CamelCamelCamel Alternatives: Price History for Stores That Aren't Amazon
If you have used CamelCamelCamel or Keepa on Amazon, you already know what good price history feels like: a chart, a floor, and an obvious answer to “is this actually cheap.” Then you go to buy a refrigerator at Lowe’s or a jacket at Nordstrom Rack and there is nothing. No chart, no floor, no context.
That gap is not an oversight. It is structural, and understanding why explains which alternatives can actually work.
Why Camel and Keepa are Amazon only
Amazon publishes a Product Advertising API. Affiliates can query product data, including price, at scale and under terms of service. That API is what made a decade of Amazon price history tools possible: the data was available, so somebody charted it.
Almost no other large retailer offers that. Home Depot, Lowe’s, Costco, Walmart and the rest publish pricing only through their own storefronts, and most of them actively defend those endpoints against automated reading. So a tool that wants non-Amazon price history has to build and maintain per-retailer collection, retailer by retailer, forever, and re-fix it every time a site changes. That is why the field is thin.
It also means you should be suspicious of any tool claiming price history for every store. Breadth that wide usually means shallow spot checks rather than a real time series.
The alternatives, honestly
Retailer wishlists and price-drop alerts
Walmart, Best Buy and Target all offer save-and-notify features in their own apps. Free, first-party, accurate.
Limits: one retailer each, no chart, no history you can inspect, and the retailer decides what counts as a drop worth telling you about. Fine as a backstop, not a substitute for history.
BrickSeek
Store-level inventory and price lookups, strongest at Walmart and Target. Answers “what does my local store have and for how much” on a SKU you already know.
Limits: it is a lookup, not a time series. You cannot see the last six months, and Home Depot coverage has been inconsistent for years. More on that in BrickSeek alternatives.
Slickdeals and community feeds
Excellent as a signal that something is unusually cheap right now, because a human noticed. Not a history tool, and coverage skews toward popular electronics.
Google Shopping price insights
Google sometimes shows a typical price range on a product. Useful as a sanity check. It is a summary, not a history, and it draws from merchant feeds rather than the retailer’s live shelf price.
Endless
Full disclosure, this is us. We run scheduled catalog scans and write every price change we see to a history table, which is the same shape of data Keepa keeps, aimed at the stores Keepa does not cover.
Currently that is about 563,000 live products across 15 retailers, plus Home Depot tracked per store across roughly 1,990 locations. Paste a product link on the price tracker and you see today’s price against the lowest and highest we have recorded, without an account. Tracking a product for drop emails needs a plan, from $9.99 a month for 10 tracked products.
Limits, plainly: we do not cover Amazon’s main marketplace, only Amazon Warehouse, so Keepa remains the right tool there. Catalog depth varies a lot by retailer. Target is effectively blocked at the moment. And history only exists from the point we started scanning a given product, so a brand new listing has no past.
How much history you actually get, by retailer
A history tool is only as good as its scan cadence, and cadence only matters in proportion to how often a retailer moves prices. Here is what we logged in the last seven days, as the share of each retailer’s live catalog whose price changed:
| Retailer | Share of catalog that changed price in 7 days |
|---|---|
| Amazon Warehouse | 50.4% |
| Best Buy | 33.1% |
| Walmart | 24.5% |
| Apple Refurbished | 16.0% |
| Macy’s | 15.5% |
| Lowe’s | 15.4% |
| Newegg | 14.3% |
| Academy Sports | 12.8% |
| Nordstrom | 10.1% |
| Dick’s Sporting Goods | 9.5% |
| Golf Galaxy | 7.8% |
| Costco | 4.7% |
| Sam’s Club | 3.6% |
| Nordstrom Rack | 2.5% |
| Verizon | 0.6% |
Read that as a guide to where history is worth having. At Amazon Warehouse and Best Buy, half and a third of the catalog respectively reprices inside a week, so a snapshot you took last Tuesday is already wrong and history is the only way to judge a price. At Verizon, almost nothing moves, and checking the page yourself once a month is genuinely sufficient.
Nordstrom Rack’s 2.5% deserves a note, because it is misleading in an interesting way. Rack does not reprice existing listings much. It churns inventory: items arrive already marked down and then sell out. The useful signal there is arrival, not repricing, which is a different question than the one price history answers.
Which alternative to pick
- You shop Amazon mostly. Keep Keepa. Nothing else is better on Amazon.
- You want history for one non-Amazon retailer. Start with that retailer’s own wishlist alerts. Free, and if that retailer is slow-moving like Costco or Verizon, it may be all you need.
- You want history across several stores. You need something doing scheduled scans. That is what we built Endless for, and what the per-retailer pages above show.
- You are hunting in-store clearance. History matters less than store-level presence. For Home Depot that means per-store tracking rather than per-link tracking, because HD clearance prices are set store by store.
For the wider landscape of comparison and alert tools, see the best price comparison apps and tools. If you are deciding whether a paid tracker is worth it, we broke down the actual difference in free vs paid price trackers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a CamelCamelCamel for Walmart?
Not from CamelCamelCamel, which is Amazon-only. Walmart’s own app has price-drop notifications on saved items, and Endless tracks Walmart pricing with stored history, though the Walmart catalog we scan is narrower than our other retailers because Walmart rate-limits aggressively. See our Walmart price tracker guide.
Why does no one track Home Depot prices like Keepa tracks Amazon?
Two reasons. Home Depot has no public product API comparable to Amazon’s, and its clearance pricing is set per store, so a single product page price is not the whole answer. Tracking it properly means scanning the catalog across many stores, which is why general-purpose tools skip it.
Can Keepa track non-Amazon retailers?
Keepa has experimented with limited non-Amazon data, but its depth and alert reliability outside Amazon do not compare to its Amazon coverage. Treat it as an Amazon tool.
Is price history free to look up?
On Endless, yes: paste a product link and you see the current price plus the recorded low and high with no account. Setting up drop alerts requires a plan starting at $9.99 a month. CamelCamelCamel and Keepa are free for Amazon lookups.
How far back does the price history go?
Only as far back as scanning started for that product. Any tracker claiming history that predates its own collection is inferring it. On products we have followed since launch that is over a year, on recently added retailers like Academy Sports it is weeks, and we say which on the page.