CamelCamelCamel excels at single-product history checks but misses vouchers and reacts slowly. The honest comparison with Keepa and Glitchoo.
CamelCamelCamel is the world's best-known Amazon price tracker: free, veteran, reliable — and yes, it fully supports Amazon.co.uk. But it was designed for one job — checking the history of a product you already know — and if what you actually want is to catch deals, it has real limits. Here's how it works, where it falls short, and which alternatives cover the gaps.
How CamelCamelCamel works
Paste a product URL (or ASIN) into camelcamelcamel.com and you get the price history chart: Amazon's price, third-party new and used. You can set an email alert ("notify me below £X") and install the Camelizer browser extension to see the chart right on the product page. All free.
Where it falls short
- Email alerts, not instant ones: alerts fire with periodic scans. Fine for a regular discount; often too late for a price error — which, per our study of 1,500+ cases, has a median lifetime of 48 hours and dies within 6 in 16% of cases.
- No vouchers: it tracks the price but doesn't see Amazon vouchers, which today are a huge share of real savings.
- No discovery: it tells you everything about a product you already know, but never surfaces the deals you weren't looking for.
The alternatives
| Tool | Strength | Weakness | Free? |
|---|---|---|---|
| CamelCamelCamel | Long history, simple | Email-only alerts, no vouchers | Yes |
| Keepa | Richest data, detailed charts | Key features are paid; steep learning curve | Partly (~£17/month for full) |
| Glitchoo | Automatic discovery of price errors and history-verified discounts, with Telegram alerts | Younger history than the two veterans | Yes, everything |
Keepa is the professional's tool (sellers, arbitrageurs): extremely powerful, but full access costs a subscription, and it's overkill if you just want to buy well.
Glitchoo — that's us — takes the opposite approach: instead of asking you to track one product at a time, we monitor six Amazon marketplaces (Amazon.co.uk included, 2+ million price checks) and show you directly the history-verified deals and the live price errors. Every product page has its history chart, vouchers are flagged separately from discounts, and the Telegram bot alerts you in real time — the fastest channel for price errors, where minutes matter.
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Which one should you pick?
- You want the history of one specific product → CamelCamelCamel does the job, free.
- You sell on Amazon or do arbitrage → Keepa, budgeting for the subscription.
- You want the real deals to find you → Glitchoo + Telegram alerts.
They're not mutually exclusive: many of our readers use CamelCamelCamel for spot checks and Glitchoo for daily discovery.
FAQ
Does CamelCamelCamel work with Amazon.co.uk?
Yes: the UK marketplace is fully supported, prices shown in pounds.
Is CamelCamelCamel free?
Yes, completely: it sustains itself through Amazon affiliate links.
What's the main difference between Keepa and CamelCamelCamel?
Keepa has richer data (stock, sellers, rankings) but its best features are paid; CamelCamelCamel is simpler and entirely free.
How do I see price history on Glitchoo?
Every product page includes the history chart: search from the deals page or ask the Telegram bot directly.
Bottom line
CamelCamelCamel remains a great verification tool for UK shoppers. But if your goal is to discover deals — not just double-check them — you need something that scans Amazon for you: the live price errors are here, and the Telegram bot puts them in your pocket the moment they surface.
Glitchoo is an Amazon UK affiliate: if you buy through our links we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.