# SmartScout > Amazon market research by product, brand, seller and category SmartScout is an Amazon research platform that maps the marketplace at several levels: products, keywords, brands, sellers and subcategories, with TikTok Shop data too. Wholesale and arbitrage sellers use its brand and seller data to find suppliers, and brands use it for keyword research, competitor tracking and ad intelligence. Higher plans open each level of data. - **Category:** Amazon Seller Tools - **Made by:** SmartScout - **Website:** https://www.smartscout.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing SmartScout is a paid product, starting at $29 per month, billed yearly ($49 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $29 per month, billed yearly ($49 billed monthly) | Product-level data on 30M+ products, keyword research, the research extension, review automation, price list scanner and sales estimator. 1 user. | | Essentials | $99 per month, billed yearly ($119 billed monthly) | Adds brand and keyword data, TikTok Shop research, unlimited keyword research and tracking, historical search trends and Search Query Performance. | | Business | $239 per month, billed yearly ($299 billed monthly) | Adds seller data with Buy Box history, subcategory data, sentiment analysis, brand reports, traffic networks and a snapshot MCP. | | Enterprise | Custom | Historical data, seller exports, Ad Spy, share of voice, full MCP access and custom dashboards and alerts, arranged through a demo. | Read from https://www.smartscout.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SmartScout before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Lower monthly rate with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Billed yearly, Basic is $29 a month instead of $49, Essentials $99 instead of $119 and Business $239 instead of $299. Source: https://www.smartscout.com/pricing ## Key features - **Brand and seller research:** Browse 500,000+ brands and 2,000,000+ sellers with Buy Box history, useful for finding wholesale suppliers and sizing up rivals. - **Product and category data:** Snapshot data on more than 30 million active products and 40,000+ subcategories, with an FBA calculator and sales estimator. - **Keyword research and Rank Maker:** Search Terms Explorer finds related keywords and sizes demand; Rank Maker tracks keyword rankings, unlimited from Essentials up. - **Wholesale price list scanner:** Upload a supplier's price list to match it against Amazon products, plus a UPC scanner and a Chrome research extension. - **AI listing and visibility tools:** AI Scorecard audits listings, AI Listing Architect rewrites them, and AI Visibility Monitor tracks which sites ChatGPT cites in your category. - **API and MCP:** A SmartScout API and an MCP server feed its data to your own tools or AI assistant; full MCP access comes with Enterprise. ## Good for - Wholesale and online arbitrage sellers looking for brands to source from - Private label sellers sizing up niches and competitors - Agencies and brand buyers researching categories and sellers ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan or free trial; each plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee instead. - Every plan includes one user; extra users cost $49 each. - AI audits and listing rewrites are capped by ASINs a month (1 on Basic to 60 on Business), with extra ASINs at $3 to $4 each. - Seller-level and subcategory data start at Business; historical data, Ad Spy and share of voice are Enterprise only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. SmartScout maps Amazon by product, brand, seller and category, which suits wholesale sellers hunting for brands to source from. Basic is $29 a month on yearly billing, but that's product data only. Brand data starts at $99 and seller data at $239, and there's no free plan or trial. - **Value for money: C.** Basic is $29 a month billed yearly ($49 monthly), in the cheapest quarter here, but it's product-level data. The brand data that sets SmartScout apart needs Essentials at $99, and seller data with Buy Box history needs Business at $239. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no free plan and no trial. Each plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee instead, which isn't the same thing. - **Features: C.** Product, keyword, brand, seller and subcategory data, rank tracking, a wholesale price-list scanner, review automation and AI listing tools. Deep research, but research is most of it, and seller and historical data sit on Business and Enterprise. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. Looking up a product is simple enough, but there's a lot of data at several levels to learn your way round. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a Chrome research extension, with no phone or desktop app. It covers Amazon and TikTok Shop, and has an API and an MCP server, though full MCP access is Enterprise only. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SmartScout's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among Amazon seller tools - SmartScout's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 3 of the 16 other Amazon seller tools we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 6 of 16) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 5 of the 12 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/amazon-sellers ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace SmartScout you would be making data from Amazon's seller tools and years of sales estimates. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 11 of the 16 other Amazon seller tools grade higher. It costs $348 a year. - You could make: Review collection: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Data from Amazon's seller tools and years of sales estimates. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Amazon and TikTok Shop among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Amazon, TikTok Shop **Tags:** Amazon selling, Keyword research, Rank tracking, Review collection, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Jungle Scout](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jungle-scout): Amazon product and keyword research, with tools to run a store. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amzscout-vs-smartscout) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.smartscout.com/pricing - https://www.smartscout.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/smartscout Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).