Explorer vs Pilot: Live Pricing Comparison
Side-by-side market data from every active US dealer listing of both models. Updated daily.
The short answer
Explorer has more active inventory across the country, which usually means more negotiating leverage. (A median-price comparison isn’t shown here because at least one of these models does not have a dealer-advertised price on every listing, and a median off a partial sample would not be a fair comparison.) The full numbers below show how each model is priced and how much room dealers are giving on each.
| Explorer | Pilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 46,703 | 12,646 |
| Median advertised price | $51,300 | — |
| Lowest active price | $35,660 | — |
| Highest active price | $71,220 | — |
| Average markup vs MSRP | -$2,458 | — |
| % priced below MSRP | 100% | — |
| Brand | FORD | HONDA |
How this comparison is built
The numbers above are live from our database, refreshed every 24 hours from manufacturer and dealer inventory systems. Median price is the middle advertised price among the active listings that carry one, which is a more honest number than the average, because the average gets pulled around by a handful of fully loaded trims. Markup is the difference between the advertised selling price and total MSRP (sticker plus dealer-installed options). A negative markup means the vehicle is priced below sticker.
The price and markup rows are blank for the Pilot. The manufacturer feed behind those listings publishes the window sticker and no dealer asking price. We read asking prices off the selling dealers’ own websites instead, and we currently hold one for 849 of the 12,646 listings counted above. Those come from the Honda dealers our scrape has reached so far rather than from the whole market, so a median or a price range built on them would describe those dealers and not the model. That is why the figures stay out of this table even as the count grows.
Inventory levels matter for negotiation: when there are more active listings of a model, dealers compete harder on price. Higher percentages of below-MSRP listings indicate models where buyers consistently pay less than sticker.