Cashback Monitor alternative: is today's rate good?

Looking for a Cashback Monitor alternative? If you're into shopping portals, you already know Cashback Monitor. It's the OG: type a store, see its rate across dozens of portals, side by side. It's genuinely useful, it's fast, and it's been the default for years. We use it too.

So why build something else? Because a comparison table answers one question, what's the rate right now?, and we kept wanting the answer to a second one: is that rate any good?

What Cashback Monitor does well

Credit where it's due. Cashback Monitor's core table is excellent: broad portal coverage, a clean side-by-side, and it's been reliable for a long time. If all you need is "who pays the most for this store today," it delivers, and you don't need anything fancier.

Where a Cashback Monitor alternative picks up

What a live table can't tell you is whether today's number is high, low, or average for that store. A store showing 6% might be having its best week of the year or its worst, and the table looks identical either way.

That's the gap this site is built around:

• A record of what "typical" looks like. Because the rates are tracked over time, "typical" is a measured range, not a guess.
• A rate highs page. One place to see every store sitting at an unusually high rate right now, the closest thing to a "buy this week" list.
• A verdict, not just a number. Each store with enough history gets one sentence on whether the current rate beats its own history (how we work that out):

Here's what that record actually looks like for one store. Home Depot on Active Junky went from 6% to 12% in July, dropped to 1% in early August, and was back at 8% by August 12. The chart keeps recording after that, so later swings show too:

A live table would have shown you one number and nothing before it. The chart is why "is this rate good?" has an answer: it shows where today's number sits against the store's own past rates.

Neither tool replaces the other. A live table is great for a quick check. A history is what tells you whether to pull the trigger or wait.

The catch

We'll be straight about the trade-off: on portal count, Cashback Monitor and CheckBeforeYouShop are basically tied today: Cashback Monitor's own homepage lists 42, and we track 44. On stores, we've actually got more: Cashback Monitor's homepage says 15,000+, and we track 49,135. Where it still wins is tenure. Cashback Monitor has been recording rates for years; our own history starts in July 2026, so a "typical" range here is a young picture that is still filling in, not a deep one yet. If you want a decade of data behind a number, that's the reason to keep Cashback Monitor open in another tab. If you want to know whether today's rate is actually good, the story behind this site explains why we built it.

Try it on a store you actually shop: every store we track has a page with what each portal pays, plus a verdict wherever there is enough history to make one (here's how that call gets made). Compare that store page to what Cashback Monitor shows you, and see which question you care about more. For the wider ranking of which portals pay best overall, see the best cashback portals in 2026.