Looking for a Tactical Arbitrage alternative for wholesale?
From a distributor's price list to a buy
Tactical Arbitrage casts a wide net across retail sites. If you buy from distributors instead, upload their price list: Apex matches every line to Amazon, shows profit and ROI after fees, and builds the order.
7 days free, then $149 a month, plus tax where applicable. Card required, nothing charged until day 8. Cancel any time before then.
- Distributor price lists matched by UPC, EAN or ASIN
- Profit, ROI and margin after Amazon fees on every line
- 3 US wholesale distributors from the Distributor Vault when your trial starts, 3 more each month
- UPC and EAN codes to match against
- 98M+
- UPC and EAN codes to match against
- Amazon products in the catalog
- 122M+
- Amazon products in the catalog
- free, card first, cancel any time
- 7 days
- free, card first, cancel any time
Sound familiar?
11pm. A 5,000-line price list in Excel, matching UPCs one row at a time.
With Apex: Upload the file. Every line is matched to Amazon for you.
It looked like a winner until fees and shipping made it a loss.
With Apex: Profit is worked out after Amazon fees and landed cost, on every line.
The order lands and half the brands turn out to be gated.
With Apex: Check which products you can sell before you place the order.
How it works
- 01
Pick a distributor
Start from your own suppliers, or from the Distributor Vault. Every subscription, trial included, opens 3 US wholesale distributors from the Distributor Vault when it starts and 3 more each month.
- 02
Scan their price list
Upload the file. Every line is matched to Amazon with profit, ROI, sellers and sales rank, winners first.
- 03
Check you can sell it, then order
Ungate Checker asks Amazon, through your connected account, whether you are approved for each product. The ones you can sell become a purchase order.
7 days free, then $149 a month, plus tax where applicable. Card required, nothing charged until day 8. Cancel any time before then.
Everything in your trial
UPC Scanner
Whole supplier price lists matched to Amazon, with profit and ROI after fees.
Purchase orders and restock planning
The winners become an order, and the order becomes your cost of goods.
Apex University
The step-by-step wholesale course that comes with every account.
Wholesale distributors to contact
Every subscription, trial included, opens 3 US wholesale distributors from the Distributor Vault when it starts and 3 more each month.
Apex for Amazon Sellers, the Chrome extension
Profit and sales on every Amazon page, yours when you finish Apex University.
7 days
free, card first, cancel any time
Straight talk: Apex isn't the cheapest scanner. But your scan doesn't end in a spreadsheet. It ends in a purchase order.
7 days free, then $149 a month, plus tax where applicable. Card required, nothing charged until day 8. Cancel any time before then.
Honest comparison
Apex Applications vs Tactical Arbitrage, compared honestly
Tactical Arbitrage searches more places for stock than Apex does, and that is the honest headline. Product Search scans over 1,400 retail sites, Reverse Search starts from an Amazon category instead of a retailer, and there is book scouting and Amazon flips besides. Apex does none of that. One of their six modes overlaps with ours: Wholesale Search takes a supplier catalog and runs matching and profit analysis across the list, which is what Apex Green does. The difference is what happens next. Theirs ends at a profitable shortlist; ours ends at a purchase order, a price floor built from that order and a P&L that reads from both. Worth knowing where it is sold, too: tacticalarbitrage.com now redirects to Threecolts Seller 365, which our InventoryLab page also covers. Know how Apex Repricer moves prices before you compare: Turn on autopilot and Apex runs your strategies every 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or press Reprice now. Repricing the instant a competitor changes price is built but not switched on yet.
Read more about Apex Green, or see what a plan includes.
A reseller's week, and who covers it
Filled = does the job · light cells = partly, with the caveat shown · dashed empty cell = not covered, or not verified
| Feature | Apex Applications | Tactical Arbitrage |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Amazon wholesale suite | Multi-source product research |
| Entry price | Beginner $49.99/mo, Starter $149/mo, Pro $299/mo (repricer on Pro) | $59 to $159/mo standalone, or from $69/mo inside Seller 365Their pricing page |
| Free trial | 7 days, card required | Seller 365: 7 days, plus 7 more after connecting an eligible seller account |
| Retail site scanning for online arbitrage | Not included | Over 1,400 sites |
| Reverse search from an Amazon category | Not included | Included |
| Book scouting | Not included | Included |
| Supplier catalog scanning | Included | Included |
| Selling eligibility checks | In bulk, one probe per brand | Restriction Checker |
| Purchase orders and restock planning | Included | Not part of the product |
| Repricer | Beta, on Pro: autopilot runs your strategies every 5 to 60 minutes | A separate tool in the Seller 365 bundle |
| Break-even floors from your own fee data | On Pro (Apex Repricer, beta) | No repricing in the product |
| Profit and loss from your own store | Included | Not part of the product |
Monthly price, side by side
Standalone monthly; scan limits vary by tier
The bundle it is also sold inside
Sourcing, purchasing and profit, no repricer. Up to $10K/mo in revenue, 4,000 listings. Beginner is $49.99/mo.
Standalone monthly
Prices from threecolts.com/seller-365/tactical-arbitrage, threecolts.com/seller-365
Which one fits you
Choose Tactical Arbitrage if…
- You source by finding price gaps on retail sites and want the widest net available. That is what it is built for and Apex does not do it at all.
- Book scouting or Amazon flips are part of how you buy.
- You want the rest of the Seller 365 bundle anyway, in which case this comes with it.
Choose Apex if…
- You buy from wholesale price lists, and you want what clears to end in a purchase order rather than a shortlist you rekey somewhere else.
- You want the floor under every price computed from what the unit actually cost you, landed.
- You would rather the research, the buying, the pricing and the books were one system than a bundle of separate ones.
More comparisons on the comparison index.
Competitor prices come from the vendor's own pricing page, linked beside each price. A price we have not rechecked within 90 days is replaced by that link. Other competitor details come from public pages and independent reviews (Tactical Arbitrage in Seller 365, Threecolts Seller 365 pricing). Tactical Arbitrage changes its features and prices on its own schedule, so check its site for current terms. Apex details come from the Apex app itself. Tactical Arbitrage is a trademark of its owner; no affiliation.
Scan your first price list today.
Try it on your own store for 7 days. If it doesn't earn its place, cancel before day 8.
7 days free, then $149 a month, plus tax where applicable. Card required, nothing charged until day 8. Cancel any time before then.