IXSPY Review 2026
Cross-border e-commerce product research · AliExpress, Shopify, Etsy, Shopee · EN / 中文
IXSPY is a cross-border e-commerce product-research and competitor-spy platform. It indexes AliExpress, Shopify, Etsy, Shopee and Facebook Ads data into daily-updated ranking lists, store and product search, and monitoring, delivered as a web dashboard plus four free Chrome analyzer extensions. The homepage headline is "The Best Winning Product Tool on Aliexpress/Shopify/Etsy/Shopee/Facebook Ads - Free Trial", and the product is split into five audience tracks: Shopify store owner, Etsy seller, AliExpress supplier, Shopee seller and TikTok influencer. The platform runs in English and Chinese, with the Chinese storefront carrying a few extra modules, and plan prices are shown on the in-app upgrade page once you register.
Scale, as published by IXSPY
These are the figures IXSPY publishes on its own homepage, reproduced here as the vendor states them.
What IXSPY is
At its core IXSPY is a marketplace data indexer with a ranking front end. It crawls product and store catalogues on several cross-border marketplaces, refreshes them on a daily cycle, and exposes the result as leaderboards you can filter, search, save and track over time. That is a different job from an ad-spy tool: instead of showing you creatives your competitors are running, it shows you what is selling and who is selling it.
The ranking definitions are documented in the FAQ. Lists are explicitly the top 1,000 products or stores per category. "New" means a product first indexed within 60 days, or a store opened within 60 days. "Total Sales" means accumulated sales volume within 30 days. Knowing those windows matters: it tells you a "growth" entry is a 30-day signal rather than a lifetime one, and that each list covers the top 1,000 of its category.
The web dashboard is paired with free Chrome extensions that overlay trend data while you browse AliExpress, Shopify, Etsy or Shopee directly. In practice that is the low-friction entry point: you install an analyzer, get used to seeing IXSPY data in context, and the dashboard becomes the deeper version of the same thing.
Module map
AliExpress (the deepest module)
Other platforms
Audience tracks on the homepage
Capabilities worth knowing about
Ranking lists on three cycles
AliExpress total, hot, growth, new-product and new-store rankings are available by day, week and month, capped at the top 1,000 entries per category.
Full-catalogue search with filters
Product and store search across the indexed catalogue with dozens of filters, plus favourites and monitoring on signals like 7-day sales, favourites, reviews, 180-day sales and rating.
Keyword boards and rank tracking
Hot and rising keyword boards, daily keyword rank tracking, and word-cloud analysis built from review text.
Category and market research
Niche insight, category opportunity sizing, per-country rankings and holiday rankings for 618, Black Friday and 11.11.
Free Chrome analyzers
AliExpress, Shopify, Etsy and Shopee Analyzer extensions overlay IXSPY trend data onto the marketplace you are already browsing.
Export and history
Data export with or without images (image files or image URLs), and one-year trend history retention.
Image search back to source
Image search to find identical AliExpress competitors and to trace products back to 1688 suppliers.
Data Cooperation tier
A custom enterprise data programme: multi-platform coverage in free combination, daily full updates, custom deployment and project support, quoted individually via an enquiry form.
The Chrome extensions, checked directly
Install bases taken from the Chrome Web Store listings at time of writing.
Featured badge, publisher verified as ixspy.com
Featured badge
Listed on the Chrome Web Store
One of the four free analyzer extensions
The AliExpress Analyzer carries a Featured badge and a verified ixspy.com publisher, which confirms the extensions come from the vendor itself. All four are free to install.
Plans, billing and the free trial
How pricing works: plan costs are shown on the in-app upgrade page once you register, rather than on the public site. Registration is free and comes with a trial, so you can see the plan table before paying anything.
What is public: plan names only. The FAQ names eBay Seller, AliExpress Supplier, Shopify Owner, E-commerce Master and Business; the app config additionally exposes Basic, Business, Enterprise and Pro team variants. The FAQ says plans can be stacked, but once you buy a personal plan you cannot stack a team plan until it expires.
Billing: a billing month is 30 days. Payment is by PayPal (auto-renewing subscription) or Alipay (manual re-purchase after expiry). The FAQ states fees are not refundable after purchase, and that cancellation is done through PayPal rather than inside the dashboard.
Free trial: a trial is offered on registration. An in-app banner advertises how to win up to two months free - one month of the Enterprise plan on registration, plus one further month for joining their improvement programme via WhatsApp. The four Chrome analyzer extensions are free regardless.
Custom deployments under the Data Cooperation programme are quoted individually through a Company / Phone / Email enquiry form, following a four-step flow: requirement intake, evaluation and quotation, development and testing, then after-sales guidance.
Who it is for
Good fit: dropshippers and cross-border sellers who work primarily on AliExpress and want a structured way to see what is climbing rather than trawling category pages by hand. The AliExpress module is clearly the mature one - rankings on three cycles, country and holiday cuts, keyword boards, niche insight and image search back to 1688 sources. Etsy and Shopify sellers get a lighter but real version of the same thing, and the Facebook posts and Facebook Ads (beta) modules add creative context on the Shopify side.
Also a fit: teams that need bulk marketplace data rather than a dashboard. The Data Cooperation tier sells multi-platform coverage in free combination with daily full updates and custom deployment, which is a different product from the self-serve plans.
How to start: install one of the free Chrome analyzers, then register for the trial - a month of the Enterprise plan is offered on sign-up, with a second month available for joining the improvement programme via WhatsApp. The plan table appears on the in-app upgrade page, so you can match a tier to your workload before committing.
Good to know before you start
Practical details worth having in front of you when you set the account up.
Where the price list lives
Plan names are public in the FAQ - eBay Seller, AliExpress Supplier, Shopify Owner, E-commerce Master and Business, plus Basic, Business, Enterprise and Pro team variants. The rates themselves are shown on the in-app upgrade page after you register.
Billing and cancellation
A billing month is 30 days. PayPal runs as an auto-renewing subscription and is cancelled on PayPal; Alipay buyers re-purchase manually after expiry. The FAQ states the fee is not refundable after purchase, so start on a short cycle if you want to trial a paid tier.
How deep the lists go
Every ranking is the top 1,000 of its category, "new" covers a 60-day window and "Total Sales" is a 30-day accumulated figure. Plan your research around those windows and you get consistent, comparable numbers.
Amazon research
The "AMZ" nav item points to a third-party product, Tool4seller. Amazon fields exist in the logged-in app language pack (Amazon Products, Amazon Site, Amazon self-operated, Fulfilled by Amazon, with a us/uk/de/fr/es/br/jp country list), so check the Amazon side in-app once you have an account.
Free ways in
The four Chrome analyzers - AliExpress, Shopify, Etsy and Shopee - are free, and registration comes with a trial. That covers a lot of ground before any payment.
Languages and support channels
EN / 中文, with the Chinese side richer
Every page has an English and Chinese toggle, and the Chinese storefront adds a few nav modules of its own - AI image generation (AI 作图), an AliExpress shipping-template assistant and an Amazon operations tool - along with WeChat and WeChat-QR login next to Google and email. Help, FAQ and privacy pages are in English, and the newest blog post is in Chinese.
How you reach them
Email ixspyforetsy@gmail.com (given in the privacy policy), WhatsApp (+852) 9884 4742, a Discord invite, a Facebook page, a YouTube channel, and the Data Cooperation enquiry form.
Using IXSPY with PROXIES.SX mobile proxies
Be clear about what a proxy does and does not do here. IXSPY's own dashboard does not need a proxy - it is a logged-in web app serving data it has already crawled, and you should simply use it as intended. Where mobile IPs matter is in the work either side of the research.
1. Verifying what the rankings tell you. IXSPY ships per-country rankings and country-specific views, and its SKU data covers regional pricing and logistics. Marketplace storefronts personalise heavily by IP: the price, shipping estimate, stock message and even the product mix a US visitor sees on AliExpress or Shopee differs from what a German or Brazilian visitor sees. If you want to confirm an IXSPY country ranking against the live storefront, you need to be in that country from the network's point of view. A proxies.sx 4G/5G mobile or residential exit in the target market gives you that, and a carrier IP looks like an ordinary shopper rather than a datacenter range.
2. Browsing marketplaces with the analyzer extensions on. The Chrome analyzers work by having you browse the real marketplace with the overlay active. Sustained category browsing from one IP is exactly the pattern marketplaces rate-limit and challenge. Routing that browsing through rotating mobile IPs keeps sessions clean, and pairing each browser profile with its own exit keeps research contexts separate.
3. Your own collection alongside their index. IXSPY's lists cover the top 1,000 per category and are delivered inside the dashboard and the Chrome analyzers. If your work needs data from below that cut, you will be running your own collection - and that is a straightforward proxy workload.
For that, proxies.sx is $4/GB dropping to $2.40/GB at volume, GB never expire, and endpoints are free - so spinning up a separate endpoint per market or per browser profile costs nothing extra. Always respect the terms of any marketplace you access.
IXSPY
Research layer - daily-updated AliExpress, Etsy, Shopify and Shopee rankings, search and keyword boards.
PROXIES.SX
Network layer - 4G/5G mobile and residential exits so you see each market's real storefront, not your own.
Antidetect browser
Profile layer - keep market research sessions isolated with GoLogin, AdsPower or similar.
The short version
IXSPY's strength is breadth with a genuinely deep core. The AliExpress module - total, hot, growth, new-product and new-store rankings on day, week and month cycles, country and holiday cuts, keyword hot and rising boards, niche insight, image search back to 1688 - is a real research workbench, and the FAQ documents its own definitions (top 1,000 per category, 60-day "new" window, 30-day sales window) instead of hand-waving. Etsy, Shopify with Facebook Ads (beta), and Shopee widen the coverage, and the free Chrome analyzers are a low-friction way to try it. It suits dropshippers and cross-border sellers who want a structured read on what is climbing on AliExpress, with Etsy, Shopify and Shopee alongside it, and it suits teams who need bulk marketplace data through the Data Cooperation tier. The free Chrome analyzers and the trial on registration make it easy to try the data first and confirm the plan that fits on the in-app upgrade page.
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IXSPY facts reflect the vendor's public site, FAQ, privacy policy and Data Cooperation page, the Chrome Web Store listings for its analyzer extensions, and module names exposed in the app's own config and language files, all at time of writing. Scale figures (300K+ suppliers, 100M+ products, 2M+ Shopify store owners, 1B+ TikTok videos, 2.5M+ TikTok influencers, 7M+ Shopee suppliers) are as published on the vendor's homepage. Plan rates are shown on the in-app upgrade page and are therefore not quoted here. Outbound links to ixspy.com use rel="nofollow sponsored noopener noreferrer".