Karma alternative: what each one is for
Karma is a shopping assistant — save items, apply coupons, earn cash back, across thousands of stores; this site is the record behind one question, whether today’s amazon.com price is a good one.
Karma’s side checked against its own pages on . Ours is read from the live site. 12,755 products tracked, checked at least every 20 hours.
| Karma | BasketPrice | |
|---|---|---|
| How far back the chart goes | Price drops on items you have saved; the extension is the surface, not a public chart you can link to. | From the day we began tracking each product; our oldest reading is from September 8, 2026. |
| Which prices | The price of the item you saved, at the store you saved it from. | One price per retailer offer, with Renewed and used offers labelled; no separate third-party, Buy Box or sales-rank lines. |
| Stores and countries | Thousands of stores — their home page names Amazon, Target, Nike, Macy’s, Nordstrom, ASOS and others. | Amazon, US sites only. |
| On the store page itself | A browser extension and mobile apps; their site claims 6.5 million users. | No extension. A bookmarklet on the tracker page carries the address you are on to the lookup form. |
| Account | Required: saved items and cash back are tied to it. | None. Nothing here needs one. |
| Is today’s price good? | AI-led recommendations on what to buy; no published record of what the item cost on each day before. | Says whether today's price is good against its own median once 7 days are recorded, and scores those calls afterwards in public. |
| Taking the data | None on the pages we checked. | An RSS feed per product. Amazon's licence keeps its prices out of feeds and downloads, so CSV and JSON files cover other retailers only. |
| Cost | Free; the business is coupons, cash back and affiliate revenue. | Free. Paid for by commission when you buy through a link. |
When Karma is the better choice
- You shop across many stores and want one saved-items list for all of them.
- You want coupons applied and cash back earned on what you buy.
- You want it on your phone as an app.
- You are collecting a wishlist over weeks rather than deciding on one thing today.
When this site is
- You want a plain answer on today’s price, with the method on how we verify prices and our misses listed on the track record.
- You want several products priced as one purchase, which is what the basket does.
Questions people ask
- Can I read a price history here without installing anything?
- Yes. Every product page is an ordinary web page with the full record on it, linkable and readable without an extension, an account or an app.
- Does BasketPrice earn cash back for me?
- No. We earn a commission when you buy through a link, which never affects what we say about a price, and none of it comes back to you. If cash back matters, Karma pays it and we do not.
- Can I use both?
- Yes, and they answer different questions: Karma for saving and checking out across stores, this for deciding whether an Amazon price is worth paying today.
Where their side comes from
Karma is named here only to compare it. BasketPrice is not affiliated with it, and its name belongs to its owner. Spot a row that is out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
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