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Ant

Maybe

An estimated 0.2% of orders come back. But products sell for $786.73 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Ant is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Ranks 3,148 of 4,191 DIY・工具・ガーデン niches · −6 vs the category median of 57
Market size
¥81K/yr16K searches / yr
90-day growth
+78.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 126 sellers

Flapen Score

Ant against its category

The dotted line is the DIY・工具・ガーデン average. Past it, Ant is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Ant market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Japan searched for Ant 16K times last year and spent an estimated ¥81K. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jun–Jul–Oct. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 16K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Japan for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +78.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated ¥81K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
16K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+78.2%
Conversion, latest week
0.6%
Market size, estimated
¥81Ka year
Peak month
July2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
車内アリ駆除9K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth ¥786.73.

Listings sell for ¥786.73 on average, from ¥338.99 to ¥1799.92. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250 to 500 a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At ¥786.73 that is ¥0 to ¥79K a year per listing.

Average price
¥786.73above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
¥338.99–¥1799.92
Amazon Japan median price
¥1942.07across 14,733 niches
Units sold a year
250–500
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
¥0–¥79K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon Japan median 0.4%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #101 within 害獣・害虫対策用品. It carries 1,110 reviews at 4.01 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
2.0%
Average rank
#101in 害獣・害虫対策用品
Average rating
4.01 starsAmazon Japan average 4.15 stars
Average reviews
1,110per listing
Listings tracked
21

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 90 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
90 months

Products

Top Ant products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

126

Top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

16%

  • Brand 120%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 413%
  • Brand 513%
  • Brand 610%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 16%)

Demand

Ant search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

600400Spike '24Spike '25Spike '26Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jun, Jul, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Ant search terms shoppers use

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

  • 車内アリ駆除9K/yr
  • ant6K/yr
  • 庭 蟻 駆除1K/yr
  • アリ が こ なくなる 方法86/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Ant

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

29%of positive reviews mention “害虫/昆虫のコントロール”
45%of negative reviews mention “害虫/昆虫のコントロール”
0.2%of orders come back
“キッチンに現れた蟻に”
A buyer, on “害虫/昆虫のコントロール”45% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Ant questions

Answered from the same tracked data.