dibs vs DealHunter
A server-side alert service across seven resale marketplaces, with the cleanest price ladder in the field.
DealHunter’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.
DealHunter
- Runs
- On their servers — no browser needed
- Plans
- Free · Basic $7.99 · Standard $14.99 · Premium $29.99 a month, with 28–31% off annually
- Saved searches
- 1 free · 5 · 10 · 20 saved searches
- How often it checks
- "Normal", "Fast" and "Fastest" on the paid tiers. What free runs at after its first 24 hours is not published
- Alert channels
- Push and email
- Free tier
- 1 saved search, all seven marketplaces, and paid speed for the first 24 hours
- Trial
- 7-day free trial on paid plans
- Marketplaces
- Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp, Mercari, eBay, Poshmark, Depop
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
- Free watches 3 searches every 15 minutes and keeps doing it. DealHunter’s free tier is one search, and the paid speed it opens with lasts 24 hours.
- Ten searches costs $9.60 a month on dibs Pro billed yearly, against $14.99 monthly on DealHunter Standard — or about $10.75 a month on their annual plan.
- Every alert channel is on every dibs plan, free included: push, email, Telegram, Discord and signed webhooks. DealHunter lists push and email.
- dibs reads the marketplace in your own signed-in browser, so no server holds a login for your account.
Where DealHunter is better
- DealHunter runs on their servers, so it keeps working with your laptop shut. dibs does not.
- Seven marketplaces against the one dibs watches today.
- They have a phone app. dibs is a browser extension and a website.
Buy DealHunter if you want alerts while your computer is off, or you sell on Mercari, Poshmark, eBay or Depop — dibs does not read those.
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.