Best AliExpress APIs, 2026Every main way to get AliExpress data.AliExpress’s Affiliate and Dropshipping APIs and the main product data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Prices, stock and shipping for the products you source or dropshipAn option that returns shipping and stock as well as price. To place orders as well, AliExpress’s own Dropshipping API.
Hot products, promotions and search results to spot what’s sellingAn option with hot-product or promotion feeds as well as keyword search. AliExpress’s Affiliate API has both, for affiliate products.
Buyer reviews for product and supplier researchAn option that returns review text. Scraping APIs return review pages as HTML to parse, and several others return only review counts.
An AI agent that looks up AliExpress products, prices and reviewsAn option whose MCP server has AliExpress tools, so the agent gets fields back. Several scraping APIs’ MCP servers return the page instead.
Products, promotions and commission links for an AliExpress affiliate siteAliExpress’s Affiliate API, for AliExpress Portals affiliates. It returns affiliate products with commission rates and promotion links.
10options compared
3with an MCP server
8free to start
41sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Three routes
AliExpress’s Open Platform has an Affiliate API for AliExpress Portals affiliates, which returns affiliate products only, and a Dropshipping API for dropshippers buying on AliExpress. Both need an approved developer profile and app. Data APIs read public listings with an API key.
AliExpress Open Platform, affiliate APIs
AliExpress Open Platform, dropshipper APIs
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| AliExpress data | Connect | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Products | Variants | Reviews | Search | Shipping | Stores | Categories | Deals | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||||
| AliExpress Affiliate APIOfficial, affiliates | – | – | 12345 | ||||||||
| AliExpress Dropshipping APIOfficial, dropshippers | – | – | – | 678910 | |||||||
| ApifyE-commerce Scraping Tool actor | – | 11121314 | |||||||||
| Bright DataAliExpress Scraper API | – | – | 151617 | ||||||||
| DecodoWeb scraping API | – | – | – | 18192021 | |||||||
| OxylabsWeb Scraper API | – | – | – | – | – | 2223242526 | |||||
| PiloterrWeb scraping API | – | – | – | 2728293031 | |||||||
| ScraperAPIScraping API | – | – | – | 3233343536 | |||||||
| ScrapingBeeScraping API | – | 3738394041 | |||||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price Your developer profile must be approved as Affiliates before you can create the app.
AliExpress says the profile type can’t be changed after review.
Worth knowingResults are always affiliate products, each with its commission rate and promotion link.
No published price
No published price You register as a buyer, sign the Dropshipping Program agreement and create a Drop Shipping app.
Worth knowingPrices follow your own AliExpress account, so every product call needs its access token.
No published price
$6 per 1,000 product details on the free plan
From $1 on higher plans; residential proxies and browser rendering cost extra per product. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingA general e-commerce actor maintained by Apify; its FAQ names AliExpress among the sites it reads from product and category URLs.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records, then $1.30 per 1,000.
Worth knowingCollects products by product URL or category URL, with item and variant IDs, seller details and merchant ID.
5,000 records a month
$1.50 per 1,000 requests with JavaScript rendering on its default premium proxies
Prices exclude VAT. Its $19 monthly plan lists 12K of these requests.
Worth knowingIts AliExpress scraper is part of its Web Scraping API and returns pages as HTML, with JavaScript rendering available.
Free plan with 667 rendered premium requests
$1.15 per 1,000 results on its $49 Micro plan, its rate for sites other than Amazon and Google
With JavaScript rendering, which its AliExpress examples use, $1.35 per 1,000.
Worth knowingAliExpress search, product and any-URL sources return the page HTML, which you parse or structure with its custom parser.
Free trial: 909 results on other sites, 769 with JavaScript rendering
$49 a month for 18,000 credits, billed monthly
An AliExpress call costs 2 credits, as it renders the page in a browser.
Worth knowingSeparate product, search and store endpoints return AliExpress data as JSON, rendering each page in a browser.
500 credits, no card
$49 a month for 100,000 API credits
A plain request costs 1 credit; rendering costs 10, and 25 with premium proxies.
Worth knowingReturns AliExpress pages as HTML, text or markdown, with geotargeting in more than 150 countries.
7-day trial with 5,000 credits; free plan of 1,000 credits
$19 a month for 75,000 API credits
A rendered request costs 5 credits, 25 with premium proxies and 75 with stealth proxies. Prices exclude VAT.
Worth knowingSearch, product, review, store and category pages come back as HTML, or as JSON through extraction rules you write.
1,000 free API credits
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for KAPVOE polarised cycling glasses on AliExpress, looked up by item ID. No affiliate account, developer app or AliExpress sign-in.
GET /v1/aliexpress/productcurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/aliexpress/product?id=1005005244562338" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Kapvoe Cycling Glasses Polarized MTB Road Bike Glasses UV400 Protection Sunglasses Ultra Light Sport Eyewear Equipment
Item 1005005244562338
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Product3 creditsKeyword search3 creditsTwenty reviews3 creditsShipping to a country1 creditStore profile1 creditStore products3 creditsHot products3 creditsSimilar products3 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Yes. The AliExpress Open Platform has an Affiliate API for AliExpress Portals affiliates, which returns affiliate products only, and a Dropshipping API for dropshippers, who sign up with an AliExpress buyer account. Sellers have their own app categories for their stores. Each route needs a developer profile and an application category that AliExpress reviews, and AliExpress says one Open Platform account can’t use both the Affiliate and Dropshipping APIs.
AliExpress publishes no price for its Open Platform APIs, but each needs an approved developer profile and app, and the Affiliate API returns affiliate products only. For public data, most data APIs let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month and Apify $5 of usage a month. ScraperAPI has a 7-day trial with 5,000 credits and a free plan of 1,000 credits, ScrapingBee gives 1,000 free credits and Piloterr 500 credits, Decodo has a free plan and Oxylabs a free trial of up to 909 results on sites other than Amazon and Google.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key with an AliExpress item ID or URL, a search term or a seller ID and get public data back, with no affiliate account, developer approval or AliExpress sign-in. AliExpress’s Affiliate API needs an AliExpress Portals account and a developer profile approved as Affiliates. Its Dropshipping API needs a buyer account signed up to the Dropshipping Program, and its product calls carry your account’s access token.
Yes. Monocrawl returns a product’s reviews twenty per page, with the rating distribution and the buyer’s country. Decodo, ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee list reviews among the AliExpress data they reach, returned as page HTML or text for you to parse; ScrapingBee can also return JSON through extraction rules you write. Apify’s E-commerce Scraping Tool and Piloterr return each product’s review count, and AliExpress’s Affiliate API returns a review count in its SKU details.
Yes. Monocrawl’s shipping call returns each option’s carrier, fee, delivery days and tracking for a product to a country, and its product call includes shipping options. AliExpress’s Dropshipping API has a freight query that returns delivery options and fees, and its Affiliate API’s SKU details include shipping fees and delivery days. Piloterr returns a product’s shipping cost and estimated delivery, and Apify’s tool lists shipping information among its product data.
Monocrawl, Apify and Piloterr publish their own MCP servers with tools that return AliExpress data as fields, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Bright Data, Decodo, Oxylabs, ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee publish MCP servers too, but their tools for AliExpress are general scrapers that return the page.
Method
What’s includedAliExpress’s own Affiliate and Dropshipping APIs, plus AliExpress data and scraping APIs that come up across AliExpress API searches and comparison lists, have an AliExpress page or endpoint of their own, and publish their pricing or offer a trial.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its AliExpress data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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