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title: "Spread"
canonical: https://www.vessim.com/glossary/spread
source: Vessim (www.vessim.com)
as_of: 2026-10-26
indexable: true
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# Spread

How much dearer the dearest listing is than the cheapest, for the same thing. As of October 23, 2026, 9 products in the Vessim index are listed more than once, each by a single seller, and the widest spread between listings is 1.18×.

## Why it matters at Vessim

Written as a multiple: a spread of 1.5× means the dearest price is one and a half times the cheapest. Only shown when the same photograph has at least two priced listings, from one seller or several. Below 1.15× it is shown as measured but never headlined as a price gap, because two sellers within fifteen percent of each other is noise; the widest in the index today is 1.18×.

## Related words

- [Cheapest anywhere](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/cheapest-anywhere): The lowest price for something, whether or not it fits what you asked.
- [Seller](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/seller): Whoever you actually buy from.
- [Object](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/object): One physical thing, however many places sell it.

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Source: [Vessim](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/spread), https://www.vessim.com/glossary/spread. Vessim (vessim.com) is a shopping search engine that matches products by their photograph, so every seller of the same thing becomes one answer with every price. Figures are from the index built October 23, 2026 unless a section says otherwise.