About TracedParts
Who we are, where the numbers come from, and why the cheapest row is not at the top.
TracedParts is an electronic component search engine covering 564,344 manufacturer part numbers, built for buyers sourcing into Malaysia. It aggregates price breaks, stock and lead time from DigiKey, Mouser and element14, names the distributor behind every figure, and prices in ringgit from a stated USD reference rate.
What TracedParts is
TracedParts is an electronic component search engine. You give it a manufacturer part number, or a set of specifications, and it returns live price, stock and lead time from every distributor that carries the part - graded by how much we can vouch for the source.
Why we grade sources
The open market for electronic components works, right up until it doesn't. Counterfeit and mis-marked parts cost real money and real schedule, and the failure mode is almost always the same: somebody sorted by price, bought from a name they didn't recognise, and found out at incoming inspection. Sorting by certainty first is not a moral position. It is the ordering that matches how the risk actually falls.
Where the data comes from
Every quote row comes from a franchised distributor's own API under licence: DigiKey, Mouser and element14 today. The catalogue is re-pulled once a day, each part page says which pull its figures came from, and the same part number from two distributors is merged into one page rather than listed twice. There are no independent-trader or broker listings on the site. The full method, including how duplicates are matched and how ringgit prices are derived, is on the methodology page.
Where we are
TracedParts is built for buyers sourcing into Malaysia and the wider ASEAN region - which is why prices default to MYR and the landed-cost estimator models Malaysian duty and SST rather than US tariffs. The catalogue itself is global.