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Smart Plug

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $2.5M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 95% of clicks, so Smart Plug is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 17% of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · +7 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£2.5M/yr1.9M searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
57%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 72 sellers

Flapen Score

Smart Plug against its category

The dotted line is the DIY & Tools average. Past it, Smart Plug is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Smart Plug market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Smart Plug 1.9M times last year and spent an estimated £2.5M. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.9M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £2.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.9M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.8%
Conversion, latest week
8.9%
Market size, estimated
£2.5Ma year
Peak month
December7.1× the quietest month
Top search term
smart plug739K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £15.28.

Listings sell for £15.28 on average, from £6.09 to £28.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At £15.28 that is £122K to £153K a year per listing.

Average price
£15.28inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£6.09–£28.80
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
£122K–£153K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #17 within Electrical. It carries 7,575 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#17in Electrical
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
7,575per listing
Listings tracked
26

04 · Newcomers

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

6 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 32 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
32 months

Products

Top Smart Plug 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 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 57% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£101K£201K£302K£403K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

72

Est. top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

57%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

2%

  • Tapo62%
  • Amazon Basics15%
  • Eightree8%
  • UPXNBOR5%
  • TVLIVE5%
  • Oblinple4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Demand

Smart Plug search demand

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

200K150KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 7.1×

Search terms

Top Smart Plug search terms shoppers use

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

  • smart plug739K/yr
  • tapo smart plug276K/yr
  • alexa plug150K/yr
  • smart plugs that work with alexa100K/yr
  • smart plugs95K/yr
  • tapo plug53K/yr
  • amazon smart plug67K/yr
  • alexa smart plug56K/yr
  • wifi plug43K/yr
  • smart socket35K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Smart Plug

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Assembly/Installation”
27%of negative reviews mention “Connectivity-Overall”
1.9%of orders come back
“Very difficult to connect”
A buyer, on “Connectivity-Overall”27% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Smart Plug 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