[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":101},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fSoPl4tlvGtFIlh0jjDnVqQMDdLgEn14B9Tkcq9ryAYI":3},{"title":4,"date":5,"dateModified":5,"datePublished":6,"dateModifiedISO":6,"image":7,"content":8,"faq":9,"metaTitle":29,"metaDescription":30,"author":31,"authorBio":32,"authorLinkedin":33,"authorTitle":34,"authorPhoto":35,"lastReviewed":32,"noindex":36,"researchBasis":32,"category":37,"readingTime":38,"related":39,"prev":56,"next":59,"toc":62,"takeaways":94,"videos":95},"Competitor Price Monitoring Services vs Software: Which One Do You Need? (2026)","11 Nov 2026","2026-11-11","/img/news/competitor-price-monitoring-services-vs-software-2026.png","\u003Cp>It's Monday. The file is called "Category X_Prices_FINAL_v3.xlsx", three people have added to it since Thursday, and nobody is sure which tab is current. You know you need something better. The question is whether to buy a tool your team runs, or pay a competitor price monitoring service to run it for you.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Short answer. Pick software if someone on your team has a few hours a week to set up sites, check product matches and fix what breaks. Pick a managed service if nobody has that time, or if your competitors sit on many sites, in several currencies or behind hard-to-read pages. The rest of this guide shows who does which job in each model, what the published prices look like and what to ask before you sign.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cfigure class=\"article-figure\">\u003Cimg src=\"/img/news/competitor-price-monitoring-services-vs-software-2026.png\" alt=\"Competitor price monitoring services vs software: who does the work in each model\">\u003Cfigcaption>Service or software: the real difference is who does the work\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\n\u003Cp>A competitor price monitoring service is a provider that collects your competitors' prices, matches them to your products and delivers a finished comparison table on a schedule. Price monitoring software is a tool you set up and run yourself to get the same table.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-is-the-difference-between-price-monitoring-software-and\">What is the difference between price monitoring software and a service?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The difference is who does the work between "list of competitors" and "table you can act on". With software, your team adds the sites, approves product matches and fixes trackers when sites change. With a service, the provider does those jobs and you receive the result. Both can end in the same table; the labour sits in different places.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It helps to list the actual jobs and see who owns each one.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cfigure class=\"article-figure\">\u003Cimg src=\"/img/news/competitor-price-monitoring-services-vs-software-2026-1.png\" alt=\"Table of seven price monitoring jobs and who does each one with software, a managed service or a hybrid setup\">\u003Cfigcaption>Who does each job in the three setups\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Job\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Software (SaaS)\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Managed service\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Hybrid (self-serve + help)\u003C/th>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/thead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Choose competitors and markets\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You, with the provider\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Find and add product URLs\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Provider\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You, or the provider for hard sites\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Match listings to your products\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Tool suggests, you approve\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Provider, unsure pairs reviewed\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Tool matches, you review unsure pairs\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Fix trackers when sites change\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Vendor or you, depends on the tool\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Provider\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Shared\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Clean units, currencies, pack sizes\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Often you, in Excel\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Provider\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Partly the tool, partly you\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Check data quality\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Provider\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Read the table and decide prices\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>You\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/tbody>\u003C/table>\n\u003Cp>The last row never moves. No service decides your prices for you, and you shouldn't want it to. What a service buys you is the six rows above it.\u003C/p>\n\u003Caside class=\"article__usecase-card\">\u003Cdiv class=\"article__usecase-label\">Related use case\u003C/div>\u003Ch3 class=\"article__usecase-title\">Competitor price tracking\u003C/h3>\u003Cp class=\"article__usecase-blurb\">Competitor prices from the shops you name, once a day at most, matched to your SKUs. Pay per page, no per-SKU fees.\u003C/p>\u003Ca class=\"article__usecase-link\" href=\"/use-cases/competitor-price-tracking\">See how it works →\u003C/a>\u003C/aside>\u003Ch2 id=\"what-does-a-managed-price-monitoring-service-include\">What does a managed price monitoring service include?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>A managed service usually covers setup, collection, product matching, quality checks and delivery to a file, BI tool or data warehouse. Providers differ most on three things: whether matching is included, how often data arrives and whether prices are published at all. Ask for all three in writing.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Here is what four providers say on their own pages, checked on 11 November 2026:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Octoparse\u003C/strong> sells a managed price feed and publishes prices. Its \u003Ca href=\"https://www.octoparse.com/data-service/competitor-price-monitoring\">competitor price monitoring page\u003C/a> says projects "start from $699/project for one-time benchmarking and $599/month for recurring hourly or daily monitoring", with a free scoped sample "within 1–2 business days". It contrasts this with dashboard tools that offer "pre-defined fields only".\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>SunTec India\u003C/strong> runs a \u003Ca href=\"https://www.suntecindia.com/ecommerce-competitor-price-monitoring-services.html\">managed price monitoring service\u003C/a> with frequency "from every 15 minutes to daily, depending on your catalog size, platform mix, and service tier". It publishes no prices and says it does "not offer one-size-fits-all plans".\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Grepsr\u003C/strong> compares tools and fully managed services in its \u003Ca href=\"https://www.grepsr.com/blog/market-intelligence/web-scraping-tools-services-price-monitoring/\">own guide\u003C/a> and says plainly that "Grepsr is our product". Its summary is fair: managed services move setup and maintenance to the provider.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>NetRivals\u003C/strong> (part of Lengow) is software, but its \u003Ca href=\"https://www.lengow.com/de/loesungen/netrivals/preisueberwachung-von-wettbewerbern/\">German product page\u003C/a> says most matching runs automatically on product codes, that AI suggestions still need manual approval, and that it offers a manual matching service for customers who don't want to do it themselves.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>That last point matters. The line between software and service is blurry. Many tools sell matching or setup as an add-on, and many services hand you a dashboard. Judge by the job list above, not by the label on the website.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-does-price-monitoring-software-leave-to-your-team\">What does price monitoring software leave to your team?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Software leaves you the setup and the checking. You upload your product list, name the competitor sites, approve matches the tool isn't sure about and notice when a tracker quietly stops returning prices. Aimondo's \u003Ca href=\"https://aimondo.com/en/choose-price-monitoring-software-this-year/\">buyer guide\u003C/a> describes basic data-collector tools this way: "A seller has to upload a list of items and specify what websites they want to track."\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>How much time that takes depends on your setup. ProWebScraper, which sells a managed service, estimates in its \u003Ca href=\"https://prowebscraper.com/articles/competitor-price-monitoring-cost\">cost comparison\u003C/a> that a team running a SaaS tool across 25 competitor sites spends 4–8 hours a week on it, against 1–3 hours with a managed service. That's a vendor's own model, not a study, so treat the numbers as a rough guide.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The hidden job that costs the most time is usually product matching. A tool can find "the same drill" on ten sites, but someone has to confirm that the 2-battery kit isn't matched to the bare tool. Good matchers split results into three piles: matched, not matched and "not sure, a person should look". The short film below shows that third pile.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cfigure class=\"article-video\">\u003Cdiv class=\"article-video__frame\">\u003Ciframe src=\"https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DVj0dhDaIu0\" title=\"A matcher with two answers has to guess\" loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003C/iframe>\u003C/div>\u003Cfigcaption>A matcher with two answers has to guess\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\n\u003Cp>If nobody looks at the "not sure" pile, the tool quietly compares the wrong products. Our guide to \u003Ca href=\"/blogs/product-data-matching-ecommerce-ai-2026\">product matching in e-commerce\u003C/a> covers how it fails and how to check a vendor's matching before you rely on it.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Alerts are the other thing to check. Some tools send them: NielsenIQ's \u003Ca href=\"https://nielseniq.com/global/de/products/online-price-monitoring/\">online price monitoring page\u003C/a> offers daily or weekly alerts for price changes or promotions. Others deliver a table and leave the reading to you. Know which one you're buying.\u003C/p>\n\u003Caside class=\"article__inline-cta\">\u003Cp class=\"article__inline-cta-text\">Try ScrapeWise on your own URL. \u003Cstrong>Your first 5 requests are free.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Ca class=\"article__inline-cta-btn\" href=\"https://portal.scrapewise.ai/register\">Start Free →\u003C/a>\u003C/aside>\u003Ch2 id=\"how-much-do-price-monitoring-services-cost-compared-with-sof\">How much do price monitoring services cost compared with software?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Published prices start around $99 a month for software covering 2,000 products and from $599 (Octoparse) to €1,500 plus setup (ScrapeWise) a month for the managed services that publish prices. Many providers on both sides publish nothing and quote on request. Compare the full monthly cost, including your team's hours, not just the list price.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Option\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Published starting price\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Matching\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Source\u003C/th>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/thead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>SaaS tools (Pricefy, Prisync, Omnia Retail)\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>$99 (Pricefy, 2,000 products) to $399 (Prisync, up to 5,000; $479 with API); Omnia from €399\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Tool, often you approve\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Ca href=\"/blogs/competitor-price-monitoring-cost-pricing-models-2026\">Our cost breakdown\u003C/a>\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Octoparse managed feed\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>$599 a month recurring, $699 one-off project\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Included\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Octoparse service page\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>ScrapeWise Managed Data\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>From €1,500 a month plus setup\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Included, unsure pairs reviewed\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Ca href=\"/managed-data\">Managed Data\u003C/a>\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>SunTec India, NetRivals, NielsenIQ\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Not published\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Varies\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Provider pages\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/tbody>\u003C/table>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Octoparse and ScrapeWise prices checked on their own pages on 11 November 2026. Pricefy, Prisync and Omnia prices are from our \u003Ca href=\"/blogs/competitor-price-monitoring-cost-pricing-models-2026\">cost breakdown\u003C/a> (November 2026). Dollar and euro prices shown as published, not converted.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>ProWebScraper's model puts the gap in context. For 25 sites, 5,000 products and daily updates, it estimates $4,500–11,000 a month for a SaaS tool once team time is counted, against $2,900–5,200 for a managed service. Again, that's a managed-service seller's maths. Run your own: hours per week × your loaded hourly cost × 4.3, plus the plan price.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>In Estonia, where I'm based, category managers often have an assistant who collects competitor prices by hand. That assistant's time is the real baseline. If a tool saves most of it but still needs a day a week of checking, the saving is smaller than the price page suggests. We did the full 12-month comparison in \u003Ca href=\"/blogs/in-house-vs-managed-price-monitoring-cost-2026\">in-house vs managed price monitoring\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"when-is-price-monitoring-software-the-better-choice\">When is price monitoring software the better choice?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Software fits when your competitor set is small and stable, your products carry EANs that make matching easy, and one person on the team has a few hours a week to own it. It also fits if you need prices several times a day: Prisync lists up to 3 checks a day and Price2Spy Premium up to 8, per our \u003Ca href=\"/blogs/competitor-price-monitoring-cost-pricing-models-2026\">cost breakdown\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Good signs you should start with software:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Fewer than about 10 competitor sites, mostly on standard shop platforms.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Branded products with barcodes, so most matches are automatic.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>One market and one currency.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Someone who likes the work and will actually check the "not sure" pile.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>Octoparse, which sells a managed feed, says in its FAQ to build internally "if your source list is small, stable, and low-frequency". The same logic applies to running a tool yourself. When a service seller tells you when not to buy a service, it's worth listening.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"when-is-a-managed-service-the-better-choice\">When is a managed service the better choice?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>A managed service fits when the tracking would otherwise eat a person's week. That happens with many competitor sites, own-brand or private-label products without shared barcodes, several countries and currencies, or sites that block automated visits. It also fits when the people who need the data have no time to run a tool.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The pain we hear about most often isn't how fresh one price point is. It's the process: Excel files emailed between three people, each adding their input, and days lost before anyone can act. A service that delivers one agreed table every morning fixes the process, not just the data.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Typical buyers of the done-for-you version, described by type:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>A home and furniture retailer checking where its own prices sit across other retailers.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>A fitness equipment seller watching its own and competitors' prices on several shops.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>A yarn and crafts brand following competitors across several European markets.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>What they share is matching work. Furniture and yarn rarely carry the same barcode on every site, so someone has to match by title, brand, size and picture.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"does-selling-in-the-nordics-or-dach-change-the-choice\">Does selling in the Nordics or DACH change the choice?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Yes, it usually pushes toward a service or a tool with strong cleaning. Nordic and DACH monitoring means several currencies, different VAT rules, pack-size differences and comparison sites like Prisjakt, PriceRunner and idealo that shoppers check first. Every one of those adds cleaning work before prices are comparable.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Three European details to plan for:\u003C/p>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Currencies.\u003C/strong> SEK, NOK, DKK and EUR in one table need converting to one currency on one date. Our \u003Ca href=\"/blogs/nordic-price-monitoring-prisjakt-pricerunner-2026\">Nordic price monitoring guide\u003C/a> explains why US-built tools often trip here.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Comparison sites.\u003C/strong> Prisjakt and PriceRunner in the Nordics and idealo in DACH show many shops on one page. They're a quick read on the market, but they don't cover every shop or every variant.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Discount rules.\u003C/strong> Under the EU's Omnibus rules (Price Indication Directive, Article 6a), a "was" price on a discount must, in most cases, be the lowest price you charged in the 30 days before the discount. The CJEU's ALDI SÜD ruling (C-330/23, September 2024) confirmed that the percentage must be worked out from that price. If you react to competitor discounts with your own, you need clean price history for your products too. Our \u003Ca href=\"/blogs/omnibus-directive-price-history-compliance-2026\">Omnibus guide\u003C/a> covers what to keep.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ol>\n\u003Cp>Ask any provider, software or service, how it handles each of these. "We support Europe" isn't an answer.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"is-there-an-option-between-software-and-a-service\">Is there an option between software and a service?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Yes. Several providers now sell both: self-serve collection and matching you run yourself, plus a managed tier for the sites or categories you don't want to handle. This lets you start small on a pay-as-you-go balance, learn what you need and move only the hard parts, such as protected sites or products without barcodes, to the provider.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>ScrapeWise, which publishes this blog, works this way, so weigh that. On the self-serve side you upload your product list, name the competitor sites and get prices back as a table in the portal, CSV, Excel, API or MCP, at most once a day. Collection is billed per page, from €0.15 per 1,000. Matching runs on EAN first, then title, brand and size, then pictures, and unsure pairs go to review; it's priced at €0.15 per 1,000 products for text and EAN matching and €1.50 per 1,000 for picture matching (minimum €1 a run). The charge is live in the wallet: a run reserves the most it can cost and settles to what it actually used (November 2026). The \u003Ca href=\"/use-cases/product-matching\">product matching page\u003C/a> shows how that works. The \u003Ca href=\"/managed-data\">Managed Data\u003C/a> service, from €1,500 a month plus setup, does the collection, cleaning to one unit and currency, and matching for you, and delivers one comparison table at most once a day. Neither sends price alerts, and neither updates more than daily. If you need hourly prices, a different tool fits better.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-should-you-ask-a-price-monitoring-provider-before-you-s\">What should you ask a price monitoring provider before you sign?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Ask six things: who does the matching, what happens when a site breaks, how often data arrives, what the full monthly cost is for your scope, which of your competitor sites they can't collect, and whether you can test on your own products first. Get the answers in writing.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cfigure class=\"article-figure\">\u003Cimg src=\"/img/news/competitor-price-monitoring-services-vs-software-2026-2.png\" alt=\"Checklist of six questions to ask a price monitoring provider before signing\">\u003Cfigcaption>Six questions for software vendors and services alike\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Who matches the products, and who checks the unsure ones?\u003C/strong> Is it included or extra?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>What happens when a competitor changes its site?\u003C/strong> Who notices, and how fast is it fixed?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>How often does data arrive, and in what format?\u003C/strong> Table, Excel, API, BI tool.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>What's the full monthly price for my products, sites and markets?\u003C/strong> Including setup, extra users and add-ons.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Which of my competitor sites can't you collect?\u003C/strong> Some sites block or need a login. An honest provider names them.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Can I test it on my own products before signing?\u003C/strong> A sample on 50–100 of your real products tells you more than any demo.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ol>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-should-you-do-next\">What should you do next?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Write down your 10 most important competitor sites and 50 products you care most about. Run the six questions past two software vendors and two services. Then test at least one of each on that same list and compare the tables side by side. Most tools offer a free trial or a free sample, so the test should cost little more than an afternoon.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>If you want to try the self-serve route first, \u003Ca href=\"https://portal.scrapewise.ai/register\">run your own competitor URLs: the first 5 requests are free, no card needed\u003C/a>. For the bigger picture of what to track and why, start with our \u003Ca href=\"/use-cases/competitor-price-tracking\">competitor price tracking\u003C/a> page or the \u003Ca href=\"/blogs/choose-price-monitoring-software-ecommerce-2026\">price monitoring software buyer's guide\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n",{"title":10,"description":11,"badge":12,"benefits":13},"Frequently asked questions","Competitor price monitoring services - managed service vs price monitoring software for European retailers","FAQ",[14,17,20,23,26],{"title":15,"description":16},"What is a competitor price monitoring service?","It's a provider that collects your competitors' prices, matches them to your own products and delivers a finished comparison table on a schedule. The provider sets up the competitor sites, fixes collection when sites change and checks data quality. Your team reads the table and decides prices. Price monitoring software gives you a tool to do the same work yourself.",{"title":18,"description":19},"Is a managed price monitoring service more expensive than software?","On the price list, usually yes. Published prices start around $99 a month for software covering 2,000 products, against $599 a month at Octoparse and €1,500 plus setup at ScrapeWise for managed services. Once you count the hours your team spends adding sites, approving matches and fixing trackers, the gap shrinks, and one managed-service seller's model (ProWebScraper) shows a service costing less overall at 25 sites and 5,000 products.",{"title":21,"description":22},"Who does product matching in price monitoring software?","Usually the tool suggests matches and your team approves the ones it isn't sure about. Some vendors sell matching as an add-on: NetRivals, for example, offers a manual matching service for customers who don't want to do it themselves. In a managed service, matching is normally included. Always ask who checks the unsure matches, because wrong matches mean you compare the wrong products.",{"title":24,"description":25},"When should a retailer choose software over a service?","Choose software when you watch fewer than about 10 competitor sites, your products carry barcodes so matching is mostly automatic, you sell in one market and currency, and someone on the team has a few hours a week to own it. If any of those isn't true, a managed service or a hybrid setup is worth pricing.",{"title":27,"description":28},"Can I test a price monitoring service before signing?","You should. Octoparse offers a free scoped sample within 1–2 business days, and ScrapeWise gives 5 free self-serve requests with no card needed. Pick 50–100 of your real products and your most important competitor sites, run the same list through each option, and compare the tables side by side before you commit.","Competitor Price Monitoring Services vs Software (2026)","Competitor price monitoring services vs software in 2026: who does matching and upkeep, prices from $99 (SaaS) and $599 (managed), plus 6 questions to ask.","Siim Brazier",null,"https://www.linkedin.com/in/siimbrazier/","Founder & CEO, ScrapeWise","/img/team/siim.jpg",false,"Pricing",11,[40,46,51],{"slug":41,"title":42,"image":43,"date":44,"category":37,"excerpt":45},"do-prices-rise-before-black-friday-2026","Do Prices Rise Before Black Friday? Five Weeks of Our Own Records","/img/news/do-prices-rise-before-black-friday-2026.png","12 Nov 2026","We recorded 1,364 products at seven large EU shops every night from 5 October. By 11 November, 20.5% cost more than their October median and 29.9% cost less.",{"slug":47,"title":48,"image":49,"date":44,"category":37,"excerpt":50},"how-to-check-black-friday-discount-is-real-2026","How to Check Whether a Black Friday Discount Is Real","/img/news/how-to-check-black-friday-discount-is-real-2026.png","A was-now sticker shows two numbers and only one is a fact. How to read the label beside the old price, and a four-step test you can run before Black Friday 2026.",{"slug":52,"title":53,"image":54,"date":44,"category":37,"excerpt":55},"same-product-price-differences-eu-shops-2026","The Same Product, Priced Across Europe, Before Black Friday","/img/news/same-product-price-differences-eu-shops-2026.png","We matched 78 products by barcode across five large EU shops on one night. 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