{ "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": 939, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1197, "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": "2026-10-21T23:21:34.260841143Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 24, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 25, "p95ms24h": 82, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 1934, "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": 247, "ok": 247 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T15:59:16.885716514Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "amazon.com", "registered": "1994-11-01", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/amazon.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:28:02.559100455Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/creatorsapi/docs/en-us/get-started/using-sdk", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:41:19.484966484Z", "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": "2026-10-21T00:41:34.149346627Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:41:21.812442967Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ea4e76c59426" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-21T23:21:34.260841143Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Zillow in Claude's 28.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zillow in Claude leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "zillow-claude", "name": "Zillow in Claude", "vendor": "Zillow Group", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zillow.com/", "kind": "mcp", "category": "shopping", "summary": "Zillow's own connector for Claude, a remote MCP server that searches US homes for sale and rent, returns property details, Zestimate home values and neighbourhood market data, and calculates affordability and mortgage payments. No Zillow account is needed.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zillow-claude", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zillow-claude.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zillow-claude.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zillow-claude.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. No source published", "transports": [], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2", "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "Anthropic's directory entry gives sign-in as not required and the description says no Zillow account is needed (https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/zillow, read 21 October 2026). We opened no MCP session, so this wasn't seen in a response. A plain GET to mcp.zillow.com answers 400 with \"Http operation is not supported for gateway protocol type MCP\".", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No price is published on any page we could read. The directory entry and Zillow's release of 19 October 2026 name no charge, and no Zillow account is needed. Zillow earns from the tours, agent connections and loan officers the release says the connector leads to. Which Claude plans can add it was not read first-hand.", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in Anthropic's directory entry or Zillow's release (checked 2026-10-21). Nothing is sold through the tools that were listed.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.zillow.com/connect-claude-to-zillow/", "capabilities": [ "shopping.search", "shopping.prices" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "no-auth", "free", "closed-source", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 28.6, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1126, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 33, "maintenance": 35, "payments": 50, "reliability": 15, "schema": 9, "security": 32, "transparency": 44 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Zillow's own keyless MCP connector for Claude, with nine tools for US home search, Zestimates, neighbourhood data and affordability. None of its tools writes anything. Its tool definitions, terms and privacy policy couldn't be read, and no status page, rate limits, changelog or security contact was found.", "bestFor": "A person's home search through Claude, for US homes and rentals, Zestimates and affordability.", "strengths": [ "Published by Zillow itself, with a release of 19 October 2026 and an Anthropic directory entry naming Zillow Inc. as maker", "No sign-in or Zillow account needed, per the directory entry", "Nine tools, every one named for search, lookup or calculation, with no write action listed", "Search filters named in the directory include price, home type, commute time, schools, pets and amenities", "Zillow says it sends no data to Anthropic and shows listings with their broker and MLS attribution" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public tool reference. The tool definitions weren't read, and Zillow's own connector page answered with a bot check", "No status page, rate limits, SLA or changelog found", "Zillow's terms of use are disallowed by robots.txt and its privacy notice answered with a bot check, so what they allow an agent to do is unread", "No security.txt on zillow.com or zillowgroup.com, and no public bug bounty found", "Not in the official MCP registry. Third-party Zillow servers hold the zillow names there" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the server at https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2 from Anthropic's directory, not the third-party Zillow servers in the MCP registry", "Search on objective criteria (location, price, size, amenities, schools, commute), since the release says the connector won't search on protected characteristics", "Treat Zestimates and affordability results as estimates, and hand tours, agent contact and financing to the person through Zillow's links", "Read tools/list before planning, because no tool reference is published and the input fields aren't documented anywhere we could read" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 28.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 33, "maintenance": 35, "payments": 50, "reliability": 15, "schema": 9, "security": 32, "transparency": 18 }, "provenanceScore": 70, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-21", "maintenance": "2026-10-21", "payments": "2026-10-21", "reliability": "2026-10-21", "schema": "2026-10-21", "security": "2026-10-21", "transparency": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http zillow https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2", "config": { "mcpServers": { "zillow": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/shopping.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zillow-claude" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zillow Group, Inc.", "domain": "zillow.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-09-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zillow.com/corp/Terms.htm", "privacy": "https://www.zillowgroup.com/zg-privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The release names Zillow Group, Inc. (Nasdaq Z and ZG) and says the Zillow marks are owned by MFTB Holdco, Inc., a Zillow affiliate. The directory names the maker as Zillow Inc.", "The terms URL is the one www.zillow.com's robots.txt points to in its header, and robots.txt disallows it for all crawlers, so it was not fetched. The privacy URL is the one Anthropic's directory links. It redirects to https://www.zillow.com/corporate/zg-privacy-notice/, which answered with a PerimeterX bot check.", "www.zillow.com/.well-known/security.txt and www.zillowgroup.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. mcp.zillow.com answers every plain GET, including robots.txt and security.txt, with a 400 from its MCP gateway.", "status.zillow.com gave no answer to our request, and no status page was found.", "RDAP for zillow.com gives a registration date of 2004-09-16, registrar GoDaddy Corporate Domains." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zillow-claude.json", "live": { "slug": "zillow-claude", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-21T23:22:09.649915457Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 440, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 437, "p95ms24h": 534, "samples24h": 19, "samples30d": 19, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 19, "ok": 19 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-21T23:22:09.649915457Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon.com Services LLC", "b": "Zillow Group", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1", "b": "https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "None", "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. No source published", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "9", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-21", "b": "2026-10-19", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-10-15", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-30", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Amazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Zillow in Claude's 28.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zillow in Claude leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Creators API or Zillow in Claude?" }, { "answer": "Amazon Creators API uses an OAuth sign-in. Zillow in Claude needs no key.", "question": "Do Amazon Creators API and Zillow in Claude need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Amazon Creators API has a hosted endpoint at https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1 and Zillow in Claude at https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Amazon Creators API and Zillow in Claude without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 45 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 50 against 9", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 33", "Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 32", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 41 against 35", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 44" ], "also": null, "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": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 10" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "A person's home search through Claude, for US homes and rentals, Zestimates and affordability.", "slug": "zillow-claude", "watchFor": "No public tool reference. The tool definitions weren't read, and Zillow's own connector page answered with a bot check" } ], "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/best-buy-vs-zillow-claude.json", "title": "Best Buy Developer API vs Zillow in Claude", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/best-buy-vs-zillow-claude" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/etsy-vs-zillow-claude.json", "title": "Etsy Open API v3 vs Zillow in Claude", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/etsy-vs-zillow-claude" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shop-mcp-vs-zillow-claude.json", "title": "Shop MCP vs Zillow in Claude", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shop-mcp-vs-zillow-claude" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-affiliate-api-vs-zillow-claude.json", "title": "Walmart Affiliate Marketing API vs Zillow in Claude", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/walmart-affiliate-api-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": 30, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "zillow-claude": 15 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 50, "by": 41, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "zillow-claude": 9 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 85, "by": 52, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "zillow-claude": 33 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 48, "by": 16, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "zillow-claude": 32 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 10, "by": 40, "edge": "zillow-claude", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "zillow-claude": 50 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 41, "by": 6, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "zillow-claude": 35 }, { "amazon-creators-api": 52, "by": 8, "edge": "amazon-creators-api", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "zillow-claude": 44 } ], "summary": "Amazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Zillow in Claude's 28.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zillow in Claude leads on payments \u0026 pricing. 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.", "zillow-claude": "Zillow's own keyless MCP connector for Claude, with nine tools for US home search, Zestimates, neighbourhood data and affordability. None of its tools writes anything. Its tool definitions, terms and privacy policy couldn't be read, and no status page, rate limits, changelog or security contact was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude.min.md" }, "markdown": "Amazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Zillow in Claude's 28.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zillow in Claude leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do product search for shoppers.\n\n- Amazon Creators API: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #939 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-creators-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-creators-api.json\n- Zillow in Claude: grade F, 28.6/100, rank #1126 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zillow-claude.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zillow-claude.json\n- Best shopping and order APIs for AI agents buying for a person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/shopping/index.md\n- All 18 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 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 50 against 9\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 33\n- Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 32\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 41 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 44\n\nWatch for: No order, cart, checkout, order status or return operation\n\n### Zillow in Claude (F)\n\nGood for: A person's home search through Claude, for US homes and rentals, Zestimates and affordability.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: No public tool reference. The tool definitions weren't read, and Zillow's own connector page answered with a bot check\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Creators API | Zillow in Claude | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 15 | Amazon Creators API +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 9 | Amazon Creators API +41 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 33 | Amazon Creators API +52 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 32 | Amazon Creators API +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 50 | Zillow in Claude +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 41 | 35 | Amazon Creators API +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 44 | Amazon Creators API +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **48.7 · D** | **28.6 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Creators API | Zillow in Claude |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Amazon.com Services LLC | Zillow Group |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1` | `https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth | None |\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. No source published |\n| Tools exposed | none | 9 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-19 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-10-15 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-30 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\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**Zillow in Claude.** Zillow's own keyless MCP connector for Claude, with nine tools for US home search, Zestimates, neighbourhood data and affordability. None of its tools writes anything. Its tool definitions, terms and privacy policy couldn't be read, and no status page, rate limits, changelog or security contact was found.\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### Zillow in Claude\n\n1. Use the server at https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2 from Anthropic's directory, not the third-party Zillow servers in the MCP registry\n2. Search on objective criteria (location, price, size, amenities, schools, commute), since the release says the connector won't search on protected characteristics\n3. Treat Zestimates and affordability results as estimates, and hand tours, agent contact and financing to the person through Zillow's links\n4. Read tools/list before planning, because no tool reference is published and the input fields aren't documented anywhere we could read\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Creators API or Zillow in Claude?\n\nAmazon Creators API scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Zillow in Claude's 28.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zillow in Claude leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Amazon Creators API and Zillow in Claude need an API key?\n\nAmazon Creators API uses an OAuth sign-in. Zillow in Claude needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Creators API and Zillow in Claude without installing anything?\n\nYes. Amazon Creators API has a hosted endpoint at https://creatorsapi.amazon/catalog/v1 and Zillow in Claude at https://mcp.zillow.com/api/v2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-creators-api-vs-zillow-claude.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"amazon-creators-api\", \"b\": \"zillow-claude\"}`. 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