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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 108,348 listings we track, 38.4% claim a discount between 50% and 59%, and 54.0% 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 track
108,348
Days of our readings
61
Old enough to judge
77,707
Price has moved
85,900

A listing needs 7 separate days of our own readings before we will say where today’s price sits in its range. The 30,641 newer ones show what we have and no verdict. Last reading taken 5 October 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. 48,542 of the listings we track have reached that mark, and 32,075 of them carry an anchor we have never observed. This count includes every seller listing separately, even when multiple listings fall into the same title group.

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 5 October 2026. 99 listings fell by 5% or more. These are the ones with the most sales behind them.

Falls steeper than 30% are excluded — 15 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.

Crossed-out prices we have never seen

For seller-claim analysis, we group listings by title and count one listing from each title group. Of the 43,473 selected listings followed for at least 14 days, 27,369 show a “was” price higher than anything we ever recorded for them. Not higher than today’s price — higher than the dearest day we wrote down ourselves.

Claim is more than 5x our highest reading
71
Claim is 3x to 5x our highest reading
2,190
Claim is 2x to 3x our highest reading
11,095
Claim is 1.15x to 2x our highest reading
14,013

Counted where the crossed-out figure is more than 1.15x our highest recorded price, so an ordinary fluctuation is not called a false claim. It says the number cannot be matched against our record — not that the product is a bad buy.

The bigger the claim, the less of it we can match

The same 43,473 listings, grouped by the discount the seller advertises. Read the first row before the last one: a modest claim usually checks out against our record, and that is what makes the rest worth reading.

Seller advertisesListingsWe cannot matchShare
under 30% off16,1488925.5%
30-49% off3,8893,46189.0%
50-59% off17,07316,68897.7%
60-69% off5,1835,15099.4%
70% or more off1,1801,17899.8%

Same 14-day population and same 1.15x threshold as the block above, so the two cannot disagree. Recomputed from our own readings every ten minutes — nothing here is typed in by hand.

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 recording it 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.