Honest comparisons, including where we lose.
Most “vs” pages are written so the author wins every row. These are not. ArbiKey does one thing better than anything else on this page — it tells you what an order actually made you — and there are things each alternative does that we do not do at all.
ArbiKey vs AutoDS
The closest comparison. Both list to eBay and sync orders through the official API. AutoDS covers more marketplaces and reprices automatically; it estimates profit with approximate fee rates. We do not reprice, and we do not order from Amazon for you.
Read the comparisonArbiKey vs ZIK Analytics
Barely a competition — they answer different questions. ZIK tells you what is likely to sell before you source. ArbiKey tells you what you kept after it sold. Plenty of sellers run both, and that is the honest recommendation.
Read the comparisonArbiKey vs a spreadsheet
Your real competitor, and it is free. Under about thirty listings a spreadsheet genuinely wins. What it cannot do is notice that your supplier raised a price this morning, or charge the right category fee on the shipping you collected.
Read the comparisonWhat actually separates these tools
Every vendor’s feature list is the same list. Four questions do the separating, and none of them appear on a pricing page: where the sync runs (a browser extension stops when your laptop shuts; a server-side job does not), how the fee is calculated (a flat 13% is the wrong number — eBay charges by category, on the total including the shipping you collected, with a fixed charge underneath), what happens at zero stock (setting quantity to zero preserves a listing’s history and ranking; ending it destroys both), and where the automation stops. We wrote the long version as four questions worth asking any vendor, ourselves included.
Where ArbiKey stops, on purpose
We do not place orders on Amazon for you. eBay’s dropshipping policy prohibits listing an item and then buying it from another retailer that ships straight to your buyer, and automating that step is the part that gets accounts suspended — so it is absent by design, not by omission. We also do not reprice listings automatically, and we are eBay-only: no Shopify, no Walmart, no Amazon selling. If you need any of those, one of the tools above is a better answer than ours.
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