dibs vs Swoopa
A server-side alert service aimed at car sourcing, and the most expensive tool in this comparison by a wide margin.
Swoopa’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.
Swoopa
- Runs
- On their servers — no browser needed
- Plans
- Go $47 · Turbo $144 · Nitro $352 a month, or $28 · $99 · $199 on a 6–12 month commitment
- Saved searches
- 7 · 16 · 22 searches
- How often it checks
- Described as basic, fast and instant
- Alert channels
- Push
- Free tier
- None
- Trial
- Free for 7 days
- Marketplaces
- Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp, Kijiji, Gumtree, Nextdoor, eBay
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
- Their cheapest month-to-month plan is $47 and covers Facebook only. dibs Power — 30 searches with the top five checked every minute — is $29 a month, or $23.20 billed yearly.
- The $28 figure on their pricing page is a committed plan: it is $336 over twelve months. dibs bills monthly unless you choose otherwise, and cancelling keeps the plan until the period you paid for ends.
- Five alert channels on every plan against push.
- dibs has a free tier.
Where Swoopa is better
- It runs on their servers, so it does not need your browser open.
- Seven marketplaces against one, including Nextdoor, which dibs does not read.
- They sell AI scam filtering and a deal evaluator. dibs does not score listings for you.
Buy Swoopa if you are sourcing cars at volume and want scam filtering and profit evaluation built in.
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.