Find what a product idea would cost to buy wholesale or dropship. Claude searches factory offers on Made-in-China.com, and AliExpress and Alibaba when you want them (AliExpress at the price a repeat buyer pays, with no sign-in; first-order "New shoppers" deals kept separate), and reads the DHgate and Alibaba offer pages you found, then gives a unit-cost range from the offers that match your product, minimum orders, quantity price breaks and, where a page quotes shipping, an estimated landed cost. Other versions in the results are named and left out. Bring the quotes you got, and it says whether one is out of line. Nothing to set up beyond your Apify sign-in.
Try asking
- Can you check what silicone baking mats cost on Alibaba?
- I got 3 quotes for cotton tote bags. Is any of them out of line?
- What do these DHgate listings cost landed in the US?
What you get
- Unit price range (median and lower quartile) from the offers that match, with other versions named and left out
- Minimum order quantity and quantity price breaks
- Supplier details for each offer, with a link
- Estimated US landed cost per unit where the page quotes shipping (DHgate)
- For dropshipping, whether AliExpress sells single units and at what price, with the landed cost (price plus shipping to your buyer's country) from the product page
What it costs
Above $0.05 for one request, or before anything recurring, Claude gives one estimate and waits for your yes; smaller reads just run. Figures are at Bronze, Apify's paid-plan price; lower on Silver and Gold. From 7 November 2026, reads through the data providers (eBay, Etsy, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's, Trustpilot, Meta and TikTok ads) cost about twice as much on Apify's free plan, and TikTok Shop product rows and store-technology lookups about one and a half times; Claude quotes both prices when they differ. Every per-result price is on the pricing page.
| Job | Typical cost |
|---|---|
| One product idea, 10 Made-in-China offers | about $0.025 |
| Alibaba, 10 offers | about $0.07 more, plus $0.02 per run |
| Each extra DHgate or Alibaba page | $0.002 |
| AliExpress single-unit check, one idea | about $0.013 (about $0.04 for three ideas) |
Limits
- DHgate is read only from pages you give, because its robots.txt disallows search
- Alibaba searches usually take 1 to 4 minutes (up to about 12); the AliExpress single-unit check can take several minutes, so Claude answers first and adds it when it lands. Search results carry no price breaks; AliExpress shipping comes from its product pages; Alibaba's carry the minimum order and a price range, and Alibaba offer pages you give add the price breaks
- Landed cost is shown only where a page quotes shipping, as an estimate without duties, taxes or fees
- Prices are list prices for a signed-out visitor, in US dollars
- AliExpress prices are what a repeat buyer pays; first-order "New shoppers" deals are kept separate and never used as a cost
Technical details
What it runs
Supplier Price Finder, AliExpress Scraper. These are CleanPull's actors on the Apify Store: the programs that read the sites. Every run happens in your own Apify account and is billed there at the actor's Store price.
Your data
- Reads public supplier offer pages and search results only
- AliExpress and Alibaba search results come from CleanPull's marketplace data provider (Bright Data), which receives the product idea