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SP-API Throttling Adjustments

June 21st, 2022 by JackE_Amazon

Effective August 31, 2022, we will be adjusting the rates across select API operations within the Catalog Items API, Product Fees API, and Product Pricing API. These adjustments will lower the rates of the 1x1 APIs. We encourage you to call the equivalent batch APIs for use cases requiring a higher volume of data.

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Watch the video

For a video overview of these batch operations, refer to the Batch Operations in SP-API Video.

What is changing?

  • listCatalogCategories will change from rate/burst of 1/40 to 1/2.

  • getCatalogItem (GET /catalog/2020-12-01/items/{asin} and GET /catalog/2022-04-01/items/{asin}) will change from rate/burst of 5/5 to 2/2.

  • searchCatalogItems (GET /catalog/2020-12-01/items and GET /catalog/2022-04-01/items) will change from rate/burst of 5/5 to 2/2. For high-volume use cases, use the multi-query capability in GET /catalog/2022-04-01/items.

  • getMyFeesEstimateForSKU and getMyFeesEstimateForASIN will change from rate/burst of 10/20 to 1/2. For high-volume use cases, use getMyFeesEstimates, which accepts batch sizes up to 20.

  • getPricing and getCompetitivePricing will change from rate/burst of 10/20 to 0.5/1. These operations accept a list of up to 20 items.

  • getListingOffers and getItemOffers will change from rate/burst of 5/10 to 1/2. For high-volume use cases, use getListingOffersBatch and getItemOffersBatch, which accepts batch sizes up to 20.

  • The Catalog Items v0 operations listCatalogItems (GET /catalog/v0/items) and getCatalogItem (GET /catalog/v0/items/{asin}) will be deprecated on September 30, 2022.

Change summary table:

API Operation Path From Rate From Burst To Rate To Burst
Catalog Items API v0 listCatalogItems GET /catalog/v0/items 6 40 deprecated deprecated
getCatalogItem GET /catalog/v0/items/{asin} 2 20 deprecated deprecated
listCatalogCategories GET /catalog/v0/categories 1 40 1 2
Catalog Items API v2020-12-01 searchCatalogItems GET /catalog/2020-12-01/items 5 5 2 2
getCatalogItem GET /catalog/2020-12-01/items/{asin} 5 5 2 2
Catalog Items API v2022-04-01 searchCatalogItems GET /catalog/2022-04-01/items 5 5 2 2
getCatalogItem GET /catalog/2022-04-01/items/{asin} 5 5 2 2
Product Fees API v0 getMyFeesEstimateForSKU POST /products/fees/v0/listings/{SellerSKU}/feesEstimate 10 20 1 2
getMyFeesEstimateForASIN POST /products/fees/v0/listings/{ASIN}/feesEstimate 10 20 1 2
getMyFeesEstimates POST /products/fees/v0/feesEstimate 1 1 0.5 1
Product Pricing API v0 getPricing GET /products/pricing/v0/price 10 20 .5 1
getCompetitivePricing GET /products/pricing/v0/CompetitivePrice 10 20 .5 1
getListingOffers GET /products/pricing/v0/listings/{SellerSKU}/offers 5 10 1 2
getItemOffers GET /products/pricing/v0/items/{asin}/offers 10 20 .5 1
getItemOffersBatch POST /batches/products/pricing/v0/itemOffers .5 1 .5 1
getListingOffersBatch POST /batches/products/pricing/v0/listingOffers .5 1 .5 1

Which marketplaces are affected?

This change affects all marketplaces.

Who is affected?

Developers who use the operations listed in the change summary table.

What action is required?

If you use the above operations, you must make the necessary changes to your application to accommodate these new rate limits prior to August 31, 2022.

Best regards,

The Amazon MWS Migration Support team

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