Competitor price
monitoring
Automatically track what your competitors charge across thousands of online stores and marketplaces. Respond to every price move before your rivals do.
Monitoring that catches every price change
We scan your target pages at set intervals and detect every price change, down to a single cent. The data reaches you faster than you could check it by hand.
Example sources:
Samsung Galaxy S24
was $829
$799
▼ -3.6%LG OLED55C3 TV
was $1,349
$1,399
▲ +3.7%Dyson V15 Detect
was $749
$749
-AirPods Pro 2nd gen
was $199
$189
▼ -5.0%Everything your team needs
A complete price tracking setup, from raw data to ready-made reports for the whole team.
Data freshness
Real-time market data
We scan every few minutes, so your team sees the market as it is today, not as it was last week.
Coverage
data sources
Amazon, eBay, Google Shopping, competitor web stores and B2B marketplaces. New sources on request.
Integrations
Export to any system
ERP, PIM, spreadsheets or your own data pipeline.
Analytics
Price history and market trends
The full price history for every product and competitor. Spot trends, seasonality and how the market reacts.
Configuration
Your own monitoring rules
Set price thresholds, pick the competitors that matter and choose how the data is delivered.
Price threshold
< $250
Percentage change
> 5%
Delivery channel
Webhook / API
Use cases
For every industry
What is competitor price monitoring?
An automated price tracking system regularly visits the sources you choose, compares current prices with past ones and tells you about every change right away, with no manual work on your side.
Respond in minutes
Competitor price change alerts reach you as soon as they happen.
Zero manual work
Nobody has to click through hundreds of store pages by hand.
Data-driven decisions
Base your pricing strategy on what is actually happening in the market.
Healthier margins
Stay competitive without cutting your margin below what is profitable.
History and trends
A complete record of price changes and long-term trend analysis.
Hundreds of products
Monitor an unlimited number of SKUs across many stores at once.
Alerts and notifications
Email, webhook or API: get the data wherever you need it.
Export to ERP/PIM
Data ready to import straight into your business systems.
How price monitoring works at multiscrape.com
It usually takes up to 48 hours to go from first contact to a working alert system.
Step 1
Pick sources and products
Step 2
Setup and testing
Step 3
Alerts go live
Step 4
Reports and fine-tuning
Where we collect prices
Competitor price monitoring covers the biggest marketplaces, price comparison engines and any online store, all in a single alert system.
Amazon
On Amazon, we track the Buy Box price and availability, plus the prices of every other seller competing for the same product. We also watch stock signals (such as “Only 3 left in stock”) and delivery times, which sway buyers almost as much as the price itself. If you use repricing, you can respond to competitor moves in real time instead of losing the Buy Box for hours. The full scope of data is on our Amazon data source page.
Google Shopping and comparison sites
Price comparison engines such as Google Shopping put offers from dozens of stores for the same product side by side. We track how your price stacks up against other sellers, along with their prices and shipping costs. That way you know whether you’re the cheapest option and how much you’d need to adjust to get back on top.
eBay, Walmart and other marketplaces
On marketplaces, we track the prices of specific listings, which seller gets the top spot and what other sellers charge for the same product. The system records how often competitors change their prices and how they react to promotions. If a rival shaves a few dollars off every evening, you get an alert and can adjust your own offer before you lose the sale. See the data we collect from eBay.
Competitor web stores
Beyond the big platforms, we monitor any competitor’s web store, whatever e-commerce platform it runs on. For each store we set up extraction of the price, availability, promotions and shipping costs straight from the product page. A typical scenario: you track 50 key SKUs at your three main competitors and get an alert whenever any of them drops below your margin threshold. Need a store that isn’t on our list yet? Tell us which site you want to track.
Want to know the moment a competitor changes prices?
Tell us which products and sources you want to monitor. We’ll have your price alert system running within 48 hours, with no lengthy rollout and no infrastructure to maintain on your side.
Price monitoring use cases
Competitor price tracking looks different depending on your business model. These are the scenarios we work with most often.
Online store: dynamic pricing
An e-commerce store tracks the same products at its 5 to 10 main competitors. When a competitor cuts a price, the system sends an alert within minutes and the sales team decides whether to match it or hold the margin. Prices follow the market as it moves, not once a week during a manual review.
Manufacturer: reseller price control
A manufacturer selling through distributors and partner stores tracks the prices its products actually reach end customers at. That makes it possible to catch sales below the agreed levels (MAP) and step in before it erodes the brand's value in the eyes of other trade partners.
Marketplace seller: winning the Buy Box
A seller on Amazon or Walmart tracks the other offers for the same product to keep or win back the Buy Box. The system enforces a minimum margin threshold, so automatic price matching never drops below profitability, even when competitors change prices very quickly.
Retail chain: tracking competitor promotions
A retailer with physical and online stores tracks weekly ads and sale prices at competing chains in a given category. The marketing team gets a weekly comparison report, which becomes the starting point for planning its own promotions and pricing for the next period.
MAP and MSRP compliance
For manufacturers and brands that set a Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) or a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP), price monitoring is really about watching their own distribution network. The system checks what individual resellers actually charge online and on marketplaces, then compares those prices with your thresholds.
- Violation detection: offers below your MAP/MSRP threshold are flagged automatically.
- Automatic alerts: you’re notified the moment a violation is detected, with a link to the offer.
- Per-reseller reports: a recurring price compliance summary for each trade partner, ready for your next conversation about terms.
Sample MAP compliance report
Reseller A · shop.example.com
Compliant
Reseller B · marketplace listing
Violation: $279 (-7%)
Reseller C · Google Shopping
Compliant
Reseller D · marketplace.example
Violation: $285 (-5%)
Reference MAP: $299 · alert threshold: -3%
Price alerts: channels and frequency
We deliver price change data wherever you need it, as often as your plan calls for.
Delivery channels
- Email: daily digests or instant notifications
- Slack and Microsoft Teams: alerts posted straight to your team’s channel
- Webhook: connect any internal system
- CSV or Excel reports: recurring summaries for further analysis
- API: full access to current and historical data
Scan frequency
- Hourly: for categories with highly dynamic prices (electronics, marketplaces)
- Daily: the standard plan for most stores and industries
- On demand: a manual refresh before an important pricing decision
What triggers an alert
- A product price change (up or down)
- A price dropping below your threshold
- A new promotion or markdown
- A competitor running out of stock
Manual vs. automated price monitoring
Checking competitor prices by hand works for a few products, but it doesn’t scale as your catalog grows.
| Manual monitoring | Automated monitoring | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Hours of team time every week | Data comes in automatically, without your team |
| Scale | Realistically a few dozen products / a handful of stores | Thousands of SKUs across many stores at once |
| Human error | Typos when copying prices, missed products | Data pulled straight from the page, no retyping |
| Change history | Usually none, you only see the current state | Full price and trend history for every product |
| Cost | Grows linearly with the number of products and stores | A fixed cost that doesn’t depend on your team’s time |
With just a few products, manual price checks may be enough. Once your catalog grows or reaction time matters, automation usually pays for itself quickly through protected margins and hours your team gets back.
How much does price monitoring cost?
We don’t work from a fixed price list. The cost of competitor price monitoring depends on a few factors, and we quote every project individually:
- Number of monitored products (SKUs): from a few dozen to hundreds of thousands.
- Number and type of sources: marketplaces, comparison engines and individual competitor stores each take a different amount of work.
- Scan frequency: hourly monitoring takes more resources than a daily scan.
- Format and integrations: CSV export, API access or a direct ERP/PIM integration.
We put together every quote after a short call about your project scope, with no obligation.
What drives the cost
Number of SKUs
The more products, the more work for the system
Number of sources
Amazon, Google Shopping, eBay, competitor web stores: every extra source needs its own setup
Frequency
Hourly, daily or on demand
Integrations
CSV/Excel, API, ERP/PIM, dashboard
Competitor price monitoring in practice
In e-commerce and B2B trade, price is one of the main factors behind a buying decision. Competitor price monitoring lets you follow price changes across the market automatically and respond as they happen. It runs on web scraping, so you know what competitors charge without collecting that data by hand.
What is price monitoring and how does it work?
Price monitoring means collecting prices automatically and regularly from selected websites, stores and marketplaces. Our bots visit the pages you specify every few minutes, extract product prices and compare them with historical data. When they spot a change, the system sends an alert by email, webhook or API.
Who is this service for?
It’s most often used by:
- E-commerce stores and retailers: respond to competitors undercutting you before you lose sales.
- Distributors and wholesalers: protect your margins and check that partners stick to minimum prices (MAP/MSRP).
- Travel and hospitality: track competitor rates for hotels, flights and packages on Booking.com, Trivago and other OTAs.
- Automotive: monitor prices of cars, parts and services.
- Real estate agents and brokers: analyze price trends on property portals such as Zillow.
Benefits of automated price monitoring
Tracking prices by hand eats up time and leaves plenty of room for mistakes and delays. With automated monitoring, your team doesn’t check dozens of sites; it gets ready-made reports and alerts whenever something changes, and has more time left for pricing decisions.
Integration with your systems
We can deliver monitoring data in many formats and channels: CSV and XLSX files ready to import, JSON via a REST API, and direct integrations with ERP and PIM systems and e-commerce platforms such as WooCommerce, Shopify and Magento. We also help build analytics dashboards on top of the collected data. If you also need to load supplier catalogs into your store, we handle that as part of our e-commerce integrations.
How to get started
Tell us which products and which stores you want to track. You can have your first results within 48 hours of getting started.