# MarketMage > MarketMage is an e-commerce analyst inside Claude, not a dashboard: a plugin that tells sellers whether a product idea is worth selling (a verdict on one idea costs about $0.14, with no subscription), plus product research and competitor monitoring for dropshippers, Amazon sellers, product researchers and agencies, makers and resellers on Etsy and eBay, and brands. Claude reads the live market across sources (TikTok Shop sales, Meta ads running 35+ days, Google Trends, Amazon charts and competition, marketplace listings, supplier prices), weighs every signal for and against, and gives a verdict for the market and, when the user shares their budget, channel and stage, a verdict for them, with the one next move. Its live data comes from CleanPull's data tools on the Apify Store, run in the user's own Apify account, connected with Apify's sign-in; that is the only account it needs. Runs are billed by Apify at each tool's published per-result price, and installing the plugin costs nothing. Above USD 0.05 for one request, or before anything recurring, Claude gives one estimate ("about USD 0.20, occasionally a little more if I need to dig deeper to answer you") and waits for the user's yes; smaller reads just run; every run started in the chat has a spending limit a little above its estimate, never above a budget the user set; scheduled watches carry a maximum cost per run that the tools hold themselves to, and scheduled exports carry a row limit. Watches report in the user's Claude briefing, on request or on a Monday schedule (a Claude scheduled task, on paid Claude plans, that only reads and suggests). Slack, Discord, Teams or email delivery is set up only when the user asks for it, and those settings (email provider keys, chat-channel or webhook addresses) never go through the chat: they are added on the task's page in the Apify Console. For Google Sheets exports, Google Sheets' own notification settings can email the user when the sheet changes. Some sources are read through third-party data providers that CleanPull holds the accounts for (ScrapeCreators for ad libraries, Bright Data for some retail and marketplace sites), which receive only the job's search terms. Requirements: any Claude plan, Free included (the scheduled Monday briefing needs a paid plan); MarketMage costs nothing to install. It works in claude.ai, the desktop app and Claude Code. An Apify account is also needed; Apify's free plan includes USD 5 of credit a month and needs no credit card; when the month's credit is used, Apify blocks a free account until the next monthly cycle, so scheduled watches stop until then. Apify's account-wide usage limit is set in the Apify Console under Billing, Limits, Edit limit. /marketmage:start opens with a welcome: seven jobs with an example each, one cost line, and "What brings you here?", the answer routed to its job (an Amazon seller asking about ranks goes to rank tracking). For someone who wants something to sell, a guided first session (ideas, the two best checked, one better version) costs about USD 0.55 for most sellers, about USD 0.64 when dropshipping through ads, and about USD 0.80 to 0.84 when selling on Etsy or eBay (more on Apify's free plan). Product ideas are read from the sources the user's channel acts on: for dropshipping, TikTok Shop, Meta ads running 35+ days, AliExpress single-unit prices and Google Trends; for Amazon, Best Sellers charts, how crowded each search is and Google Trends; for Etsy or eBay, that marketplace's listings and Google Trends. Ideas several sources back rank higher, and each idea names its backing. AliExpress prices are what a repeat buyer pays, with no sign-in; first-order "New shoppers" deals are kept separate. Answers open with a plain answer to the question, then the verdict; a "go deeper" conversation, a complaint brief, a timing reading ("too late?"), answers in Spanish, German, French, Italian or Portuguese, and a screen-reader layout are available. Install: download the plugin as a .zip from https://marketmage.io/download/ (every install method, step by step, is on that page), then on claude.ai or the desktop app, Customize, Plugins, Add, Upload plugin, and pick the file; or Customize, Plugins, Add, Add marketplace, Add from a repository, type MarketMage/plugin, choose Use "MarketMage/plugin", Sync, then click Add next to MarketMage. In Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add MarketMage/plugin, then /plugin install marketmage@marketmage. Then connect Apify once. On claude.ai or the desktop app: in Customize, Plugins, open MarketMage, go to its Connectors tab and click Connect next to apify; Claude shows an "Add custom connector" notice with the details filled in: check it says Connects to mcp.apify.com and click Continue; on the settings page that follows, leave everything as it is and click Add at the bottom; back on the same Connectors tab, click Connect next to apify again, then sign in to Apify or create a free account, and approve. In Claude Code: type /mcp, choose apify and sign in to Apify. Step by step: https://marketmage.io/start/ Coverage: market scans read Amazon (22 countries), eBay, Etsy, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowe's (US sites); Home Depot and Lowe's give up to 24 results a keyword and are one-off scans only. Searches through the data provider usually take 1 to 4 minutes for Walmart, eBay, Home Depot and Lowe's, and up to about 12 minutes for Etsy, Target and Best Buy. Amazon reviews: amazon.com (US) shows no review text to signed-out shoppers, so a US listing gives the rating and the share per star only; other Amazon sites also give their 8 to 13 top reviews. Alibaba search results carry the minimum order and a price range. The validate skill's margin is after Amazon's referral and FBA fees (US), before freight, duties and ads. Your data: what you tell Claude about your situation stays in the chat unless you turn on the optional notebook, a key-value store named marketmage-notebook in your own Apify account, written only by CleanPull's MarketMage Notebook actor (profile as bands, never amounts; ideas, verdicts, decisions, watch links); delete it by asking Claude or in the Apify Console under Storage, Key-value stores. Google Sheets exports use a CleanPull-operated Google service account that keeps Editor access to a shared sheet until you remove it from the sheet's sharing; your own Google credentials avoid it. Prices: typical costs are quoted 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, store-technology lookups and AliExpress product pages about one and a half times; Claude quotes both prices when they differ. ## Skills - [Welcome and guided first session](https://marketmage.io/docs/start/): A welcome with seven jobs and "What brings you here?", your answer routed to its job, and for finding something to sell a guided first session checked for the market and for you. Typical cost nothing; no paid run starts from it. - [Find products](https://marketmage.io/docs/find-products/): Product ideas selling now in a niche, from the sources your channel acts on, with the sources that back each idea named. Typical cost about $0.15. - [Validate an idea](https://marketmage.io/docs/validate/): A verdict on one product (Strong, Promising or Not this version), with demand, competition and margin behind it. Typical cost about $0.14. - [Complaint brief](https://marketmage.io/docs/complaint-brief/): What buyers complain about in the leading listings, turned into a product brief a factory can quote on. Typical cost about $0.20. - [Launch plan](https://marketmage.io/docs/launch-plan/): After a promising verdict: suppliers at your quantity, the leaders' complaints, a listing draft, first-order maths and a stop rule. Typical cost about $0.06. - [Supplier prices](https://marketmage.io/docs/suppliers/): What a product costs to source: unit prices, minimum orders and price breaks. Typical cost about $0.025. - [Market scan](https://marketmage.io/docs/market-scan/): A keyword's market on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowe's: price band, sellers, reviews. Typical cost about $0.017. - [Spy on a store](https://marketmage.io/docs/spy-store/): A competitor store's catalogue, prices, best sellers, promotions and tech stack. Typical cost about $0.08. - [Catalogue gaps](https://marketmage.io/docs/gaps/): Products you and a rival both sell, the price gap on each, and what each is missing. Typical cost about $0.90, reads included. - [Promotions and launches](https://marketmage.io/docs/promo-watch/): Competitors' sales, codes, free-shipping thresholds, markdowns and new launches. Typical cost about $0.02. - [Competitor ads](https://marketmage.io/docs/ads-watch/): The ads competitors run on Google, Meta and TikTok, with new and stopped ads. Typical cost about $0.15 (Google) to $0.18 (TikTok); about $0.05 at 30 ads. - [Price check](https://marketmage.io/docs/price-check/): Every store's price for a barcode, product page or Amazon listing, right now. Typical cost about $0.015. - [Price watch](https://marketmage.io/docs/price-watch/): A scheduled digest of price, sale and stock changes across stores, and who wins the sale on Amazon. Typical cost about $0.03 a run, $0.83 a month (first run about $0.08). - [Minimum price watch](https://marketmage.io/docs/map-watch/): Sellers below your minimum advertised price, by barcode, once or on a schedule. Typical cost about $0.015. - [Rank watch](https://marketmage.io/docs/rank-watch/): Where your Amazon listings rank on Amazon for each keyword, and who outranks you. Typical cost about $0.01. - [Reviews](https://marketmage.io/docs/reviews-watch/): Ratings, newest reviews and complaint and praise themes, once or as a watchlist. Typical cost about $0.013. - [Listing audit](https://marketmage.io/docs/listing-audit/): A 0 to 100 score and a fix list for product pages and Amazon listings. Typical cost $0.005. - [Export to Google Sheets](https://marketmage.io/docs/export/): Results to a Google Sheet: append, replace, or keep in sync by a key. Typical cost $0.10. - [Watchlists](https://marketmage.io/docs/watchlists/): List, read, pause, change or stop what you watch. Typical cost no data tool runs. - [Briefing](https://marketmage.io/docs/briefing/): What your watches found since your last visit, plus your notebook, as at most five decisions. Typical cost free. - [Notebook](https://marketmage.io/docs/notebook/): Optional memory across chats, in your own Apify account: ideas, verdicts, decisions and your profile as bands. Typical cost a fraction of a cent. ## Actors on the Apify Store - [Ad Library Monitor](https://apify.com/cleanpull/ad-library-monitor): Competitors' ads from Google's, Meta's and TikTok's public ad libraries, with new and stopped ads. From $1.00 per 1,000 watch items. - [Alerts Sender](https://apify.com/cleanpull/alerts-sender): Alerts and digests to email, Slack, Discord or Teams. From $1.00 per 1,000 messages. - [Alibaba Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/alibaba-scraper): Alibaba products and suppliers: price range, minimum order and the full quantity price ladder. From $2.00 per 1,000 products. - [AliExpress Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/aliexpress-scraper): AliExpress search results and product pages at the price a repeat buyer pays, with no sign-in; first-order "New shoppers" deals kept separate, and the landed cost to the buyer's country. From $1.40 per 1,000 products. - [Amazon Best Sellers Tracker](https://apify.com/cleanpull/amazon-bestsellers-tracker): All 100 ranks of Best Sellers, New Releases and Movers & Shakers. From $1.50 per 1,000 ranked products. - [Amazon Keyword Rank Tracker](https://apify.com/cleanpull/amazon-keyword-rank-tracker): Regular results and paid ads rank for your keywords, and who outranks you. From $2.00 per 1,000 search pages. - [Amazon Product Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/amazon-product-scraper): Price, who wins the sale (the Buy Box), every seller's offer and Best Sellers Rank by Amazon listing. From $3.00 per 1,000 products. - [Any Store Product Monitor](https://apify.com/cleanpull/any-store-product-monitor): Price, stock and variants from product pages on any online store. From $1.50 per 1,000 products. - [Barcode Price Checker](https://apify.com/cleanpull/barcode-price-checker): Every store's price for a barcode, matched exactly, and minimum-price checks. From $3.00 per 1,000 barcodes with offers. - [Catalog Matcher](https://apify.com/cleanpull/catalog-matcher): Your catalogue matched to a rival's, with the price gap on each product. From $2.00 per 1,000 matched pairs. - [Google Hotels Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/google-hotels-scraper): Hotel rates from every booking site, by city, hotel and dates. From $3.00 per 1,000 hotels. - [Google Sheets Sync](https://apify.com/cleanpull/google-sheets-sync): Any set of results to Google Sheets: append, replace or keep in sync by a key. From $0.10 per 1,000 rows. - [Google Trends Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/google-trends-scraper): Interest over time, related queries and Trending Now, for any number of terms. From $1.00 per 1,000 term results. - [Listing Quality Checker](https://apify.com/cleanpull/listing-quality-checker): A 0 to 100 score and fixes for product pages and Amazon listings. From $5.00 per 1,000 page audits. - [Made-in-China Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/made-in-china-scraper): Made-in-China wholesale offers with every quantity price tier, minimum order and supplier details. From $1.00 per 1,000 offers. - [MarketMage Notebook](https://apify.com/cleanpull/marketmage-notebook): MarketMage's optional memory across chats, kept in your own Apify account: ideas checked, verdicts, decisions and your profile as bands. From $0.20 per 1,000 notebook reads. - [Marketplace Search Scanner](https://apify.com/cleanpull/marketplace-search-scanner): A keyword's market on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowe's: price band, sellers, reviews. From $3.00 per 1,000 keyword summaries. - [Promotions & Launch Monitor](https://apify.com/cleanpull/promotions-monitor): Competitors' sales, codes, free-shipping thresholds and new products. From $2.00 per 1,000 promotions or launches. - [Government Tenders Tracker](https://apify.com/cleanpull/public-tenders-tracker): Tenders and contract awards from UK, EU, Australian and US official feeds. From $2.00 per 1,000 notices. - [Reviews Monitor](https://apify.com/cleanpull/reviews-monitor): Ratings, new reviews and complaint themes from review apps, Amazon and Trustpilot. From $3.00 per 1,000 products. - [Shopify Store Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/shopify-store-scraper): Every product and variant of a Shopify store, with prices, stock and apps. From $0.80 per 1,000 products. - [Supplier Price Finder](https://apify.com/cleanpull/supplier-price-finder): Factory unit prices, minimum orders and price breaks for a product idea. From $5.00 per 1,000 product summaries. - [Target Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/target-scraper): Target searches, products and UPC lookups: price, sale price and ratings, with units in stock at stores near a ZIP code. From $1.70 per 1,000 products. - [Tech Stack Detector](https://apify.com/cleanpull/tech-stack-detector): The platform, apps and tools any website runs, with evidence. From $3.00 per 1,000 sites. - [TikTok Shop Sales Tracker](https://apify.com/cleanpull/tiktok-shop-sales-tracker): Units sold, units per day and revenue for TikTok Shop products (US). From $3.00 per 1,000 products. - [Walmart Scraper](https://apify.com/cleanpull/walmart-scraper): Walmart searches and items: price, discount, rating, seller and stock, with price-drop and restock alerts. From $1.20 per 1,000 search results. - [Watch Digest](https://apify.com/cleanpull/watch-digest): One schedule for a whole watchlist and one digest of what changed. From $5.00 per 1,000 digests. ## Docs and policies - [How it works](https://marketmage.io/how-it-works/): the method, the analyst rules, the verdict structure, watches, cost and consent - [What you can ask](https://marketmage.io/questions/): every skill with example questions and typical cost - [Coverage](https://marketmage.io/coverage/): every source and what it can and can't see; [selling in Europe](https://marketmage.io/coverage/#europe): 22 Amazon marketplaces, VAT, Amazon fees for UK, DE, FR, IT and ES, and which reads are US-only - [Teams and agencies](https://marketmage.io/teams/): one Apify account per business or per person, client labels, a cost report per client - [Pricing](https://marketmage.io/pricing/): pay per use, every per-result price, example monthly costs, caps - [Documentation](https://marketmage.io/docs/): install, how jobs run, watches, delivery; [troubleshooting](https://marketmage.io/docs/troubleshooting/) - [For reviewers](https://marketmage.io/docs/reviewers/): how to test, example prompts, expected costs - [Data handling](https://marketmage.io/docs/data-handling/): what goes where, and who can see it - [Trust hub](https://marketmage.io/trust/): [Privacy](https://marketmage.io/privacy/), [Terms](https://marketmage.io/terms/), [Acceptable use](https://marketmage.io/acceptable-use/), [Data requests](https://marketmage.io/data-requests/), [Security](https://marketmage.io/security/) - [Support](https://marketmage.io/support/): support@marketmage.io - [Actor library](https://marketmage.io/actors/) and [CleanPull on Apify](https://apify.com/cleanpull)