BetterPrice vs Honey: Honey Misses Where the Real Savings Live

Honey has 17 million installs and one trick: testing coupon codes at checkout. It is good at that one trick. It is also useless for the savings that actually matter - finding out the $156 product in your cart is selling for $59 on another website.

The core problem with Honey

Honey activates after you have already decided to buy. By then it is too late. The store has chosen the price, you have chosen the store, and Honey is left scraping for a coupon code that might shave 10% off if you are lucky. Most of the time, no code works. You pay full price for a product that was overpriced to begin with.

BetterPrice runs before the decision. The moment you land on a product page - any product page, on any of thousands of stores - it checks whether the exact same item exists cheaper elsewhere. If it does, you see it. One click and you save $97 instead of $7.

The numbers

What Honey will never tell you

Honey only works at retailers it has a relationship with. It does not flag the boutique Shopify store charging triple. It does not know the dropshipper is selling you an AliExpress product at a 4x markup. Its entire business is built on the assumption that you are already shopping at the right store. Most of the time, you are not.

The PayPal problem

Honey is owned by PayPal. Every purchase you make through it feeds into PayPal's commerce data. In 2024, a viral YouTube investigation also showed Honey replacing affiliate cookies - hijacking commissions away from the creators who recommended the products. The trust is gone for a reason.

The honest answer

Uninstall Honey. Or do not - it does not conflict with BetterPrice. But if you only have room for one extension, the one that catches a $97 savings beats the one that occasionally finds a 10% coupon.

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