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Butterfly Knife

Pass

Butterfly Knife scores 67 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $1.3M a year here, demand is soft, at -22.0% this quarter, and an estimated 1.2% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
67
67 / 100
Top 3% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +20 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$1.3M/yr3.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 44 sellers

Flapen Score

Butterfly Knife against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Butterfly Knife is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

67Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Butterfly Knife market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Butterfly Knife 3.2M times last year and spent an estimated $1.3M. The top 5 brands take 45% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 67 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 3.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.3M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
3.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.0%
Conversion, latest week
1.8%
Market size, estimated
$1.3Ma year
Peak month
December1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
butterfly knife1.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $22.84.

Listings sell for $22.84 on average, from $6.33 to $77.74. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At $22.84 that is $29K to $34K a year per listing.

Average price
$22.84inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.33–$77.74
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
$29K–$34K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

69% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 92% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #323 within Other Sports. It carries 808 reviews at 4.26 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
69%
Prime listings
92%
Out of stock, average day
2.2%
Average rank
#323in Other Sports
Average rating
4.26 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
808per listing
Listings tracked
39

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Butterfly Knife 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 only 38% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

22 flat

Sellers

44

Top-5 brand share

45%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

49%

  • Brand 113%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

Butterfly Knife search demand

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

90K70KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Butterfly Knife search terms shoppers use

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

  • butterfly knife1.4M/yr
  • balisong356K/yr
  • butterfly knife trainer387K/yr
  • balisong trainer231K/yr
  • practice butterfly knife125K/yr
  • butterfly knife real81K/yr
  • balisong knife83K/yr
  • trainer butterfly knife53K/yr
  • butterfly knives47K/yr
  • toy butterfly knife47K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Butterfly Knife

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
27%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
1.2%of orders come back
“Breaks easily”
A buyer, on “Durability”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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Butterfly Knife questions

Answered from the same tracked data.