LIVE-DATA · UPDATED JULY 2026

The 2026 DTC Pricing Index

Real pricing benchmarks for direct-to-consumer categories — built by pulling thousands of live product prices straight from store catalogs. No surveys, no estimates.

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The index so far

Four categories, 31 stores, 10,000+ live prices. Two numbers tell most of the story — what a typical product costs, and how much of the catalog is discounted right now:

CategoryStoresMedian priceOn sale nowReport
🌶 Hot sauce4$12.003.4%View →
🍵 Loose-leaf tea9$20.001.8%View →
☕ Specialty coffee13$26.005.8%View →
💊 Supplements5$49.9922.4%View →

The standout finding: discounting varies wildly by category

The share of products on sale at any given moment ranges from under 2% (tea) to over 22% (supplements) — a 12× difference. Categories that discount heavily are also the higher-priced ones, where a competitor's unseen markdown costs the most. In short: the more a category discounts, the more it pays to watch competitor prices — and supplements sit at the extreme of both.

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Specialty Coffee

13 roasters · 5,774 prices · median $26
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Loose-Leaf Tea

9 sellers · 2,990 prices · median $20
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Supplements

5 brands · 811 prices · median $50
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Hot Sauce

4 makers · 225 prices · median $12

Brand-by-brand face-offs NEW

See exactly how named brands stack up against each other — median price, full range, and who's discounting right now.

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Candle Brands

6 brands · P.F. Candle Co, Boy Smells, Keap & more

Coffee Brands

8 roasters · Atlas, Verve, Ceremony & more
Methodology. Every figure is pulled live from stores' public product catalogs (the same data their storefronts serve), July 2026. Medians are used throughout to avoid distortion from bundles and multipacks; "on sale" = a variant priced below its own compare-at price. Each category page lists the exact stores and sample sizes. Data collected with a small, dependency-free scraper — the same engine behind PriceProbe.

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