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Piano prices for beginners in 1405: which piano to start on
You don't need the most expensive piano to start, but the cheapest isn't always the right buy either. Using real prices from Mordad to Mehr 1405, this guide shows what a digital piano costs in each class, why weighted keys are the difference that matters most, and what a beginner should buy on each budget.
Read moreFake property ads on Divar: how to spot a lure
Of the property adverts we read one by one, about one in fourteen was posted to make you call rather than to sell the property it showed: a location that is really the agency's office, a home in another town, or a menu of dozens of files. Gheymatshenas now reads each advert's own text, shows private listings first and sinks the lures to the bottom with the reason. This guide covers what we found and how to spot one yourself.
Read moreHomemade tomato paste price in 1405: what a kilo really costs
Homemade tomato paste has no fixed price, but it does have simple arithmetic: every kilo of paste takes 5–7 kilos of tomatoes. Using real prices from Shahrivar 1405, this guide shows what homemade paste costs at minimum, why it comes out dearer than factory paste when the tomatoes are bought at retail, and how to judge a suspiciously cheap jar.
Read moreUsed Pride prices in 1405: what each model sells for
A Pride's price depends above all on its model year, yet two listings for the same year can differ by 25 to 80 percent. This guide shows the median asking price we saw in real listings in Mordad and Shahrivar 1405, model year by model year, and explains where trim, repainting, dual-fuel conversion and mileage each move the price.
Read morePrice drop alerts: know when a product gets cheaper
You found the product and you're in no rush — but nobody actually opens ten shops every morning. A price alert means naming a target once and hearing back only when the price really moves: what gets re-checked each hour, what triggers the alert, and why a 5% drop counts as news.
Read moreNine days of Poolside's free model in production
The most important decision in our product is which of twenty search results is actually the thing you asked for. We handed that decision to a free model from Poolside. In nine days it answered 151 of 151 calls, delivered 90 of 90 usable verdicts, and became the first model tried on three of our five pipelines. It also prints our internal field names in front of customers in a quarter of its answers.
Read moreA week of Hetzner's free inference in production
Last week we benchmarked Hetzner's two free Qwen models on 112 recorded searches. This time the numbers are not from a lab: they are from our own production logs. All 27 replies in the past week were valid JSON, none came back empty on a healthy input, the median call took 4 to 7 seconds, and we have never once been rate-limited — which is precisely our problem.
Read moreOnly 1.5% of Iranian shop prices say when they were set
“Today's price” is written everywhere; a date is written almost nowhere. Across 2,590 real prices read off sellers' own pages, only 40 carried a last-updated date, and only 25 shops out of 607 publish one at all. Worse: of those 40, seventeen were over a month old and the oldest was 264 days.
Read moreHow far apart are Iranian prices? A report from 470 real searches
We publish a price page for every product our users search. We counted three months of them: the dearest seller of a product is typically 3× the cheapest, and buying the cheapest trustworthy offer lands about 41% below the middle of the market. The surprise is that stationery and building materials spread wider than phones do — and the reason is the unit, not the market.
Read moreWe benchmarked Hetzner's free Qwen models on 112 real searches
Hetzner serves two open Qwen models free while its inference API is experimental. We put them against our own paid chain on the same prompt and the same 112 real Persian searches. The MoE scored 57 and beat two paid models at zero cost — and reasoning turned out to matter in exactly opposite directions for the two models.
Read moreA language model on your own laptop: can it replace the cloud?
We ran a 27-billion-parameter model on a MacBook and put it against four cloud models, on the same prompt and the same real Persian searches. With reasoning on, the local model matches the best cloud model — but each call takes 165 seconds. With reasoning off it gets 24× faster and its quality drops to that of the weakest model on the list.
Read morePrices in Iran, in your own language: how to know the real number before you pay
You are in Tehran or Mashhad, you want a phone, a fridge, a carpet — and the price tag is in Persian, in digits you cannot read. Price Finder takes your question in English or Arabic, searches Iranian shops in the words they actually print, and hands you real prices off the sellers' own pages.
Read more15 language models, two real jobs: which ones are worth it?
Every price search in our product makes two language-model calls. We benchmarked 15 models on 152 real recorded searches for both, measuring success rate, overall score and real cost. The most expensive option on the list came last on quality.
Read moreHalf the models failed our benchmark. The bug was ours.
We tested twelve LLMs on one real search and eight returned unusable output. Not because they could not do the task — because our own 512-token reply cap was being spent entirely on their reasoning, before the answer began.
Read moreToday's mobile phone prices: why they move daily and where to see the real number
There is no single phone price in Iran: storage, registry status, warranty, and the exchange rate all move it, and the best-selling models — iPhone 16 and 17 Pro, Samsung Galaxy A55, A56, and S26 Ultra — carry a fresh price every day. This guide covers which variables to hold fixed before comparing, and where to see each model's current price with a source and a date.
Read moreWhich LLM understands Persian product search best? A real benchmark
We tested five LLMs on 112 real Persian shopping queries — the ones that had actually shown users nothing. The whole benchmark cost $0.26 and the gap between models was 3×.
Read moreRegistered vs unregistered phone prices: how big is the gap?
The cheapest price you see for a phone model is usually not cheaper — it's a different good: an unregistered handset. This guide explains what registry status changes in the price, why two numbers for one model is normal, and how to make sure the number you're comparing belongs to the product you actually want.
Read moreAI price comparison: what it is and how it works
AI price comparison means asking once instead of opening dozens of sites: the AI gathers live prices from several Iranian stores and marketplaces, filters out wrong products and outlier prices, and shows the cheapest reputable seller with a source and date.
Read moreConcrete formwork hardware prices: bolts, clamps, pins & wedges, and form oil
Bolts and nuts, clamps, pins and wedges, form oil, nails — formwork consumables add up fast at project scale, and their prices move day to day with steel. This guide covers what drives each item's price, where the per-kilo vs per-piece unit traps hide, and how to price a whole consumables list quickly with a source and date on every line.
Read more5-layer, steel, and conduit pipe prices: per meter or per branch?
Every mechanical tender list carries three pipe families, each with its own pricing logic: brand sets the price of 5-layer pipe, the steel market plus schedule and wall thickness set steel pipe, and size and footage set conduit. This guide shows which unit to compare each one in, why the cheapest 5-layer brand can cost you more, and how to close the whole pipe section fast at today's prices.
Read moreWhat does mineral pumice cost today? Types, units, and why freight sets the price
Mineral pumice has no single price: almond differs from lentil grade, Qorveh from Bonab, bulk from bagged, cubic meter from ton — and freight is often the biggest slice of the delivered price. This dedicated pumice guide shows how much each variable moves the number and how to get today's delivered price for your city, with source and date.
Read moreSourcing & comparing material prices for construction tenders: the complete guide
Pricing a long, mixed construction materials list — from steel to base materials to fittings — has to be both accurate and fast. This guide shows how to get one trustworthy current price per line, with its source and date, for a construction tender, and keep stale prices out of your bid.
Read moreA guide to today's building-material prices: pumice, cement blocks, sand & stone powder
Bulk building-material prices — pumice, cement blocks, sand, and stone powder — vary sharply by region, transport, grade, and packaging, and old figures go stale fast. A guide to getting the right current price for a project buy or a tender bid.
Read moreA guide to today's construction-steel prices: rebar, I-beams, angles & channels
Construction-steel prices swing daily with the currency and the global steel market, and last week's figure is usually useless today. See why today's price matters, how size and grade (deformed/plain, A2/A3) change the price, and how to price a whole steel list for a project or tender.
Read moreToday's car prices: compare live market listings in one place
A car's real price lives in active listings, not stale tables — and the listings are scattered across several classifieds sites. Here's how Price Finder gathers them all at once and compares listings for the exact model and year.
Read moreOnline price comparison: the complete guide to comparing prices in Iran
Everything about price comparison: why the same product's price varies so much between stores, the four big traps of comparing prices online, and how — by hand or with AI — to always land on the cheapest correct price.
Read moreProduct price history: how to know if now is a good time to buy
Today's price only tells you what a product costs right now — not whether that number is high or low. Price history and charts answer that question, and Price Finder's public price pages give them to you for free.
Read moreBulk price inquiry with Excel: price dozens of items at once
When you have a list of dozens of items instead of one product, bulk price inquiry with Excel turns hours of work into minutes — upload an Excel or CSV file, or paste your list, and get a documented price report with the source and date on every row.
Read more50% off or fake? How to tell a real discount from the real price
Telling a fake discount from a real one is easier than it looks: just check the live price of the same product at several sellers. A practical guide to spotting inflated "was" prices, fake strikethroughs, and whether you overpaid.
Read moreHow to tell if a product's price is stale or current
A number can look like "today's price" yet really be stale. This guide teaches you to tell at a glance whether you're looking at a stale price or a current one — and how to judge a price's freshness from its source and date.
Read moreOnline product price inquiry: get today's price with a source and date
A guide to checking product prices online: the common methods and their problems, what a reliable price check looks like, and how AI gets you the price of one product — or a whole list — in seconds, with a source and date on every price.
Read moreWhat is "today's price" and how do you find the daily price of any product?
In a market where prices change daily — sometimes hourly — what does "today's price" mean, and how do you find the current, correct price of any product? A guide to up-to-date prices and avoiding stale ones.
Read moreWhat's the best price comparison site in Iran? A price list, or AI price comparison (2026)
There are four ways to compare prices in Iran: visiting each store, searching one marketplace, price-list sites, and AI price comparison. How they differ, the six things a good price comparison site must get right, and how Price Finder works.
Read moreMore than the cheapest price: AI that curates results like a market expert
Finding the lowest number is easy; making sure it's the right product — not an accessory or a wrong price — is the hard part. Here's how Price Finder's AI curates results like a pro buyer.
Read moreHow to find the cheapest price for any product: a smart-shopping guide
Practical tips for finding the best price — and avoiding shady sellers and misleading prices — when shopping online in Iran.
Read moreA guide to price research for tenders: bid faster and more accurately
How to price-check a tender item list quickly, compare suppliers, and submit a bid with confidence.
Read morePrice Finder is live
The first version of Price Finder is now available for comparing supplier prices on Iranian tenders.
Read moreSupplier coverage expands to new categories
We've added new suppliers in industrial electrical equipment and HVAC categories.
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