Alternative to Stotles
Arcadium Data compared with Stotles
Stotles: A UK company (founded 2019) with a self-serve platform for public-sector tenders and buyers, with a free plan. This page sets what they publish next to what we publish. Every cell on their side links to the public page it comes from and was checked on 2026-10-25. Where we could not find a fact it says "Not published", which means we did not find it on the pages we checked, not that it does not exist. Companies change their pages; if something here is out of date, write to [email protected] and we correct it.
Side by side
| What | Stotles (public facts) | Arcadium Data |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; Basic £75 to £99, Growth £475, Bid £495 to £990, bundle £873 (all per month) source | Free key (1,000 calls a month); API from €49 a month; Bid Desk €390 or €890 a month (€3,900 or €8,900 a year); data files from €1,500 a month |
| Self-serve sign-up and free tier | Yes (free plan listed) source | Yes: free API key, no sales call |
| Public API or MCP server | MCP server announced August 2026; API not checked source | REST API with OpenAPI 3.1 and a remote MCP server |
| Geography | Not published | EU institutions (TED), national portals and the UK (Find a Tender) |
| Company registry ids on records | Not published | Winner website matched to register ids where we hold them; see coverage |
Checked 2026-10-25. Prices are copied as published, in their currency, before tax. Our prices are on pricing; our tender history starts in October 2025 for TED and the UK, so if you need earlier years tell us before you switch.
Where we differ
- Bid Desk is done for you: a reviewed weekly shortlist and a short memo, at €390 a month (Growth is £475 on their page).
- EU-wide plus UK in one dataset, with register ids on winners.
- Raw data through an API and files, not only a web app.
- Company-level data only: no personal data.
What Stotles offers that we do not
- A web application for finding buyers and running bids; we deliver data through an API, files and a weekly shortlist.
- Venture funding (Series A reported in May 2025) and a larger team.
Coverage by country and history depth: coverage. Sources and licences: data sources. Our datasets hold company-level data only, no personal data.
Switching from Stotles? First 2 months at 50%
Show us your current Stotles invoice (the amounts can be blacked out, we only need the vendor, the plan name and the date) and your first two months on Bid Desk cost half. One offer per company, for a new paid plan. Send your work email; we reply with a link to reply to with the invoice, and we set up the discount before the first charge.
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