Price products competitively

You can use the price competitiveness report to learn how other retailers are pricing the same products that you sell. You can use this information when you're pricing your products or bidding on ads.

See About the price competitiveness report for more information.

Your account must meet minimum eligibility requirements, and you must ensure that your use, or any third party's use, of Market Insights data exported from your Merchant Center account complies with the Merchant Center terms and conditions.

Query PriceCompetitivenessProductView to learn how other retailers are pricing the same products that you sell.

Here's a sample you can use to view price competitiveness data. To make the request, pass the following Merchant Center Query Language statement to the reports.search method:

SELECT
  product_view.id, product_view.title, product_view.brand,
  product_view.price_micros, product_view.currency_code,
  price_competitiveness.country_code,
  price_competitiveness.benchmark_price_micros,
  price_competitiveness.benchmark_price_currency_code
FROM PriceCompetitivenessProductView

Run

Click Run to try the sample in the API Explorer. After you click Run, update the merchant ID placeholder to your own merchant ID in the request URL. You can modify the query. The full query must remain on one line to work with the API explorer.

Here's a sample response from the preceding query:

{
  "results": [
    {
      "productView": {
        "id": "online:en:US:12345",
        "title": "UGG Women's s Classic Mini",
        "brand": "UGG",
        "priceMicros": "124990000"
        "currencyCode": "USD"
      }
      "priceCompetitiveness": {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "benchmarkPriceMicros": "119922291",
        "benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode": "USD"
      }
    },
    {
      "productView": {
        "id": "online:en:US:12346",
        "title": "Nike React Infinity Run Flyknit 2",
        "brand": "Nike",
        "priceMicros": "119990000"
        "currencyCode": "USD"
      }
      "priceCompetitiveness": {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "benchmarkPriceMicros": "173436840",
        "benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode": "USD"
      }
    },
    {
      "productView": {
        "id": "online:en:US:12347",
        "title": "New Balance 327 White Trainers",
        "brand": "New Balance",
        "priceMicros": "84990000"
        "currencyCode": "USD"
      }
      "priceCompetitiveness": {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "benchmarkPriceMicros": "85459050",
        "benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode": "USD"
      }
    }
  ]
}