Zephior vs Loopio
Get the buyer’s files finished.
Choose Ziva when your team needs the original workbook, narrative and supporting files completed and revised together. She carries out document work, including structure and presentation, using your company evidence. Loopio remains a strong choice for established response-library operations and portfolio reporting.
Where Ziva makes the difference
Get more of the work off your team’s desk.
Hand over document work, not a copying task
Ask Ziva to complete the original questionnaire, revise its accompanying Word response and produce the presentation. She can change the files themselves, including tables, layout and spreadsheet calculations. Your team reviews working deliverables instead of assembling a bid from separate answer suggestions.
Keep your company’s way of working
Ziva retains company terminology, writing preferences and repeatable instructions across assignments. An unusual buyer layout need not become another manual template project. Combine those instructions with selected approved sources so the response fits both your organization and this buyer.
Make corrections where the work is happening
Your team can edit supported Office documents inside the Ziva workspace and then ask Ziva to continue the assignment from the changed files. Accepted document history supports inspection and restoration. This reduces downloaded-draft handoffs while source-level permissions keep reading, editing and review responsibilities distinct.
Where each fits
Start with the job you need done.
Consider Loopio for
A proposal function that wants a maintained answer library, cross-functional response workflows and reporting across a substantial RFP portfolio.
Choose Zephior for
A supplier that wants to find relevant tenders, understand the pursuit, produce the response and bring in bid expertise through the same provider.
An established response platform
Loopio supports RFPs, DDQs, security questionnaires and sales proposals, with project collaboration and a central response library.
Loopio platform overview(opens in a new tab)Knowledge beyond the library
Its current content approach also draws on connected resources. Comparing it as a closed database of manually copied answers would miss that scope.
Loopio Confident Answers(opens in a new tab)Response analytics
Loopio publishes project, team and content insights. For a proposal operations leader, these can be important selection criteria alongside drafting.
Loopio Strategic Insights(opens in a new tab)Across the bid lifecycle
Follow the work, stage by stage.
Compare the published scope with the work your team needs. A capability to verify is an evaluation question, rather than proof a product cannot do it.
Discover
Find the next opportunityThe reviewed platform focuses on responding to requests. Validate a separate public-tender discovery requirement with the vendor.
Loopio platform overview(opens in a new tab)Search supported public procurement markets with Discover and receive company-specific monitoring through Intelligence.
Qualify
Decide where to investProject insights address proposal priority and workload. Test your actual bid/no-bid evidence and mandatory requirements in a demonstration.
Loopio platform overview(opens in a new tab)Loopio Strategic Insights(opens in a new tab)Assess relevance, requirements and evidence gaps. A preliminary Intelligence recommendation is distinct from a complete tender-document audit.
Pursue
Shape the bid strategyResponse project workflows support the proposal team. Clarify who owns capture strategy and bid delivery outside the software.
Loopio platform overview(opens in a new tab)Bring in Zelius for pursuit sparring, bid strategy, specialist coordination and a scoped delivery plan.
Remember
Reuse company evidenceResponse Library, connected content and permission-aware AI retrieval.
Loopio Confident Answers(opens in a new tab)Loopio AI(opens in a new tab)Turn existing documents and diagrams into reusable company evidence. Select the sources for each bid, review proposed knowledge changes and carry company terminology and working instructions into later assignments.
Respond
Produce the actual filesAI-assisted responses for RFPs, DDQs, security questionnaires and proposals.
Loopio platform overview(opens in a new tab)Give Ziva the buyer’s original files and the outcome. She can fill workbook cells, revise document content and layout, build calculations and prepare related Word, Excel, PDF and presentation deliverables.
Review and deliver
Move to approved outputCollaboration and review features; multi-step reviews depend on the selected plan.
Loopio pricing and packages(opens in a new tab)Keep source-scoped reviewers, comments and accepted document history beside production. Review and restore prior accepted versions. Zelius can handle separately agreed submission work with customer approval and authority.
Zephior combines separately purchasable software and managed services. Customer decisions, declarations, pricing and final approval remain with the customer. Product access and service scope follow the chosen plan and agreement.
Pricing and ownership
Price the work completed, not just the subscription.
Loopio
Loopio publishes Foundations, Enhanced and Enterprise packages and offers a custom quote. Foundations includes 10 seats, unlimited projects and generative AI. Enhanced adds a multilingual library and multi-step reviews. Translation and integrations also appear as add-on options.
Loopio pricing and packages(opens in a new tab)Zephior
Ziva Projects starts at CHF 500 per month for one Project Key, with unlimited users and company knowledge within one customer organization. Intelligence is independent and starts at CHF 199 per month for one country. Managed Zelius delivery has its own agreed scope and fees.
See current Zephior pricing ↗Compare the cost of your actual reviewer group, languages, integrations and project volume. Unlimited projects and Project Keys are different commercial models; neither headline alone establishes the cheaper option.
Published prices are starting points, not like-for-like quotes. Confirm currency, taxes, billing period, scope and current terms with each provider.
Make the evaluation useful
Bring a tender your team knows.
Use a past submitted tender as a benchmark, or a suitable live package. Compare the evidence, the final output and the work left for your team.
Run a discovery-to-response case
Begin with your target market, then select an opportunity and carry it into a response. Record which work needs another tool, another provider or a manual handoff.
Test incomplete evidence
Include an outdated policy and a requirement your company cannot yet prove. Check whether the response identifies the gap and whether a reviewer can trace the proposed answer.
Check the final workbook
Use a representative buyer spreadsheet with multiple sheets, validation and formatting. Inspect the exported cells and formulas, then revise the accompanying Word narrative.
Plan the transition
Map approved content, permissions, content owners and historical answers before import. Keep your current response workflow running until the replacement produces an accepted package.
Questions before you choose
A closer look.
Does Loopio have AI?
Yes. Loopio markets Response Intelligence and permission-aware generation from relevant content. The useful comparison is the complete workflow you need, including discovery, documents and delivery ownership.
Loopio AI(opens in a new tab)Is Zephior always cheaper than Loopio?
That requires a scoped Loopio quote and an estimate of your Zephior usage. Compare implementation, seats, add-ons and internal effort as well as the subscription. Zephior publishes standard Projects and Intelligence prices.
Loopio pricing and packages(opens in a new tab)Can we commission a bid without adopting software?
Yes. Zelius offers separately scoped managed tender work. Agree the opportunity, deliverables, fees and customer approvals before work starts; an Intelligence or Projects subscription is not a prerequisite.
Sources and comparison method
Reviewed 19 October 2026. Competitor descriptions use the official product and pricing sources below. These are published capabilities, not results from a controlled product trial. Zephior publishes this comparison and has a commercial interest in your choice. Workflow recommendations are our assessment.
- Loopio platform overview ↗(opens in a new tab)
- Loopio Confident Answers ↗(opens in a new tab)
- Loopio Strategic Insights ↗(opens in a new tab)
- Loopio AI ↗(opens in a new tab)
- Loopio pricing and packages ↗(opens in a new tab)
For Zephior’s current offer, see Ziva, Zelius and pricing. Ask us to demonstrate any requirement that is essential to your decision.
Your next opportunity
Bring the work.
See how far Zephior takes it.
Discuss your markets, a representative tender and the parts your team wants to hand over.