Antares or FactFinder?
These two products are not in the same league, and that is not false modesty. FactFinder is an enterprise product sold as a project. Antares is a subscription you put live yourself in ten minutes. Which one is right is decided by your organisation, not by a feature list.
Short version: if you have a merchandising team, a tender process and a five-figure annual budget, take the enterprise route. If nobody between 1,000 and 100,000 products works on search full time, we are the more realistic answer.
What FactFinder does well
Depth that comes from years
FactFinder has worked on search and merchandising for large retailers for a long time. If you arrive with very specific requirements, the odds are good that they already have an answer — with us it might be a line on the roadmap.
Guidance instead of self-service
Project business means there are people who set the search up with you, tune it and look after it for years. For a company with its own merchandising team that is an advantage, not a drawback. Our model assumes you want to do it yourself.
References at your size
If you have half a million items, several countries and SLAs with penalties, you will find references there that we do not have today. We are new, and our largest package stops at 150,000 products — better said now than in a kick-off.
Where Antares differs
- A price instead of a quote
- €49 · €99 · €299 a month, there to read on the pricing page before you speak to anyone. You try it for 30 days, and only then does it become a question whether anybody phones at all.
- Ten minutes instead of a project
- Install the plugin, connect your shop with one click, watch the catalogue read in, pick a layout, publish. No agency needed, no integration project, and your existing search stays underneath in case we go down.
- Margin as a slider, not as a consulting deliverable
- Six sliders in the panel, with a live list underneath showing which products move. Publishing is one click and so is rolling back — no ticket, no appointment.
Side by side
| Question | Antares | FactFinder |
|---|---|---|
| How is it sold? | Self-service. 30 days to try it without a card, subscription in the panel, cancellation in the panel too. | Enterprise project business with a quote and an implementation project. |
| What does it cost to start? | €49 a month for the smallest package, €99 for the one this page is about. No quote, no implementation phase. | Four to five figures a year, depending on scope.not confirmed |
| How large can the catalogue be? | Up to 150,000 products on the largest package. Above that, talk to us before you buy. | Designed for large catalogues; limits are a matter of negotiation. |
| Can I have results ordered by contribution margin? | Yes, from Pro. Six sliders, and a before/after list shows which products move before you publish. | Ask the vendor. We know of no second product in this price class that lets margin decide the order of the results. |
| Where does the data live? | Germany, on servers we own. Neither your product data nor your customers' searches leave those servers. | Ask the vendor — we will not repeat a claim we have not checked. |
| How fast are you live? | Ten minutes on average, without an agency. The home page breaks those ten minutes into the steps they are made of. | An implementation project with a schedule; duration depends on scope. |
FactFinder details from publicly available sources, as our research had them in August 2026, not confirmed by the vendor. Enterprise pricing is negotiated and differs case by case.
When you should not switch
Stay with an enterprise solution if you have a team running search full time, if procurement goes through a tender, if you need SLAs with penalties, or if your catalogue runs well past 150,000 items. In all of those cases we would be the wrong tool and a switch would cost more than it saves.
How a switch works
In parallel and with no cut-over date. Antares reads your catalogue in while FactFinder keeps running; the change only becomes visible when you publish in the panel. Bring synonyms and redirects along as CSV. It is worth starting with one sales channel — the smallest shop, or B2C — so you can compare before you move everything.
See the numbers before you pay.
30 days on the full Pro package, no credit card. After a month you get an email with your real figures: searches, conversion, revenue from search. Then you decide.
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