Zinc
Zinc is a commercial API platform that enables developers, AI agents, and businesses to programmatically search, purchase, track, and return products across thousands of online retailers. It abstracts away the complexity of building and maintaining individual retailer integrations, providing a single endpoint that covers the entire e-commerce purchasing lifecycle. According to Zinc, over 20 million orders have been placed through its platform. The API provides real-time product data including prices, images, weight, ratings, and stock availability, read directly from retailers at request time. It also supports cross-retailer search across major stores like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Costco, Lowe's, and Wayfair, as well as structured results that can be ordered directly. This makes it suitable for AI agents to one-shot purchases or run large-scale browsing and buying workflows. Zinc is designed for high reliability, aiming to be more robust than fragile automations. It offers solutions for AI agents, developers building apps that buy across the internet, and businesses automating procurement. The platform allows businesses to use retailer accounts and pricing they have already negotiated, including for legacy websites that are otherwise hard to automate. Pricing details are not disclosed publicly and require contacting Zinc.
- Category
- AI API
- Pricing
- Unknown
Problem solved
Zinc solves the problem of building and maintaining individual integrations with e-commerce retailers by providing a unified API for product search, ordering, tracking, and returns. It enables developers, AI agents, and businesses to automate online purchasing across thousands of stores with a single integration.
Use cases
- AI agents making purchases on behalf of users
- Price monitoring and product research
- Automated procurement and purchasing workflows
- E-commerce app development without retailer-specific integrations
- Order tracking and returns automation
- Cross-retailer product search and comparison
- Building shopping bots or virtual assistants
Audience
- Developers
- Business Users
- Enterprise
- Startups
- Product Managers
Pros
- Single API for entire purchase lifecycle
- Cross-retailer search and product data
- Reliable and maintained integrations
- Suitable for AI agents and automation
- 20M+ orders placed
Cons
- Pricing not public
- Dependent on retailers' terms
- May require approval
- Not open source
- Limited control over retailer interactions
Official website: https://www.zinc.com/
Canonical LambdaBase page: https://www.lambdabase.com/tools/zinc