How dibs compares
Five tools people actually weigh dibs against. Every price and limit below was read off the vendor’s own page on 2026-09-18 and links to it, because a comparison with a stale price is just an untrue statement about someone else’s business.
What dibs is worse at is at the bottom of this page, not buried. If one of those things matters to you, buy the other tool — that is a better outcome than a refund.
Side by side
As of 2026-09-18.
| Tool | Runs | Cheapest paid | Free tier | Alert channels | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dibs | In your browser | $9.60/mo billed yearly$12 monthly | 3 searches, every 15 min, no card | Push, email, Telegram, Discord, webhooks — on every plan | 1+2 next release |
| DealHunter | On their servers | $7.99/mo | 1 saved search, all seven marketplaces, and paid speed for the first 24 hours | Push and email | 7 |
| CarSnipe | In your browser | $9.99/mo | None | Telegram | 1 |
| Marketplace Monitor | On their servers | $24.99/mo | None | Push | 6 |
| Classifindr | On their servers | $9.60/mo | None — 7 days free with 10 trial units | Mobile push, Telegram, Discord, email, Web Push and webhooks | 15 |
| Swoopa | On their servers | $47/mo | None | Push | 7 |
dibs vs DealHunter
A server-side alert service across seven resale marketplaces, with the cleanest price ladder in the field.
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dibs vs CarSnipe
The closest thing to dibs in the field: a browser extension that watches Facebook Marketplace in your own session, focused on vehicles.
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dibs vs Marketplace Monitor
A server-side monitoring service sold around car sourcing, with a dedicated account manager on every tier.
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dibs vs Classifindr
The closest competitor dibs has on alerts themselves: fifteen marketplaces, six alert channels on every plan, and a meter that prices searches against check speed the way dibs does.
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dibs vs Swoopa
A server-side alert service aimed at car sourcing, and the most expensive tool in this comparison by a wide margin.
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What dibs is worse at
Written down so you find out here rather than a week in.
- It needs your browser open
- dibs reads the marketplace in your own signed-in browser, which is why no server anywhere holds a login for your account. The price of that is real: close the laptop and the searches stop until you open it again. Every server-side tool on this page keeps running without you, and if that matters more to you than the rest, one of them is the better buy.
- One marketplace today, not nine
- Facebook Marketplace. Not Mercari, Poshmark, eBay, Depop, Vinted, Kijiji, Gumtree, Shpock or Nextdoor. Craigslist and OfferUp are written, tested and waiting on a Chrome Web Store release, and adding a site after those is a selector set and a content script — but the version you can install today watches one.
- It does not tell you what a thing is worth
- Several tools here check a listing against sold comps and estimate your profit. dibs tells you a listing exists, fast, with its photo, price and a link. Judging the deal is still yours.
- There is no phone app
- A Chrome extension and a website. Alerts reach your phone through push, Telegram, Discord or email, but there is nothing to install from an app store.
- We have not published a measured latency number yet
- Every tool in this field advertises a speed. dibs measures its own delivery time end to end, and will publish the real distribution once there is enough data to be honest about — not before. Treat an unsourced speed claim from anyone here, including us, as marketing until it is measured.