ScrapeMonk Commodity

The market forces behind your costs — tracked, clean, and ready to use.

Your eyes on the cost curve.

Every public index that moves your costs — energy, metals, polymers, steel, freight, currencies, inflation — in one place. Decades of clean history, the world events that moved each one, and your own licensed data right alongside.

Built on authoritative public data — plus your own licensed sources
Eurostat OECD IMF World Bank US federal statistics + Your licensed data
The problem

Your costs move with markets you don't control.

And the data to see it clearly is scattered across expensive terminals, analyst PDFs, and spreadsheets that are stale by the time they reach you. So price changes get justified on gut feel or last quarter's numbers — and nobody can point to which index actually drove the move.

Who it's for

Teams whose margins live and die by input costs.

You'll recognise yourself if you…

Cost-exposed

Have costs tied to raw materials, energy, or exchange rates.

Justify price changes

Lean on commodity indices to defend pricing to customers or management.

Assemble data by hand

Stitch together numbers from multiple sources every month.

Want the real drivers

Need to see which cost drivers actually move your prices — and by how much.

Feed models

Need clean, long-history series for pricing and forecasting.

Typical users

Pricing, procurement, category management, finance/FP&A and commercial teams — in manufacturing, distribution, packaging and processing.

What it does

Six things, in plain terms.

Tracks any public index

Drawn from multiple authoritative public sources, across ten categories: energy, metals, polymers, steel, packaging, transport, agriculture, currencies and economic indicators.

Direct vs. contextual

The indices in your bill of materials versus the forces around it — FX, inflation, freight — always shown apart.

Long, clean history

Gap-filled and normalised, stretching back decades — so trends and models have real depth to work with.

Events behind the moves

Overlays conflicts, tariffs, weather, pandemics and shocks — and measures each one's impact on your indices.

Seasonality

Year-over-year overlays, monthly averages and the underlying pattern — so you can time buying and set budgets.

Bends to your view

Raw or rebased to 100, combined or split charts, custom dashboards you save and share, one-click clean export — and your own licensed data imported alongside.

The market picture that used to take an analyst a week — in a dashboard you build in minutes.

Typical use case

From scattered numbers to a defensible price.

A packaging manufacturer needs to defend a price increase to a key account — and to know when to buy steel and resin.

Today that means pulling numbers from three terminals and a stack of PDFs, then rebuilding it all next quarter.

With ScrapeMonk Commodity, they build one dashboard of their inputs and the drivers around them, see exactly how the last tariff round and winter freeze moved cold-rolled steel and polyethylene, and export the clean series straight into their pricing model.

What it replaces

The clean market-data foundation underneath your pricing.

Today
  • Expensive market-data terminals, priced per seat
  • Manual spreadsheets stitched from scattered sources
  • One-off analyst pulls and static PDF reports
  • Guesswork about which driver moved a price
With ScrapeMonk Commodity
  • The commodity & macro series most teams actually use — without the terminal price tag
  • Every source pulled together into one clean, current feed
  • Always up to date, export anytime
  • Every move tied to the event and index that caused it

It turns "the market moved" into "here's what moved, by how much, and why."

Where it fits

Clean data is only useful if it flows.

Export model-ready CSVs and feed them directly into PriceMonk for pricing and financial analysis — or into your own tools, BI and models. Part of the MonkSuite, with no lock-in.

ScrapeMonk Commodity
PriceMonk
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Your own tools & BI
Pricing

Simple, scaled to what you track.

Draft — final pricing TBC

A straightforward subscription scaled to the indices and history depth you need — with your own licensed data included at no extra data cost. You supply the licence; we handle the ingestion.

ISO 27001
GDPR compliant
Processed in the EU
Encrypted in transit & at rest
No lock-in — export anytime

Every public index is sourced for commercial use; your own licensed data stays under your terms.

Behind it

Built by TopMonks.

20+ years of hands-on data and engineering work behind it. The philosophy is the same across the MonkSuite: clean, reliable, decision-ready data beats a dashboard full of numbers nobody trusts.

Tell us what you're tracking.

Send us your key cost drivers and we'll show you the dashboard we'd build. No commitment.