KicksDB alternative for former KicksDB users

What happened to KicksDB

On 21 October 2026, Packet published the post "From KicksDB to Packet". We read it on 25 October 2026. It states these points:

• "KicksDB no longer accepts new sign-ups."
• Packet (pckt.sh) is the next product, and the same team makes it.
• Since July 2026, the Packet data layer serves the KicksDB StockX and GOAT data.
• The Packet cached catalog does the job of the KicksDB Standard API.

The post gives no end date for api.kicks.dev. The KicksDB documentation shows a banner that offers 2,500 free Packet credits with the coupon KICKSDB. kicks.dev did not answer on 25 October 2026. On 26 October 2026 it answered again. It shows its old price table and a banner for pckt.sh, and its documentation still says that sign-ups moved to Packet. We did not verify whether a new sign-up works.

If you start a new project, you cannot sign up for KicksDB. If you have a KicksDB key, plan a move now, because no date for the end of the API is published.

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 and Alias prices. On the same date we added the facts about the KicksDB sign-up closure and Packet.

An earlier version of this page also named other marketplaces as price sources and gave Standard as the entry plan. That was wrong. The price API covers StockX and Alias, on Standard Plus and higher plans.

Packet or Barcodes.gg: the short answer

• Choose Packet if you used KicksDB for StockX and GOAT prices by product, need the lowest price per call, or need sales history. The same team makes it, so its feature set is the closest to KicksDB.
• Choose Barcodes.gg if you start from a barcode and need the price for that size, or want product data and StockX and Alias prices with one token.

The Packet alternative page compares Packet and Barcodes.gg in detail.

KicksDB v3 to Barcodes.gg endpoint map

The left column names the KicksDB v3 feature as its documentation describes it. The middle column names the Barcodes.gg version 2 route for the same job. All Barcodes.gg routes sit under https://barcodes.gg/api/v2. A dash means that Barcodes.gg has no equivalent.

Field names change too. KicksDB returns lowest_ask and updated_at. Barcodes.gg returns price (the lowest ask), bid, sales and as_of for each size, with the size in us, eu and uk. Each site row has site, currency, market and is_consign. market is EU, a country code or null. Alias rows also have region.

What a KicksDB user loses and gains

What you lose with Barcodes.gg:

• GOAT prices. Barcodes.gg has Alias (GOAT Group) prices, not GOAT prices.
• Sales history, batch prices and events. Barcodes.gg has none of these.
• A low price per request. See the cost section below.

What you gain:

• Barcode to size to price in one call. On 9 November 2026 the catalogue held 2,897,184 barcodes, each stored with its size.
• Alias prices without an Alias account. The KicksDB sources page lists no Alias. Alias has an official seller API for its own sellers. Barcodes.gg gives Alias prices by style code or barcode without an Alias account.
• Market and currency parameters. KicksDB took market for StockX, with one currency per market. Barcodes.gg takes market (up to 3 StockX markets) and currency (30 StockX currencies), and the documentation lists the allowed values.
• StockX and Alias in one call, on every plan with prices.
• A time on every size. Each size has its own as_of. StockX and Alias are pulled live when no price for the requested market is under 60 minutes old. The KicksDB docs give a StockX refresh of 24 hours for EU markets.
• Misses are not charged. A product without cached prices returns "error": true and does not use a call.

Cost per request

A snapshot of kicks.dev from 15 May 2026 shows Starter at €29 per month for 50,000 requests: €0.58 per 1,000. New users cannot buy it now. Packet Developer costs €29 per month for 50,000 credits. A live StockX call costs 1 credit and a cached catalog call 0.3 to 0.4 credits. Barcodes.gg Standard Plus, the first plan with prices, costs €79 per month for 10,000 calls: €7.90 per 1,000. Barcodes.gg has no free tier for prices. Its 7-day trial covers barcode lookups only.

Per call, Barcodes.gg costs the most of the three. But one Barcodes.gg call can do the work of several calls elsewhere: a barcode lookup plus a price call, or one call each for StockX and Alias. Count the calls for your own flow before you compare.

How to move from KicksDB

1. List the KicksDB routes that your code calls. Find the Barcodes.gg route for each one in the map above.
2. Change the key from KicksDB ids or slugs to style codes or barcodes. GET /product/search finds the style code for a product name.
3. Map the fields: lowest_ask to price, updated_at to as_of. Send market and currency to match the KicksDB market that you used, for example market=US&currency=USD. Read currency and market on each row.
4. Test 20 style codes and 20 barcodes from your own stock. Count the products with a price and check the as_of times.

The sneaker resale price API page shows the full response. The sneaker price API comparison covers more options, including SoleFetch.