specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Best Buy
providerId: best-buy
created: '2026-05-04'
generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: https://developer.bestbuy.com/ + https://developer.bestbuy.com/legal
modified: '2026-08-27'
reconciled: true
tags:
- Retail
- Free Tier
- Partner
description: >-
  Best Buy publishes no priced API plans and no pricing page. There are two access tiers, and
  neither carries a monetary price. The self-serve developer key is free — register at
  developer.bestbuy.com, activate by email, and you get the catalog APIs at 50,000 calls/day
  and 5 calls/second. The Commerce API is a separate, sales-gated tier: it needs a distinct
  "CAPI key" obtained by contacting Best Buy, and its full technical documentation is only
  supplied after that key is issued. Revenue on the free tier is affiliate-mediated (Impact
  partner ID attached to product links) rather than metered, which is why no price list exists.
sources:
- https://developer.bestbuy.com/
- https://developer.bestbuy.com/legal
- https://bestbuyapis.github.io/api-documentation/#commerce-api
plan_count: 2
plans:
- id: best-buy-developer
  name: Developer Key (free)
  type: free
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  billing_period: none
  description: >-
    Self-serve, no-cost API key covering the Products, Categories, Stores, Recommendations,
    Reviews and Buying Options (Open Box) APIs. Registration and email activation only; no
    credit card, no contract.
  onboarding: self-serve
  quota:
    requests_per_day: 50000
    requests_per_second: 5
  overage: none — requests beyond the quota return HTTP 403 and an email notice; there is no paid overage
  limits:
  - Content may be cached no longer than 72 hours
  - Response links expire after seven days
  - Attribution to Best Buy and display of the Best Buy logo required
  - May not be used on behalf of or for the benefit of a third party such as another retailer
  - Best Buy may terminate access at any time, with or without notice
  entries:
  - label: Free developer key
    name: developer
    type: subscription
    metric: request
    limit: 50000
    timeFrame: day
    geo: us
    unit: 1
    price: 0
    userMultiplied: false
- id: best-buy-commerce-partner
  name: Commerce API (CAPI) Partner
  type: enterprise
  price: custom
  currency: USD
  billing_period: negotiated
  description: >-
    Sales-gated tier for authorized partners: product availability and delivery-date lookups,
    shipping cost estimation, order creation, order retrieval, and order modification/
    cancellation across store pickup, ship-to-home and home delivery. Requires a separate CAPI
    key requested through developer.bestbuy.com/contact-us?topic=commerce-api; full endpoint
    documentation is released only after the key is granted.
  onboarding: sales-gate
  quota: null
  overage: null
  limits:
  - Technical documentation not published publicly
  - Partner agreement required for commercial use
  entries:
  - label: Partner agreement (custom)
    name: partner
    type: subscription
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: us
    unit: 1
    price: custom
    userMultiplied: false
notes:
- No pricing page exists at developer.bestbuy.com; /pricing and /plans are not published and the portal navigation carries only Our APIs, Documentation, Contact Us and Login.
- Corrects the 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep record on this file, which described Best Buy as enterprise-contract-only and omitted the free self-serve developer key entirely.