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Pliers

Maybe

Shoppers spend $4.9M a year here. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Pliers is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 6% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +13 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$4.9M/yr2.7M searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
47%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 75 sellers

Flapen Score

Pliers against its category

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

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pliers market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Pliers 2.7M times last year and spent an estimated $4.9M. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

6.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 2.7M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 6.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $4.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.7M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.5%
Conversion, latest week
6.1%
Market size, estimated
$4.9Ma year
Peak month
December1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
pliers1.2M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $30.18.

Listings sell for $30.18 on average, from $5.17 to $115.08. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 4,000 to 5,000 of them. At $30.18 that is $121K to $151K a year per listing.

Average price
$30.18inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.17–$115.08
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
4,000–5,000
Revenue per listing a year
$121K–$151K
Returns
1.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

84% 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 #78 within Pliers. It carries 2,632 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#78in Pliers
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,632per listing
Listings tracked
32

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 4 of last year's 4 launches as successful.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 4 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Pliers 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 47% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$246K$492K$738K$984K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 flat

Sellers

75

Top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

47%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

20%

  • WORKPRO49%
  • Amazon Basics8%
  • IRWIN8%
  • DURATECH6%
  • Wiojided6%
  • vivicreate4%

Demand

Pliers search demand

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

90K70KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Pliers search terms shoppers use

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

  • pliers1.2M/yr
  • pliers set738K/yr
  • plier set203K/yr
  • slip joint pliers97K/yr
  • plyers70K/yr
  • plier75K/yr
  • alicate52K/yr
  • pliers tool set53K/yr
  • pliers tool37K/yr
  • alicates35K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pliers

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.4%of orders come back
“Cheap quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”21% 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 Pliers questions

Answered from the same tracked data.