Amazon cancels SP-API fees - what sellers and developers need to know

Amazon's May 12, 2026 email says the company "will not move forward with the SP-API usage and annual fees at this time." The phrase "at this time" leaves the door open for a future proposal in a different shape (tier-only, write-call-weighted, or limited to the largest commercial users). No new schedule has been announced.

Refunds are unlikely, but renegotiation is realistic. Pull every tool invoice since November 2025. Any vendor that raised its rate while citing SP-API fees is now overcharging on a withdrawn justification. Open the conversation this month and ask for a renegotiated rate, a downgrade path or a richer data refresh in exchange.

The $1,400 per developer annual subscription is cancelled. It will not be billed for 2026. If a future SP-API fee proposal returns, the structure may not include a flat annual subscription at all - tier-only or usage-only models are both possible alternatives.

The usage-based overage rate of $0.40 per 1,000 GET calls is also cancelled. Vendors that throttled or rationed call volume to fit Basic-tier limits get that engineering work back as headroom for richer data refresh, deeper history and faster onboarding flows.

No. The May 12 announcement covers the Selling Partner API only. The Amazon Advertising API is a separate platform with its own access model and was not part of the announced SP-API fee programme.

Nova ingests Amazon SP-API data with a 15-minute refresh and absorbs API costs as part of operating expenses rather than billing them through to sellers. Whether SP-API fees are zero (today) or return in a future shape, the Nova subscription price is unaffected. The same SP-API feeds also power the Amazon Data Library and Data API for teams that want raw and analysis-ready data delivered to BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks or Sheets.