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.
Classifindr’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.
Classifindr
- Runs
- On their servers — no browser needed
- Plans
- Lite $9.60 · Standard $24 · Pro $48 · Max $80 a month, or a custom plan from $4.80
- Saved searches
- Units, not a search count: a 1-minute search costs 7 a month, 10-minute 3, 60-minute 1, multiplied by each marketplace it covers. Lite is 6 units — two searches checked every 10 minutes
- How often it checks
- Every 1, 10 or 60 minutes, chosen per search
- Alert channels
- Mobile push, Telegram, Discord, email, Web Push and webhooks
- Free tier
- None — 7 days free with 10 trial units
- Trial
- 7-day trial, 10 units
- Marketplaces
- Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Gumtree, Kijiji, OfferUp, Trade Me, Auto Trader, CarGurus, Poshmark, Pinkbike, Vinted, eBay, Mercari, Cazoo, Chrono24
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 end: 3 searches checked every 15 minutes, no card. Classifindr’s free period is 7 days and 10 units.
- At the same $9.60 a month, dibs Pro billed yearly watches ten searches with your top three checked every two minutes. Classifindr Lite is two searches checked every ten.
- dibs reads Facebook Marketplace in your own signed-in browser, so it sees the listings the marketplace shows a logged-in person in your area — not what it shows a signed-out visitor.
- Every listing a search ever found stays searchable with its photo, and Power connects Claude or any MCP client to it.
Where Classifindr is better
- Fifteen marketplaces against the one dibs watches today.
- It runs on their servers, so it keeps working with your laptop shut.
- They ship iOS and Android apps. dibs is an extension and a website.
- Six alert channels, on every plan, exactly like dibs — this is the one competitor where that is not a dibs advantage. They also say plainly that they never ask for a marketplace login.
Buy Classifindr if you watch more than one marketplace, or you want alerts while your computer is off. On channels and on never holding your login, they match dibs — the difference is where the scraping runs and what a free account gets you.
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.