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AliExpress discount checker — is that % off real?

A discount badge on AliExpress is two numbers the seller chose: the price they are charging, and a crossed-out price beside it. Nothing checks the second one. The only way to tell a real cut from a decorated price tag is to know what the listing cost on a day the seller was not advertising, and that is the one thing the page you are looking at does not show.

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Why the badge itself tells you nothing

Across the 35,994 listings we track, 45.4% claim a discount between 50% and 59%, and 60.5% claim at least half off. A number that almost every listing displays cannot distinguish between them — a “−55% OFF” badge is closer to a house style than to a sale.

Counted from our own database when this page was built. The full distribution is on the homepage.

What we can check today

Listings we read daily
35,329
Days of our readings
8
Old enough to judge
14,412
Price has moved
15,266

A listing needs 7 separate days of our own readings before we will say where today’s price sits in its range. The 20,917 newer ones show what we have and no verdict. Last reading taken 13 August 2026.

Calling a seller’s crossed-out price unsupported is a stronger claim, so it needs 14 days and a margin: their anchor has to sit well above everything we ever recorded, not merely above it. No listing has reached that mark yet, so we make that claim about none of them today.

Cheaper than our previous reading

Not the seller’s percentage — the difference between the price we wrote down last time and the one we wrote down on 13 August 2026. 85 listings fell by 5% or more. These are the ones with the most sales behind them.

Falls steeper than 30% are excluded8 of them on this reading. A listing that drops by three quarters overnight has usually changed which option it quotes, a ten-pack becoming a single unit, and the affiliate API never says which option a price belongs to. We cannot tell that apart from a real cut, so we do not present it as one. Variant, quantity and shipping can still differ on the rows below; check the option selected on AliExpress before you buy.

At the lowest price we have on record

3,196 listings are within 2% of the cheapest figure we ever wrote down for them, and their price has genuinely moved at some point — a listing that never changed is at its low by definition, which means nothing.

How to check a discount yourself

  1. Ignore the crossed-out price. It is not a price anyone was charged. It is a number the seller entered next to the one they are charging, and no part of AliExpress checks it against what the listing sold for last month.
  2. Find out what it costs on an ordinary day. That is the comparison the badge is pretending to make. Paste the link above: if we already read this listing you will see the low, the high and the average we recorded, and if we have not, we start reading it daily from that moment.
  3. Check the other shops carrying it. A genuine 20% off one shop’s price still loses to a different shop listing the same product for half. The gaps we recorded are here.
  4. Check which option is selected. One AliExpress listing can quote a single unit or a ten-pack depending on which variant is chosen, and the price changes with it. This is not a detail — it is why we throw out the steepest falls we see rather than advertising them, and it is the one check nobody can do for you.

What this page will not do

There is no countdown anywhere on it. The affiliate API returns a promotion’s name, description and product count, and no dates whatsoever — so a deadline here would be one we invented, which is the practice this site exists to check, reproduced on our own page. What is real is when we last looked, so that is what it says instead. Every price we have recorded.