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You can use theprice competitivenessreport to learn how other retailers are pricing the same products that you sell. You can use this information when you're pricing your products or bidding on ads.
Your account must meet minimum eligibility requirements, and you must ensure that your use, or any third party's use, of Market Insights data exported from your Merchant Center account complies with theMerchant Center terms and conditions.
Here's a sample you can use to view price competitiveness data. To make the request, pass the following Merchant Center Query Language statement to thereports.searchmethod:
ClickRunto try the sample in theAPI Explorer. After you clickRun, update the merchant ID placeholder to your own merchant ID in the
request URL. You can modify the query. The full query must remain on one line to
work with theAPI explorer.
Here's a sample response from the preceding query:
{"results":[{"productView":{"id":"online:en:US:12345","title":"UGG Women's s Classic Mini","brand":"UGG","priceMicros":"124990000""currencyCode":"USD"}"priceCompetitiveness":{"countryCode":"US","benchmarkPriceMicros":"119922291","benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode":"USD"}},{"productView":{"id":"online:en:US:12346","title":"Nike React Infinity Run Flyknit 2","brand":"Nike","priceMicros":"119990000""currencyCode":"USD"}"priceCompetitiveness":{"countryCode":"US","benchmarkPriceMicros":"173436840","benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode":"USD"}},{"productView":{"id":"online:en:US:12347","title":"New Balance 327 White Trainers","brand":"New Balance","priceMicros":"84990000""currencyCode":"USD"}"priceCompetitiveness":{"countryCode":"US","benchmarkPriceMicros":"85459050","benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode":"USD"}}]}
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Users can access the price competitiveness report to view how other retailers price the same products. To use this data, accounts must meet eligibility requirements and comply with Merchant Center terms. Data is accessed by querying `PriceCompetitivenessProductView` via the `reports.search` method, as shown in the provided sample, and can be run on the API explorer. The sample response displays price and product comparison.\n"],null,["# Price products competitively\n\nYou can use the [price competitiveness](//support.google.com/merchants/answer/9626903) report to learn how other retailers are pricing the same products that you sell. You can use this information when you're pricing your products or bidding on ads.\n\nSee [About the price competitiveness\nreport](//support.google.com/merchants/answer/9626903) for more information.\n\n\nYour account must meet minimum eligibility requirements, and you must ensure that your use, or any third party's use, of Market Insights data exported from your Merchant Center account complies with the [Merchant Center terms and conditions](//support.google.com/merchants/answer/160173).\n\nQuery\n[`PriceCompetitivenessProductView`](/shopping-content/guides/reports/fields#pricecompetitivenessproductview) to learn how other retailers are pricing the same products that you sell.\n\nHere's a sample you can use to view price competitiveness data. To make the request, pass the following Merchant Center Query Language statement to the [`reports.search`](/shopping-content/reference/rest/v2.1/reports/search) method: \n\n SELECT\n product_view.id, product_view.title, product_view.brand,\n product_view.price_micros, product_view.currency_code,\n price_competitiveness.country_code,\n price_competitiveness.benchmark_price_micros,\n price_competitiveness.benchmark_price_currency_code\n FROM PriceCompetitivenessProductView\n\n[Run](https://developers.google.com/shopping-content/reference/rest/v2.1/reports/search?apix=true&apix_params=%7B%22merchantId%22%3A0%2C%22resource%22%3A%7B%22query%22%3A%22SELECT%20%20product_view.id%2C%20product_view.title%2C%20product_view.brand%2C%20%20product_view.price_micros%2C%20product_view.currency_code%2C%20%20price_competitiveness.country_code%2C%20%20price_competitiveness.benchmark_price_micros%2C%20%20price_competitiveness.benchmark_price_currency_code%20FROM%20PriceCompetitivenessProductView%22%7D%7D)\n\nClick **Run** to try the sample in the **API Explorer** . After you click\n**Run** , update the merchant ID placeholder to your own merchant ID in the\nrequest URL. You can modify the query. The full query must remain on one line to\nwork with the **API explorer**.\n\nHere's a sample response from the preceding query: \n\n {\n \"results\": [\n {\n \"productView\": {\n \"id\": \"online:en:US:12345\",\n \"title\": \"UGG Women's s Classic Mini\",\n \"brand\": \"UGG\",\n \"priceMicros\": \"124990000\"\n \"currencyCode\": \"USD\"\n }\n \"priceCompetitiveness\": {\n \"countryCode\": \"US\",\n \"benchmarkPriceMicros\": \"119922291\",\n \"benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode\": \"USD\"\n }\n },\n {\n \"productView\": {\n \"id\": \"online:en:US:12346\",\n \"title\": \"Nike React Infinity Run Flyknit 2\",\n \"brand\": \"Nike\",\n \"priceMicros\": \"119990000\"\n \"currencyCode\": \"USD\"\n }\n \"priceCompetitiveness\": {\n \"countryCode\": \"US\",\n \"benchmarkPriceMicros\": \"173436840\",\n \"benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode\": \"USD\"\n }\n },\n {\n \"productView\": {\n \"id\": \"online:en:US:12347\",\n \"title\": \"New Balance 327 White Trainers\",\n \"brand\": \"New Balance\",\n \"priceMicros\": \"84990000\"\n \"currencyCode\": \"USD\"\n }\n \"priceCompetitiveness\": {\n \"countryCode\": \"US\",\n \"benchmarkPriceMicros\": \"85459050\",\n \"benchmarkPriceCurrencyCode\": \"USD\"\n }\n }\n ]\n }"]]
