AliHunter vs AliShopping Tools 2026: Direct Comparison (Free vs $29.99/mo)

AliHunter has a free tier, but it shows only basic lifetime order count and store name.

The features that made AliHunter useful — historical price chart, sales volume over time — require AliHunter Pro at $29.99 per month (Source: alihunter.io/pricing, April 2026).

Free AliHunter exists technically but is not functionally competitive for real product research.

Yes — completely free, no paid tier, no trial expiry, no account required.

All features (AI verdict, profit simulator, supplier comparison, TikTok Viral Score, and Shopify store spy) are available at zero cost.

Different strengths.

AliHunter Pro is more accurate on multi-year price history depth.

AliShopping Tools is more accurate on overall sourcing viability — because it synthesises order velocity, supplier risk, competition saturation, and profit margin into a single verdict, rather than leaving that synthesis to the user.

AliShopping Tools for beginners without question.

A beginner running 3–5 test cycles per month will not extract $29.99 per month of value from AliHunter Pro.

The AI verdict and profit simulator in AliShopping Tools cover the high-leverage beginner decisions at zero cost — and the $360 per year saved stays in the ad budget where it earns a return.

Yes.

Both extensions coexist on AliExpress product pages without conflict — AliHunter shows its panel, AliShopping Tools shows its own overlay.

Many operators run both: AliShopping Tools for AI verdict, profit simulation, supplier comparison, and TikTok signal; AliHunter Pro for multi-year price history when the niche specifically requires it.

Both extensions pull data live from the AliExpress page you're viewing rather than a static cache, so in practice you see current page data when you load a product.

Neither company publishes an independently verified refresh-interval benchmark (e.g. a specific minutes-based figure) for the other's product, so treat any precise comparison like that as unverified — check each extension's own documentation for its current behavior.

AliShopping Tools does not require an account to use its core AliExpress product-page features.

For specifics on what data (if any) is collected, how it's used, and current data-retention practices, check the extension's privacy policy on its Chrome Web Store listing — that's the authoritative, current source rather than a general claim about GDPR compliance or persistent-cookie behavior made here.

AliShopping Tools' Risk Tab synthesizes multiple supplier-reliability signals into a single trust score on the AliExpress product page.

AliHunter's risk/rating signal draws on its own methodology, described on AliHunter's own site.

Neither company publishes an independently audited comparison of order-cancellation-reduction rates between the two tools, so treat a specific percentage claim like that as unverified.

AliShopping Tools is free with no paid tier.

For any current usage limits or rate-limiting behavior, check the extension's Chrome Web Store listing or in-app messaging rather than relying on a specific daily-scan-cap figure here, since this kind of operational detail isn't documented in the extension's public marketing copy and may not reflect the current product.