If you are building a skincare app, you need product records that can become useful screens: a product search, an ingredient list, an explanation of what an ingredient does, and a way to find alternatives. If you are tracking the beauty market, you also need to know which retailer is selling a product, at what price and whether it is in stock.
BeautyFeeds and The Beauty API overlap on product and ingredient information, but they put different parts of that work first. BeautyFeeds documents a broad retail feed with prices, availability and reviews. We build The Beauty API around product lookup, linked ingredient records and a downloadable catalogue you can use in your own application.
For an ingredient-focused app, our main advantage is the preparation already represented in those records: ordered ingredient lists linked to shared ingredient names, functions and chemical identifiers, with product information available alongside them. For retailer price monitoring or review analysis, BeautyFeeds is the closer fit.
We make The Beauty API. This comparison uses public documentation checked on 23 October 2026; we have not tested BeautyFeeds' paid services or run a comparative accuracy benchmark.
What you get from each service
| Your requirement | BeautyFeeds | The Beauty API |
|---|---|---|
| Product search and browsing | Retailer product records with descriptions, categories and variants | Product search and filters, with ingredient information and hosted image URLs |
| Ingredient features | Formatted ingredient fields and a separately subscribed Ingredients API | Ordered product ingredient lists linked to a shared ingredient dictionary |
| Prices and availability | Retailer prices, currency, stock status and observation timestamps | No retailer price or stock feed |
| Reviews | Product rating fields and a separate review-data offering | No consumer review dataset |
| Barcode lookup | Documents GTIN, EAN and UPC fields where available | Lookup on barcode-enabled plans; coverage is partial |
| Offline catalogue | CSV and JSON downloads, with access depending on the offering | Complete Archive in JSONL, CSV and SQLite, with a product-image archive |
See BeautyFeeds' field reference, download offering and our API documentation for the underlying fields. The table compares documented capabilities; it does not establish how consistently either provider populates a field on the exact products you need.
Building an ingredient explorer
With The Beauty API, you can search for a product, fetch its record and display the ingredients in label order. Each ingredient occurrence keeps its captured label_name alongside a shared ingredient identity. That lets you show the name associated with the product while using the shared record to retrieve the available functions and identifiers.
You can also use ingredient filters to find products containing or excluding a selected ingredient. For a reader exploring niacinamide, for example, the same data can support the product page, the ingredient explanation and a list of other products containing it. You are building the interface and its recommendations on an existing set of links instead of creating your own ingredient-name mapping first. Our documentation shows the product, ingredient and filtering endpoints.
BeautyFeeds also supports ingredient applications. Its Ingredients API documents ingredient searches and product breakdowns, including functions, allergen flags and restrictions according to plan. It is a separate subscription from its Products API. Its ingredient endpoint returns a limited product record without images, descriptions or prices, so an app needing those details must account for the Products API as well.
That difference matters when you plan the integration: identify the fields needed on one complete product screen, then price the services required to populate it. With our API, the product response combines the ordered ingredient data, available enrichment and product image URL.
Ingredient formatting and ingredient information are different jobs
BeautyFeeds describes cleaning retailer ingredient text into a formatted INCI list. Its formatting guide says it removes headings, percentages and packaging disclaimers from that formatted representation. If your app needs a disclosed percentage, inspect the raw field as well as the formatted list.
In our records, concentration is a separate field where a percentage has been publicly disclosed. Most occurrences have no recorded value. We also provide functions, CAS and EC identifiers, and ingredient ratings where available. The preparation is useful because your application can work with these as fields, while preserving a visible gap when information is missing.
Our published coverage figures put functions at about 94% of ingredient occurrences, CAS numbers at 86% and EC numbers at 75%. Irritancy and comedogenicity each cover about 23%, and concentrations fewer than 1%. These are shares of ingredient appearances across products, not shares of unique ingredient names. They describe the September 2026 API catalogue underlying our current coverage figures, not an accuracy comparison with BeautyFeeds.
Use ingredient ratings as supplementary information. Neither a missing rating nor a low value establishes that a finished product is suitable for a particular person.
Compare the products your app needs, not just catalogue totals
BeautyFeeds advertises more than 400,000 product records across 55 retailers and seven countries. We offer around 180,000 beauty products, with a catalogue weighted toward skincare. Those totals describe scale, but retailer records, variants and catalogue products are not automatically equivalent units. A larger total alone cannot tell you which service will recognise more of your users' products. BeautyFeeds overview, our catalogue.
Geography also needs context. BeautyFeeds documents the country a listing was collected from. Our origin field describes brand origin; it does not identify every market where a product is sold. For a regional skincare app, the useful check is whether the provider has the right product and ingredient list for that market.
A short list of your essential products makes this comparison concrete. Include the variants and markets you intend to support, and compare the complete ingredient lists rather than counting name matches alone.
API pricing follows different units
The Beauty API's public Starter plan is $40 per month with 10,000 included calls. Paid usage beyond the allowance costs $0.02 per call, and paid batch requests count per item. New customers can start with a seven-day trial containing 100 requests total. The selected paid plan starts after seven days unless cancelled. Current options are in the dashboard, with usage rules in the FAQ.
BeautyFeeds' product-data pricing lists Starter at $59.99 per month for 5,000 credits and Pro at $259.99 for 25,000 credits; API access is listed on Pro and Enterprise. Its Ingredients API has its own subscription. These are different products, so the entry price of a product-data plan does not price a complete ingredient application. BeautyFeeds pricing, Ingredients API.
BeautyFeeds' Products API documentation says credits grant access to newly assigned products, after which repeated queries are free for the remainder of that billing cycle. Continued access renews with the cycle. Our paid API meters calls instead. To compare costs, use the same workload: distinct products, repeat lookups, batch items, required fields and any additional subscriptions.
When we would choose each
Choose BeautyFeeds for retail monitoring. Its retailer context, prices and stock fields address the job directly. Its review offering also makes it a stronger starting point for analysing customer reviews; confirm the delivery route for review records separately from product rating summaries.
Choose The Beauty API when your app centres on products and ingredients. We give you a product catalogue linked to ingredient records, with search and filtering you can use to build an ingredient explorer or product-discovery flow. Our advantage is having that structure ready for your application. Your own interface, preference logic and product experience remain yours to build.
Choose a dataset when you want to run the catalogue yourself. Our Complete Archive gives you a purchased snapshot to import, query and enrich in your own systems. That can support an app's search just as well as analysis, provided you take responsibility for hosting and updates. BeautyFeeds also offers downloads, so compare the included fields and licence for the specific package you need.
Start with our free sample to inspect the records, or use the API trial to try your product flow. If your project depends on particular brands or markets, send us your requirements so we can help you assess the fit.