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Insulin Needles

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But the top 5 products take 83% of clicks, so Insulin Needles is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 35% of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · +3 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£455K/yr419K searches / yr
90-day growth
+3.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
83%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 16 sellers

Flapen Score

Insulin Needles against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Insulin Needles is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Insulin Needles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Insulin Needles 419K times last year and spent an estimated £455K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb–Mar–Apr. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 419K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +3.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £455K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
419K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+3.2%
Conversion, latest week
9.8%
Market size, estimated
£455Ka year
Peak month
April2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
insulin needles266K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.05.

Listings sell for £11.05 on average, from £2.95 to £19.94. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 2,500 to 3,000 of them. At £11.05 that is £28K to £33K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.05under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.95–£19.94
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
2,500–3,000
Revenue per listing a year
£28K–£33K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

56% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 89% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #58 within Lab & Scientific Products. It carries 185 reviews at 4.33 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
56%
Prime listings
89%
Out of stock, average day
6.6%
Average rank
#58in Lab & Scientific Products
Average rating
4.33 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
185per listing
Listings tracked
9

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 22 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
22 months

Products

Top Insulin Needles products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 83% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£68K£137K£205K£273K101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

16

Est. top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

8%

  • RecPhysical60%
  • Embecta8%
  • rietegio8%
  • MediFyn5%
  • Meterbox5%
  • JIUBULUJIU5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 8%)

Demand

Insulin Needles search demand

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

35K25KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Feb, Mar, Apr · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Insulin Needles search terms shoppers use

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

  • insulin needles266K/yr
  • insulin needle68K/yr
  • insulin syringe30K/yr
  • insulin syringes19K/yr
  • subcutaneous injection needles11K/yr
  • 8mm insulin needles5K/yr
  • 0.6ml insulin syringe with needle8K/yr
  • fms micro syringe 32g 8mm 1ml6K/yr
  • sterile insulin needles4K/yr
  • diabetic syringes with needle 1ml2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Insulin Needles

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

28%of positive reviews mention “Advertised Vs Actual Product”
15%of negative reviews mention “Sharpness”
0.1%of orders come back
“These are not as sharp as others I've order”
A buyer, on “Sharpness”15% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Insulin Needles questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data