TikTok Shop to Amazon Product Gap Finder

Find products that are already selling in volume on TikTok Shop but still have weak competition on Amazon - before everyone else lists them.

Enter a niche such as hair styling tools, kitchen gadgets, or posture corrector. The Actor pulls the best-selling TikTok Shop products for that niche, checks each one against live Amazon search results, and delivers scored product-gap rows with the evidence attached: units sold on TikTok, closest Amazon listings, review moats, price bands, and a clear verdict.

TikTok Shop is where product demand shows up first. Amazon is where it gets monetized at scale. This Actor measures the distance between the two.

What each result tells you

Every row is one TikTok Shop winner analyzed against Amazon:

• Verdict - wide-open (no credible Amazon analogue found), uncertain (a weak analogue needs manual review), emerging (equivalents exist but no review moat yet), or crowded (entrenched sellers with 1,000+ reviews).
• Opportunity score (0-100) with a fully exposed breakdown: TikTok demand (0-40), Amazon openness (0-40), margin potential (0-20). Deterministic - same inputs, same score, no black box.
• Match confidence - high/medium/low/none, computed from token containment between the product and the closest Amazon listing, with a price-sanity check that downgrades implausible matches. You always see exactly which Amazon listing was treated as the closest competitor.
• TikTok evidence - lifetime units sold, price, rating, review count, shop name, revenue estimate, and a direct product link.
• Amazon evidence - number of relevant matches, biggest review moat, median price of relevant listings, price delta %, sponsored-ad share, plus the closest listing's price/reviews/rating/URL and a one-click Amazon search link.

How to use it

1. Enter 1-5 niche keywords.
2. Pick the Amazon marketplace to check against (10 marketplaces supported).
3. Click Start. A default run finishes in a few minutes.
4. Sort the Product gaps table by score, or export JSON/CSV/Excel for your product-research workflow.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
queries	-	1-5 TikTok Shop search phrases
marketplace	US	Amazon marketplace for competition checks
maxOpportunities	10	Products to analyze - you only pay for delivered rows
minSold	100	Ignore TikTok products below this lifetime sales bar
minOpportunityScore	0	Only deliver rows at or above this score
maxTikTokProducts	40	TikTok products scanned before ranking candidates
amazonResultsPerProduct	8	Amazon results inspected per product

Output example

{
    "productName": "Automatic Hair Curling Iron, 28mm Hair Curler, Negative Ion Curl Wand",
    "verdict": "emerging",
    "opportunityScore": 78,
    "grade": "B",
    "matchConfidence": "high",
    "scoreBreakdown": { "tiktokDemand": 40, "amazonOpenness": 28, "marginPotential": 10 },
    "tiktokSold": 174483,
    "tiktokPrice": 28.6,
    "tiktokRevenueEstimate": 4990214,
    "tiktokUrl": "https://shop.tiktok.com/us/pdp/...",
    "relevantMatches": 3,
    "maxMatchReviews": 478,
    "entrenchedCompetitors": 0,
    "amazonMedianPrice": 24.99,
    "priceDeltaPercent": -13,
    "topMatchName": "PretiHom Automatic Rotating Curling Iron 1.1 Inch",
    "topMatchReviews": 478,
    "topMatchUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/...",
    "amazonSearchUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/s?k=automatic%20hair%20curling%20iron%2028mm"
}

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML formats, or pull it through the API.

How much does a run cost?

Pricing is pay-per-event: you are charged only per analyzed product row that is actually delivered, plus a negligible run-start fee. Rows filtered out by your minimum score are never charged.

The two upstream Actors bill their usage separately at their own rates: the TikTok Shop scan (about $0.008 per product scanned, ~$0.32 for the default 40) and the Amazon checks (about $0.0046 per result, ~$0.37 for 10 products x 8 results). The Actor pins hard budget ceilings on both nested calls and never validates more candidates than your run budget can deliver.

Tips for better gap lists

• Scan more, analyze fewer. Raising maxTikTokProducts to 80-100 gives the ranking step more winners to choose from at small extra cost.
• Raise minSold to 1,000+ when you only want proven products with real velocity.
• wide-open verdicts deserve manual review - check the TikTok link to confirm the product type, since novel products sometimes have no lexical Amazon equivalent yet. That is exactly what makes them interesting.
• Watch priceDeltaPercent. A positive delta means Amazon buyers currently pay more than the TikTok price - margin headroom for a new listing.
• Re-run weekly per niche. TikTok Shop best-seller lists rotate fast; early emerging verdicts are the window.

Limitations and fair use

• Matching is lexical (token containment with price sanity checks), not image-based. Each listing is scored against both the derived search query and the full TikTok title, and matchConfidence tells you exactly how much to trust each comparison - every row links to the underlying TikTok and Amazon evidence for one-click verification.
• Price-gap metrics (priceDeltaPercent, margin potential) are computed only for the US marketplace, since TikTok Shop prices are in USD; on other marketplaces competition metrics still work and margin scoring stays neutral.
• TikTok sold counts are lifetime figures shown by TikTok Shop, not monthly velocity.
• Amazon competition is sampled from first-page relevance-sorted results - the practical battleground for new listings.
• The Actor reads only publicly available catalog data from both platforms. Respect each platform's terms of service in your downstream use.

Support

Found an issue or want an extra signal (sales velocity deltas, more marketplaces, category filters)? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab - feedback directly shapes the roadmap.