Deal Scanner vs Swoopa: the same alerts, $3.99 vs $47

Both apps do the same core job: you set a search, they watch the marketplaces, your phone buzzes when a matching listing is posted. The difference is who each one is built for and what that costs. Swoopa is built for car dealers and full-time vehicle flippers, and priced like business software: seven marketplaces, AI tools for sourcing inventory, $47 to $352 a month. Deal Scanner is ours, and it is built for everyone who checks Marketplace every day, whether flipping is your side thing, your whole job, or not the point at all: Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist, a Deal Score on each find, $3.99 a month for three searches. Everything below is from each company's own site on October 26, 2026.

Side by side

Where the money goes

A year of Swoopa Go is $564 month to month or $336 committed, for seven Facebook-only searches. A year of Deal Scanner Casual is $39.99 on the yearly plan, for three searches across three marketplaces. Deal Scanner's top plan, twelve searches on three marketplaces at $19.99, is less than half of Swoopa's cheapest plan month to month. What Swoopa's price buys above that is the vehicle toolset: VIN detection, inventory pricing, an offer pipeline, a negotiator, and 16 to 22 searches. If you run a lot, those are the features you are paying for. If you are waiting for one truck, they are not.

What you get with Deal Scanner

Set the item, your town, how far you would drive, and a low and high price. Deal Scanner watches Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist on our servers around the clock, drops most lookalikes, and buzzes your phone when a listing is posted, with the time we found it on every alert and a Deal Score when it is a clear bargain, measured from what your own search has seen near you. Quiet hours and a daily digest. No Facebook login, no account, no commitment. Casual $3.99 for 3 searches, Hunter $9.99 for 6, Pro $19.99 for 12, cancel anytime. It works the same for the person who wants one four-wheeler and the person who buys and sells them every month. Only after one thing? Pay for the month you're looking and cancel when you've got it.

What you get with Swoopa

Seven marketplaces including Kijiji, Gumtree, Nextdoor and eBay (from the $144 plan), AI scam filtering and an AI evaluator on every plan, and on the higher plans the vehicle-sourcing tools: price filter, opportunity detection, inventory pricing, offer pipeline, negotiator, VIN and title detection, price-drop alerts. A dealership program with demos. Seven-day trial. Details and plan-by-plan pricing on Swoopa pricing, and the longer write-up on our Swoopa review.

FAQ

Is Deal Scanner better than Swoopa?

For everyone who checks Marketplace every day and wants to be buzzed when their item is listed, Deal Scanner does that job across Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist for $3.99 a month with a Deal Score on each find. Swoopa is built and priced for dealers sourcing vehicles.

Does Swoopa do anything Deal Scanner doesn't?

Yes: Kijiji, Gumtree, Nextdoor and eBay on its higher plans, and vehicle-sourcing tools such as VIN detection, inventory pricing and a negotiator. Those are dealer tools, priced accordingly.

Does Deal Scanner work for car flipping?

Yes. Searches for any vehicle on Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist, with a price range, a radius and a Deal Score, for $3.99 a month. It does not have Swoopa's VIN detection or negotiator.

Which is cheaper?

Deal Scanner, by a wide margin: $3.99 a month versus $47 month to month or $336 up front for Swoopa's base plan.

Can I try both?

Deal Scanner has no free trial: $3.99 a month, cancel anytime. Swoopa's seven days need a sign-up on its site.

Sources checked

getswoopa.com and getswoopa.com/sign-up-swoopa; the Swoopa and Deal Scanner store listings. All read October 26, 2026.