Scalpel Blades
soft demand (-16.1% this quarter) — Scalpel Blades doesn't clear our bar today.
Flapen Score
Is Scalpel Blades profitable on Amazon?
According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Scalpel Blades is a £71K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (144K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 84% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 42/100.
Scalpel Blades: the Amazon niche in one read
Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.
Is the demand real?
Not really. Search demand moved -16.1% over the last 90 days and 5.7% of searches end in a purchase.
£71K
revenue / yr
Who owns the niche?
The top 5 brands hold 84% of demand, so 16% of the market is open.
16%
open market share
Is there a way in?
Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.
0/100
page quality · 18 products
Top Scalpel Blades 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
Swann Morton 0103 Blade Non-Sterile Size 11 (Pack of 100)
- Price
- £15.45
- Rating
- 4.6/5
- Reviews
- 1,358
- Age
- 16y ago
Surgical Scalpel Surgical Blades # 10A Stainless Steel Sterile Pack of 10 and Handle No 3 Perfect for wood art Surgical Sculpting Repairs Lab Anatomy Sign Card Making Lab Training SURGIGR10A-10
- Price
- £5.86
- Rating
- 4.2/5
- Reviews
- 105
- Age
- 5y ago
Westcott 84011 00 Replacement Scalpel Blades Knives Box of 10 Reeds
- Price
- £2.63
- Rating
- 4.4/5
- Reviews
- 108
- Age
- 13y ago
Safety First Aid Group HypaEdge Sterile Disposable Scalpels Size 10 Pack of 10
- Price
- £4.19
- Rating
- 4.3/5
- Reviews
- 672
- Age
- 2y ago
Scalpel Blades # 10A Carbon Steel Non Sterile Scalpel Surgical Blades Pack of 20 and Steel Handle for Wood Art Surgical Sculpting Repairs Lab Anatomy Sign Card Making Lab Training SURGIBL10A-20
- Price
- £6.38
- Rating
- 4.2/5
- Reviews
- 162
- Age
- 5y ago
Trending
90-day click momentum
10 x NICE No.10A Sterile Carbon Steel CS10A Surgical Blades
- Price
- £3.31
- Rating
- 4.7/5
- Reviews
- 23
- Age
- 4y ago
25 Pcs Scalpel- Edges Scalpel Handle No 3 Surgical_ Baldes # 11 Non Sterile Edges Perfect for culpting Repairs Lab Anatomy Lab Training Sign Craft Card Making Cutter Podiatry
- Price
- £5.40
- Rating
- 4.6/5
- Reviews
- 23
- Age
- 1y ago
Westcott 84011 00 Replacement Scalpel Blades Knives Box of 10 Reeds
- Price
- £2.63
- Rating
- 4.4/5
- Reviews
- 108
- Age
- 13y ago
Modelcraft Set of 15x Fine Point Blades Silver 11 (PKN1711/3)
- Price
- £4.47
- Rating
- 4.7/5
- Reviews
- 367
- Age
- 4y ago
Surgical Scalpel Surgical Blades # 10A Stainless Steel Sterile Pack of 10 and Handle No 3 Perfect for wood art Surgical Sculpting Repairs Lab Anatomy Sign Card Making Lab Training SURGIGR10A-10
- Price
- £5.86
- Rating
- 4.2/5
- Reviews
- 105
- Age
- 5y ago
Newest
by launch date25 Pcs Scalpel- Edges Scalpel Handle No 3 Surgical_ Baldes # 11 Non Sterile Edges Perfect for culpting Repairs Lab Anatomy Lab Training Sign Craft Card Making Cutter Podiatry
- Price
- £5.40
- Rating
- 4.6/5
- Reviews
- 23
- Age
- 1y ago
Safety First Aid Group HypaEdge Sterile Disposable Scalpels Size 10 Pack of 10
- Price
- £4.19
- Rating
- 4.3/5
- Reviews
- 672
- Age
- 2y ago
Precision Craft Knife Set With 2 Knives and 10 Spare Blades - Professional Exacto for Adult Carving Hobby Modeling and Art Projects
- Price
- £5.07
- Rating
- 4.3/5
- Reviews
- 270
- Age
- 2y ago
Swann Morton No 11P Sterile Stainless Steel Blades
- Price
- £8.39
- Rating
- 4.4/5
- Reviews
- 7
- Age
- 3y ago
10 x NICE No.10A Sterile Carbon Steel CS10A Surgical Blades
- Price
- £3.31
- Rating
- 4.7/5
- Reviews
- 23
- Age
- 4y ago
Competition: brands, sellers & click share
The top 5 products take 60% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.
Brands
10 falling
Sellers
49
Top-5 brand share
84%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
60%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
10%
- Surgiclass29%
- NICE16%
- SWANN-MORTON15%
- Westcott12%
- Safety First Aid Group12%
- Pure sharp5%
- Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 10%)
Scalpel Blades demand & seasonality
Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.
No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×
Top Scalpel Blades search terms shoppers use
The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.
- scalpel blades91K/yr
- surgical blades14K/yr
- scalpel blades 10a8K/yr
- 10a scalpel blade6K/yr
- scalpel blades 107K/yr
- surgical blade5K/yr
- scalpel blade5K/yr
- scalpel blades 115K/yr
- number 11 scalpel blades3K/yr
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Scalpel Blades
What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.
What buyers love
86% of reviews“Excellent product”
“Great for the price”
“As described”
“Good Sharp Scalpel Blades”
“Excellent, exactly what I needed for my art project”
What buyers complain about
84% of reviews“Poor Quality, Snap too frequently”
“Breaks very easily”
“doesnt feel robust”
“not as per the pictures advertised”
“resulting in more blade changes which given the extremely tight awkward fit is risky”
Scalpel Blades return rate & reasons
Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.
0.6%
Return rate
47%
Fixable by listing
The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.
Common Scalpel Blades questions
The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.
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