SteamWebAPI Alternative: Limits and Migration

Start with the downloadable offline contract exercise: twelve fictional responses show private versus empty inventories, quantity-aware USD totals, missing prices and partial batch failures. It needs Python 3.10+, no API key and no network request.

A compatible URL does not establish identical fields, valuations or coverage. Test saved success, private, empty and failure responses before a bounded live comparison. Keep inventory age separate from price-source timestamps, and compare measured latency under the same workload rather than treating a plan's per-minute quota as throughput. Read the example setup and partial-result rules before running the downloadable client.

Moving inventories that span several Steam pages? Check large-inventory pagination and batch coverage before comparing totals or replacing your continuation logic.

curl --fail-with-body --max-time 35 -H "Authorization: Bearer $WOK_API_KEY" "https://woksteamapi.com/steam/api/inventory?steam_id=76561198090744629&game=cs2&price_source=auto&group=1&currency=USD"

Validate grouping, unpriced items and errors against your parser. Read X-Wok-Cache-Age and X-Wok-Cache-TTL separately from item price timestamps. A successful cached response is not proof of a new Steam scan.

For repeated valuations, batch price-only refresh reprices a fresh stored inventory without contacting Steam. Missing snapshots stay explicit instead of triggering an invisible scan.

Follow the endpoint migration checklistValidate the response contractCheck WOK daily and 30-day quotas

SteamWebAPI pricing checked October 21, 2026. SteamWebAPI official pricing · WOK pricing.

Checked October 21, 2026: SteamWebAPI pricing and WOK public plans. Prices use different currencies; no exchange-rate or universal savings claim is implied.

WOK ULTRA has the higher published per-minute allowance in this comparison; Inventory High+ has the larger daily and period allowance. WOK's request window is 30 days from activation or renewal. Neither number measures request latency. Plan for cache misses, batch size, price coverage and the endpoints your application actually uses.

The current WOK Titan plan permits 2,500 quota units per minute per key. That published guard is not a measured promise of cold Steam inventory throughput. The table above compares Ultra specifically.

On WOK, one inventory lookup uses one quota unit; a native batch reserves one unit per normalized player-game pair. One batch accepts at most 20 players, four games and 80 pairs: 20 players across four games reserve 80 units. Split a larger matrix into separate calls. Read your effective limits and UTC resets at GET /v1/key. Every key uses a rolling 30-day quota window anchored to activation or its latest paid renewal. Longer terms continue in consecutive 30-day windows without changing the API key. Daily and minute guards keep their own periods.

SteamWebAPI also offers inventory batches, marketplace price data and plans that include profiles. WOK is an alternative to evaluate, not an official SteamWebAPI replacement or an affiliated service. Use the migration validation checklist before routing customer traffic.