.

under 100 ms
typical API response — served from
a maintained index, not a live scrape
4M+
products across amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de,
amazon.ca, amazon.com.au + walmart.com,
refreshed continuously
Ranked
answers grouped by category or price tier
— deterministic, no LLM in the path
Live demo · this page queries the production API in real time

Try it. Watch the response time.

Every search below hits our production endpoint as you click — nothing pre-rendered. Broad queries (try toothbrush) come back grouped by product category; specific ones (try graphics card) come back as Budget / Mid-range / Premium price tiers. The grouping is chosen algorithmically — no LLM, no live scraping, just the index.

Live responses from our production warehouse — observed snapshots, not Amazon's live feed. Demo is limited to 30 searches per hour per visitor and two products per group; the API itself returns more, with full facets and filters. Get a free API key (2,500 credits, no card) for unrestricted access.

Coverage note: the search index currently covers Amazon's best-seller (BSR) product universe and excludes media products (books, music, video). We're working on extending it to include media and products beyond the best-seller range.

See a raw JSON response (real output, trimmed)
GET /v1/shopping?q=toothbrush&country=us
X-API-KEY: sk_live_...

{
  "query": "toothbrush", "country": "us", "currency": "USD",
  "total": 1571, "mode": "category",
  "groups": [
    { "category": "Health & Household > Oral Care > ... > Powered Toothbrushes > Ultrasonic",
      "count": 110,
      "products": [
        { "asin": "B072YVWBXH",
          "title": "Aquasonic Black Series Ultra Whitening Toothbrush – ADA Accepted...",
          "brand": "Aquasonic", "price": 35.95, "rating": 4.6,
          "review_count": 136657, "in_stock": true, "is_fba": true,
          "image_url": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71sZ7M1OHwL._AC_SY355_.jpg",
          "amazon_url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072YVWBXH",
          "observed_at": "2026-07-22T16:03:48Z" } ] },
    { "category": "Health & Household > Oral Care > ... > Manual Toothbrushes",
      "count": 98,
      "products": [
        { "asin": "B00CC6XSSQ",
          "title": "Colgate Extra Clean Toothbrush, Soft Toothbrush for Adults, 6 Count",
          "brand": "Colgate", "price": 4.96, "rating": 4.6,
          "review_count": 68604, "in_stock": true, "is_fba": false, "..." : "..." } ] }
  ],
  "facets": {
    "brands": [
      { "value": "Oral-B",  "count": 102, "avg_rating": 4.56, "total_ratings": 641540, "est_monthly_sold": 14109 },
      { "value": "Colgate", "count": 44,  "avg_rating": 4.64, "total_ratings": 261848, "est_monthly_sold": 3337 }
    ]
  },
  "credits_charged": 2, "credits_remaining": 2498
}

Two ways to replace what PA-API did for you.

  • Product Search & Answers API Keyword in, ranked product shortlists out — grouped by category or price tier, accessory noise filtered, with images, prices, ratings, and links. The replacement for PA-API's SearchItems, with ranking built in. under 100ms typical response. US, UK, Germany, Canada, and Australia live today; Japan, France, Italy, Spain, India, Mexico, and Brazil are next.
  • Per-ASIN product data The replacement for GetItems: title, brand, pricing, rating and review counts, images, availability, category, multi-seller offers, and optional price/BSR/seller-count history. Instant for products we track, on-demand fresh fetch when you need it. Full schema here.

vs. the Creators API.

Our APIs Amazon Creators API
Eligibility API key — that's it 10 qualifying sales every 30 days, ongoing
Access revocation risk None — commercial contract Suspended the month you miss quota
Ranked / grouped search results Yes — best per category / price tier Raw search results only
Multi-seller offers & seller identity Yes Not available
Price / BSR / seller history Yes — up to ~2 years Not available
Rate limits Scoped to your plan Tied to sales volume
Data source Our warehouse — observed snapshots, timestamped Amazon live catalog

Being honest about the trade: the Creators API is Amazon's live catalog and it's free — if you qualify and stay qualified, use it. We exist for everyone who can't, and for the capabilities it never had.

Who this is for.

  • Affiliate & content sites below the sales quota New sites, seasonal niches, and dormant projects that lost API access. Keep product boxes, comparison tables, and "best of" pages rendering with current data while you rebuild toward eligibility.
  • WordPress plugin & site-builder vendors Your users are locked out through no fault of yours. Offer a data backend that works for every customer from day one — white-label integration, predictable JSON schema, one key per install or pooled. We build for exactly this integration pattern.
  • Deal, price-comparison & shopping apps Ranked results with price tiers and facets, fast enough for interactive UX. In-stock filtering built in.
  • AI assistants, agents & MCP tools A deterministic product-search tool call that returns in under 100ms — no live scrape latency, no Amazon eligibility, structured for LLM consumption. Grouped shortlists, not raw dumps.

What you should know before you switch.

Our data is observed, not Amazon's live feed. Every record comes from our continuously refreshed warehouse and carries a timestamp. Best-selling products are refreshed most often; long-tail products less so. For purchase-moment accuracy on a specific ASIN, an on-demand fresh fetch is available.

Coverage is the products people actually buy. 4M+ products across Amazon US, UK, Germany, Canada, and Australia, plus Walmart — weighted toward best-sellers — not a mirror of Amazon's full catalog, and media products (books, music, video) are currently excluded. We're working on extending coverage to media and to products beyond the best-seller range. For "best X" queries, comparison content, and discovery, the current set is the one that matters.

Associates program compliance stays your responsibility. Amazon's Associates policies govern how prices and availability may be displayed alongside affiliate links. Our data suits rankings, research, comparison content, product discovery, and non-Associates monetization; how you present it on an Associates-enrolled site is your call to make with the program terms in hand.

Get a free test key.

Tell us what PA-API was doing for you — search, product boxes, price display, a plugin backend — and we'll set you up with a test key and the endpoint docs the same day.

Get 2,500 free credits