Compare, updated 2026-08-18

BidSkim vs Stotles

Read the tiers before the headline. Stotles Basic at £75 undercuts BidSkim Monitor at £79, and its free tier includes a named Pre-tenders feature. The gap opens at the intelligence tier, where Stotles Growth is £475 a month and BidSkim Predict is £189 for buyer profiles, competitor tracking and renewal timing.

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Side by side

Same job, different starting point

UK public sector market intelligence, built around buyer relationships and pipeline.

Price

£189 a month against £475 for buyer intelligence

On entry tiers Stotles is marginally cheaper, £75 against £79. Buyer intelligence sits on Growth at £475 a month, where BidSkim carries it on Predict at £189. That is £286 a month, or £3,432 a year, on the comparison that matters.

BidSkim is £79 a month, or £780 a year which works out at £65 a month. The intelligence plan is £189 a month, or £1,860 a year which works out at £155 a month.

Stotles. Free tier, Basic from £75 a month, Growth from £475 a month for the Sales Studio product, and a quote-only Expert tier. Bid Studio and the B2G Growth Engine are separately priced products.

Feature comparison between BidSkim and Stotles, verified 2026-08-18
Capability	Stotles	BidSkim
Cheapest paid tier	£75, Basic	£79, Monitor
Price for buyer intelligence	£475, Growth	£189, Predict
Published pricing on the website	Free, Basic and Growth shown	Yes, all plans
Scored match with a written reason	Keyword-linked score, 0 to 3	Written reason on every match
Buyer intelligence	Yes, from £475	Spend, categories, top suppliers, contacts, how-to-win notes
Pre tender visibility	Yes, from the free tier	Planning stage notices, before tender
Renewal forecasting	Yes, 100,000 plus expiring contracts	Incumbent, value, contract timing, recurrence confidence
Price benchmarks from past awards	Not documented	Price benchmarks from comparable awards, winners and bid counts
CRM and Slack integrations
Northern Ireland notices		Not yet

Checked 2026-08-18. Vendors change tiers often, so confirm before you buy.

Where each one wins

Choose BidSkim

You want buyer intelligence, competitor tracking and renewal timing without stepping up to a £475 a month tier to get them.

Buyer intelligence at £189 a month, where Stotles gates it behind Growth at £475
A written fit reason on every match, rather than a keyword-linked relevance score of 0 to 3
Price benchmarks from comparable awards across 800,000 plus notices
One product with two tiers, rather than three separately priced studios
Renewal timing with recurrence confidence, not just an expiry date

Choose Stotles

You want the cheapest paid entry point at £75, you need Northern Ireland or EU coverage, or you want the CRM and Slack integrations BidSkim does not offer.

A cheaper entry tier than BidSkim, Basic from £75 a month
A genuinely capable free tier including tender tracking and a named Pre-tenders feature
Expiring contract tracking across 100,000 plus contracts, sourced from 1,000 plus UK and EU portals
AI bid and no-bid reports, three free for life, and integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Teams, Slack and Sharepoint

Worth knowing

Buyer intelligence requires Growth at £475 a month, more than six times its own entry tier
Sold as three separately priced products, so the total cost depends which studios you need
The top Expert tier is quote only

Which plan

Monitor or Predict against Stotles

BidSkim sells two plans and the comparison changes depending on which one you mean.

Monitor, £79 a month

Tells you which live tenders deserve attention.

£79 a month, or £780 a year which works out at £65 a month

Monitor at £79 sits alongside Stotles Basic at £75, so entry pricing is effectively level. The difference is what each includes.

Every new notice across the official sources in Britain, checked daily
Each one scored against your services, regions, contract size and certifications
The fit reason written next to every match
Duplicates collapsed, so the same contract does not arrive four times
Tender briefs with buyer, value, dates, lots, CPV, stage and requirements
Frameworks and DPS routes flagged where the public data supports it
Profile rescans when your services, regions or bid appetite change

Predict, £189 a month

Helps you plan before the tender goes live.

£189 a month, or £1,860 a year which works out at £155 a month

Predict at £189 is the real comparison. Stotles gates buyer intelligence behind Growth at £475 a month, so this is £286 a month less for the tier that carries the intelligence.

Everything in Monitor
Renewal radar, expiring incumbent contracts with buyer, incumbent, value and contract timing
Buyer profiles, spend, categories, open opportunities, top suppliers and annual trends
Buyer contacts where public notices or research provide them
Requirement and how-to-win notes for researched buyers
Supplier intelligence, who wins public work, where, and how their awards trend
Competitor tracking with renewal exposure, so you see their contracts coming back to market
Comparable awards for price benchmarks, winners and bid counts
Planning stage notices, work visible before it reaches tender

Built for different people

Bid team or no bid team

Focus	BidSkim	Stotles
Market	Britain, and only Britain	UK and EU, three separately priced studios
Built for	SMEs bidding a few times a year, without a bid team	Bid teams and sales teams working named accounts

What BidSkim leaves out, and why

BidSkim covers Britain only, with no EU or international notices.

That is the whole point. Every scoring rule, CPV mapping, buyer record and renewal pattern is built for British public procurement and nothing else. A platform spanning thirty countries spreads the same effort across thirty procurement regimes, and the matching quality shows it. If you bid abroad you need a different tool. If you bid in Britain, you want the one that only does Britain.

BidSkim has no seats, exports or account management.

It is not built for a bid department. There is nothing to roll out, no training, no onboarding call and no per seat bill that grows every time someone new needs a login. A two or three person business can set it up in an afternoon. Large bid teams that need seats and account management are genuinely better served elsewhere, and we say so on the pricing page.

Questions

Common questions about this comparison

Is BidSkim cheaper than Stotles?

Not at entry. Stotles Basic starts at £75 a month against BidSkim Monitor at £79. The difference appears higher up. Buyer intelligence sits on Stotles Growth at £475 a month, and BidSkim carries it on Predict at £189, which is £286 a month less.

Does Stotles explain why a tender matched?

Stotles shows a Signal Score from 0 to 3 that links back to your keyword settings, so it explains relevance in terms of the keywords you set. BidSkim writes a reason in business language against your full profile. Both explain, they just explain different things.

What is the main difference between BidSkim and Stotles?

Stotles starts from an account and works towards the opportunity, sold as three separate studios. BidSkim starts from your business profile and hands you a scored shortlist, sold as one product with two tiers. Stotles is broader and, above its entry tier, considerably more expensive.