How competitive is the Metformin niche on Amazon Germany?

9 brands and 30 sellers compete in Metformin on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Metformin products take 59% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 93% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Metformin?

Metformin buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Funktionalität insgesamt, Dosierung, Nebenwirkungen, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.1%.

What does it cost to enter the Metformin niche?

Metformin sells for €29.22 on average on Amazon Germany, inside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span €12.57–€98.76. The average incumbent carries 1,375 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Metformin

brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 93% of clicks) — Metformin doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

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Ranks 1,427 of 2,966 Drogerie & Körperpflege niches · on the category median

This niche Category average · 2,966 niches

Is Metformin profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon Germany niche tracking, Metformin is a €81K/yr Amazon Germany market (73K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 49/100.

Metformin: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +4.3% over the last 90 days and 3.8% of searches end in a purchase.

€81K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr3K

Search volume / yr+4.3%73K

Conversion rate3.8%

Avg price€29.22

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand, so 7% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers9 · 30

Top-5 product click share59%

Open market7%

Avg brand age50 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 22 products

Top Metformin products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Longevity Box Met4Min 120 Kapseln | 60.000mg Blutzucker-Komplex mit Berberin Chrom NAC & Myo-Inositol | Unterstützt Glukose-Stoffwechsel & Insulinsensitivität

Price: €21.49
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 130
Age: 1y ago

GLYCOWOHL Herbal Drops for Diabetes and Blood Sugar Control 50 ml Lösung

Price: €35.50
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 546
Age: 7y ago

Glycowohl Eisen-Komplex duodenal 40 mg Eisen + Vitamin C 90 Kapseln

Price: €22.89
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 164
Age: 1y ago

GLYCOWOHL Herbal Drops for Diabetes and Blood Sugar Control 100 ml Lösung

Price: €59.24
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 546
Age: 7y ago

Berberin 1000 mg. 120 vegane Kapseln für für 2 Monate Behandlung. Natürlicher Extrakt aus Berberis Vulgaris mit Chrom und schwarzem Pfeffer. Hergestellt von HIVITAL

Price: €20.67
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 3,957
Age: 5y ago

Newest

by launch date

Glycowohl Blutzucker Balance mit Maulbeerblattextrakt (Reducose)

Price: €27.73
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 32
Age: 7mo ago

Glycowohl Augen Komplex Plus Augenvitamine Mit Lutein & Zeaxanthin

Price: €29.13
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 48
Age: 8mo ago

Glycowohl Vitamin D3 + K2 Tropfen 1000 I.E. mit K2Vital & Vitamin E

Price: €15.13
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 38
Age: 12mo ago

DocVital Blutzucker Komplex [120 Kapseln] hochdosiert Unterstützung vom normalen Blutzuckerspiegel* & bei Insulinresistenz Vegan mit u.a. Ceylon Zimt Chrom - deutsches Qualitätsprodukt

Price: €27.17
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 89
Age: 1y ago

Glycowohl Vitamin B1 400 mg pro Tagesdosis 200 Kapseln

Price: €29.40
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 115
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 59% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

59%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

Glycowohl57%
Longevity Box19%
Hivital Foods8%
BANDINI5%
WeightWorld4%
Zenement3%
Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 4%)

Metformin demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume73KCVR3.8%Products22Brands9Top 5 Brands93%OOS Rate0.0%Rating4.4★Reviews1,375Avg BSR#256

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Top Metformin search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

glycowohl25K/yr +15.0%5.2% conv.
metformin28K/yr -7.7%1.6% conv.
metformin 1000mg tabletten8K/yr -7.7%2.3% conv.
glycowohl tropfen bei diabetes3K/yr +305.2%4.0% conv.
metformin 500mg4K/yr -24.5%1.0% conv.
glycowohl tropfen3K/yr -11.9%4.1% conv.
metformin tabletten1K/yr -49.3%0.6% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Metformin

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

57% of reviews

Qualität insgesamt21%

“Beste Produkt”

Vitamin8%

“Gute Lösung, wenn man hohe Vitamin C-Quellen sucht”

Blutzuckerspiegel5%

“Glycowohl Blutzucker Balance”

Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis4%

“Value dor money”

Benutzerfreundlichkeit3%

“Praktisch und schmeckt”

What buyers complain about

56% of reviews

Funktionalität insgesamt14%

“Null Wirkung”

Dosierung8%

“Zu niedrig dosiert”

Nebenwirkungen7%

“Was die Wirkung angeht, bin ich unsicher”

Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis6%

“Geldverschwendung”

Säureregulator/Linderung von Magenschmerzen5%

“schlecht gepresst, extreme Magenreizung”

Metformin return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.1%

Return rate

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Einfaches Kauen/Schlucken

24%

2Gelenkschmerzen

15%

3Funktionalität insgesamt

15%

4Kompatibilität – insgesamt

5Sprachprobleme

Common Metformin questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Metformin 49/100 on Amazon Germany — Skip it. The niche generates €81K/yr across 22 tracked products. 1 of 3 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +4.3% over the last 90 days.