Best Google Shopping APIs, 2026Every main way to get Google Shopping data.Google’s Merchant API and the main Google Shopping data and scraper 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?
Store prices and offers for the products you trackAn option that returns each store’s offer on a product, not only the price in search results. Monocrawl and SearchApi also return price history.
The products, stores and prices that show for a Google Shopping searchAny option with keyword search. They differ most in how they charge.
Product reviews and store reviews for sentiment researchAn option that returns a product’s review text. Monocrawl and SearchApi also return shoppers’ reviews of a store.
An AI agent that looks up products, prices and offersAn option with an MCP server that reaches Google Shopping, so the agent can call it directly.
Your own products, their performance and Google’s market insightsGoogle’s Merchant API, for merchants and partners managing Merchant Center accounts. Its reports include best sellers and benchmark prices.
11options compared
8with an MCP server
10free to start
45sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Two routes
Google’s Merchant API, which replaced the Content API for Shopping, serves merchants managing their own Merchant Center products. Google lists no API for searching Google Shopping results. Data APIs return public Google Shopping results with an API key.
Google Merchant API, which replaced the Content API for Shopping
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| Google Shopping data | Connect | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Product search | Product details | Prices | Seller offers | Product reviews | Price history | Deals | Store reviews | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||||
| Google Merchant APIOfficial, for merchants | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12345 | ||||
| ApifyGoogle Shopping scraper actor | – | – | – | – | 678910 | ||||||
| Bright DataGoogle Shopping Scraper API | – | – | – | 1112131415 | |||||||
| HasDataGoogle Shopping APIs | – | – | – | 1617181920 | |||||||
| OxylabsWeb Scraper API | – | – | – | 2122232425 | |||||||
| Scrape.doGoogle Shopping Scraper API | – | – | – | 262728 | |||||||
| ScraperAPIScraping API | – | – | – | – | 2930313233 | ||||||
| ScrapingBeeScraping API | – | – | – | – | – | – | 343536 | ||||
| SearchApiSearch results API | 3738394041 | ||||||||||
| ShoppingScraperGoogle Shopping price API | – | – | – | 42434445 | |||||||
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 Needs a Merchant Center account, a Google Cloud project and developer registration.
Market insights reports need an account that meets Google’s eligibility requirements.
Worth knowingIts market insights reports show Google’s best-selling products and brands by category and country, for eligible accounts.
No published price
$3.50 per 1,000 results on every plan
Platform usage is included. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingA community-maintained actor that returns Google Shopping search results with price, seller, rating and the number of offers.
$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 Google Shopping products by product URL or by keyword, with a separate scraper for US product search.
5,000 records a month
$59 a month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly
A Shopping search costs 10 credits and a product lookup 5. $590 a year billed yearly. Unused credits don’t roll over.
Worth knowingIts product lookup returns 3 to 5 stores by default, or up to 13 when asked, with specifications and reviews.
1,000 credits a month
$1 per 1,000 Google results on its $49 Micro plan
Rendered results, which product tokens need, cost $1.35 per 1,000. VAT may apply.
Worth knowingCollects in two steps: a rendered search returns product tokens, which its product source needs.
Free trial, up to 1,000 Google results
$29 a month for 250,000 credits
A Google Shopping search or product call costs 10 credits, charged only when successful.
Worth knowingA product call can return every seller in one request, capped at about 100, and search can filter to items on sale.
1,000 credits a month
$49 a month for 100,000 API credits
A Google request costs 25 credits. $44.10 a month billed yearly.
Worth knowingReturns Shopping search results as JSON; each result links to a separate request for the product’s details, sellers and offers.
7-day trial with 5,000 credits; free plan of 1,000 credits
$19 a month for 75,000 API credits
A Google search costs 10 credits, or 15 as a full browser request. Prices exclude VAT.
Worth knowingGoogle Shopping is a search type of its Google Search API, with sorting and price filters. Cheaper light requests skip the browser.
1,000 free API credits
$40 a month for 10,000 searches
From $1 per 1,000 on its largest listed plan. Only successful searches are billed.
Worth knowingSeparate engines for Shopping search, a product page with offers, reviews and each merchant’s price history, and a store’s reviews.
100 free requests
€799 a month for 150,000 requests, billed monthly
Starter runs calls as scheduled batches in up to 5 countries; real-time calls need Enterprise Pro, from €1,499 a month.
Worth knowingMatches EAN or GTIN barcodes to Google’s catalogue ID, then returns every merchant’s offer with shipping, total price and stock.
100 free API credits
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for a Google Shopping search for wireless earbuds: ten results, one of them Nothing’s CMF Buds 2a at £29. No Google account, Merchant Center account or Google Cloud project.
GET /v1/google_shopping/searchcurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/google_shopping/search?query=wireless%20earbuds&limit=10" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Nothing CMF Buds 2a Wireless Bluetooth Noise-Cancelling Earbuds
Nothing · search for “wireless earbuds”
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Product search5 creditsProduct details5 creditsStore offers5 creditsProduct reviews5 creditsPrice history2 creditsDeals search2 creditsStore reviews2 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
Google’s Merchant API manages products in your own Merchant Center account and reports on them, including market insights such as best-selling products and a benchmark price for products you sell. Google lists no API for searching Google Shopping results: its Custom Search JSON API returns web and image results from a Programmable Search Engine, and is closed to new customers. For public Google Shopping results, data APIs work with an API key.
Google sunset it on 18 August 2026, and from 1 September 2026 its requests experience progressive errors. Its replacement is the Merchant API, which Google describes as a redesign of the Content API for Shopping. Google offers an extension request form for merchants who need more time to migrate.
Google publishes no price for its Merchant API, but it only reads Merchant Center accounts you can access. For public Google Shopping data, Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, HasData and Scrape.do 1,000 credits a month and Apify $5 of usage a month. ScrapingBee starts you with 1,000 free credits, and SearchApi and ShoppingScraper with 100. Oxylabs has a free trial of up to 1,000 Google results, and ScraperAPI a 7-day trial with 5,000 credits and a free plan of 1,000 credits.
Yes, with two of the options here. Monocrawl’s price-history call returns each store’s price history for a Google Shopping product alongside its current price, ten stores a page. SearchApi’s Google Product Page API returns typical prices with a price history for each merchant. Google’s Merchant API gives merchants sale price suggestions and a benchmark price for products they sell.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key with a search term, a product ID or a store domain and get public Google Shopping data back, with no Google account, Merchant Center account or Google Cloud project. Google’s Merchant API needs a Merchant Center account, a Google Cloud project linked to it through developer registration, and OAuth or service account credentials.
Monocrawl, Apify, Bright Data, HasData, ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, SearchApi and ShoppingScraper publish their own MCP servers that reach Google Shopping, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Oxylabs’ MCP server has no Google Shopping tool. Google’s Merchant API MCP Access Service, in alpha, reads your own Merchant Center data and reports.
Method
What’s includedGoogle’s Merchant API, plus widely used Google Shopping data and scraping APIs that come up across Google Shopping API searches and comparison lists, return Google Shopping results as structured data and publish their pricing or offer a trial.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its Google Shopping 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.
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