More complete product data
Fewer unknown specifications, and better coverage of the facts you filter and compare by.
Roadmap
The Comparator is a market-research tool for PC hardware, and the direction is wider: more countries, more categories, and more places to use the same live market. No dates we cannot stand behind. When something ships, it moves to the changelog.
What is already here
All of this is live today, on real offers, in two countries.
Now
Happening this season
More stores and offers
More retailers in each market, so a comparison covers more of the places people actually buy from. Retailers can submit a product feed.
Better matching
Fewer missing offers, and fewer products split into duplicate listings.
Clearer freshness
A plainer answer to “when was this price last seen?”, for every store and every offer.
Explanations where you need them
Short explanations of grades, Value, specifications and technologies, right where they appear.
Faster addition of stores, markets and categories
Less manual work behind each new store, country or category, so the product can grow faster.
Next
The next big capabilities
More countries
Europe and other markets. Each market has its own stores, prices and currency, never prices borrowed from another country.
More languages
French joined English and Spanish in October. Your language should not decide which market you see: language and country are chosen separately.
More hardware categories
Power supplies are already here. Cases and coolers come next, because a whole build needs them to check power, size and fit. Others follow where the data supports them.
Better compatibility
Not only “this processor fits this socket”, but “will this whole upgrade work together?”: power, size and platform checked across parts.
Better publisher tools
More live market widgets, comparisons and the guided finder, simpler to put on your own site. Publishers can already embed them.
Later
Directions we are preparing for
Browser extension
While you browse a store, compare the product in front of you with the current market.
Bring a listing or price you found
Paste or import a retailer listing, a product page, a price or a used offer, and see where it sits in the market.
Use The Comparator with AI assistants
Current market, product and offer data in a form an AI assistant can read. Today you can already copy a comparison for AI.
Shopping with AI assistants
You ask an AI assistant for help. It sends your criteria to The Comparator and gets back the facts it needs to answer you.
Beyond PC hardware
Monitors are now in beta; TVs are US-only for now. The same approach (facts, your priorities, current offers) could later cover phones, laptops and tablets. A direction, not a date.
Exploring
Ideas with no promise attached
White-label tools for publishers
Letting a publisher present the tools as part of their own site.
Deeper retailer and data partnerships
Direct retailer APIs and richer data sources. A public data interface will not be promised until it exists. The Data & API page says what is available today.
Assistants that shop and compare for you
Ways for an AI assistant to use The Comparator on your behalf, with you making the final call.