Search Alibaba.com products and suppliers API

Price

$0.0072 / result + $0.0075 / call

Results per run

20 default · up to 300

Billing

Only results delivered are billed. Failed runs pay no call fee.

Hand it to your AI agent

Copy this prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any coding agent. It tells the agent where the docs are and how to use your API key.

Use the Lovely Router data tool "Search Alibaba.com products and suppliers" (id `alibaba-products`, Alibaba.com) to get data for me. It returns JSON.

- Docs (read first): https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/run.md and https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/api/tools.md
- Input fields and price: GET https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/alibaba-products (public, no key needed). Price: $0.0072 / result + $0.0075 / call.
- Run: POST https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/alibaba-products/run with a body like `{"input":{"keywords":["led lights"],"maxResults":5},"max_results":10}`. A 200 has the finished run with `items`; a 202 means it is still running, so poll the `poll` path until `status` is `succeeded`, `failed`, `timed_out` or `stopped`.
- Only delivered results are billed. Keep max_results small on the first run, check the output, then scale up (up to 300 per run).
- If you support MCP, you can instead connect the server https://lovelyrouter.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, same key; https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/mcp.md) and use suggest_tools, get_tool and run_tool with tool "alibaba-products".
- Auth: read my API key from the LOVELY_API_KEY environment variable and send it as `Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY`. Never print or commit the key. If it is not set, ask me to create one at https://lovelyrouter.com/app/keys.
- Billing is prepaid: every call is charged to my balance, so test with a small request before running anything large.
- Every docs page is plain Markdown; the full index is https://lovelyrouter.com/llms.txt.

My task: <describe the data you need, e.g. which places, profiles, keywords or URLs, and the output format>

Input

resultTypestring

products (listings with their supplier) or suppliers.

products · suppliers · category

keywordsarray

Search words, one search each.

shipToCountrystring

Buyer country for prices and delivery (ISO code, default US).

US · CN · DE · GB · FR · IT · ES · NL · BE · SE · PL · CH

sortBystring

Order results by best match or by total units sold.

relevance · sales_volume

minPriceinteger

Minimum unit price (in the Deliver-to currency).

maxPriceinteger

Maximum unit price.

maxMOQinteger

Minimum order quantity at most this.

supplierCountriesarray

Filter by supplier location. Enter ISO country codes, e.g. CN, IN, DE. Works on Standard and Worldwide.

verifiedSupplierboolean

Only Verified Suppliers (independently checked).

verifiedManufacturerboolean

Only Verified Manufacturers (actual factories).

tradeAssuranceboolean

Only suppliers offering Trade Assurance order protection.

Try it

Input (JSON)

Max results

Costs at most $0.0795

Call it from code

How runs, polling and billing work →

curl https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/alibaba-products/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input":{"keywords":["led lights"],"maxResults":5},"max_results":20}'

# MCP (agents): suggest_tools → get_tool → run_tool
run_tool({
  "tool": "alibaba-products",
  "input": {"keywords":["led lights"],"maxResults":5},
  "max_results": 20
})

What it costs

Results	Runs (at 300 per run)	Cost
100	1	$0.727
1,000	4	$7.23
10,000	34	$72.26

Prepaid, no subscription. Fewer results than requested cost less. Pricing

Used for

Shortlist Chinese factories by minimum order and tiered price Vet Alibaba.com suppliers before you request quotes Find overseas suppliers from US import records for sourcing Taobao and Tmall product data for sourcing and price tracking

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Search Alibaba.com products and suppliers API cost?

$0.0072 / result + $0.0075 / call. 1,000 results, fetched in runs of up to 300, cost $7.23. There is no subscription: you pay from a prepaid balance.

How many results does one run return?

20 by default and up to 300 per run. Set max_results to cap a run: you are billed only for the results it delivers.

Do I need a Alibaba.com account or API key?

No. You call the tool with your Lovely Router API key and get JSON back. There is nothing to set up on Alibaba.com.

Can an AI agent use this tool?

Yes. Connect Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client to the Lovely Router MCP server: the agent finds the tool with suggest_tools and runs it with run_tool and the id alibaba-products.

What happens if a run fails?

A run that fails or is stopped pays only for the results it delivered, with no call fee. The most a run can cost is held when it starts and the rest is released when it settles.