KicksDB alternative for sneaker prices and barcodes

A correction to the earlier version

Until 25 October 2026 this page said that Barcodes.gg had no StockX prices and sent price buyers to KicksDB. That is no longer correct. On that date Barcodes.gg started a resale price API with StockX, Alias and other marketplaces. This version compares the two products again.

What KicksDB does well

KicksDB (kicks.dev) sells one API for the sneaker resale market. These points come from its own site, documentation and changelog, read on 25 October 2026:

• Cost per request. Starter costs €29 per month for 50,000 requests. Pro costs €79 for 250,000. Requests that do not answer with a 2xx status are not counted.
• A free plan. 1,000 requests per month for the US market.
• GOAT data. Its sources page lists GOAT for the US, UK and NL markets. Barcodes.gg has no GOAT source today.
• Sales history. Sales and daily sales endpoints for the US and DE markets, three months back.
• A batch price endpoint that takes 50 SKUs in one call, and server-sent events on the Pro plan.
• Developer extras. A JavaScript SDK, a status page, a usage header (X-Quota-Current) and terms that allow resale of its data.

Where KicksDB is weaker

• EU StockX freshness. Its sources page gives a StockX refresh of 4 hours for the US and 24 hours for the EU.
• EU marketplaces. The same page lists no Alias, Klekt, Restocks, Laced or HypeBoost data.
• Stability. Its changelog records a StockX sales history outage that lasted months and ended on 13 July 2026. It also records several removals in 2026: webhooks, CSV export, and the IT and PL markets.
• Barcodes. KicksDB has a unified product lookup by GTIN. It does not publish how many barcodes it holds. We did not test whether that lookup returns the size of the scanned barcode.

What Barcodes.gg does differently

• Barcode to size to price in one call. GET /api/v2/prices/barcode/{barcode} finds the style code and size of the barcode, then returns the prices for that size only. The catalogue holds 3.09 million barcodes, each stored with its size.
• EU marketplaces. Rows from StockX (EUR, with markets such as EU), Alias (GOAT Group), Laced, HypeBoost, Poizon, SneakerAsk, NordicSneakers, Woovin and others.
• A time on every price. Each size has its own as_of. is_stale is true when the newest price is older than 24 hours.
• Misses are not charged. A product without cached prices returns "error": true and does not use a call.
• The barcode API in the same plan. The same token can look up product data, sizes and images by barcode.

The full request and response format is on the sneaker resale price API page.

Cost per request

KicksDB costs less per request. Its Starter plan is €29 for 50,000 requests, which is €0.58 per 1,000. Resale prices on Barcodes.gg start with the Standard plan: €49 for 10,000 calls, which is €4.90 per 1,000. Barcodes.gg has no free tier for prices. Its 7-day trial covers barcode lookups only.

So the choice depends on the data, not on the price per call. If you need the price for the pair in a scanned box, or EU marketplaces, compare the answers first. If you need high volume from StockX and GOAT, KicksDB is the cheaper option.

When to stay with KicksDB

• You need GOAT prices or sales history.
• You make tens of thousands of requests a month and cost per request decides the choice.
• You want a free plan that does not expire.
• You need price events pushed to you, or a batch call for 50 SKUs.
• Your products start from a SKU and your market is the US.

When Barcodes.gg fits better

• You start from a barcode, for example in a scan-in or stock-take flow, and need the price for that size.
• You sell in Europe and need Alias, Laced, HypeBoost or StockX EU market prices.
• You also need product data, size runs and images from the barcode.

To decide, take 20 style codes and 20 barcodes from your own stock. Send them to both APIs. Count the products with a price and check the time on each price. The sneaker price API comparison covers four more options.