Alaska has three separately RESO-registered MLSs, and only one is RESO Certified Current.
That one is AKMLS, the Anchorage-based MLS behind AlaskaRealEstate.com, so if you are pulling Alaska listings through a RESO Web API it is almost certainly the feed you want.
Most states hand you one MLS per metro and a map you can more or less draw. Alaska hands you three separately RESO-registered MLS organizations, each carrying its own Unique Organization Identifier in RESO's certification registry.
AKMLS is the one this page covers. It is based in Anchorage, and it is the only Alaska MLS that RESO shows as Certified Current on the Web API.
The Greater Fairbanks Board of REALTORS runs GFMLS for Fairbanks and the interior. Southeast Alaska MLS covers the Southeast Alaska panhandle. Both are registered with RESO, and both show as Uncertified.
They are separate organizations rather than divisions of AKMLS.
One gap to know before you scope a project. AKMLS's public search tool lists Fairbanks and Juneau among its searchable communities, but no documented reciprocity agreement confirms that GFMLS or SEAMLS listings flow into the AKMLS RESO Web API feed.
RESO UOI: M00000001
RESO certification status: Certified Current, April 4, 2023
RESO UOI: M00000002
RESO certification status: Uncertified, February 21, 2023
RESO UOI: M00000003
RESO certification status: Uncertified, March 17, 2023
The full legal name is Alaska Multiple Listing Service, Inc. You will see it written AKMLS on the member portal and AK MLS in the copyright line on AlaskaRealEstate.com. Same organization either way, not two.
AKMLS is broker-owned. Its own boilerplate in the April 2026 Solid Earth release calls it "a broker-owned multiple listing service serving real estate professionals in Alaska" that operates both the AlaskaRealEstate.com consumer home search experience and the member portal at AKMLS.com. That matters more than it sounds.
A lot of state-level MLSs are owned by the state REALTOR association. This one is not.
Alaska REALTORS is the trade association, and its own site lists six local boards: Anchorage, Valley, Greater Fairbanks, Kenai Peninsula, Kachemak, and Southeast Alaska. Two of those six run the other two Alaska MLSs. AKMLS is a separate entity from the association and from all six boards.
RESO lists AKMLS as Certified Current on the Web API, dated April 4, 2023. That certification is what makes the field mapping on your side predictable.
Two sites, two audiences: akmls.com is the member portal, and alaskarealestate.com is the public search site AKMLS points consumers to.
Its core is Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, and the Kenai Peninsula, and its search tool and IDX feed reach Kodiak, Bethel, Kotzebue, and dozens of other remote communities. Fairbanks and the Southeast panhandle have their own MLSs and their own credentials.
Data access runs through FBS's Spark Platform, the first-party API behind FlexMLS, and AKMLS itself approves every key request. MLS Import takes those credentials and syncs the feed into native, indexable WordPress posts on your own domain, on any theme.
Budget $50 a month for Spark, charged once per MLS you can access, plus $49 a month for MLS Import after a 30-day free trial. AKMLS membership dues are billed separately and are not published online.
AKMLS's public search tool at alaskarealestate.com ships with a community picker holding roughly 74 named Alaska communities plus the Matanuska-Susitna Borough as a region. The core is what you would expect: Anchorage, Wasilla and Palmer in the Mat-Su, and the Kenai Peninsula towns of Soldotna, Kenai, and Homer.
The rest of that list is what makes this feed unusual. It runs out to Kodiak, Valdez, Kotzebue, Bethel, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Barrow (Utqiaġvik). A published third-party IDX coverage list for the AKMLS feed, updated daily, names over 100 Alaska communities, Dutch Harbor and McGrath among them. That cadence is the vendor's, not your site's: what a visitor sees follows your own sync, which MLS Import runs hourly.
Most metro MLSs cover contiguous suburbs. This one covers a fly-in settlement pattern, which is worth knowing before you commit to a map search or a city-landing-page structure. A community that sees three listings a year still has to exist in your taxonomy, and your templates have to look right with an empty result set.
Size the build for shape rather than total. It is a long list of place names across a state split between three MLSs, and AKMLS publishes no listing count, so plan for geographic breadth rather than depth in any one city.
An active Alaska real estate license is where this starts. AKMLS's own member portal addresses itself to anyone licensed in the state and gives one instruction: email member services. That is the entire published entry path. There is no bylaws page and no membership-requirements page on either AKMLS site, so anything beyond the license question has to come from member services directly.
Email [email protected]. That is the channel AKMLS's own member portal names for anyone licensed in the state of Alaska who wants to join.
AKMLS publishes no Participant (broker) versus Subscriber (agent or appraiser) breakdown. Ask member services which category you fall into before you budget for a team.
Joining AKMLS and getting a RESO Web API key are two separate requests with two separate approvals. Whether one requires the other is not documented.
AKMLS members work in FlexMLS, the MLS system built by FBS. The member portal at akmls.com is the front door, and its Login link goes to a sign-in page at akmls.com/Identity/Account/Login.
That single fact decides your whole integration path. FBS's own documentation puts both the Spark API and its RESO Web API behind the same API key, so there is one credentialing route rather than two. There is no third-party aggregator sitting in the middle, so you are not registering with a data distributor and then waiting for it to negotiate on your behalf. You go straight to FBS's developer platform.
What you will not find is AKMLS's member-facing documentation. Its consumer site's robots.txt blocks /HowTo/, /MemberInfo/, /MLSMember/ and /AKMLS_Forms/ from all crawlers, so the member and IDX material behind those paths is not publicly indexable. What an AKMLS IDX licence permits you to display is a question for member services, alongside the key request.
GFMLS in Fairbanks runs on Paragon, per the Greater Fairbanks Board of REALTORS' own MLS rules document. Different platform, different credentials, different organization. There is no version of this where one FlexMLS connection quietly picks up Fairbanks too.
Everything below comes from FBS's own Spark Platform documentation, and it applies to AKMLS the way it applies to every FlexMLS-based MLS. Two things to hold onto before you start.
First, FBS runs the plumbing but does not decide who gets a key. AKMLS does. Second, the Spark side carries a price of its own, $50 a month for each MLS you can access, and that is separate from anything AKMLS bills you.
This is not a same-day setup. Developer registration alone activates within three business days, and the approval request after that sits with AKMLS's MLS administration, on AKMLS's timeline.
One thing FBS's documentation does not settle: whether AKMLS requires membership before it issues a key. A key request can name a FlexMLS username to tie the key to, or ask for a generic agent key instead, and the decision sits with AKMLS either way. Ask member services which applies before you build a timeline.
One route, not two. The Web API through Spark is the path to build on. Once the credentials land, MLS Import takes them and syncs the feed into WordPress posts on your own domain, updating hourly.
Register as an API developer with FBS. Registration is free and activates within three business days. It issues demo credentials that work against example data only, not live AKMLS listings.
Pick your key role. IDX is the one for a public WordPress listing search. Private is internal back-office use and never displayed publicly. VOW shows listings only to registered, logged-in visitors.
Open the Spark Datamart with your developer login and search for an AKMLS data plan. A payment method has to be on file first. Spark API access runs $50 a month for each MLS you can access.
Enroll in the AKMLS plan matching your role, describe what you are building and who will access the data, then click Purchase with Approval. That sends the request to AKMLS's MLS administration, and credentials arrive by email once it approves.
No AKMLS plan in the Datamart yet? Email [email protected] with the project description, the data use, the key role you need, and either a FlexMLS username to tie the key to or a request for a generic agent key.
Three separate bills from three separate parties. Nobody bundles them, and the one people forget is the middle one.
On that third line, what AKMLS does publish is the billing calendar, and it is worth knowing before you sign a broker up. Per its own Billing Support page, invoices are created each month on the 13th, due on the 1st of the following month, and past due on the 5th. Payments run through Stripe, and AKMLS states it never stores card numbers or other sensitive information.
So budget $99 a month for the data pipeline, and treat AKMLS dues as a separate line item you have to ask for by email or phone. Anyone assuming a single payment covers all three is going to have an awkward conversation with their broker.
On April 23, 2026, Solid Earth and AKMLS announced a partnership covering AKMLS's member dashboard and its public-facing website platform. Solid Earth is an identity-management and single-sign-on vendor whose other MLS clients include Miami REALTORS, Midwest Real Estate Data, and BeachesMLS.
"At AKMLS, every tech decision centers on member value," said CEO Michael Smith in the announcement. "Our partnership with Solid Earth will create a more unified, future-ready experience that simplifies access, strengthens our digital presence, and better serves Alaska real estate professionals as the market evolves."
Here is the practical read if you are setting up API access this year. The member dashboard and the consumer site are both in scope, which means the login flow, the portal screens, and possibly some of the akmls.com URLs on this page are likely to move.
The FBS Spark process underneath does not change, because that runs on FBS's platform rather than on AKMLS's website. Bookmark the Datamart, expect the member-side furniture to shift, and confirm the current login path with member services if a screen doesn't look like what you saw last quarter.
Yes. AKMLS is the abbreviation for Alaska Multiple Listing Service, Inc., the Anchorage-based MLS behind AlaskaRealEstate.com.
You will also see it written AK MLS, including in the copyright line on its own consumer site. Same organization, different spellings. MLS Import connects to its RESO Web API feed whichever name the paperwork uses.
Three. RESO's certification registry lists Alaska Multiple Listing Service (AKMLS), the Greater Fairbanks Board of REALTORS (GFMLS), and Southeast Alaska MLS (SEAMLS), each with its own Unique Organization Identifier.
They are separate organizations with separate platforms and separate credentials. MLS Import supports one MLS connection per WordPress site.
Both appear in AKMLS's public search tool as searchable communities. No documented reciprocity agreement confirms that GFMLS or SEAMLS listings flow into the AKMLS RESO Web API feed, so ask AKMLS before counting on that inventory.
MLS Import can only import what your approved feed actually carries.
AKMLS's own member portal addresses anyone licensed in the state of Alaska and names no REALTOR association requirement, but it publishes no bylaws or membership-requirements page either.
Confirm with member services at [email protected] before you plan around it. MLS Import needs your approved feed, not your association card.
Email [email protected]. AKMLS's own member portal names that address for anyone licensed in Alaska who wants to join.
Membership and a RESO Web API key are two separate requests with two separate approvals, and FBS's documentation does not say whether one requires the other. MLS Import needs the feed, not the login.
AKMLS does not publish a dues schedule, so confirm current pricing directly at [email protected] or [email protected].
What it does publish is the calendar: invoices on the 13th, due the 1st, past due the 5th, processed through Stripe. MLS Import is billed separately at $49 a month.
FlexMLS, built by FBS. The member portal at akmls.com is the front door, with its own sign-in page at akmls.com/Identity/Account/Login.
Because AKMLS runs FlexMLS, data access goes through FBS's Spark Platform rather than a third-party aggregator. MLS Import takes the resulting RESO Web API credentials.
Yes. RESO's certification registry lists Alaska Multiple Listing Service as Certified Current, dated April 4, 2023, under Unique Organization Identifier M00000001.
It is the only Alaska MLS with an active RESO certification, since GFMLS and SEAMLS both show as Uncertified. MLS Import is built on the RESO Web API standard.
AKMLS. FBS hosts the Spark Datamart and issues the credentials, but the Purchase with Approval request goes to AKMLS's MLS administration, and AKMLS decides.
FBS's own documentation puts it plainly: issuing API keys is up to each MLS. MLS Import never replaces that approval.
Ninety-nine dollars a month for the pipeline: $50 for Spark API access, charged once per MLS you can access and billed by FBS, plus $49 for MLS Import after a 30-day free trial.
AKMLS membership dues are a third, separate bill, and AKMLS does not publish those figures online.
Membership and API credentials both come from AKMLS, not from us. AKMLS does not publish a street address on its member portal or its consumer site, so phone and email are the channels that actually work. Once you hold membership and an approved feed, MLS Import handles the WordPress side.
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