Thrifle Data
Licensing Thrifle’s purchase-intelligence databases
Thrifle maintains structured, source-linked databases on US retail: return policies, price histories, discount programs, and deal records. Reading them on the site is free. Automated bulk collection is licensed.
Arrived here from a 402?
Your crawler requested content at a rate that reads as bulk database collection rather than answering a person’s question. That path is licensed, and this page is the price list. The licensing terms, the discovery files, and this page stay free to fetch at any volume.
If you fetch on behalf of a live user — an answer engine, an assistant citing a source — you are not tolled and you need no license. Fetch us, quote us, link us. That exchange already works for both sides.
What’s in the databases
Every figure below is the live record count, not a marketing round-number. Each database is browsable in full on the site — the links go to the human-readable version of the same data.
| Database | Records | What each record holds | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return policies | 2,240 | US retailer, return window, fees, exceptions, holiday deadlines, a letter grade (A+ to D−) scored on five axes, and a link to the retailer's own published policy. 2,237 graded; 3 flagged not-applicable (intangible goods only). | Continuous |
| Price intelligence | 571,174 | Amazon products with independently tracked price history — all-time high and low with dates, 30/90/180/365-day averages, drop frequency, average drop depth, deal score, and demand estimate. 213M+ price and demand data points in total. | Daily, plus live capture on every lookup |
| Deal records | 12,128 | Recorded US deals with merchant, category, list and sale price, capture date, and the buy-or-wait verdict issued at the time. | Continuous |
| Store profiles | 2,210 | Merchant identity, category, website, and every policy record attached to that merchant. | Continuous |
| Retailer FAQs | 1,510 | Question-and-answer pairs on retailer policy, each sourced and linked. | Continuous |
| Discount programs | 240 | Merchants offering military/veteran or student discounts — eligibility, verification method, discount value, and last-verified date. | Re-verified quarterly |
| Coupons | 248 | Store-level coupon records with terms and expiry. | Continuous |
| Price-match policies | 51 | Merchants operating price-match programs — competitor list, claim window, exclusions, and evidence required. | Continuous |
Rate card
API credentials are issued per licence. Bulk exports are delivered as RFC-4180 CSV or newline-delimited JSON, prepared per order. Every plan is set up by hand — this is a licensing desk, so tell us what you need and we will scope it.
Single database
$300 / month
Credentialed API access to one database — the return-policy database, or any other above.
- Live records, not a dated export
- Bulk export of that database on request
- Attribution required in published work
- Cancel any time
Full access
$750 / month
Every database, up to 1.4 million calls or crawls a month.
- All eight databases included
- Your crawler is allow-listed at our edge
- Bulk exports on request, refreshed monthly
- Overage billed at $0.05 per request
- Cancel any time
Pay per crawl
$0.05 / crawl
No plan, no commitment. Also the overage rate past 1.4M.
- Billed monthly in arrears
- Suits crawlers that want freshness, not bulk
- Cheaper than full access below roughly 15,000 requests a month
Separately, the frozen research extract behind The 2026 State of U.S. Return Policies — 200 retailers, four columns, edition v1.1 — stays available as a $30 one-time CSV. That is a citation artifact for people reproducing the report, not access to the live 2,240-record database.
AI training corpus
The full 213M-point price history and every database above, with redistribution rights negotiated per use. For model training, retrieval indexes, and commercial products built on the data.
Let’s talk
Always free, no license needed
- Reading any page on the site, as a person or as an assistant
- Quoting a figure or a finding, with a link back to Thrifle
- Fetching on behalf of a live user, which is what answer engines do
- Embedding a chart from a published Thrifle report
robots.txt,llms.txt,llms-full.txt, and the sitemaps- This page, at any request rate
Licensing enquiries, sample files, and custom scopes
[email protected]Tell us which databases you need, the fields that matter, and how the data will be used. Sample extracts are free.
Thrifle Technologies LLC. Record counts verified . Price histories are independently tracked — combining licensed market data, Thrifle’s own price scanner, and live capture on user lookups — and are never taken from a retailer’s own claims.