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

If you are a fan of buying tech products online, you may look forward to the best tech deals available during Amazon Prime Day. But what if you need to save money other times during the year? You could hit refresh on your web browser multiple times a day for the Amazon product page in which you have interest. Better yet, you can follow the constant price changes on Amazon by using a price tracker that helps you find the items you want for less money.

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

Which Amazon price tracker is the most reliable and accurate? Each one has its own features and strengths, meaning you can match the option that you select to your personal preferences for using it. Depending on what you'd like to accomplish, you may have to use more than one of these free price trackers to receive all the features you want.

If you want to use one of the best Amazon price-tracking tools that's completely free, CamelCamelCamel is a popular choice. It has a browser extension available, or you can paste the website for the Amazon product you want to buy into the CamelCamelCamel website. You do have to sign up for an account at the company website to gain access to the tracking tool, but you won't pay anything to use it. Additionally, CamelCamelCamel is completely independent from Amazon ownership, making it one of the most trustworthy and best ways to check any Amazon deal before you buy it.

One of the service's top money-saving features is sending you an email message when a price on a product you're tracking reaches the price point you set. CamelCamelCamel also tracks the history of pricing changes for Amazon products, helping you figure out when they're available at a  comparative bargain. People in different countries can use CamelCamelCamel, including for products sold in Canada, German, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. The service doesn't always take the savings coupons into account that some retailers offer on their Amazon product pages, though.

Keepa is an Amazon price tracking tool that works very similarly to CamelCamelCamel. However, it has a mobile app available, different from CamelCamelCamel. Keepa has a free tier that's available for tracking price history on Amazon products. It offers email alerts to users in the free tier, allowing them to learn when prices reach a certain level. You also can choose to receive alerts through browser notifications and other methods. If you install the Keepa extension in Chrome, the historical price charges will automatically appear on every Amazon product page you're viewing. It's easy to see whether today's price is higher than what it was a few weeks ago, helping you make a savvy purchase decision.

Keepa is considered one of the essential apps for tracking discounts on tech products. It specifically tracks prices for refurbished products. This is a common selling practice from tech product merchants on Amazon. 

The free tier is highly useful for Amazon consumers looking for product bargains. However, Keepa also has a monthly paid tier for €29 (around $33). This tier gives Amazon sellers the comparative product data they need, like top-seller lists.

Sometimes, the best way to earn savings on items you regularly buy is through receiving cash back on a percentage of the cost of those purchases. Rakuten is a free shopping platform that sends you cash for some of the purchases you make at certain retailers. When you're looking to save some money on purchases at Amazon, you could use Rakuten, although rewards are no longer consistently offered. (Rakuten had provided regular cash back offers at Amazon through 2020.) These days, Rakuten sticks to occasionally offering some Amazon-only cash back promotions.

You can sign up for Rakuten for free through a mobile app or on the company website. You sign up with your email address. You can also download a browser extension that will alert you to cash back deals at certain stores when you're researching products or doing online shopping. 

Rakuten does offer cash back consistently at more than 3,500 stores. You might sign up and use it for its partnerships at other stores. Then, if you manage to find an occasional cash back deal on Amazon, you'll be ready to go.

Visualping is a tool designed to monitor changes in any webpage. However, you can use this technology to keep an eye on price drops at Amazon to save money. You can set criteria to keep Visualping on track and guarantee you only receive notifications when desired.

Visualping does have multiple paid tiers for large-volume users. The free tier is made for personal use and offers monitoring of up to five pages with roughly one check per day per month (150 total checks). 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, just paste the Amazon product page URL that 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 the before and after prices. (You could ask it to alert you when a product is back in stock instead.)

Even if you frequently shop at Amazon, you may purchase items from other retailers, too. If so, you may want to use the free price tracking tool called Honey, which offers price drop notifications for Amazon, Target, Walmart, Macy's, and many other retailers. (PayPal purchased Honey in 2019 to try to improve how PayPal customers are able to shop.)

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

To have Honey watch an Amazon product page for price drops, you'll need to add the items you want to monitor to Honey's Droplist tool. Should a lower price appear, Honey will send you a notification. When you're ready to buy a product, Honey will compare prices among all Amazon sellers (even taking shipping costs into account) to help you save the most money. Honey can also provide the Amazon price history for almost any product.