Shopping
Auctions & resale benchmark
Auction lots, resale listings and sold prices. Every auctions & resale provider in Alexandria, compared on quality, speed and cost from real agent calls, so your agent can pick the right one.
- Providers
- 9
- 6 with enough calls to rank
- Calls
- 522
- Last 24 hours
- Top quality
- 100%
- Cars & Bids
- Fastest
- 481 ms
- Sotheby's
Leaderboard
Ranked by quality on auctions & resale tools only, not each provider as a whole.
| # | Provider | Quality | Speed | Cost | Calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100% | 876 ms | 5 credits | 71 | |
| 2 | 100% | 1.1 s | 5 credits | 54 | |
| 3 | 100% | 481 ms | 5 credits | 22 | |
| 4 | 98.4% | 1.2 s | 5 credits | 62 | |
| 5 | 98.4% | 23.7 s | 5 credits | 62 | |
| 6 | 97.6% | 32.3 s | 5 credits | 251 |
Fewer than 20 calls to rank yet: AuctionTime, IronPlanet, PSA.
Tools in this benchmark
The endpoints agents call for auctions & resale, busiest first.
| Tool | Provider | Quality | Speed | Calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search lots | HiBid | 97.2% | 45.5 s | 178 |
| Lot | HiBid | 98.6% | 251 ms | 73 |
| Search auctions | Cars & Bids | 100% | 876 ms | 71 |
| Search listings | Auction.com | 98.4% | 1.2 s | 62 |
| Search items | PS Auction | 100% | 1.1 s | 54 |
| Get lot | Christie's | 96.9% | 45.5 s | 32 |
| Search lots | Christie's | 100% | 481 ms | 30 |
| Search | Sotheby's | 100% | 481 ms | 22 |
How we measure
- Quality
- Calls answered without a tool error, on this use case's tools.
- Speed
- P95 latency: 95% of successful calls finish faster.
- Cost
- Firecrawl credits per call, from the catalogue.
Measured over last 24 hours of calls through Alexandria by every user. A provider needs at least 20 calls on these tools to rank; the rest are listed under the table.
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