Does Amazon Have Price Alerts?
No. Amazon does not have a built-in price drop alert feature. There is no setting you can toggle, no threshold you can set, and no notification you can opt into that will tell you when a product's price falls below a number you care about.
Amazon offers Subscribe & Save for consumables and a Wishlist feature for bookmarking products, but neither of these will send you a price drop alert. The Amazon app sometimes shows a small "price dropped since added to cart" badge, but this is entirely passive. You have to open the app, navigate to your cart, and notice the label yourself. There is no push notification, no email, and no text message.
This is by design. Amazon's goal is to get you to buy now, not to wait for a lower price. The entire shopping experience is optimized around urgency: "Only 3 left in stock," "Order within 2 hours for delivery tomorrow," limited-time Lightning Deals. A feature that tells you to hold off and wait would work against that strategy.
The result is that if you want to track Amazon prices on electronics, groceries, books, household goods, or anything else, you need a third-party tool. There are several good free options and one approach that goes significantly further than any of them. We will cover all of it below.
If you also want price tracking on retailers beyond Amazon, check out our Best Buy price tracker guide and our roundup of CamelCamelCamel alternatives.
CamelCamelCamel & Keepa
CamelCamelCamel is the gold standard for Amazon price tracking, and it is completely free. Paste any Amazon product URL into the site and you get the full price history: 30 days, 6 months, or all time. You can see exactly how the price has moved, when it last hit its lowest point, and whether the current price is near a historical high or low.
CamelCamelCamel also lets you set a price alert. Enter your target price, provide your email address, and the service emails you when the product drops below your threshold. It also has a browser extension called The Camelizer that overlays price history charts directly on Amazon product pages, so you can check a product's history without leaving Amazon.
The limitations are straightforward. CamelCamelCamel only works on Amazon. It only sends email alerts, not SMS or push notifications. And it can sometimes be slow to detect price changes, since it crawls Amazon on its own schedule rather than checking in real time.
Keepa is similar to CamelCamelCamel but more detailed. It tracks additional data points including Buy Box price, used prices, Amazon Warehouse deals, and stock levels. The Keepa Chrome extension overlays detailed interactive charts on Amazon product pages, and many shoppers consider it the more powerful of the two.
Keepa's free tier shows basic price history. The paid tier ($19/month) adds price drop alerts, CSV exports, international Amazon store tracking, and more granular data. That price tag is steep for casual shoppers, but power users who track dozens of products across multiple Amazon regions may find it worth the cost.
If Amazon is the only store you care about and email alerts are fine, CamelCamelCamel is the best free option available. It has been around for years, the data is reliable, and the browser extension makes it easy to check any product on the fly.
Browser Extensions for Price Tracking
Honey (PayPal) is one of the most widely installed browser extensions. It shows a price history graph on Amazon product pages and automatically tries coupon codes at checkout. Honey is free and works across many retailers, but its price history data is less detailed than CamelCamelCamel's. The history typically only goes back a few months, and there is no option to set a custom price alert with a specific threshold.
Capital One Shopping (formerly Wikibuy) takes a similar approach. It compares prices across retailers and occasionally surfaces lower prices while you shop. However, it does not offer a dedicated price alert feature. You cannot tell it "notify me when this product drops below $50."
Price Tracker for Amazon is a lighter-weight Chrome extension focused specifically on Amazon price tracking. It sends email alerts when prices drop, and it is free. It has a smaller user base than CamelCamelCamel or Keepa, but it works well for basic use cases.
The pattern across all of these extensions is the same. They work well enough for casual price watching on Amazon. But they are all limited to email notifications at best, Amazon-only coverage, and manual setup for each product you want to track. None of them will text your phone, and none of them can take action when the price drops.
Limitations of Free Tools
Amazon only. CamelCamelCamel, Keepa, and most price tracking extensions only work on Amazon. If you want to track the same product on Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Costco, or a specialty retailer, you need a separate tool for each, and in many cases no tool exists at all.
Email only. Every free price alert tool sends email notifications. No SMS, no push notifications, no webhook integrations. For time-sensitive deals like Lightning Deals or limited-stock items, an email that sits unread for three hours is useless. By the time you see it, the deal is gone.
No auto-purchase. Even if a tool detects the price drop you were waiting for, you still have to open the email, click through to Amazon, and complete the checkout yourself. The tool just tells you. It cannot buy for you.
No conditional logic. You cannot set up a rule like "alert me if the price drops below $50 AND the seller is Amazon (not a third-party marketplace seller)." Free tools track one number, the listed price, and that is all. Seller, shipping cost, and availability conditions are not supported.
Manual setup per product. You add one product at a time. There is no batch import, no folder organization, and no way to manage dozens of tracked products efficiently. If you want to monitor 50 items, you set up each one individually.
For most people, CamelCamelCamel is genuinely good enough. It covers the most common use case: you want to know when a specific Amazon product drops below a price you are comfortable paying. But if you need alerts that actually reach you in real time, coverage beyond Amazon, or any kind of automated purchasing, you need something different.
Custom Price Alerts with BotBro
BotBro is a desktop app that automates browser tasks using AI. Unlike the extensions and trackers above, it is not limited to Amazon or any single retailer. BotBro can monitor prices on any website that loads in a browser.
The setup is simple. You describe your task in plain English: "Check the price of [product URL] every hour. Text me if it drops below $X." BotBro opens a real browser, navigates to the page, reads the current price, compares it to your threshold, and sends an SMS notification through Twilio if the condition is met.
SMS notifications are the key differentiator. A text message hits your phone immediately, not buried in a promotions tab or spam folder. For deals that last minutes rather than hours, this makes the difference between catching the price and missing it.
BotBro works across retailers. Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Costco, eBay, specialty stores, and even small retailers that have no price tracking tools available. If the product has a web page, BotBro can read the price.
Because BotBro understands natural language, you can build conditional checks that free tools cannot handle. "Only alert me if the seller is Ships from and sold by Amazon.com AND the price is below $100." Or "alert me if the price drops below $200 but only if the item is in stock." BotBro reads the full page context, not just a single price element.
You can also pair price monitoring with auto checkout to buy automatically when your target price is hit. This is particularly useful for limited-quantity items where even a five-minute delay means missing the deal entirely.
Scheduling is flexible. Check every 5 minutes for hot deals you cannot afford to miss, or once a day for casual monitoring where you just want to know when something goes on sale. Price tracking is one of the most popular BotBro use cases, alongside restock alerts for monitoring out-of-stock items and getting notified the moment they become available again.
If you do most of your shopping on Amazon, you can also explore our Amazon bot feature for broader Amazon automation beyond price tracking.
BotBro starts at $25/month. That is more than free tools like CamelCamelCamel, but you get SMS alerts, multi-store coverage, conditional logic, auto-purchase capability, and the ability to monitor products on sites that no other tool supports.
Getting Started
For Amazon-only, casual tracking: Start with CamelCamelCamel. It is free, the price history data is excellent, and the browser extension makes it easy to check any Amazon product on the spot. Set your target price, provide your email, and Camel will let you know when the price drops.
For serious tracking or multi-store monitoring: Download BotBro and set up custom price alerts with SMS notifications. Open BotBro, sign in, paste a product URL into the task field, describe what price you want to watch for, set a schedule, and BotBro handles the rest. You get a text the moment the price hits your target, whether the product is on Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, or anywhere else.
Stop refreshing product pages and hoping you catch a deal at the right moment. Let the software watch the prices for you.