Zephior vs Stotles
Choose the production work you want the agent to carry.
Choose Ziva when the task includes flexible revisions across the original buyer files, commercial calculations and supporting deliverables. Stotles also connects market strategy and Bid Studio. The advantage to assess is agent-carried document work and a reusable company method, not a claim that only Zephior covers the lifecycle.
Where Ziva makes the difference
Get more of the work off your team’s desk.
Give Ziva the complete file assignment
Ask for the original workbook completed, the methodology restructured and a presentation built from the same company evidence. Ziva can change tables, formulas, layout and visuals directly. Compare the working result and the finishing effort left for your team.
Carry company preparation standards forward
Retain terminology, formatting rules and repeatable working instructions with Ziva. Add the guidance and evidence needed for each buyer. The next bid can reuse your working method without another long briefing or repeated manual corrections.
Keep review and preparation status beside production
Source-scoped permissions, current reviewer context and accepted document history support controlled changes. Ziva can create editable readiness trackers or risk registers beside the files. Compare these working behaviors with the actual Bid Studio and Sales Studio scope your team would purchase.
Where each fits
Start with the job you need done.
Consider Stotles for
Public-sector sales and bid teams seeking early buyer signals, market context and a shared response workflow.
Choose Zephior for
Teams seeking independent monitoring or response software and a managed option for selected tender outcomes.
Sales and bidding are connected
Stotles combines market strategy, early engagement and tender response workflows.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(opens in a new tab)Drafting includes company and buyer context
Bid Studio brings tender documents, company material and procurement history into the response.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(opens in a new tab)Buying choices are separated
The current pricing interface presents Sales Studio, Bid Studio and a combined B2G offer.
Stotles live pricing by studio(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 opportunityTender tracking and earlier buyer or expiry signals feed the pipeline.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(opens in a new tab)Search supported public procurement markets with Discover and receive company-specific monitoring through Intelligence.
Qualify
Decide where to investBid/no-bid reports assess tender criteria and requirements.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(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 strategyBuyer, framework and supplier intelligence informs engagement and positioning.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(opens in a new tab)Bring in Zelius for pursuit sparring, bid strategy, specialist coordination and a scoped delivery plan.
Remember
Reuse company evidenceCompany case studies, prior bids and saved evidence inform responses.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(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 filesShared tasks, documents and AI drafting support internal bid production.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(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 outputEvaluate export quality and final submission ownership alongside the offered advisory services.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(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.
Stotles
The live pricing interface reviewed lists Sales Basic from £99 per month and Sales Growth from £475. Bid Growth shows from £495 per month with 15 monthly bid/no-bid reports and five monthly bid projects; Expert is custom. A free offer includes limited qualification reports. Other text on the site carries different figures, so obtain the current studio or bundle quote, billing term and exact allowances.
Stotles live pricing by studio(opens in a new tab)Zephior
Projects starts at CHF 500 per month for one Project Key, with unlimited users and company knowledge within one organization. Independent Intelligence starts at CHF 199 per month for one country. New software access starts paid with the published first-month money-back conditions. Zelius services have their own agreed scope and fees.
See current Zephior pricing ↗Compare the quoted combined scope, project capacity, contributor access and expert preparation rather than mixing prices from different studios.
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.
Follow a buyer signal into a bid
Use one target account to connect early intent, the tender pack, qualification and the response.
Test company-evidence reuse
Ask for an answer that needs both a company case study and buyer context, then inspect the sources.
Model concurrent tenders
Clarify monthly versus active project limits, qualification reports and access for specialists.
Define expert deliverables
Compare research and training with preparation of the buyer’s narrative, workbook and required annexes.
Questions before you choose
A closer look.
Is Stotles a narrow alert tool?
No. Its current offer connects public-sector sales intelligence with qualification and response production.
Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope(opens in a new tab)Why confirm a Stotles quote rather than use one headline price?
The current site presents separate studios and a combined offer, and some page text differs. Confirm the applicable package and term.
Stotles live pricing by studio(opens in a new tab)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.
- Stotles Bid Studio and advisory scope ↗(opens in a new tab)
- Stotles live pricing by studio ↗(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.