BlackCurve vs PriceBeam

BlackCurve is pricing software for retailers that need to monitor competitors and make pricing decisions. Its Tracker edition gathers competitor prices from Google Shopping every day throughout the year and presents insights in dashboards and reports. New products can be matched automatically to competitor products, while users can add Google Shopping pages as alternative matches. Reports are available as dashboards or spreadsheets, on demand or on a schedule. For automated pricing, the Shopify app supports dynamic rules with safeguards and lets retailers schedule price updates. The Commander edition can use sales history, stock levels, and marketing performance as pricing inputs. Integrations include BigCommerce, PrestaShop, Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, eBay, and other listed services; data can also move through a RESTful API, dedicated integrations, or SFTP. Team, Professional, and Enterprise plans are listed at £199 a year, £699 a year, and £1,300 a year, respectively. Monthly billing is available by contacting BlackCurve. The 30-day trial provides the full Enterprise plan, but new customers must purchase setup services.

PriceBeam’s RGM360 is a SaaS revenue growth management platform for combining market research, internal data, AI, and pricing simulations. Its market insights address willingness to pay, competitor price positioning, packaging and assortment, promotional benchmarks, and new-product pricing. Research options include Choice-Based Conjoint, MaxDiff, Gabor-Granger, and Newton-Smith methods, alongside AI. Predictive Research covers willingness-to-pay, comparative willingness-to-pay, assortment, value attributes, menu-based conjoint, and promotion studies. The RGM Optimizer & Simulator models market scenarios and can optimize pricing, assortment, and promotional strategies using Predictive Research or RGM Data Lake data. Data Lake imports vary by plan and can use Excel, an API, or an OData Endpoint; reports can be exported to Excel or PowerPoint, with OData export on higher tiers. PriceBeam says research is available in 127 countries and every project includes human quality control. The service has web and API access, a free trial for draft projects and demo scenarios, and no free plan. RGM Data Lake Individual costs $995 a month; other listed plan prices require contacting sales.