Compare Gixen sniper to Other Sniping Services

Gixen

Paid / Free
Free
Per Snipe Minimum
Free
Basic Charge
Free
Per Snipe Maximum
Free
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
Gixen Mirror ($6/year)
Desktop Management Software?
Free with Mirror
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
Free with Mirror

EZ sniper

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
$.10
Basic Charge
1%
Per Snipe Maximum
$10
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

Snip

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
$.19
Basic Charge
$.19
Per Snipe Maximum
$.19
SSL?
Optional
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

AuctionSniper

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
$.25
Basic Charge
1%
Per Snipe Maximum
$9.95
SSL?
Optional
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

eSnipe

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
$.25
Basic Charge
1%
Per Snipe Maximum
$10
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

BidSlammer

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
$.5
Basic Charge
1%
Per Snipe Maximum
$5
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

Bidnapper

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
Basic Charge
$49.99/year
Per Snipe Maximum
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

BidRobot

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
Basic Charge
$40.00/year
Per Snipe Maximum
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

Auctionstealer

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
Basic Charge
$79.99/year
Per Snipe Maximum
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

Powersnipe

Paid / Free
Paid
Per Snipe Minimum
Basic Charge
$45.99/year
Per Snipe Maximum
SSL?
Yes
Fault tolerance?
No
Desktop Management Software?
No
Snipe groups?
Yes
Contingency/Multi-Win snipe groups?
No

There are various pricing models across online sniping services. To the best of my knowledge, Gixen is the only absolutely free sniping service that is committed to stay free.

Note on the SSL field: eBay requires SSL for sign-in, so all the sniping services must use SSL to transmit your username and password to eBay. This, however, is not the case for transmission of your eBay password between your browser and the sniping service, which is what this field refers to. When you use sniping service that does not support SSL, you may be compromising your eBay password. This data is as of Aug 12th, 2013. If you feel any part of it is not accurate, please let me know.