# ShopSavvy Research & Pricing Insights

> Studies of how online prices behave, written from data ShopSavvy collected. Each one says when the data was captured, how it was collected, and links the data so you can check it. ShopSavvy has been comparing prices since 2008.

*Source: https://shopsavvy.com/insights*

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## Studies

### We checked 270 products on Google's two shopping screens. 80 had two different prices.

Published 2026-09-28; data captured 2026-09-07.

On 2026-09-07 we asked Google 240 shopping questions and matched 270 products that appeared in both Google AI Mode and the Google Shopping tab on the same day, using Google's own product identifier. 190 carried the same price on both screens. 80 did not, and when they disagreed AI Mode showed the higher price 60% of the time.

- 270 products matched across AI Mode and the Shopping tab on the same day
- 190 priced the same on both screens (within 0.5%)
- 80 priced differently: AI Mode higher on 48, lower on 32

- Study: https://shopsavvy.com/blog/same-product-two-prices-ai-shopping-study
- Methodology: https://shopsavvy.com/blog/same-product-two-prices-ai-shopping-study#how-we-did-this
- Data (CSV, 270 rows, CC BY 4.0): https://shopsavvy.com/research/ai-mode-vs-shopping-tab-2026-09.csv
- Columns: question, category, product_title, ai_mode_price_usd, shopping_tab_price_usd, shopping_tab_seller, gap_pct, verdict, capture_date
- Cite as: ShopSavvy (Monolith Technologies, Inc.). "We checked 270 products on Google's two shopping screens. 80 had two different prices." Published 2026-09-28; data captured 2026-09-07. https://shopsavvy.com/blog/same-product-two-prices-ai-shopping-study

## Working with price data?

The archive these studies draw on holds hundreds of millions of price observations, with price history back to 2011, dense from 2019. It is available through the Data API (https://shopsavvy.com/data) and as bulk files through Data Licensing (https://shopsavvy.com/data-licensing).