Feature-by-feature
| Feature | PriceRadar | CheckPrice |
|---|---|---|
Verticals coveredPR | 13 (products, FX, petrol, buses, flights, hotels, rent, /how-much, school fees, electricity, remittance, dollar cards, inflation) | 1 (electronics products only) |
Tracked retailers (products) CheckPrice includes Jiji as a retailer; we deliberately keep Jiji as a data source for /how-much medians only, not a product-row equivalent. | 6 (Jumia, Konga, Slot, Kara, PayPorte, Ajebomarket) | 5+ (Jumia, Konga, Slot, Jiji, PC Place, others) |
Foreign exchange ratesPR | 19 currencies (market + parallel/BDC, hourly refresh, day-over-day delta) | None |
Fuel & diesel pricesPR | 36 states + FCT (NBS bulletin) | None |
Interstate bus faresPR | 20 routes, 6 carriers (1 live GIGM + 5 operator-avg) | 5 routes, 4 carriers (all reference) |
FlightsPR | 24 routes (15 domestic + 9 intl), 9 NG carriers, Travelpayouts on intl | None |
HotelsPR | 21 properties × 10 NG cities, 3-tier rate cards, per-property pages, Booking.com NGN-forced | None |
"How much is X?" answer pagesPR | 78 typical-range answers + 44 per-route bus/flight + 10 hotel-in-city + 21 hotel-property = 153+ structured answer pages | None |
Inflation calculatorPR | 10 series back to Jan 2020 with cited anchors + today's snapshot | None |
Schema.org JSON-LDPR | QAPage / FAQPage / ItemList / Article / Dataset / BreadcrumbList everywhere | None visible in SERPs |
Methodology disclosurePR | Public /methodology page: source + cadence + quality gates + limitations per vertical | None |
Daily snapshot archive (open data)PR | /data with CC-BY-4.0 license, started 2026-05-23, ~186 series/day captured | None |
Source tagging on pricesPR | "Live" vs "operator-avg" badges on bus/flight; "Jiji n=N" vs "estimate" on /how-much | Undifferentiated; all listed prices look equivalent |
Polluted data filteringPR | Strip filter + price sanity gate + canonical matcher + collapsed-band rejection | Visible bugs (e.g. iPhone 17 listed at ₦800K on Jiji vs ₦1.7M elsewhere with no flag) |
PWA / installable app | Yes — manifest with 4 home-screen shortcuts | Yes |
WhatsApp botPR | Live: Meta Cloud + Twilio Sandbox adapters at /api/whatsapp | None |
Price drop alerts (email)CP They ship today; we have honest 503+mailto fallback until KV is provisioned. | Endpoint live, KV-pending for durable storage | Live with push notifications |
Newsletter capturePR | Footer + below every /how-much answer + verticals (KV-pending) | Footer signup only |
Blog / content marketingCP They started earlier; our analysis posts hook into live data which theirs don't. | 3 analysis posts at /blog; cadence 2-4/month target | 14 blog posts already published |
.ng domainCP Real weakness on first-impression trust. Domain purchase is a procurement task. | vercel.app subdomain (priceradar.ng pending) | checkprice.ng (production .ng TLD) |
Google-indexed pages (site: query) Both pre-indexation; we have more on-site equity to be discovered once submitted. | Sitemap has 2,300+ URLs; indexation pending Search Console submission | 3-5 (sitemap has 1,029 URLs, Google indexed only the homepage) |
Press / earned media | Zero (methodology pitch planned) | Zero |
Affiliate UTM chain on outboundPR | Every store/carrier/airline/hotel link UTM-tagged | No UTM, no attribution |
Which should you use?
Both work. CheckPrice has slightly more retailer breadth on raw electronics listings (they include Jiji classifieds). PriceRadar adds a structured per-product comparison + UTM attribution + canonical matching. Pick based on whether you want classifieds noise (CheckPrice) or filtered comparison (PriceRadar).
PriceRadar wins decisively. CheckPrice has no answer engine; PriceRadar has 78 typical-range + 75+ route/hotel answer pages with structured JSON-LD that AI Overviews can cite.
Only PriceRadar covers these.
CheckPrice ships this today. PriceRadar's email alerts endpoint is honest about being KV-pending until durable storage lands.
PriceRadar — /data + /methodology + CC-BY-4.0 license. CheckPrice publishes neither.
Both are installable PWAs. CheckPrice's app pitch is more aggressive in marketing.
Start with the answer engine
The thing PriceRadar does that nobody else in NG does: the /how-much answer surface.
Comparison compiled 2026-05-24 from public surfaces of both sites. Updated when material features ship on either side. Honest about our weaknesses — CheckPrice ships features we don't (push notifications today, .ng domain, more blog posts). The intent is to help you pick, not to win an argument.