5 Free Tools That Can Help You Get Cheaper Prices on Amazon

If you’re a fan of buying tech products online, you can expect the best tech deals available during Amazon Prime Day. But what if you need to save money at other times of the year? You can refresh your web browser several times a day to navigate to the page for the Amazon product you are interested in. Better yet, you can track constant price changes on Amazon by using a price tracker that helps you find the items you want for less.

Five of the best price monitoring tools you can use on Amazon (and are available for free) are CamelCamelCamel, Keepa, Rakuten, Visualping, and Honey. These options have features like an email alert or browser notification when a product’s price falls below your desired cost, sending you cash back when you make purchases, alerting you to potential discount codes, and comparing product prices across multiple Amazon sellers.

Which Amazon price tracker is the most reliable and accurate? Each has its own characteristics and strengths, which means you can match the option you select to your personal preferences for using it. Depending on what you want to accomplish, you may need to use more than one of these free price trackers to get all the features you want.

If you want to use one of Amazon’s best price trackers that is completely free, CamelCamelCamel is a popular choice. A browser extension is available, or you can paste the website of the Amazon product you want to purchase onto the CamelCamelCamel website. You need to create an account on the company’s website to access the tracking tool, but you won’t pay anything to use it. Additionally, CamelCamelCamel is completely independent of Amazon ownership, making it one of the most reliable and best ways to check any Amazon deal before purchasing.

One of the most cost-effective features of the service is to send you an email when the price of a product you track reaches the price you set. CamelCamelCamel also tracks the price change history of Amazon products, helping you determine when they are available at a comparable price. People from different countries can use CamelCamelCamel, including products sold in Canada, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. However, the service does not always take into account coupons offered by some retailers on their Amazon product pages.

Keepa is a price tracker from Amazon that works very similar to CamelCamelCamel. However, it has a mobile application, different from CamelCamelCamel. Keepa has a free tier available to track price history on Amazon products. It offers email alerts to free tier users, letting them know when prices reach a certain level. You can also choose to receive alerts via browser notifications and other methods. If you install the Keepa extension in Chrome, historical pricing will automatically appear on every Amazon product page you view. It’s easy to see if the current price is higher than a few weeks ago, helping you make a wise buying decision.

Keepa is considered one of the essential apps for tracking discounts on tech products. It specifically tracks the prices of refurbished products. This is a common sales practice among technology sellers on Amazon.

The free tier is very useful for Amazon consumers looking for good deals on products. However, Keepa also offers a monthly paid tier for €29 (around $33). This tier gives Amazon sellers the comparative product data they need, such as best seller lists.

Sometimes the best way to save money on items you buy regularly is to receive cash back on a percentage of the cost of those purchases. Rakuten is a free shopping platform that sends you money for some of the purchases you make at select retailers. When you’re looking to save money on your Amazon purchases, you can use Rakuten, although rewards are no longer routinely offered. (Rakuten had regularly offered cash back deals on Amazon until 2020.) These days, Rakuten sticks to occasionally offering cash back promotions only on Amazon.

You can sign up for Rakuten for free via a mobile app or on the company’s website. You register with your email address. You can also download a browser extension that will alert you to cash back offers at certain stores when you search for products or shop online.

Rakuten consistently offers cash back at over 3,500 stores. You can register and use it for its partnerships in other stores. Then, if you can find an occasional cash back offer on Amazon, you’ll be good to go.

Visualping is a tool designed to monitor changes in any web page. However, you can use this technology to keep an eye out for price drops on Amazon to save money. You can set criteria to keep Visualping on track and ensure you only receive notifications when you want them.

Visualping offers several paid tiers for high-volume users. The free tier is intended for personal use and allows monitoring of up to five pages with approximately one check per day per month (150 checks total). To sign up for the free tier, submit your email address. You don’t have to provide a credit card unless you want to sign up for more than 150 website checks per month.

To use Visualping, simply paste the URL of the Amazon product page you want to monitor into the Visualping browser extension. Highlight the section of the product page around the price and set your alert price. If the product page changes to meet your criteria, you’ll receive an AI-generated summary of the changes and screenshots of before and after prices. (You can instead ask it to alert you when a product is back in stock.)

Even if you frequently shop on Amazon, you can also purchase items from other retailers. If so, you may want to use the free price tracker tool called Honey, which offers price drop notifications for Amazon, Target, Walmart, Macy’s, and many other retailers. (PayPal purchased Honey in 2019 in an attempt to improve the way PayPal customers can shop.)

Honey is available as both a browser extension and a mobile app. After downloading Honey, you will need to provide your PayPal account information (or create a PayPal account) to use the service. When you shop with your browser or with the Honey in-app browser, it will notify you if a coupon is available.

To have Honey monitor an Amazon product page for price drops, you will need to add the items you want to monitor to Honey’s Droplist tool. If a lower price appears, Honey will send you a notification. When you’re ready to purchase a product, Honey will compare prices from all Amazon sellers (even factoring in shipping costs) to help you save the most money. Honey can also provide Amazon price history for almost any product.