GroceryDB

Data for Food Scanning Apps

Whether your app scans a barcode or snaps a photo of the product, this is the solution. GroceryDB returns image, manufacturer, ingredients, and nutrition for nearly every product in the grocery store, in a single API call.

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Built for barcode scanning One scan, full product 90%+ of all grocery products

General MillsHoney NutCheerios

Scanned in store

Honey Nut Cheerios

General Mills

UPC 0016000275287

Manufacturer

General Mills

The product data layer for food scanning apps

Everything your scanner needs to turn a barcode into a complete product record.

Barcode lookup

One UPC in, the full product out, including name, brand, ingredients, and nutrition.

Never 'product not found'

If a barcode isn't in our database yet, AI builds the product on the spot so your scanner always returns a result.

Fresh crowd-sourced SKUs

100K+ shoppers add the newest products daily, so coverage grows on its own.

Fast search & autocomplete

Algolia-style typeahead across products and brands in single-digit milliseconds.

Caching allowed

Store responses on your side. No per-call surprises, no double billing.

Minimal attribution

A single line of credit. No logos forced into your UI, no dark patterns.

How it works

A barcode in, a full product out

One scan turns into a complete product record. Here's exactly what comes back.

Scan a barcode

Your app sends us the UPC, which is the only input we need.

We match it instantly

Resolved against 3.4M+ real, crowd-sourced products.

You get the product

Every data point we have on it, returned in a single call.

DORITOSNacho Cheese

Doritos Nacho Cheese

Frito-Lay

UPC 0028400090858

Manufacturer

Frito-Lay

You never get “product not found”

If a barcode isn't in our database yet, our AI generates the product instantly and shows it to your user, so every single scan returns a result.

90%+

of all products sold in grocery stores

Scan any barcode

Your app sends us the UPC for anything on the shelf, even brand-new products.

AI fallback

We always have an answer

If it's in our database, you get it instantly. If it's brand new, our AI builds the product on the spot.

Your user sees a product

Every scan returns a full product. No dead ends, no “product not found.”

Pricing

One plan. One price. No MAU games.

Annual only. Built for teams who expect their app to do well, not hobby projects.

Scale

Everything included

$400/ month

Billed yearly ($4,800 / year).

Then $400 per additional 1,000,000 credits that scales linearly, with no tier cliffs.

10,000,000 API credits / year

1 credit = 1 lookup or search

Capture submission = 25 credits

Ingredient clean scoring

Search + autocomplete

Caching allowed, minimal attribution

Webhooks + Capture API

Email support, 99.95% uptime SLA

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The math

~20,000 MAU
for $400/mo

At ~4 scans/day across ~10 active days/month, that's about $0.24 per MAU / year, roughly 50× cheaper per active user than Nutritionix.

Nutritionix starts at $5,988–$22,200+/yr on confusing MAU tiers.

Comparison

GroceryDB vs Nutritionix

Same job, very different bill, and we do things they don't.

GroceryDB

Nutritionix

Pricing model

$400/mo billed yearly, linear overage

MAU tiers, $5,988–$22,200+/yr

Data freshness

500+ new SKUs/week, crowd-sourced

Slower, centralized updates

Capture API (self-healing gaps)

Caching allowed

Restricted

Attribution

Single minimal line

Heavier requirements

MAU metering games

Quickstart

Live in five minutes

Native SDKs for Swift and Android Studio (Kotlin), or hit the REST endpoint directly. Every response is cache-friendly JSON.

Lookup.swift

import GroceryDB

let db = GroceryDB(apiKey: "sk_live_...")

let product = try await db.lookup(upc: "0049000000443")
print(product.name) // "Honey Nut Cheerios"

FAQ

Questions, answered

1 credit = 1 lookup or search. A Capture submission is 25 credits. At ~4 scans/day across ~10 active days/month, 10M credits covers roughly 20,000 monthly active users.

Nothing breaks. You buy more credits at $400 per additional 1,000,000, which scales linearly with no tier jumps. You can also cache aggressively to stretch them.

100,000+ real shoppers scan and add the newest grocery products every day, adding about 500 new SKUs a week. Records carry an updated timestamp and a fresh flag.

One flat plan: $400/month, billed yearly ($4,800/year), including 10,000,000 API credits. Additional credits are $400 per 1,000,000, linear with no MAU tiers. Book a call and we'll get your API key set up.

Yes. Your app can send a UPC barcode or a photo of the product and get the full record back, including image, manufacturer, ingredients, and nutrition, in a single API call.

You never get a dead end. If a barcode isn't in our database yet, our AI builds the product on the spot, and the Capture API lets your app submit photos so it goes live for you and every other customer.

GroceryDB is built for food scanning apps with flat pricing instead of MAU tiers, barcode and photo lookup, 90%+ coverage of products sold in grocery stores, and a supported, production-ready API rather than an open dataset you host yourself.

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Get started with GroceryDB

One flat annual plan for teams building on grocery data. Book a quick call and we'll get your API key set up.

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Bulk & enterprise data licensing

SOC 2 · GDPR-ready

Annual plan

$400/ month

Billed yearly ($4,800 / year). No MAU games, no tier jumps.

10,000,000 API credits / year

Full product on every scan

Over 90% of grocery products, plus AI fallback

Fresh data every week

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