BuyWhere vs Mercadolibre

BuyWhere runs a live product-search API backed by a real, large product catalog spanning merchants across seven Southeast Asian and North American markets, purpose-built for AI shopping agents. Access is gated by a Bearer API key with a published free/Starter/Pro/Enterprise pricing ladder rather than an open, unauthenticated feed. Its CORS policy only serves an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to allow-listed origins, so arbitrary browser-side callers get no such header even though the API answers preflight requests.

Mercado Libre exposes a large REST surface across its Latin American marketplace sites, covering listings, orders, ads, and shipping. Two read-only lookups work without a token: a category by ID, such as `/categories/MLA1051`, and `/sites/{site}/domain_discovery/search`. Everything else, including site lists, currencies, item listings and search, needs an OAuth2 access token from the authorization-code flow. The API itself carries no direct usage fee. Mercado Libre monetizes through marketplace and payment commissions instead.