On Data

At the heart of Octopart is our large and growing part database. Since we launched Octopart just over a year ago, our database has grown steadily - we started with part data from 4 distributors - now we have over 60 distributors listing parts with us. The vast majority of those distributors give us daily data feeds. This allows us to keep our database fresh with up-to-date pricing and availability information. A few distributors do not give us live feeds so we periodically aggregate data from their websites. To indicate this we dim out the availability and price information to let you know that it might be out of date. If you'd like to see up-to-date pricing and availability from the dimmed out distributors, please let them know when you place orders.

We're working hard to keep our data fresh. If you find inconsistencies between what we show and what a distributor shows, please let us know.