On 17 October 2026 SHEIN's UK storefront had 5.2 million live products, plus about 77,000 more that were sold out or off sale.
I pulled the full UK catalog on 16 and 17 October, plus the US storefront for comparison, and counted things. Independent analysis, no connection to SHEIN. The whole thing is a 12-page PDF report; this is the part I'd want if I were building a price tool.
It's big, and every country gets a different shop
The UK is the largest European storefront in the set. Across the nine European storefronts I measured there are 6.6 million distinct products, but only 1 million of them are listed in all nine. Spain has 3.4M, Italy 3.3M, France and Germany 2.9M each.
Women's apparel is 36% of the UK catalog (1.9M products). Home & Living is second with about 700k, which is more than Kids or Men. The catalog spans 23 top-level categories and over 7,000 leaf categories. The biggest single leaf, "Women T-Shirts", has about 220,000 products.
If you're scraping SHEIN, don't assume a product ID you found on the UK site exists in Germany.
The median price is about £7.50
Half of UK products sell for under £7.50. 65% cost under £10, and only 2% cost £50 or more. The middle 80% sit between about £2 and £20.
Median price by category is more useful than the overall one: Women Shoes £14, Men Clothing £12, Home Decor £3, Cases £2. The cheapest listing is a 36p pack of mini maze puzzles. The priciest is a Michael Kors bag at nearly £4,500.
Almost everything is "on sale"
97% of priced products show a crossed-out price above the selling price. The median markdown is 24%. 18% claim half price or better.
That half-price claim is a clothing thing. 34% of Women Clothing and 37% of Women Plus Clothing carry a 50%+ markdown. For Women Fashion Jewelry and Women Accessories it's under 1%. The deepest typical discount among categories with 20,000+ products is Maternity Clothing at 49%.
One caveat I can't get around with a snapshot: a crossed-out price tells you what SHEIN shows, not what anyone was ever charged. Answering that needs a daily price history, and I only have two days.
The same product, different price
I matched 2.4 million identical products (same SHEIN product ID) between the UK and US storefronts and compared prices in dollars. UK prices include 20% VAT, US prices exclude sales tax, both converted at about $1.32 to the pound.
Only about 3% cost the same, within 1%. The median gap is 17%. 53% are more expensive in the UK, 43% are cheaper, and a third differ by more than a quarter either way.
It varies a lot by category. Women Fashion Jewelry is 23% more expensive in the UK, Men Clothing 13%, Event & Party Supplies 10%. Young Girls Clothing is 10% cheaper in the UK, Tween Girls Clothing 7%. Women Clothing, the biggest category by far, is within 1%.
The US snapshot is a day older than the UK one. I re-checked 60 random matched products at the same moment and the gap pointed the same way for all 60.
About 14,500 new products a day
Counting live UK products by the day they were created, 1.3 million appeared in the last 90 days, about 14,500 a day. That's a lower bound, because anything created and already removed isn't in it. 61% of today's catalog was created in 2026 and the median listing is about six months old.
The catalog runs a six-day week. From July to mid-September an average weekday added about 20k products that are still live, Saturday about 13k, Sunday about 6k. The quietest weekday of the quarter was 25 September, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which suggests the creation date is set where the products are made.
Sellers, reviews, stock
About 79,000 seller storefronts. The median one lists 9 products, 620 list over 1,000, and the 100 largest hold 24% of everything.
Among products with 10+ reviews, the median rating is 4.8 and 90% are rated 4.5 or higher. Only 1 in 500 falls below 3.5. Either SHEIN shoppers are very easy to please or low-rated products get pulled; a snapshot can't tell which. About 8% of listings showed one item left.
Small stuff: the median product has 6 images and a title of about 140 characters (the longest runs past 1,000). A third come in more than one color, with a record of 40. 7% of titles already mention Christmas in mid-October. Halloween is at 5%.
Getting the same data for a handful of products
The report comes from the catalog data I collect, which is a different job from looking up a few products. For that I built a small Apify actor, SHEIN Product Scraper. You give it product URLs, goods IDs, SKUs or category IDs and a country, and it returns one record per product in that country's currency.
Here's the UK vs US check on one product:
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN }); for (const country of ['GB', 'US']) { const run = await client.actor('native_emblem/shein-product-scraper').call({ goodsIds: ['209758798'], country, }); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); console.log(country, items[0].priceFormatted, items[0].priceUsd); } When I ran it on 20 October:
GB £7.99 10.65 US $11.35 11.35 So this dress is about 6% cheaper in the UK, VAT included. It's one product; the 17% median gap above is across 2.4 million of them.
If SHEIN doesn't sell the product in a country, the record comes back with error: "not_available_in_region" and you aren't charged. Keyword search is gone: SHEIN stopped serving it, so the actor browses categories or looks up exact products, nothing else.
If you want full catalogs by country with daily changes, there's a free 10,000-product sample at votiakov.com/shein-data.
