What should I use for monitoring competitor prices online?

For monitoring competitor prices online, the best tool depends on how many competitors/products you track and how automated you need it to be. Here are solid options by use case:

Best all-around price monitoring tools

• Prisync – Good for e-commerce brands that want automated competitor price tracking, alerts, and repricing.
• Price2Spy – Strong for price monitoring, reporting, and historical price changes.
• Minderest – More enterprise-focused, good for large catalogs and market intelligence.
• Intelligence Node – Good for competitive pricing and assortment analytics.

Best if you want a simple/affordable setup

• Visualping – Great for tracking specific product pages and getting alerts when prices change.
• Distill.io – Useful for monitoring website changes, including prices, with flexible rules.
• Wachete – Similar to Distill; good for page monitoring and alerts.

Best if you need custom scraping / large-scale tracking

• Apify – Good if you need custom scrapers for many sites.
• Octoparse – No-code scraping for price extraction.
• Bright Data – More advanced data collection infrastructure, especially at scale.

If you sell on marketplaces

• Keepa – Excellent for Amazon price history and competitor tracking.
• CamelCamelCamel – Amazon price history alerts, simpler than Keepa.

What to choose

• Small business / few products: Visualping or Distill.io
• E-commerce store with lots of SKUs: Prisync or Price2Spy
• Enterprise / deep analytics: Minderest or Intelligence Node
• Custom needs / hard-to-scrape sites: Apify or Bright Data

Things to check before buying

• Does it support the sites you care about?
• Can it handle anti-bot protections?
• Does it track variants like size/color?
• Does it provide alerts, history, and reports?
• Does it integrate with your pricing workflow?

If you want, I can recommend the best tool based on your business size, budget, and the websites you need to monitor.