Public sector sales intelligence · Checked 31 October 2026
Starbridge alternative: Zephior vs Starbridge (2026)
Choose Zephior if you want free tender search and then the whole submission produced in the buyer’s own files, at a published price per project. Choose Starbridge if you sell to US agencies, K-12 and higher education and want buying signals, spend intelligence and outreach before the RFP appears. Starbridge publishes no prices.
Choose Zephior if
A bid team that wants to find tenders for free and have Ziva draft the response, fill the buyer’s files and assemble the package.
Choose Starbridge if
A US sales team selling to government and education that wants to find buyers and start conversations before an RFP is published.
At a glance
Zephior and Starbridge, fact by fact.
Every Starbridge entry links to its source and shows when we checked it. Where we could not find a published fact, we left the row out.
| Fact | Zephior | Starbridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price model | ZephiorOne published price per project. You choose how many new projects you open each month. | StarbridgeNot published. The website asks you to book a demo. Starbridge homepage(opens in a new tab) Checked 31 October 2026 |
| Public tender search | ZephiorYes. The public tender directory on zephior.com/tenders is free to browse, without an account. Ziva Intelligence, search and analysis for one country, is CHF 199 per month. | StarbridgePaid. Federal, state, local and education RFPs in one feed, rated against your offerings. Starbridge AI RFP finder and proposal writer(opens in a new tab) Checked 31 October 2026 |
| Full proposal package | ZephiorYes. Proposal, forms, pricing sheet and presentation as finished Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files. | StarbridgePartly. Maps requirements and drafts sections from your past material. Buyer forms and file exports are not described. Starbridge AI RFP finder and proposal writer(opens in a new tab) Checked 31 October 2026 |
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In their own words
Where Starbridge falls short.
Taken from Starbridge’s own pages and from public reviews, each with its source.
No public price
Starbridge publishes no plans or prices. Every route leads to a demo.
Starbridge homepage(opens in a new tab)Drafted sections, not the buyer’s files
The proposal writer drafts sections from your past material. Filling the buyer’s forms or exporting Word and Excel files is not described.
Starbridge AI RFP finder and proposal writer(opens in a new tab)Built for US government and education
Its signals and spend data cover US agencies, districts and universities, not public tenders elsewhere.
Starbridge homepage(opens in a new tab)Starbridge public spend intelligence(opens in a new tab)
Where Zephior goes further
What changes for your bid team.
Free search, then the bid
The public tender directory on zephior.com/tenders is free to browse without an account. When a tender fits, Ziva reads the full tender package and drafts the response.
Qualification on the documents
Before you commit a team, Ziva reads the tender documents against what your company can prove and shows where you are strong, where you are exposed and what only you can answer.
The submission files, finished
Ziva fills the buyer’s own Excel forms and price sheets, writes the proposal in their Word template and assembles the package as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files.
A bid team when you need one
Our Zelius bid team can take on a tender with you in the same workspace, scoped per bid.
What Starbridge does well
- Buying signals from meetings, job changes and grants before an RFP is out. Starbridge homepage(opens in a new tab)
- Contract values and end dates for the vendors each account already pays. Starbridge public spend intelligence(opens in a new tab)
- RFPs and drafts tied to account research and outreach. Starbridge AI RFP finder and proposal writer(opens in a new tab)Starbridge homepage(opens in a new tab)
Switching
Moving from Starbridge to Zephior.
- 1
Search the same market for free
Open zephior.com/tenders and search the countries and categories you monitor today. No account is needed to browse.
- 2
Take one tender into a bid
Pick a live tender, upload its documents and a few past bids into a Ziva project, and let Ziva qualify it and draft the response.
- 3
Measure the work left over
Measure what is left for your team: the forms, the price sheet and the proposal. That is where a bid is won or lost.
- 4
Decide on evidence
Each Ziva product has a first-month money-back right, so you can test it on a real bid before you change anything else.
Questions
Zephior vs Starbridge: straight answers.
Is Zephior’s tender search free?
Yes. The public tender directory on zephior.com/tenders is free to browse, without an account. Starbridge publishes no price.
Starbridge homepage(opens in a new tab)Does Starbridge write proposals?
It drafts proposal sections from your past material. Ziva also fills the buyer’s forms and produces the full package as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files.
Starbridge AI RFP finder and proposal writer(opens in a new tab)Does Starbridge cover tenders outside the US?
Its published coverage is US government and education buyers. Ziva drafts and answers in more than 100 languages.
Starbridge homepage(opens in a new tab)Starbridge AI RFP finder and proposal writer(opens in a new tab)Sources and method
We read Starbridge’s own website and, where noted, public review pages. Last full check: 31 October 2026. Review quotes are short excerpts from the named page. Zephior publishes this page and sells Ziva; our facts follow our published pricing and product pages. If anything about Starbridge has changed, tell us at hello@zephior.com and we will correct it.
Try it on a real bid
Bring a tender you know.
Compare what comes back.
Run a live tender, or one you submitted before, in your first month. If Ziva does not convince you, you get your money back.