{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "amazon-creators-api", "name": "Amazon Creators API", "vendor": "Amazon.com Services LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/introduction", "kind": "http-api", "category": "shopping", "summary": "Amazon's product catalogue API for Amazon Associates affiliates, replacing Product Advertising API 5.0. It searches and looks up products, prices and variations across 22 Amazon stores and returns tagged affiliate links. It cannot place orders.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-creators-api.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement and its IP Licence for each locale", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 client credentials. The primary owner of an accepted Associates account creates up to two applications per store, each with up to two credentials (Credential ID, Credential Secret, Version). The secret is shown once. Tokens come from the Login with Amazon endpoint for the credential's region (api.amazon.com, api.amazon.co.uk or api.amazon.co.jp) with scope creatorsapi::default and last 3,600 seconds. Every call also carries a partnerTag and an x-marketplace header.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No fee for the API was found in the reviewed documentation. Access requires an Amazon Associates account with final acceptance and at least 10 qualifying sales in the trailing 30 days, and lapses after 30 days without qualifying sales. The usage limit starts at 1 request a second and 8,640 a day and then grows with shipped revenue referred through the API (checked 14 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Creators API documentation, the cURL guide or the API rates page (checked 14 October 2026).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/introduction", "capabilities": [ "shopping.search", "shopping.prices", "shopping.affiliate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "affiliate", "oauth", "read-only", "no-checkout", "javascript", "python", "php", "java" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 48.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 949, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1210, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 41, "payments": 10, "reliability": 45, "schema": 50, "security": 48, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Read-only product search and lookup across 22 Amazon stores, with field selection, typed error reasons and documented rate limits. It cannot place or follow orders, so a person buys through the affiliate link. Access needs an accepted Associates account with 10 qualifying sales in 30 days, and the Agent Terms require agents to identify themselves.", "bestFor": "Product search, price checks and affiliate links for an agent that recommends Amazon products and hands the purchase to the person.", "strengths": [ "The resources parameter returns only the requested fields, and GetItems takes up to 10 ASINs per call", "Errors carry a type, a machine-readable reason code and, where relevant, retryAfterSeconds", "Rate limits are published with numbers, starting at 1 request a second and 8,640 a day", "One set of OAuth credentials works across 22 Amazon stores with the right partner tag", "The Program Policies set written Agent Terms, so the rules for automated use are stated" ], "weaknesses": [ "No order, cart, checkout, order status or return operation", "Access needs 10 qualifying sales in the trailing 30 days and lapses without them", "No public OpenAPI description, llms.txt or status page was found", "SDKs are archive downloads, and the matching npm package names belong to individuals", "The PA-API 5 deprecation notice gives no dates, and old calls now return 403" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send x-marketplace as a header and marketplace and partnerTag in the body on every call", "Cache the access token for its 3,600 seconds and share it across processes", "Request only the resources the task needs, and use offersV2 for prices, because the older price resource is gone", "Set the user agent to Agent/\u003cname\u003e as the Associates Agent Terms require", "Hand purchases to the person through the returned detailPageURL without editing its parameters" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 48.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 41, "payments": 10, "reliability": 45, "schema": 50, "security": 48, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 76, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-14", "maintenance": "2026-10-14", "payments": "2026-10-14", "reliability": "2026-10-14", "schema": "2026-10-14", "security": "2026-10-14", "transparency": "2026-10-14" }, "last": "2026-10-14", "oldest": "2026-10-14", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1/searchItems -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"x-marketplace: www.amazon.com\" -d '{\"keywords\": \"headphones\", \"partnerTag\": \"yourtag-20\", \"marketplace\": \"www.amazon.com\", \"resources\": [\"images.primary.small\", \"itemInfo.title\"]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/shopping.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-creators-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "amazon-nova-embeddings", "amazon-bedrock-guardrails", "amazon-transcribe", "amazon-polly", "agentcore-memory", "agentcore-identity", "aws-secrets-manager", "agentcore-web-search", "aws-mcp-servers", "amazon-ses", "amazon-location", "amazon-translate", "amazon-ads-api" ], "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon.com Services LLC", "domain": "amazon.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement", "privacy": "https://amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8\u0026nodeId=468496", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/get-started/using-sdk", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "Schedule 1 of the Operating Agreement (updated 15 October 2025) names Amazon.com Services LLC for the United States and amazon.com as the site.", "The API answers at creatorsapi.amazon, on Amazon's own .amazon top-level domain, and tokens come from api.amazon.com, api.amazon.co.uk or api.amazon.co.jp.", "The privacy URL is the Amazon.com Privacy Notice link in the Operating Agreement. It sits on amazon.com, whose robots.txt disallows our crawler, so it was not read.", "security.txt on www.amazon.com was not read for the same reason. affiliate-program.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "RDAP for amazon.com gives a registration date of 1994-11-01." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api.json", "live": { "slug": "amazon-creators-api", "probe": { "target": "https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-25T20:42:19.216540766Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 76, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 24, "p95ms24h": 128, "samples24h": 252, "samples30d": 2909, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 166, "ok": 166 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 217, "ok": 217 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:05.41290253Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "amazon.com", "registered": "1994-11-01", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/amazon.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:56:37.051259568Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/get-started/using-sdk", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T02:39:28.29724061Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "017708142a0c" }, { "url": "https://amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8\u0026nodeId=468496", "kind": "privacy", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T02:39:47.670178683Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T02:39:30.613671951Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ea4e76c59426" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-25T20:42:19.216540766Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Walmart Agent Gateway's 8.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "walmart-agent-gateway", "name": "Walmart Agent Gateway", "vendor": "Walmart Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers", "kind": "mcp", "category": "shopping", "summary": "Walmart Agent Gateway is Walmart's announced MCP interface for AI agents that shop Walmart and Sam's Club for a customer. Announced on 21 October 2026, it starts as a beta by request for companies and developers, with no public endpoint.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. Walmart's terms for AI agents are summarised in its announcement of 21 October 2026; no full terms document was found on a page we could read", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No credential model is published. Walmart's post says the gateway begins with a beta for companies and developers, reached through a link to www.walmart.com/agents, which answered with a bot check and was not read. For Agent Profiles, announced for about November 2026, the post says Walmart creates a profile the first time an agent shops through the gateway and the customer links it by signing in to their Walmart account. Today, per the post, an agent shopping for a customer signs in with the customer's own account (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No charge to agent developers is named on any page we could read. The post says agents see the same prices a person sees on Walmart.com, with applicable discounts and fees shown before purchase. Terms of the beta were not read (checked 2026-10-25).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in Walmart's announcement of 21 October 2026, and no public endpoint to carry one. The post says agents don't receive payment-card information and can't add or change payment methods (checked 2026-10-25).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-25" }, "docsUrl": "https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers", "capabilities": [ "shopping.orders", "shopping.search", "shopping.prices" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "closed-source", "beta", "early-access", "announced", "security-txt", "new" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 8.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1202, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1210, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 10, "reliability": 5, "schema": 0, "security": 10, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-25" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Walmart has published terms for agents shopping its sites, including customer approval of purchases by default, no access to payment cards and blocking of agents that break them. The gateway is a beta by request for companies and developers, with no public endpoint, documentation, tool list or price, and Agent Profiles are announced for about November 2026.", "bestFor": "Agents buying from Walmart and Sam's Club for a person, once the beta opens to them, with per-agent limits when Agent Profiles ship.", "strengths": [ "Walmart's published terms require customer approval of agent purchases by default and let Walmart ask for more approvals within a limit", "Agents don't receive payment-card details and can't add or change a customer's payment methods, per the terms of 21 October 2026", "Walmart's returns process applies to agent purchases, including when an agent doesn't act as intended", "Walmart states agents see the same prices as people on Walmart.com, with fees shown before purchase" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public MCP endpoint, tool list, developer documentation or price was found on 25 October 2026", "Access is a beta for companies and developers by request; the beta page sits behind a bot check and its conditions were not read", "Agent Profiles, with per-agent spending limits and separate purchase history, are announced for about November 2026 and not live", "The full terms for AI agents were not found as a readable page; only the post's summary of them was read", "No status page, changelog, rate limits or MCP registry entry for the gateway was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't look for a public endpoint; Walmart hasn't published one, and the gateway starts as a beta for approved companies and developers", "Ask your human for approval before any Walmart purchase; Walmart's terms require it by default and block agents that act beyond the shopper's intent", "Don't request or store the customer's card details; Walmart's terms bar agents from payment-card data and payment-method changes", "Treat claims that ChatGPT, Gemini or Muse already connect through the gateway as Reuters's reporting; Walmart's own post doesn't say so" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 8.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 10, "reliability": 5, "schema": 0, "security": 10, "transparency": 31 }, "provenanceScore": 66, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-25", "maintenance": "2026-10-25", "payments": "2026-10-25", "reliability": "2026-10-25", "schema": "2026-10-25", "security": "2026-10-25", "transparency": "2026-10-25" }, "last": "2026-10-25", "oldest": "2026-10-25", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/shopping.orders", "tool": "https://letme.dev/walmart-agent-gateway" }, "sameCompany": [ "walmart-affiliate-api" ], "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Walmart Inc.", "domain": "walmart.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-02-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.walmart.com/help/article/walmart-com-terms-of-use/3b75080af40340d6bbd596f116fae5a0", "privacy": "https://corporate.walmart.com/privacy-security/walmart-privacy-notice", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-25", "notes": [ "The announcement's footer reads © 2026 Walmart Inc. No page read names the legal entity that runs the gateway or its beta. The walmart-affiliate-api listing names Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC for walmart.com's API terms.", "The terms URL is the walmart.com Terms of Use recorded on the walmart-affiliate-api listing on 14 October 2026. www.walmart.com answers our reader with a bot check, so it was not read today. The terms for AI agents exist only as the summary in the post; no full document was found.", "The Walmart Customer Privacy Notice (Online and In-Store) shows Updated August 20, 2026. It says nothing about agents or the gateway. The post says the agent's own privacy policy covers what the agent receives and Walmart's Privacy Notice covers what the agent gives Walmart.", "www.walmart.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a Contact (the responsible disclosure policy on corporate.walmart.com), a Policy, a Canonical and Preferred-Languages, with no Expires field. Recorded as valid, as on the walmart-affiliate-api listing.", "No endpoint is published, so endpointOnVendorDomain is left empty. No status page or changelog for the gateway was found.", "RDAP for walmart.com gives a registration date of 23 February 1995.", "robots.txt was read first on corporate.walmart.com (allows ClaudeBot on the post), www.walmart.com (allows /agents), developer.walmart.com and www.ksl.com. www.walmart.com/agents answered with a bot check, which we did not try to get past." ], "score": 66 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.json", "live": { "slug": "walmart-agent-gateway", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://walmart.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:25.025977164Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:25.025977164Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon.com Services LLC", "b": "Walmart Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement and its IP Licence for each locale", "b": "Proprietary hosted service. Walmart's terms for AI agents are summarised in its announcement of 21 October 2026; no full terms document was found on a page we could read", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-21", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-10-15", "b": "2026-09-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-30", "b": "2026-08-20", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Amazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Walmart Agent Gateway's 8.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Creators API or Walmart Agent Gateway?" }, { "answer": "Amazon Creators API uses an OAuth sign-in. Walmart Agent Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Amazon Creators API and Walmart Agent Gateway need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Amazon Creators API has a hosted endpoint at https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for Walmart Agent Gateway.", "question": "Can an agent call Amazon Creators API and Walmart Agent Gateway without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 45 against 5", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 50 against 0", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 41 against 0" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Product search, price checks and affiliate links for an agent that recommends Amazon products and hands the purchase to the person.", "slug": "amazon-creators-api", "watchFor": "No order, cart, checkout, order status or return operation" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents buying from Walmart and Sam's Club for a person, once the beta opens to them, with per-agent limits when Agent Profiles ship.", "slug": "walmart-agent-gateway", "watchFor": "No public MCP endpoint, tool list, developer documentation or price was found on 25 October 2026" } ], "job": { "capability": "shopping.search", "name": "Product search for shoppers" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-best-buy.json", "title": "Amazon Creators API vs Best Buy Developer API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-best-buy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-etsy.json", "title": "Amazon Creators API vs Etsy Open API v3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-etsy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-shop-mcp.json", "title": "Amazon Creators API vs Shop MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-shop-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-walmart-affiliate-api.json", "title": "Amazon Creators API vs Walmart Affiliate Marketing API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-walmart-affiliate-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude.json", "title": "Amazon Creators API vs Zillow in Claude", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/best-buy-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.json", "title": "Best Buy Developer API vs Walmart Agent Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/best-buy-vs-walmart-agent-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/etsy-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.json", "title": "Etsy Open API v3 vs Walmart Agent Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/etsy-vs-walmart-agent-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shop-mcp-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.json", "title": "Shop MCP vs Walmart Agent Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shop-mcp-vs-walmart-agent-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-affiliate-api-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.json", "title": "Walmart Affiliate Marketing API vs Walmart Agent Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-affiliate-api-vs-walmart-agent-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-agent-gateway-vs-zillow-claude.json", "title": "Walmart Agent Gateway vs Zillow in Claude", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-agent-gateway-vs-zillow-claude" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-instacart.json", "title": "Amazon Creators API vs Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-instacart" } ], "scores": [ { "amazon-creators-api": 45, "by": 40, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "walmart-agent-gateway": 5, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 50, "by": 50, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "walmart-agent-gateway": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 85, "by": 85, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "walmart-agent-gateway": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 48, "by": 38, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "walmart-agent-gateway": 10, "weight": 14 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 10, "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "walmart-agent-gateway": 10, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 41, "by": 41, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "walmart-agent-gateway": 0, "weight": 7 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 52, "by": 3, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "walmart-agent-gateway": 49, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Amazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Walmart Agent Gateway's 8.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do product search for shoppers.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "amazon-creators-api": "Read-only product search and lookup across 22 Amazon stores, with field selection, typed error reasons and documented rate limits. It cannot place or follow orders, so a person buys through the affiliate link. Access needs an accepted Associates account with 10 qualifying sales in 30 days, and the Agent Terms require agents to identify themselves.", "walmart-agent-gateway": "Walmart has published terms for agents shopping its sites, including customer approval of purchases by default, no access to payment cards and blocking of agents that break them. 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Both do product search for shoppers.\n\n- Amazon Creators API: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #949 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-creators-api.json\n- Walmart Agent Gateway: grade F, 8.3/100, rank #1202 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.json\n- Best shopping and order APIs for AI agents buying for a person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/shopping/index.md\n- All 24 shopping comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shopping/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Creators API (D)\n\nGood for: Product search, price checks and affiliate links for an agent that recommends Amazon products and hands the purchase to the person.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 45 against 5\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 50 against 0\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 41 against 0\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No order, cart, checkout, order status or return operation\n\n### Walmart Agent Gateway (F)\n\nGood for: Agents buying from Walmart and Sam's Club for a person, once the beta opens to them, with per-agent limits when Agent Profiles ship.\n\nWatch for: No public MCP endpoint, tool list, developer documentation or price was found on 25 October 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Creators API | Walmart Agent Gateway | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 5 | Amazon Creators API +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 0 | Amazon Creators API +50 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 0 | Amazon Creators API +85 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 10 | Amazon Creators API +38 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 41 | 0 | Amazon Creators API +41 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 49 | Amazon Creators API +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **48.7 · D** | **8.3 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Creators API | Walmart Agent Gateway |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Amazon.com Services LLC | Walmart Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement and its IP Licence for each locale | Proprietary hosted service. Walmart's terms for AI agents are summarised in its announcement of 21 October 2026; no full terms document was found on a page we could read |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-10-15 | 2026-09-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2026-08-20 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Creators API.** Read-only product search and lookup across 22 Amazon stores, with field selection, typed error reasons and documented rate limits. It cannot place or follow orders, so a person buys through the affiliate link. Access needs an accepted Associates account with 10 qualifying sales in 30 days, and the Agent Terms require agents to identify themselves.\n\n**Walmart Agent Gateway.** Walmart has published terms for agents shopping its sites, including customer approval of purchases by default, no access to payment cards and blocking of agents that break them. The gateway is a beta by request for companies and developers, with no public endpoint, documentation, tool list or price, and Agent Profiles are announced for about November 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Creators API\n\n1. Send x-marketplace as a header and marketplace and partnerTag in the body on every call\n2. Cache the access token for its 3,600 seconds and share it across processes\n3. Request only the resources the task needs, and use offersV2 for prices, because the older price resource is gone\n4. Set the user agent to Agent/\u003cname\u003e as the Associates Agent Terms require\n5. Hand purchases to the person through the returned detailPageURL without editing its parameters\n\n### Walmart Agent Gateway\n\n1. Don't look for a public endpoint; Walmart hasn't published one, and the gateway starts as a beta for approved companies and developers\n2. Ask your human for approval before any Walmart purchase; Walmart's terms require it by default and block agents that act beyond the shopper's intent\n3. Don't request or store the customer's card details; Walmart's terms bar agents from payment-card data and payment-method changes\n4. Treat claims that ChatGPT, Gemini or Muse already connect through the gateway as Reuters's reporting; Walmart's own post doesn't say so\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Creators API or Walmart Agent Gateway?\n\nAmazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Walmart Agent Gateway's 8.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Amazon Creators API and Walmart Agent Gateway need an API key?\n\nAmazon Creators API uses an OAuth sign-in. Walmart Agent Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Creators API and Walmart Agent Gateway without installing anything?\n\nAmazon Creators API has a hosted endpoint at https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1. 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From a terminal: `anchor compare amazon-creators-api walmart-agent-gateway`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-creators-api.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Amazon Creators API or Walmart Agent Gateway\n\n- [Amazon Creators API vs Best Buy Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-best-buy.md)\n- [Amazon Creators API vs Etsy Open API v3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-etsy.md)\n- [Amazon Creators API vs Shop MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-shop-mcp.md)\n- [Amazon Creators API vs Walmart Affiliate Marketing API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-walmart-affiliate-api.md)\n- [Amazon Creators API vs Zillow in Claude](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude.md)\n- [Best Buy Developer API vs Walmart Agent Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/best-buy-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.md)\n- [Etsy Open API v3 vs Walmart Agent Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/etsy-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.md)\n- [Shop MCP vs Walmart Agent Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shop-mcp-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.md)\n- [Walmart Affiliate Marketing API vs Walmart Agent Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-affiliate-api-vs-walmart-agent-gateway.md)\n- [Walmart Agent Gateway vs Zillow in Claude](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-agent-gateway-vs-zillow-claude.md)\n- [Amazon Creators API vs Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-instacart.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-25", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.6", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Amazon Creators API vs Walmart Agent Gateway", "url": "" } ], "description": "Amazon Creators scores 48.7 (D) to Walmart Agent Gateway's 8.3 (F) for product search for shoppers. 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