Are you interested in finding products on AliExpress?
Awesome! In this article, we've listed eight amazing AliExpress product discovery tools for you.
We show you both free and paid tools; so don't worry if your budget is tight; we've got you covered!
These AliExpress product analysis tools are literally designed to help you find winning dropshipping products from AliExpress, which is why they're great.
Are you ready to discover amazing products on AliExpress?
Let's dive right in!
The Best AliExpress Product Discovery Tools: An Overview
Before we go more in-depth into the best AliExpress product discovery tools, we have created an overview table that shows all the tools mentioned in this article:
| Tool | Pricing | Review |
| AliExpress Dropshipping Center | Free | AliExpress Dropshipping Center Review |
| Ali Insider | Free / $30 per month | Ali Insider Review |
| Dropshipping Copilot | Free / $30 / $60 per month | Dropshipping Copilot |
| Ecomhunt | Free / $29 / $49 / $89 per month | Ecomhunt Review |
| Niche Scraper | Free / $49 per month | Niche Scraper Review |
| Sell The Trend | $40 / $100 per month | Sell The Trend Review |
| Thieve.co | $15 / $49 per month | Thieve.co Review |
| AliShark | $20 per month | AliShark Review |
The 8 best AliExpress product discovery tools
Before we get started on the exciting part, we want to talk about this first.
Please understand that you don't always need a paid tool to find products on AliExpress.
However, if your budget allows it, then most paid tools have more features/tools for you to find AliExpress products more easily and quickly.
That's why we included both free and paid tools on this list. Depending on your situation, choose what's the best option for you!
We'll begin by showing the best free product discovery tools, and then we'll move on to the paid tools.
The 5 best free AliExpress product discovery tools
Are you ready to see the five best free product discovery tools for AliExpress?
We want to note though that most of these free tools also have paid plans, but you can always stick to the free plan if you want!
Let's get started on the list!
1. AliExpress Dropshipping Center
The first product discovery tool is called the AliExpress Dropshipping Center.
We wanted to showcase it first since AliExpress created it, and it's quite an effective free tool.
It is specifically made for dropshippers who want extra free tools to find awesome and trending products on AliExpress.
For example, they have a product analysis tool for products of AliExpress:
Of course, you don't need to be dropshipping to use this tool!
Just sign up for the program (it's free), and you will get all their tools, even if you're not dropshipping (yet).
The easiest way to access the dropshipping center is by heading to AliExpress home page and clicking 'DS Center' from the footer section.
If you don’t know anything about the AliExpress Dropshipping Center, then we suggest reading our full AliExpress Dropshipping Center guide here.
Pricing
The best thing about the AliExpress Dropshipping Center is that it's completely free to use.
There are no paid plans available!
2. Ali Insider
The next free tool on our list is Ali Insider.
It's a Chrome extension that helps you with your AliExpress product research! You can easily just open the tool when you're on AliExpress, and it will look like this with the Chrome extension:
And, of course, if you want, you can always close the extension tab.
Ali Insider has both free and paid plans available. Even the free plan has many great features, such as:
- Research assistant that helps you spot products right on the AliExpress search page
- Competitor Insider, which shows you a list of competitor stores for any product
- Sales tracker that shows if a product is trending or was popular in the past
And so on. We can't even list all of the features here, but they do quite a good job of telling everything available on their home page.
Pricing
There are two plans available for Ali Insider: Free and Premium.
As the name says, the free doesn't cost anything, but the Premium plan is $20 per month and includes extra features that help you with AliExpress product research.
3. Dropshipping Copilot
Dropshipping Copilot is a tool that combines the power of AI with the massive product range on AliExpress.
Being an official partner of AliExpress, Dropshipping Copilot is designed to be the only tool you need for AliExpress dropshipping!
Since it is under our free section, a free plan is also available.
When you create your account, the first tool you can see is the product search tool called 'Opportunity Finder.'
You can filter your search by selecting categories, like 'DS Winning Products' or 'Newest arrivals.'
Another available tool is the supplier search, which is really cool! See how it looks here:
You can see a list of AliExpress suppliers and their best-selling products.
Dropshipping Copilot even has a Shopify integration, so you can easily import products from the platform into your own store.
If you want to learn more about Dropshipping Copilot, then check out our review article here!
In our review, we will also dive more deeply into the AI features of Dropshipping Copilot.
Pricing
As we already mentioned, Dropshipping Copilot has a free plan available. However, it does have limitations, such as a limited product search.
If you want access to more features, you need to upgrade to the Suite plan, $30 per month, or the Professional plan, $60 per month.
Exclusive Dropshipping Copilot offer: Sign up via our link here and manually upgrade to the Professional plan within the 'Upgrade Plan' section to enjoy a FREE 30-day trial. Remember, the trial needs to be activated manually and isn't automatic. Plus, after your trial, enjoy a 30% discount on your first month!
4. Ecomhunt
Ecomhunt is an all-in-one dropshipping product research tool that also has an AliExpress product research tool included!
We're not gonna lie; the reason we listed Ecomhunt on the fourth spot on the free section is because the free plan is quite limited.
You can see ten new live trending products every day.
Plus, you can track five AliExpress products to see how their sales evolve over time.
That's it for the free plan. These two free features are actually cool, especially the live trending product feature, which is why we wanted to include Ecomhunt in this list.
If you want to learn more about Ecomhunt, we encourage you to read our review of the platform from here.
Pricing
Ecomhunt has four plans: Free, Basic, Pro, and Suite.
The free plan gets you access to ten live trending products and five product tracker sessions.
If you want access to more features like better product analytics and more live trending products, you have to upgrade to one of the paid plans, which range from $29 to $89 per month.
5. Niche Scraper
The next product discovery tool, which also has an AliExpress tool inside, is called Niche Scraper.
Niche Scraper includes an 'AliExpress Product Scraper':
You might be thinking now: 'But AliExpress has so many products; how do I ever find a product to sell'?
Well…
You have a ton of options available to sort the products!
Look at this:
To conclude, these are all the things you can sort products with:
- Category. Using this, you will only be shown products scraped from that AliExpress category. This is great if you’re running a dropshipping niche store or if you’re doing niche research.
- Recent Orders. If you only want products with a certain amount of orders, then this is your filter!
- The price. I guess this one speaks for itself. You can fill in the minimum and maximum price of the product. Maybe you don’t want to show products above $10.
- More filters. If you want more filters, then they have that as well! Below, we will explain what each score means. Plus, you can filter if a product has a video and if they ship from the US (for faster delivery times).
Now, there is one thing left to cover off the filters here, and that is those scores:
We will explain the scores here:
- AliScore. Their own formula to calculate the 'strength' of a product. The higher the score, the better it is.
- Competition. The competition of a product is based on the number of different buyers on AliExpress. A lot of different buyers on AliExpress could mean more dropshipping competition! So, the lower this number is, the better!
- Growth Rate. The rate of increase in sales over the last 7 days. The higher the score, the better it is.
- Recent Orders. This shows how many recent orders the product has. The higher the recent orders are, the more popular the product is.
To make it even easier for you to understand what you will get with this AliExpress product research tool, here is an example:
Looks clean, right?
Oh, and one thing we didn’t cover is that you can also see what country the product is most popular in. In the example above, that is the US.
The great thing is that you not only can filter by category, but you can also type in any keyword that you want.
However, you might get some products that are irrelevant because the AliExpress sellers added that keyword to their product name. For example:
As you can see, you won’t be able to dropship all those products.
Well, you can, but we don’t suggest you dropship any toilet paper, for example.
Pricing
The great thing about Niche Scraper is that they have a free account option available:
There is also a paid plan available, and the current price is $49 per month, but it will only be $13 if you use our discount code: DoDropshipping
If you're interested in checking out Niche Scraper now, then you can click here to create your free account, or you can click here to read my in-depth review!
The 3 best paid AliExpress product research tools
Let's continue this article with the best AliExpress product discovery tools that are paid!
Keep in mind that these tools have a trial or free account available!
So, if you're not sure yet, or if your budget is tight, then just try their trials or free account options!
1. Sell The Trend
Do you know what would be great?
To see all the hot products, new stars, and hidden gems on AliExpress, right?
Well, you can with the AliExpress explorer from Sell The Trend!
You will have a lot of filtering and sorting options. Like filtering to only show products priced over a certain amount. Or to only show products over a certain amount of orders. You can even sort by whether that product has a video available or not.
What we like the most is that they show a graph with each product. This graph gives you some information, like how many orders the product had over time.
This means that you need to look for a product with a graph that’s going up! Like this product:
The best products then, of course, are the ones where the graph doesn’t have a flat line, and it seems like it’s going up and up. This means that there is a demand for that product on AliExpress.
Sell The Trend even has an AI brand builder, which generates custom product descriptions and catchy social media ads in the tone of your brand. It's similar to chatGPT but trained and tuned for dropshipping!
Pricing
The current price of Sell The Trend is $39.97 per month.
If you're interested in Sell The Trend, then you can either click here for their free 7-day trial or here to read our in-depth review of Sell The Trend!
2. Thieve.co
The first tool is called Thieve. They show you what’s trending right now on AliExpress.
It will show you products from... AliExpress!
And not just any kind of product, but best-selling products. You can even sort the products by category, so you can find products inside your niche (if you have a dropshipping niche store):
For every product, Thieve has a product page where you can also access the AliExpress page.
What's cool about Thieve is that they also have free tools available on their website. Yep, even without an account created for them.
For example, there is a tool called Supplier Finder. With this tool, you can import an AliExpress product page link, and the tool automatically sorts out the best suppliers for it.
To access these free tools, you just have to head into Thieve.co's website and click on the 'Tools' from the top right corner.
Plus, Thieve.co also has a Chrome extension that helps you find AliExpress suppliers and products from Shopify product pages.
Cool, right?
If you want to learn more about this tool, we have done a review of Thieve here.
Pricing
While Thieve had a free plan available before, they don't have it anymore. However, they do have a 14-day free trial for the paid plans.
There are two paid plans, Dropship and Pro, which range from $15 to $49 per month.
3. AliShark
The next tool is called AliShark, and you might already guess that this is indeed a product discovery tool for AliExpress!
Ali(Express)Shark, haha!
If you want a lot of filter options to find awesome products on AliExpress, then AliShark is the right product discovery tool for you. For example, here are some of their filter options:
And they have a lot of options for you if you want to do research with keywords. You can include keywords, and you can even exclude keywords.
For example, we can include the keyword ‘Dog’:
And then we see that we don’t want to sell any ‘Bowls’, then we exclude that keyword:
Pricing
The current price of AliShark is $20 per month, but they do have a 2-day trial for $1.
If you're interested in checking out AliShark now, then you can click here to create your account, or you can click here to read my in-depth review!
How to find products from AliExpress without any tools?
We recommend that you read our other article (after you're done with this one!)
In that article, we will cover some amazing tips to find these winning, trending, and hot dropshipping products yourself on AliExpress!
You can find the article here:
How to Find Dropshipping Products on AliExpress (9 Tips)
That article is perfect for people who want to know even more about AliExpress product research methods.
Summary
Before we go to the conclusion, we’ve created a quick summary of this article for you, so you can easily remember it:
- There are both free and paid AliExpress product discovery tools available. Paid tools can make the product research process faster, but they're not always necessary.
- AliExpress Dropshipping Center, Ali Insider, and Dropshipping Copilot are some of the best free AliExpress product discovery tools.
- Sell The Trend, Thieve, and AliShark are some of the best paid AliExpress product discovery tools.
- Some AliExpress product discovery tools, like Dropshipping Copilot, also allow you to import the products to your online store.
- There are no guarantees that product discovery tools will find you a trending product and you will succeed in selling them. It's always a combination of many things, so obviously, you also have to nail other things than just finding the right product.
Conclusion
You made it to the end! Congratulations!
Those were the eight best AliExpress product discovery tools. We hope you found some great tools to discover amazing products on AliExpress!
Just don't forget that you don't need a paid tool in order to find the best products.
If you have any AliExpress product discovery tools or if you have any questions regarding dropshipping, then let us know by commenting below or contacting us directly by pressing the 'Contact Us' button at the top!
Good luck with everything that you're going to do! We know you can do it.
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