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.
CarSnipe’s figures below were read off their own page on 2026-09-18. If they have changed since, trust theirs over ours and tell us.
CarSnipe
- Runs
- In your own browser, like dibs
- Plans
- Basic $9.99/mo or $99/year · Pro $24.99/mo or $249/year
- Saved searches
- 2 saved searches on Basic; unlimited on Pro
- How often it checks
- 15-minute checks on Basic, 3-minute on Pro
- Alert channels
- Telegram
- Free tier
- None
- Trial
- 7-day free trial with full Pro access
- Marketplaces
- Facebook Marketplace, vehicles only
dibs
- Runs
- In your own signed-in browser — no server holds your login
- Plans
- Free · Pro $12 · Power $29 a month, or $9.60 and $23.20 a month billed yearly
- Saved searches
- 3 free · 10 on Pro · 30 on Power
- How often it checks
- Every 15 min free; Pro runs your top 3 every 2 min, Power your top 5 every minute
- Alert channels
- Push, email, Telegram, Discord and signed webhooks — on every plan, free included
- Free tier
- 3 searches, every 15 minutes, no card
- Marketplaces
- Facebook MarketplaceCraigslist and OfferUp are built and ship with the next store release
Where dibs is better
- dibs has a free tier that does not expire. CarSnipe’s free period is a 7-day trial.
- dibs watches anything on the marketplace. CarSnipe is vehicles.
- CarSnipe Basic is two saved searches for $9.99 a month. dibs Pro is ten for $12, or $9.60 billed yearly.
- Five alert channels on every plan against Telegram.
- Every listing a search ever found stays searchable with its photo, long after the marketplace takes it down.
Where CarSnipe is better
- CarSnipe is built for one job — cars — and a tool that knows what a trim level is will beat a general one at it.
- They publish an account-risk comparison of this whole field, which is more than most vendors here will say out loud.
- CarSnipe Pro is unlimited searches. dibs stops at 30 on Power.
- Pro alerts carry a market value from local comparable sales and a price-drop alert on saved listings. dibs does neither.
Buy CarSnipe if you are buying and flipping cars specifically. That is the whole product, and it is a real advantage.
What dibs is worse at, whoever you compare it to
- 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.