African market intelligence
prices, shortages, and market signals
Merkafri unifies crawled public sources, official indices, and community observations — then layers AI briefs, anomaly detection, and probabilistic forecasts. Angola first; built to scale across the continent.
Luanda·Cooking oil (1L)·1,470 AOA·↑18% this week
Angola live — essential markets tracked
Fuel, food, cement, FX — normalized and charted.
Launch coverage roadmap · Angola live first
From noise to signal
Three slices of the platform: clean data in, decisions out, APIs for builders.
Ingestion & quality
Every source — scrapers, PDFs, community rows — normalized into one clean time-series you can trust.
Dashboards & exports
Country and product views with full history, regional comparisons, and one-click CSV for your workflow.
AI + API surface
Weekly AI briefs, anomaly flags, and probabilistic forecasts — plus a tiered API for teams building on the data.
How it works
From fragmented prices to a single intelligence layer — built for operational decisions, not slides.
Collect
Scrapers, official bulletins, retail listings, and community submissions flow through validation, deduplication, and normalization.
Enrich
Confidence scores, FX normalization to USD, and contributor trust turn noisy observations into comparable time series.
Intelligence
Weekly AI briefs, anomaly detection, and Prophet-based forecasts — with honest confidence labels in the product UI.
Who is it for?
From sole traders to banks — if you move goods or money against African prices, Merkafri is your shared reference layer.
What should we ship next month — and what price band should we expect at the wharf?
Which SKU is about to squeeze margin in Luanda vs Huambo?
Where is demand stacking up so we can route capacity before the rush?
What commodity-linked exposure should we price into trade finance?
Can we get machine-readable history for board-ready reviews?
Where is the citable, structured African market series we can chart?
Which anomalies look like shortage signals instead of noise?
How do we time programs when official indices arrive six weeks late?
What should we ship next month — and what price band should we expect at the wharf?
Which SKU is about to squeeze margin in Luanda vs Huambo?
When do input costs and offtake prices tell us to hedge or scale storage?
What commodity-linked exposure should we price into trade finance?
Can we get machine-readable history for board-ready reviews?
Where is the citable, structured African market series we can chart?
Which anomalies look like shortage signals instead of noise?
How do we time programs when official indices arrive six weeks late?
How do we time programs when official indices arrive six weeks late?
Which anomalies look like shortage signals instead of noise?
Where is the citable, structured African market series we can chart?
Can we get machine-readable history for board-ready reviews?
What commodity-linked exposure should we price into trade finance?
Where is demand stacking up so we can route capacity before the rush?
Which SKU is about to squeeze margin in Luanda vs Huambo?
What should we ship next month — and what price band should we expect at the wharf?
How do we time programs when official indices arrive six weeks late?
Which anomalies look like shortage signals instead of noise?
Where is the citable, structured African market series we can chart?
Can we get machine-readable history for board-ready reviews?
What commodity-linked exposure should we price into trade finance?
When do input costs and offtake prices tell us to hedge or scale storage?
Which SKU is about to squeeze margin in Luanda vs Huambo?
What should we ship next month — and what price band should we expect at the wharf?
5
countries
on the roadmap
10
product categories
at v1
Weekly
AI brief
every Monday · social flywheel
Help shape Merkafri
We are not publishing placeholder quotes. If you are an importer, retailer, fintech, or logistics operator, join the waitlist — your use case and feedback directly inform what we ship next.
Be among the first operators shaping MerkafriSimple tiers
Free tier grows the data network. Pro turns alerts and history into revenue. API Standard is infrastructure for teams embedding African price intelligence.
Free
Distribution tier — real charts, real data, Angola-first
- Public dashboard & 90-day history
- Weekly AI brief (summary)
- Community price submission
- 100 API calls / day
- Weekly Angola CSV snapshot
Pro · Individual
Serious traders & importers
- Full price history
- Price spike & shortage alerts (email + WhatsApp)
- Region & country comparisons
- 30-day forecast (with confidence bands)
- 5,000 API calls / month
Pro · SME
Teams up to 5 seats
- Everything in Pro Individual
- Shared watchlists & alerts
- Google Sheets integration
- 10,000 API calls / month
API Standard
Embed Merkafri in your product
- 50,000 calls / month
- Forecast & anomaly endpoints
- Webhooks
- JSON & CSV formats
- 99.5% uptime SLA
Enterprise contracts, white-label feeds, and custom country coverage are available via direct sales.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about coverage, data, and tiers
Build and trade with better market data
Open the dashboard, read the weekly brief, or contribute a price from your city — it all compounds.