# Alibaba.com products and suppliers

Alibaba.com products for a keyword, each with tiered ladder pricing, minimum order, SKU matrix, specs and certifications plus the supplier behind it. Needs keywords. Served by Apify.

Alibaba.com products for a keyword, each with tiered ladder pricing, minimum order, SKU matrix, specs and certifications plus the supplier behind it (verification, Trade Assurance, response time, on-time delivery, reorder rate, export markets), or supplier profiles directly. Use it for B2B sourcing, e.g. verified manufacturers of 'led lights' with a low MOQ. Price: up to $0.00499 per result (a product with its supplier, or a supplier profile) plus $0.00001 per dataset item, plus up to $0.005 per run. Billed at the run's actual cost, never more than max_cost_usd (default $0.25), which is enforced upstream as the run's charge limit. Returns { run, items } when the run ends within 40 s, otherwise a run id: fetch the items with apify/run-results (free, tool "alibaba-products"). A run that times out or reaches the limit returns and bills its partial items.

- Tool ID: `apify/alibaba-products`
- Provider: [Apify](/providers/apify.md)
- Capability: [E-commerce](/tools/ecommerce.md)
- Price: usage based, the maximum is shown before a run
- Authentication: an authorised Agentik workspace is required for execution, including zero-price tools.

## Pricing contract

Billed at the cost the provider reports for the call, never above $5. Your agent sees the maximum before running.


```json
{
  "model": "reported",
  "costPath": "data.usageTotalUsd",
  "requireCost": true,
  "maxUsdField": "max_cost_usd",
  "maxUsdDefault": 0.25,
  "maxUsdCap": 5,
  "headroom": 1
}
```

Pricing source: [https://apify.com/zen-studio/alibaba-scraper/pricing](https://apify.com/zen-studio/alibaba-scraper/pricing). Pay-per-event rate card of zen-studio/alibaba-scraper, read from the public Apify API (api.apify.com/v2/acts/zen-studio~alibaba-scraper): every event and tier price, the pricing model, who pays platform usage and the minimal charge limit..

Price verification date: 2026-11-03.

## Complete input schema


```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "keywords": {
      "type": "array",
      "minItems": 1,
      "maxItems": 3,
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 1,
        "maxLength": 100
      },
      "description": "Search keywords, one search each (1 to 3), e.g. ['led lights'] or ['cnc machine']"
    },
    "resultType": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "products",
        "suppliers"
      ],
      "default": "products",
      "description": "Product listings with their supplier, or manufacturer and factory profiles, e.g. 'suppliers'"
    },
    "maxResults": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100,
      "default": 20,
      "description": "Results per keyword, 1 to 100 (each result is billed), e.g. 20"
    },
    "sortBy": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "relevance",
        "sales_volume"
      ],
      "default": "relevance",
      "description": "Order of the results, e.g. 'sales_volume'"
    },
    "shipToCountry": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Z]{2}$",
      "default": "US",
      "description": "Buyer country for prices and delivery estimates, ISO code, e.g. 'DE'"
    },
    "minPrice": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 10000000,
      "description": "Lowest unit price, e.g. 1"
    },
    "maxPrice": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 10000000,
      "description": "Highest unit price, e.g. 20"
    },
    "maxMOQ": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 10000000,
      "description": "Only suppliers whose minimum order is at most this, e.g. 100"
    },
    "supplierCountries": {
      "type": "array",
      "maxItems": 5,
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "pattern": "^[A-Z]{2}$"
      },
      "description": "Supplier countries, ISO codes, e.g. ['CN', 'VN']"
    },
    "verifiedSupplier": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Only Verified Suppliers, e.g. true"
    },
    "verifiedManufacturer": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Only Verified Manufacturers (factories), e.g. true"
    },
    "tradeAssurance": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Only suppliers offering Trade Assurance, e.g. true"
    },
    "productCertTags": {
      "type": "array",
      "maxItems": 5,
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 1,
        "maxLength": 20
      },
      "description": "Product certifications, e.g. ['CE', 'ROHS']"
    },
    "max_cost_usd": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": 0.01,
      "maximum": 5,
      "default": 0.25,
      "description": "Charge limit for this run in USD, reserved from your balance and enforced upstream as the run's charge limit (default $0.25, at most $5). The run stops charging there."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "keywords"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Published example

This is the provider tool’s published example. Replace example values with the user’s requested inputs, respecting the schema; do not execute an example merely to test a connection.


```json
{
  "tool_id": "apify/alibaba-products",
  "input": {
    "keywords": [
      "led lights"
    ],
    "maxResults": 2,
    "max_cost_usd": 0.05
  }
}
```

## Execute and retrieve

Inspect again before execution, explain the price and obtain the required authority. Use MCP run_tool or POST /v1/run with this tool ID, valid input and an idempotency key. Save the returned run ID and follow the actual state. If Agentik answers that the tool is temporarily unavailable, do not retry it blindly; use discovery to propose an alternative.

This tool uses deferred settlement. Follow its returned task/run instructions; preserve the existing reservation until the result is reconciled.

A partial or uncertain result can still have consumed provider resources. Consult [billing](/docs/billing.md), [idempotency](/docs/idempotency.md) and [asynchronous results](/docs/async.md).

[REST inspection](https://api.agentik.cc/v1/tools/apify/alibaba-products) · [OpenAPI](/openapi.json) · [Connection guide](/connect.md)

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