CompSniper
This site, AI-cleaned comps
- Type
- Purpose-built REST API with cleanup
- Sold data
- Yes
- Price
- Free, then $9 to $79/mo
- Setup
- 5 minutes
- Real-time
- Yes
Comparison · 2026
eBay sold data API
alternatives, compared.
There are half a dozen ways to get eBay sold prices. If you came here looking for a SoldComps alternative, pay attention to cleanup: a raw iPhone 17 Pro Max search can include cases, chargers, screen protectors, parts, and nearby models. Below is an honest look at SoldComps, Terapeak, eBay’s official APIs, self-scraping, Bright Data, and Apify, plus whether each path gives you a usable median or leaves cleanup to you.
Side by side
Every option at a glance
Sold data means real completed-sale prices, not active asking prices. Clean sold data means accessories, parts, wrong models, and junk matches are removed before you trust the median. Prices are the publicly listed rates as of 2026 and can change.
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SoldComps
Direct sold-comps lookup and API
- Type
- Sold-comps API
- Sold data
- Yes(Cleanup is the question)
- Price
- Free, then $9 to $79/mo
- Setup
- 5 minutes
- Real-time
- Yes, when stable
Terapeak
eBay Product Research
- Type
- Seller Hub dashboard
- Sold data
- Partial(Dashboard only, no API)
- Price
- Free with an eBay account
- Setup
- Built into eBay
- Real-time
- Dashboard only
Marketplace Insights API
eBay official
- Type
- Official REST API
- Sold data
- Yes
- Price
- Free, if approved
- Setup
- Weeks of approval
- Real-time
- Yes
Browse API
eBay official
- Type
- Official REST API
- Sold data
- No(Active listings only)
- Price
- Free
- Setup
- OAuth plus app review
- Real-time
- Active only
Self-scraping
Do it yourself
- Type
- Code you build and run
- Sold data
- Partial(If you can keep it alive)
- Price
- Proxies plus your time
- Setup
- Weeks to months
- Real-time
- Yes, until it breaks
Bright Data
Proxy platform
- Type
- Proxies plus scraper builder
- Sold data
- Partial(You build the parser)
- Price
- Roughly $500+/mo
- Setup
- Days
- Real-time
- Yes
Apify actors
Community scrapers
- Type
- Marketplace of scrapers
- Sold data
- Yes(Varies by actor)
- Price
- Pay per compute unit
- Setup
- Hours
- Real-time
- Varies
One CompSniper request returns up to 240 sold listings across 8 eBay marketplaces, then applies custom AI cleanup before your median.
Comparing against SoldComps? See the full CompSniper vs SoldComps breakdown.Comparing against Terapeak? See the full CompSniper vs Terapeak breakdown.
The honest breakdown
When each alternative is the right call
No single tool wins for everyone. Here is where each option shines and where CompSniper is the better fit, written plainly.
SoldComps
SoldComps is the closest direct comparison: a sold-comps lookup and API with a familiar pricing shape for sellers. The pricing question is not just whether a lookup returns. It is whether the matches are clean enough to trust. A raw search can pull the actual item next to cases, chargers, screen protectors, parts, and nearby variants. If that noise goes into the median, the number can be wrong even when the API returned data.
Use it if
You already use SoldComps, your searches are simple, and you only need a familiar sold-comps lookup flow.
Use CompSniper if
You want a SoldComps alternative with custom AI cleanup before the median, up to 240 sold listings per request without supplying eBay cookies, and hosted MCP access from ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other compatible agents.
Terapeak (eBay Product Research)
Terapeak lives inside eBay Seller Hub as Product Research. It shows sold data with a generous window (up to three years) and is free with most eBay accounts. The catch is that it is a dashboard for humans, not a data source for software. There is no public API, no bulk export you can wire into a pricing model, and no custom AI cleanup step before your median. It is a lookup tool, not a pipeline.
Use it if
You are a solo seller pricing items by hand inside eBay and you want the longest possible history for free.
Use CompSniper if
You need sold prices inside your own app, spreadsheet, or automation, and you want cleaned JSON instead of clicking through a dashboard.
eBay official APIs (Marketplace Insights, Browse, and the retired Finding API)
eBay has three chapters here. The old Finding API returned completed listings and was the classic answer for years, but eBay decommissioned it, so any tutorial pointing you there is dead on arrival. The Browse API is alive and free, but it only returns active listings, not sold prices, so it cannot tell you what things actually went for. Marketplace Insights is the one official API that returns real sold data, and it is genuinely good, but it ships as a Limited Release that is not accepting new developers. Getting access means an approval process that can take weeks, assuming you are approved at all. You still need to decide how to clean noisy keyword matches for your own median logic.
Use it if
You already hold Marketplace Insights access, or you only need active listings and OAuth overhead does not bother you.
Use CompSniper if
You want sold data today without waiting on an approval queue, and you want a custom AI model to remove accessories, parts, and wrong models before the median.
Self-scraping (DIY)
Writing your own scraper looks cheap on day one and expensive by month three. eBay's sold pages need a logged-in session, aggressive requests get blocked, and the HTML changes without warning. To make it reliable you end up running residential proxies, rotating authenticated accounts, classifying page types, catching currency leaks, and building relevance cleanup so iPhone 17 Pro Max does not mean cases and chargers. That is real engineering payroll spent on plumbing instead of your product.
Use it if
Scraping is your core competency, you enjoy maintaining proxy infrastructure, and you have engineers to keep it running.
Use CompSniper if
You want the same underlying result (real sold listings as cleaned JSON) without owning the proxy pool, the parser, the cleanup model, or the 2 a.m. pages when eBay changes its markup.
Bright Data
Bright Data is a serious proxy and web-data platform. It gives you the raw capability to scrape almost anything, including eBay, through residential proxies and scraper builders. But it is infrastructure, not an eBay sold-comps product. You still design the collector, write the parser, normalize the fields, build result cleanup, and keep it working, and you pay platform-scale prices (often several hundred dollars a month) for the privilege. It is a great fit for large teams scraping many sites, and overkill for someone who just wants sold prices.
Use it if
You are scraping dozens of sites at scale and want one heavyweight platform for proxies and collection across all of them.
Use CompSniper if
eBay sold prices are the specific thing you need, and you would rather pay for the cleaned answer than rent the tools to build it.
Apify actors
Apify hosts a marketplace of prebuilt scrapers (actors), including community eBay sold-listing actors. It is a nice middle ground: less work than building from scratch, more flexible than a fixed API. The trade-offs are that quality and freshness vary by actor and author, you are billed by compute usage rather than a predictable per-search quota, and you inherit whatever the actor maintainer decides to support. Our own Apify actor runs the same cleanup engine as this API for people who prefer that channel.
Use it if
You already build workflows on Apify and want your eBay data to live alongside your other actors.
Use CompSniper if
You want predictable pricing (pay per search, not per compute unit), custom AI cleanup, and a first-party API contract that stays stable under /v1.
Decision guide
When to use what
Find the row that sounds like you and start there.
You just want sold prices in your app, fast
CompSniper
One GET request, cleaned JSON, custom AI cleanup before the median, live in 5 minutes on a free key.
You are comparing SoldComps alternatives
CompSniper
Similar sold-price API shape, but with up to 240 results and custom AI cleanup before the median.
You price a handful of items by hand on eBay
Terapeak
Free inside Seller Hub with the longest history, if you never need an API.
You already have eBay Marketplace Insights access
Marketplace Insights API
It is the official sold-data source. Use it if you are already through the queue.
You only need active listings, not sold prices
eBay Browse API
Free and official, but it will not tell you what anything actually sold for.
Scraping is your core competency
Self-scraping or Bright Data
Own the pipeline if maintaining proxies and parsers is a job you want.
You live in the Apify ecosystem
Apify actor
Keep eBay data next to your other actors, and accept usage-based billing.
The short version
If you just want the data, this is the fast path
No OAuth, no approval queue, no proxy pool, no XML. Pass a keyword with your API key and get back real sold listings as cleaned JSON. The custom AI model filters out cases, accessories, parts, and wrong models before the median.
- Live in about 5 minutes on a free key
- Pay per search, not per result or per compute unit
- Custom AI cleanup before the median
Terminal
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer cs_YOUR_KEY_HERE" \
"https://api.compsniper.com/v1/scrape?keyword=iphone+17+pro+max&count=10"Skip raw comps and bad medians
Start with 100 free requests a month. No credit card, instant API key, cleaned sold prices in your first call.