How does this compare prices?
−We fetch both URLs live and read the price from the strongest signal the page offers, in order: schema.org JSON-LD, schema.org microdata, the screen-reader-only price element, then an element whose own markup labels it as the price. If a page offers none of those we tell you no price was found rather than reporting a number we guessed at — the same first pass ScrapeWise's real monitoring engine runs before deeper extraction.
Is my data stored anywhere?
+No. The URLs and prices are compared in real time and never saved.
Why does it say a price is unclear?
+Some pages hide price/stock behind client-side JavaScript rendering or use a page layout with no structured price data — a basic scraper (like this free tool) can miss it, which is exactly the failure mode ScrapeWise's production engine is built to handle.
Can I compare more than one competitor at once?
+Not in this free tool — it's built for a quick 1-vs-1 check. ScrapeWise monitors unlimited competitors automatically and alerts you the moment a price changes.
How do I check competitor prices for free?
+Paste your product page URL and the competitor's into the two fields above and press Compare prices. Both pages are fetched live, the price and product details are extracted from each, and you get a side-by-side result in a few seconds. There is no sign-up, no card, and no email.
Is it legal to check a competitor's prices?
+Reading a price that a retailer publishes publicly on its own website is generally lawful — a price on a public product page is not confidential information, and collecting it is ordinary competitive research. What matters is how you collect it: respect the site's terms, do not hammer their servers, and do not touch personal data. Pricing itself is where the legal risk actually sits, because coordinating prices with a competitor is illegal even though observing them is not.
How often should I check competitor prices?
+It depends on how fast your category moves. Electronics and marketplace listings reprice several times a day, so daily is a floor and hourly is common. Furniture, industrial supply, and most B2B catalogues move weekly or slower. The practical test: check at the frequency at which a missed change would have cost you a sale or a margin point.
Why did the tool say my competitor's price is unclear or missing?
+Usually one of four things: the store renders its price in JavaScript after the page loads, the site blocked the request with an anti-bot challenge, the URL points at a category or variant-selector page rather than one product, or the price is only shown to logged-in trade accounts. The "When a price can't be read" section above covers each case and what resolves it.
How do you know the two pages are the same product?
+Brand, model and SKU codes, and title tokens are compared across both extractions before any price difference is reported. If the brands disagree — as in the worked example above — the result is flagged as a probable mismatch instead of showing a price gap that means nothing. This is the step most keyword-based price checkers skip.