Why xbbuy, honestly.

We built xbbuy because shopping tools in 2026 fall into three buckets: (1) extensions that watch every site you visit, (2) "best deal" forums full of affiliate shills, or (3) assistants that lose your shopping context. Here is the direct comparison so you can decide.

One-line summary

xbbuy is a smart AI product search platform built to help you shop the best and skip the rest. Chat with the AI in plain English. It runs a live search, surfaces well-reviewed options, remembers every product you saw in a scrollable session, and lets you save full sessions, set price alerts, and pin favorites. Think of it as ChatGPT, but for products, with live prices and zero sponsored slots. Today the live catalog comes from Amazon and Walmart. Need a starting point for a gift? We keep a small set of curated gift pages at xbbuy.net/gifts.

Built for conversational shopping

Google Shopping in 2026 is dominated by sponsored slots. General assistants can now look up products, but they do not keep your shopping session, watch a price for you, or hold a favorites list across visits. Honey only fires at checkout. Retailer search pages still bury what is actually worth buying. xbbuy does the one thing a shopper actually needs: takes a conversational brief ("I need wireless earbuds under $100 with great bass and 8+ hours of battery"), runs a live search, ranks results on real-buyer reviews, and keeps the entire conversation scrollable so you can jump back to any product you looked at without re-searching. Save the session, set a price alert, pin a favorite. The AI is shopper-aware (USA seasons, budgets, occasions, brand intent) and tested on 138+ scenarios across 13 dimensions of shopping behavior. Today, that search experience is powered by Amazon and Walmart inventory.

Feature-by-feature comparison

Comparison based on each product's publicly documented features as of May 2026. Honey is owned by PayPal; Camelizer is operated by Camelcamelcamel; Google refers to Google Shopping; ChatGPT refers to OpenAI's product. If anything is inaccurate, email us via the Contact page and we will correct it.

What we don't do (and why)

We don't build a browser extension.

Browser extensions need permission to "read and change all data on every site you visit." The 2024 Honey controversy showed why that matters: PayPal-owned Honey was caught not always showing the best coupon and replacing creator affiliate tags with its own at checkout. We chose a website-only design so you can verify exactly what we do with your data: read xbbuy.net, that's it.

We don't run sponsored placements.

Google Shopping and Amazon's own search heavily weight sponsored slots, so the "top result" is often a paid one. Our ranking is TOPSIS multi-criteria (review trust, price, delivery, discount) with a quality-tier penalty for products lacking real reviews. A sponsored product is not in our taxonomy.

We don't pretend to cover every retailer.

Today xbbuy searches Amazon and Walmart. We chose those catalogs because the data signal is strong and the selection covers a huge share of everyday shopping. We will expand only when we can keep the same quality bar instead of turning the product into a noisy aggregator.

Affiliate disclosure (the honest version)

When you click an Amazon link from xbbuy and complete a purchase, we earn an Amazon Associates commission (~1-4% of the sale, paid by Amazon, not by you). We are not a Walmart affiliate: a Walmart click earns us nothing today, and we still rank the cheaper, better-reviewed pick first. The ranking algorithm does not consider affiliate rates. It only weighs product quality, real-buyer reviews, and price. Every outbound link carries a visible "Affiliate link · we may earn" line per FTC 16 CFR Part 255. See the full FTC disclosure.

The one limitation we want you to know

We don't have a browser extension that pops up when you're already on Amazon. If you research products on retailer sites first and only check prices at the end, Honey or Capital One Shopping will be there at checkout in a way we won't. Our bet is that you'd rather start with the best picks instead.

30 free searches a month once you register, 10 without an account. No credit card and no browser extension.