How to Automate SaaS Competitive Pricing Analysis with a No-Code n8n Workflow

You make strategic decisions based on market data, yet competitor pricing often feels like a moving target.

One week, your tiered plans look competitive; the next, a rival quietly launches a new package or changes their feature limits. By the time you notice, they’ve already pulled ahead in conversations with your prospects.

For most teams, keeping tabs on this is a blend of browser tabs, scattered spreadsheets, and someone’s Friday afternoon sacrificed to “just a quick check.” It’s slow, inconsistent, and rarely catches the changes when they actually happen.

The Smarter Way: Automating the Process with n8n + a Pricing Extraction API

Instead of building custom scrapers for every site, you can use a dedicated pricing extraction API to pull structured data directly from competitor pages. Tools like the Product Price Extractor API on RapidAPI simplify the process just pass a URL and get clean JSON with plan names, prices, features, and billing cycles.

By pairing this with n8n’s no-code workflow builder, you can create an automated system that:

• Checks competitor sites on a schedule.

• Extracts pricing and feature data.

• Stores it in Google Sheets, Airtable, Google sheets or a database for ongoing analysis.

Automated, accurate competitor pricing - delivered to your dashboard without manual effort.

Who Will Benefit from This Setup

• SaaS Founders: Stay informed to make proactive pricing decisions.

• Product Managers: Monitor competitor feature changes alongside pricing.

• Marketing Teams: Align campaigns with current market positioning.

• Sales Leaders: Equip teams with fresh competitor insights.

• Data Analysts: Focus on analysis instead of manual data collection.

Where You Can Put It to Work

• SaaS: Watch subscription tier changes.

• E-commerce: Track rival product price drops.

• Agencies: Monitor client competitors for insights.

• Market Research: Feed live data into competitive analysis.

Why Use a Dedicated Pricing API

Parsing pricing pages manually is slow, and building scrapers is brittle, they break when a site layout changes. A dedicated pricing API solves that by:

• Returning structured, ready-to-use data.

• Working across multiple pricing formats.

• Reducing setup time to minutes, not days.

The Product Price Extractor API on RapidAPI is one such option that integrates easily into workflows like the one below.

Getting Started in Under an Hour

You can set this up quickly using n8n and a pricing extraction API:

1. Sign up for n8n

   Open the workflow editor to start building.

2. Get Your API Key

   Subscribe to the FREE plan of Product Price Extractor API on RapidAPI and copy your key.

3. Add Your Competitor List

   Store URLs in a Google Sheet - this becomes your master list.

   

Note: How some of them don’t have the URLs, the names should be good enough in this case

4. Build the workflow

   1. Cron node to schedule daily runs.

   2. Google Sheets Read node to pull URLs

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  3. HTTP Request node to fetch pricing data from the API

Do that using “Import from curl” -

•   curl --request POST \
        --url https://product-pricing-extractor.p.rapidapi.com/pricing \
        --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        --header 'x-rapidapi-host: product-pricing-extractor.p.rapidapi.com' \
        --header 'x-rapidapi-key: {rapid_api_key}' \
        --data '{"search_term":"https://notion.so"}'
  

  

  Replace the search_term with the name and URL

  4. Add a “Split out” node to split data.plans so, each plan is a new row in the sheet

5. Google Sheets Append node to store results. The node should look like this, to populate the “Pricing Sheet”

5. Activate and Monitor

   Let the workflow run automatically, keeping your sheet updated.

Results

All the pricing data is structured and stored into the google sheet for monitoring and further analysis!

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Optional Enhancements

• Include feature descriptions for richer insights.

• Capture historical data for trend analysis.

• Integrate with BI tools for dashboards.

• Add currency conversion for global tracking.

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Best Practices

• Start with a small set of competitors before scaling.

• Choose a sensible schedule on a weekly/monthly

• Secure API credentials in n8n’s credential manager.

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Final Takeaway

Competitor pricing changes can happen anytime—automation ensures you never miss them. By combining n8n with a pricing extraction API like the Product Price Extractor API, you can have accurate, up-to-date market intelligence without the manual effort.

👉 Explore the Product Price Extractor API on RapidAPI and start building your own automated pricing tracker today.