Amazon Officially Cancels SP-API Fees — $1,400 Annual Subscription and GET-Call Overage Charges Withdrawn (May 12, 2026)
Amazon has formally cancelled the Selling Partner API (SP-API) fee structure it first announced in November 2025 and delayed indefinitely in March 2026. In an updated announcement on developer.amazonservices.com titled 'Cancellation of Third-Party Developer Selling Partner API (SP-API) Fees', Amazon stated: 'After careful consideration, we have decided that we will not move forward with the SP-API usage and annual fees at this time.' The cancellation withdraws both the $1,400 per-developer annual subscription that would have begun January 31, 2026 and the monthly GET-call overage fees that were scheduled to start April 30, 2026. Amazon also said the Solution Provider Portal will be updated in the coming weeks to remove the fee preview dashboard. The phrase 'at this time' leaves open the possibility of a future fee proposal in a different structure, but no replacement timeline has been disclosed. For Amazon sellers, the practical effect is that third-party tool vendors (repricing platforms, PPC managers, reimbursement services, inventory analytics) no longer face the SP-API cost pressure they had cited when raising subscription prices between November 2025 and the March 2026 delay.
Key Points
- Amazon's updated SP-API announcement is titled 'Cancellation of Third-Party Developer Selling Partner API (SP-API) Fees' and explicitly withdraws the previously planned fee structure
- Official quote from the announcement: 'After careful consideration, we have decided that we will not move forward with the SP-API usage and annual fees at this time.'
- The cancelled fees are the two pieces Amazon had previously published: a $1,400 per-developer annual subscription (originally to begin January 31, 2026) and per-GET-call overage charges on the monthly usage tiers (originally to begin April 30, 2026)
- Amazon stated the Solution Provider Portal (SPP) will be updated 'in the coming weeks' to remove fee-related dashboards, including the fee preview dashboard developers had been using to estimate impact
- The 'at this time' qualifier signals Amazon may revisit fees in a different structure in the future, but no replacement timeline, tier schedule, or trigger has been disclosed
- Direct sellers and vendors using SP-API only for their own first-party business operations had always been exempt from the proposed fees — that exemption is moot now that the fees themselves are cancelled
What You Should Do Now
- 1If a third-party tool vendor raised your subscription price between November 2025 and March 2026 citing SP-API fees, open a renegotiation conversation now that the fees are cancelled
- 2Re-evaluate any tool consolidation decisions you made in anticipation of SP-API cost pressure — the immediate cost driver behind those decisions no longer exists
- 3Continue to watch developer.amazonservices.com for any future announcement about a revised fee structure; the 'at this time' language is the standing public signal that fees could return