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ShopVision vs Crayon
Crayon captures competitor signals for B2B product marketing teams. ShopVision tracks competitor pricing, assortment, marketing, and MAP compliance for brands and retailers. Same category name, different job.
Same category name, different job.
Crayon is a competitive enablement platform for B2B software companies, built around broad signal capture: website changes, news, hiring trends, executive moves, and social activity, organized for a product marketing or competitive intelligence owner and published out to sales. ShopVision tracks what competitors do in market: price changes, promotions, advertising creative, assortment shifts, and MAP violations across retailers and marketplaces, matched at SKU level. Both get filed under competitive intelligence. They answer different questions for different teams.
How we compare
Feature
ShopVision
Crayon
Competitor website and messaging change tracking
Alerting into Slack and Microsoft Teams
Competitor advertising and campaign creative
Competitor price and promotion monitoring
Assortment and catalog tracking
MAP compliance and unauthorized seller detection
SKU-level product matching
Battlecards and sales enablement workflow
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What sets ShopVision apart
ShopVision and Crayon are rarely a straight swap. The question is which signals you need, and which team is going to act on them.
300,000+ brands and retailers tracked daily
Apparel, Consumer Goods, Beauty, Health, Jewelry, Supplements, Home Goods, Outdoor, and much more.
Adidas
Sephora
Amazon
Walmart
Target
Home Depot
Lululemon
Nordstrom
Patagonia
Victoria's Secret
Puma
Prada US
REI
Zara
J.Crew
Madewell
ASICS
Under Armour
Fashion Nova
Levi's
Bath & Body Works
Fossil
Vans
The North Face
Kate Spade
Dillard's
New Balance
Mejuri
Skechers
Herman Miller
Staples
Anthropologie
Allbirds
Glossier
Columbia
Reebok
Aritzia
Arc'teryx
Macy's
Bloomingdale's
Everlane
Banana Republic
Gap
Bonobos
Faherty
Outdoor Voices
Crate & Barrel
These are the questions we hear most often from teams comparing ShopVision and Crayon.
Are ShopVision and Crayon competitors?
Rarely in the same deal. Both appear in competitive intelligence roundups, which is why they get compared, but Crayon is built for B2B software product marketing and sales enablement, and ShopVision is built for brands and retailers who need to see pricing, assortment, promotion, and channel activity in their market.
Does Crayon track retail pricing and assortment?
Crayon captures a broad stream of competitor signals including website changes, so published price changes can surface there. It is not built for SKU-level price monitoring across retailers and marketplaces, and it does not cover assortment tracking or MAP compliance.
Which one do we need?
If a product marketing team needs to track a set of named software competitors and arm sales with that intel, that is Crayon. If a pricing, merchandising, or channel team needs to know what competitors charged, launched, promoted, or advertised this week, that is ShopVision.
Can we use both?
Yes. They serve different teams and the data does not overlap, so there is no duplicated spend. That is a common setup for companies with both a software business and a retail or wholesale channel.
How is ShopVision priced compared to Crayon?
ShopVision publishes its pricing and sells each of its four products independently, with a free trial on Marketing Intelligence. Crayon is sold enterprise on an annual contract, quote only, with no self-serve option.
Does ShopVision replace a competitive intelligence program?
It replaces the market-facing half of one. ShopVision covers what competitors are doing commercially, with the analysis done and the move recommended. It does not produce battlecards, win/loss programs, or sales enablement workflow, and it is not trying to.