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Tanto Knife

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.9% of searches, so Tanto Knife is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 43% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$95K/yr177K searches / yr
90-day growth
-2.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
34%top-5 click share · 25 brands · 83 sellers

Flapen Score

Tanto Knife against its category

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

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Tanto Knife market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Tanto Knife 177K times last year and spent an estimated $95K. The top 5 brands take 72% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Aug–Sep–Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 177K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -2.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $95K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
177K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-2.6%
Conversion, latest week
0.9%
Market size, estimated
$95Ka year
Peak month
December10.5× the quietest month
Top search term
tanto81K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $60.88.

Listings sell for $60.88 on average, from $9.48 to $194.91. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 1K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $60.88 that is $0 to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$60.88inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.48–$194.91
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1K–2K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$6K
Returns
1.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

75% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #257 within Knives & Tools. It carries 416 reviews at 4.57 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
75%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
3.2%
Average rank
#257in Knives & Tools
Average rating
4.57 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
416per listing
Listings tracked
48

04 · Newcomers

9 of last year's 14 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

14 products launched here in the last 12 months. 9 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
14
Successful launches
9Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Tanto 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 34% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

25 falling

Sellers

83

Top-5 brand share

72%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 74%

Open market

23%

  • Brand 134%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Tanto Knife search demand

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

70K50KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 10.5×

Search terms

Top Tanto Knife search terms shoppers use

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

  • tanto81K/yr
  • tanto sword25K/yr
  • katana knife16K/yr
  • samurai knife12K/yr
  • japanese tanto12K/yr
  • japanese tanto knife9K/yr
  • fixed blade tanto6K/yr
  • katana pocket knife5K/yr
  • tactical tanto5K/yr
  • japanese dagger4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Tanto Knife

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Sharpness”
13%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
1.3%of orders come back
“Fell apart in about 1 week”
A buyer, on “Durability”13% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Tanto Knife questions

Answered from the same tracked data.