Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API

Posted by kull 17 hours ago

Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API(developer.amazonservices.com)

34 points | 13 comments

aneutron 3 hours ago|

I hope this does not affect Camelcamelcamel or Idealo, because if not we lose the power to get real visibility over real value of items.

JaggedJax 16 hours ago||

These are pretty steep API fees for a company already taking a hefty cut on every order flowing through this API.

x0x0 14 hours ago|

Kinda feels like they gave up on getting devs to write well-behaved apps by asking nicely, so now they're charging them. :shrug:

$1/20k gets shouldn't be a big deal?

nprateem 11 hours ago||

And an annual $1400 which effectively kills side projects.

duskwuff 11 hours ago||

I have a hard time imagining what kind of "side project" would be making use of the Amazon Selling Partner API. It all revolves around managing listings and sales through the Amazon storefront - if you've got a use case for that, it's probably for something serious.

nprateem 8 hours ago||

This is true of no end of APIs. It's another cost that would be difficult to be borne by a bootstrapped startup still finding PMF and early traction.

supriyo-biswas 6 hours ago||

I'm not sure what kind of data is vended through this API, but it seems like if this is data on products that amazon.com sells, won't people simply resort to scraping using residential proxies, mobile networks, etc. which are harder to mitigate?

merb 9 hours ago||

Uf that also means that the business api is affected? to pull invoices and stuff. https://developer-docs.amazon.com/amazon-business/docs/downl... not sure if that will be paid as well

alberth 2 hours ago||

Any chance this is related to Agentic Commerce, and Amazon wanting to protect their moat?

mikeiz404 13 hours ago||

It’s interesting that only GET calls are metered. Is this a common thing to do?

I wonder if this is also being done to limit marketplace data being scraped with the API or limit how this data gets used by limiting low margin business models. Increasing the fees will have these effects.

semiquaver 12 hours ago||

The focus on charging for GETs is unfortunate given that in my (very outdated) experience developing against MWS, many of the APIs are of the “POST to receive a token that you GET-poll on” variety.

lsowen 15 hours ago||

Only the GET requests are metered. An anti-bot/anti-AI scraper measure?

SilverElfin 10 hours ago|

So they charge the sellers and also the API users? Isn’t that double dipping?