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Compostable Coffee Cups

Maybe

Products sell for $29.74 on average, inside the sweet spot. But demand is soft, at +0.4% this quarter, so Compostable Coffee Cups is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 6% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +14 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$212K/yr84K searches / yr
90-day growth
+0.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
44%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 40 sellers

Flapen Score

Compostable Coffee Cups against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Compostable Coffee Cups is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Compostable Coffee Cups market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Compostable Coffee Cups 84K times last year and spent an estimated $212K. The top 5 brands take 58% of clicks. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 84K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $212K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
84K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+0.4%
Conversion, latest week
8.5%
Market size, estimated
$212Ka year
Peak month
November1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
compostable coffee cups26K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $29.74.

Listings sell for $29.74 on average, from $9.79 to $100.06. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $29.74 that is $3K to $7K a year per listing.

Average price
$29.74inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.79–$100.06
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$7K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #642 within Disposable Drinkware. It carries 454 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
6.1%
Average rank
#642in Disposable Drinkware
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
454per listing
Listings tracked
34

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 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 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Compostable Coffee Cups 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 44% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

22 falling

Sellers

40

Top-5 brand share

58%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

44%

Top 20: 84%

Open market

36%

  • Brand 122%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Compostable Coffee Cups search demand

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

2K1KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Compostable Coffee Cups search terms shoppers use

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

  • compostable coffee cups26K/yr
  • compostable coffee cups with lids13K/yr
  • biodegradable coffee cups9K/yr
  • compostable paper cups7K/yr
  • compostable hot cups6K/yr
  • biodegradable coffee cups with lids5K/yr
  • biodegradable paper cups3K/yr
  • paper cups compostable3K/yr
  • recyclable coffee cups with lids4K/yr
  • recyclable coffee cups3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Compostable Coffee Cups

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
18%of negative reviews mention “Leak-Proof”
1.0%of orders come back
“They leak”
A buyer, on “Leak-Proof”18% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Compostable Coffee Cups questions

Answered from the same tracked data.