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Grade Level

Fail

Demand is soft, at -19.2% this quarter, so Grade Level is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 4,985 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −1 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$156K/yr128K searches / yr
90-day growth
-19.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
50%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 132 sellers

Flapen Score

Grade Level against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Grade Level is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Grade Level market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Grade Level 128K times last year and spent an estimated $156K. The top 5 brands take 79% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

2.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 128K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -19.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $156K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
128K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-19.2%
Conversion, latest week
2.9%
Market size, estimated
$156Ka year
Top search term
empire level65K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $41.27.

Listings sell for $41.27 on average, from $6.66 to $182.16. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $41.27 that is $0 to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$41.27inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.66–$182.16
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$4K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

67% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 58% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #2,117 within Measuring & Layout Tools. It carries 812 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
67%
Prime listings
58%
Out of stock, average day
6.6%
Average rank
#2,117in Measuring & Layout Tools
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
812per listing
Listings tracked
33

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 5 launches as successful.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 75 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
75 months

Products

Top Grade Level products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 50% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$6K$12K$19K$25K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)2 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

14 rising

Sellers

132

Top-5 brand share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

50%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

14%

  • Empire29%
  • Empire USA24%
  • Weldingriggerz10%
  • DURATECH8%
  • KLEIN TOOLS8%
  • WORKPRO7%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 14%)

Demand

Grade Level search demand

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

4K3KBlack Friday '25Spike '26SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.3× · 11 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Grade Level search terms shoppers use

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

  • empire level65K/yr
  • empire torpedo level23K/yr
  • empire level torpedo6K/yr
  • nivel empire6K/yr
  • grade level10K/yr
  • empire levels5K/yr
  • empire level set5K/yr
  • level empire4K/yr
  • plumbers level with slope5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Grade Level

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
17%of negative reviews mention “Measurement/Reading Accuracy”
0.8%of orders come back
“The Precision is not accurate”
A buyer, on “Measurement/Reading Accuracy”17% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Grade Level questions

Answered from the same tracked data.