AzonPress wins on price. ProductReview wins on knowing what your content actually earns. That is the comparison in two sentences: AzonPress puts Amazon product tables on your site for about $27 a year, the lowest cost of any paid plugin in this category, while ProductReview charges $44 and pays the difference back in revenue data, link monitoring, and a setup path that works before Amazon approves your API keys.
Both are WordPress plugins that turn affiliate links into product displays with live Amazon data. The real differences show up after you hit publish: whether prices stay current, whether dead links get caught, and whether you can tell which display earned which commission. This comparison walks through pricing, displays, API setup, analytics, maintenance, and support, and each section ends with a one line verdict you can check yourself.
Key Takeaways
- Choose AzonPress if you want the lowest price in the category, you run many sites (the Agency tier covers 20 domains for about $55 a year), or you want a lifetime license so you never pay again.
- Choose ProductReview if you want clicks and revenue reported per display, broken links caught before they cost you commissions, and product boxes you can build while you wait on Amazon API approval.
- No reason to run both. They do the same core job. Pick based on what you need after publishing: nothing extra (AzonPress is fine) or measurement and maintenance (ProductReview).
Quick Comparison
| AzonPress | ProductReview | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Budget publishers and agencies | Publishers who optimize on data |
| Standout | Unlimited domains for about $111 a year | Earnings reported per display |
| Starting price | About $27 a year, 1 site | $44 a year, 1 site |
| Multi-site | About $55 for 20 sites, $111 unlimited | $89 for 5, $179 for 20, $359 unlimited |
| Lifetime license | $199 to $479 | Not offered |
| Refund window | 14 days | 30 days |
| Displays | Tables, boxes, grids, lists, bestsellers | Boxes, tables, editorial review blocks |
| Analytics | Clicks and geolocation reports | Clicks plus revenue per display |
| Link monitoring | Not built in | Daily automated scan |
| Works before API approval | Only with manual custom products | Yes, without keys |
| Beyond Amazon | eBay, Etsy, any store via custom products | Built around Amazon |
| Support | Ticket and email | Help center and tickets |
Who Is AzonPress Best For
AzonPress comes from WPManageNinja, the team behind Fluent Forms and FluentCRM, so you are buying from an established plugin shop rather than a one product startup. The plugin is table first. Product tables, comparison layouts, grids, lists, and bestseller collections all get managed in a spreadsheet style admin that is quick to learn, and everything drops into posts through Gutenberg blocks or shortcodes.
Users like how fast products go in. “Makes it easier and simple to connect with linked products,” Christa G. wrote in a G2 review, though her one complaint applies to anyone considering it: there is no free trial, only a refund window.
The zero API custom products feature is the sleeper advantage. You can enter products from eBay, Etsy, or any store by hand and drop them into the same tables. If your site mixes Amazon with other retailers and you want one table builder for everything at the lowest possible cost, AzonPress is a sensible pick.
Who Is ProductReview Best For
ProductReview is the affiliate product manager for WordPress. Same category, different center of gravity: it treats displays as things to measure and maintain, not just publish. Boxes report their own performance, links get checked while you sleep, and product data keeps itself current.
It costs more at entry, $44 a year against about $27. That gap is real and worth saying plainly. The case for paying it is that one dead link on a money page, or one underperforming layout you never noticed, costs more than $17 a year. You cannot fix what you cannot see, and seeing is the part AzonPress mostly leaves out.
Ask yourself what your questions sound like these days. If it is “how do I get a table on this page”, either plugin answers it. If it is “which of my fifty review posts earns the most per visitor”, you are the ProductReview buyer. Here is how that plays out, section by section.
Price and What You Actually Pay
Price is the argument for AzonPress, so here are the current numbers, checked on the official AzonPress site the day this was written.
One framing note first. The AzonPress pricing page displays monthly figures like $2.27 a month, but every plan bills once a year. The actual charges are about $27, $55, and $111 per year. Budget for the annual hit, not the coffee money number.
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| Coverage | AzonPress Annual | AzonPress Lifetime | ProductReview Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 site | About $27 | $199 | $44 |
| 5 sites | Covered by the 20 site tier | Covered by the 20 site tier | $89 |
| 20 sites | About $55 | $319 | $179 |
| Unlimited sites | About $111 | $479 | $359 |
| Refund window | 14 days | 14 days | 30 days |
The per site math at scale is brutal for everyone else in the category. Twenty sites on AzonPress works out to about $2.75 per site per year. ProductReview’s 20 site tier runs $8.95 per site. For pure display work across a big portfolio, AzonPress is the value play, and pretending otherwise would insult your ability to divide.
The lifetime deals deserve their own math, because nobody publishes it. The single site lifetime license costs $199, which is more than seven years of the roughly $27 annual plan. The unlimited lifetime at $479 breaks even against its annual plan in a little over four years. So the bigger the tier, the better lifetime gets, and on a single site it is hard to justify. Would you prepay seven years for any plugin today?
For category context, the incumbent AAWP starts at €79 a year (about $90) for one site. Euro figures here are converted at the current exchange rate, so treat the dollar amounts as estimates. Against that backdrop, both plugins in this comparison are on the cheap end of the market.
Verdict: AzonPress wins on price at every tier, and it is not close.
Product Displays and Editorial Blocks
Both plugins cover the standard display set. AzonPress ships product tables, comparison layouts, grids, lists, widgets, and bestseller collections, with column controls and custom CSS when you want to restyle them. For sites built around “current prices for these 10 things” content, that toolkit is complete.
[EDITOR: screenshot of a published AzonPress comparison table on a live site, front end view; File: azonpress-comparison-table.png]
ProductReview covers the same table ground and then goes after the review article itself. The product box library keeps reusable presets, comparison tables handle the roundup grid, and the editorial set adds pros and cons blocks, star ratings with review schema for rich results, a top pick badge for your winner, coupon boxes, and CTA button blocks. That is furniture for verdict driven content, not just price lists.
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Which style matches your content? If your posts end with “here is the table, you decide”, AzonPress has everything you need. If they end with a scored verdict and a recommended pick, the editorial blocks earn their keep on every post.
One concession the other direction: AzonPress handles eBay and Etsy products through manual custom products, while ProductReview is built around Amazon. If multi-store tables are core to your site, weigh that heavily.
Verdict: even on tables, ProductReview ahead for review content, AzonPress ahead for non-Amazon stores.
Amazon Data and API Setup
Both plugins pull live Amazon data through PA-API 5, Amazon’s product advertising interface. The catch that rarely makes the sales page: Amazon does not hand out API keys at signup. You need an Associates account with qualifying sales first, and low earning accounts get throttled to a trickle of requests. AzonPress’s own documentation includes a troubleshooting guide for “Request Throttled” errors for exactly this reason, and the RebelLink review is blunt about the dependency: you cannot use the plugin’s Amazon features without the API.
That makes the first weeks the real differentiator. A brand new affiliate cannot show live Amazon data in either plugin until Amazon says yes. ProductReview works around the wait with no-key product images, so you can build complete boxes with real product photos and your affiliate links before approval, then flip on live data later. You can see how that no-key output looks with the free product preview tool before installing anything.
Once keys are active, the two are closer. Prices and stock status refresh automatically in ProductReview, and AzonPress keeps its tables current through the same API. Both offer geotargeting to route international readers to their local Amazon store. Parity is the fair word here.
Verdict: even after API approval, ProductReview clearly ahead in the weeks before it.
Analytics and Revenue Tracking
AzonPress ships a reporting dashboard with click tracking and geolocation reports, which is more than most budget plugins bother with. You can see which links get clicked and where readers come from.
What it does not do is connect clicks to money. The StyleMyWP review, which scores AzonPress a friendly 4.6 out of 5, still lists limited advanced analytics among its cons. A click count without earnings attached tells you what is popular, not what is profitable, and those are different lists more often than you would expect.
ProductReview closes that loop. First-party click analytics show performance per box and per page, and revenue tracking ties your Amazon earnings back to the displays that generated them. The outcome is a ranked answer to the only question that matters: which content pays the bills. When you find a page where clicks are high and earnings are low, you have found a fixable problem worth real money.
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If measurement is the deciding factor for you, the 30 day refund window is long enough to test this on your own traffic before committing for the year.
Verdict: ProductReview by a wide margin, and it is the main thing the extra $17 buys.
Link Health and Maintenance
Affiliate links rot quietly. Products get discontinued, listings move, and a link that earned for months starts sending readers to a 404 without telling you. On a site with a few hundred links, some of them are broken right now. The only question is whether anything is watching.
AzonPress does not have a link scanner. Its API connection keeps product data fresh on displayed items, which softens the problem for API-backed tables, but manually entered custom products and plain links have no safety net at all.
ProductReview runs a daily link-health scan that flags broken links, missing affiliate tags, and out-of-stock products across the whole site, so the fix happens before the traffic is wasted. If you pick AzonPress anyway, do this much: run your site through the free link and tag checker now and then, because an Amazon link with a missing tag earns exactly nothing and looks identical to one that works.
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Verdict: ProductReview wins by default, because AzonPress does not enter this event.
Support and Documentation
AzonPress support runs through tickets and email, with no live chat, a limitation independent reviewers bring up regularly. The AzonPress documentation is solid, though: organized guides for API setup, tables, templates, geo settings, reports, and a maintained changelog. There is also comfort in the company behind it. WPManageNinja supports several widely used plugins, so AzonPress is unlikely to be abandoned.
ProductReview’s answer is a help center with around 30 tutorials covering setup through advanced workflows, plus ticket support. The tutorial library is purpose built for affiliate publishers, so most answers are a search away rather than a ticket away.
Verdict: roughly even, with AzonPress backed by a bigger company and ProductReview backed by deeper self-serve docs.
How We Compared
We build ProductReview, so read this the way you would read any vendor’s comparison: skeptically, with the sources open in another tab. Here is the method. Every price was verified on the official sites the day this article was written. We read both products’ documentation, pulled user sentiment from G2 and independent reviewers and linked the evidence where it is quoted, and judged both plugins on four jobs: build displays, keep data current, measure earnings, and maintain links. Where AzonPress wins, we said so plainly. It wins on price, on non-Amazon coverage, and on lifetime licensing, and no verdict in this article requires you to take our word over the linked evidence.
Run Your Own 14 Day Test
Fourteen days, because that is AzonPress’s refund window, and ProductReview’s 30 day window covers the same span with room to spare. You can settle this comparison on your own traffic without risking a dollar.
- Pick five money pages with steady traffic and existing affiliate links.
- Record a baseline first: pull the last two weeks of clicks and earnings for those pages from your Amazon Associates reports.
- Install one plugin and rebuild the displays on those five pages. Change nothing else, no new copy, no layout changes, so the plugin is the only variable.
- Let it run the full 14 days, then compare clicks and earnings per page against your baseline.
- Price the result. The free commission calculator tells you how much monthly affiliate revenue covers a license, and the answer is usually smaller than you think.
- Keep whichever plugin beat your baseline. Refund whichever did not, inside its window.
How to Choose
Six questions get you to the right answer faster than any feature grid.
- How many sites do you run? Past five sites on a pure budget basis, AzonPress’s Agency tier is the best deal in the category.
- Do you have Amazon API keys yet? If not, ProductReview is the only one of the two that is fully useful while you wait.
- Do you need to know what each display earns? If yes, this comparison is already over.
- Do your tables include eBay, Etsy, or other stores? That points to AzonPress.
- Are you coming from AAWP? ProductReview imports AAWP shortcodes, which turns a migration from a rebuild into a cleanup. Our comparison with AAWP covers that switch in detail.
- Do you manage displays at scale or with AI tools? ProductReview supports MCP, so an AI assistant can create and update boxes for you. AzonPress has nothing comparable.
Final Verdict
AzonPress is the right buy for two kinds of publishers: the beginner who needs the cheapest legitimate way to put Amazon tables on one site, and the portfolio owner who needs displays across 20 or more sites and nothing else. It is honest software at a fair price from a stable company.
ProductReview is the right buy once your site is a business. The moment you care which pages earn, whether links still work, and how fast you can go from idea to published box, the $44 plan is the cheaper option in every way that counts, because it replaces guesswork with numbers. Start with your five best pages, watch what the data tells you inside the refund window, and let your own earnings make the call: productreview.tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is AzonPress a one time purchase?
It can be. AzonPress sells lifetime licenses at $199, $319, and $479 for 1, 20, and unlimited domains, alongside annual plans at about $27, $55, and $111 a year. The lifetime option only pays off if you keep it for years, roughly seven on the single site tier.
Does AzonPress require the Amazon API?
Yes, for live Amazon product data you need Product Advertising API keys, which Amazon only grants to Associates accounts with qualifying sales. Without keys you can still add custom products manually, but nothing updates automatically.
Does AzonPress have a free version or trial?
No. There is no free tier and no trial, only a 14 day money back guarantee, so any testing has to happen inside that window after purchase.
Can AzonPress show products from eBay or Etsy?
Yes, through its custom products feature. You enter the product details and link by hand, and the item appears in the same tables and boxes as Amazon products. There is no live data connection for those stores, so prices you type are prices you maintain.
Which is cheaper, ProductReview or AzonPress?
AzonPress is cheaper at every tier, from about $27 against $44 on one site to about $111 against $359 for unlimited sites. ProductReview’s counterargument is not price, it is that the license includes earnings tracking and link monitoring that AzonPress does not offer at any price.
Can I switch from AzonPress to ProductReview later?
Yes, but plan for a rebuild. ProductReview has no AzonPress importer, so existing AzonPress shortcodes need replacing by hand. Start with your highest earning pages, replace displays as you update each post, and let the long tail follow over time.
What happens when an AzonPress annual license expires?
The plugin keeps running, but updates and support stop until you renew. Lifetime licenses include updates and support permanently, which is the main thing the higher upfront price buys.
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