6 Best Stotles Alternatives (2026 Top Picks)

The best Stotles alternatives in 2026 are Tenders Direct for managed UK, Irish and European tender alerts, a soft FM specialist at #2 for cleaning contractors, and AI Tender Writer for SMEs that want every UK tender scored and drafted in one tool. Tussell, Tracker Intelligence and Bidstats complete the list.

Stotles is a well-liked, modern public-sector sales platform, and its free plan is a genuine free plan. So why look at Stotles alternatives? Usually because the features a team wants sit on higher tiers, because the product is shaped around sales teams rather than bid writers, or because a firm wants coverage outside the UK. This guide compares six real options with honest pros, cons and prices.

Stotles at a glance¶

Stotles is a London-based platform that pulls UK procurement notices into one searchable feed and adds buyer intelligence on top. It tracks open tenders, pre-tender signals and expiring contracts, profiles public-sector buyers and frameworks, and connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and Microsoft Teams. It has added AI bid/no-bid reports and, on its Growth plan, bid projects and a hosted bid content library with AI responses.

Pricing is published for its lower tiers. The Free plan gives unlimited users, tender discovery, relevance scoring and AI bid/no-bid reports. Basic is £50 per user a month and adds expiring contracts and historical awards. Growth starts at £475 a month and adds buyer intelligence, framework insights, integrations and bid tools. Expert is priced on request. Reviews on Capterra are broadly positive, praising onboarding and data quality.

The usual reasons suppliers compare Stotles with other tools are:

• Tier jumps. Moving from Basic to Growth is a big step in price for a small firm that only wants one Growth feature.
• Built for sales teams. Account planning and CRM sync suit sellers; bid writers often want more help with the response itself.
• Drafting depth. Bid writing tools arrive on Growth, and firms that bid weekly may want full answer drafting at a lower price.
• Coverage. Stotles focuses on the UK, so firms bidding in Ireland or Europe look elsewhere.
• Sector focus. Specialist contractors want a feed pre-filtered for their sector without building searches.

How we picked these Stotles alternatives¶

We judged each tool as a replacement for Stotles, from the point of view of a UK supplier bidding for public-sector contracts. Our criteria:

• Coverage of Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI.
• Early signals: pipeline notices, preliminary market engagement and contract expiries.
• Scoring: whether alerts are ranked by fit or only matched by keyword.
• Help with the response, from bid/no-bid to drafting.
• Published pricing and a free way to try it.
• Fit for company size and sector.

We didn't rank on review-site star ratings. Where a vendor doesn't publish prices, we say so rather than guess.

1. Tenders Direct: Best for managed UK, Irish and European alerts¶

Tenders Direct pricing

When to choose Tenders Direct

• You bid in Ireland or Europe as well as the UK.
• You'd rather have a person set up your alerts than build searches yourself.
• You want alerts and award history without a sales-platform feel.

Where Tenders Direct falls short

• Prices aren't published.
• No AI fit scoring or bid writing.
• Less buyer and CRM tooling than Stotles.

2. CleanTender: Best for cleaning tenders¶

CleanTender pricing

When to choose CleanTender

• You bid for cleaning, security, grounds, waste or catering contracts.
• You want full bid drafting without paying for a sales platform.
• You want compliance gaps flagged before you write.

Where CleanTender falls short

• Soft FM only: no works, IT or professional services tenders.
• No framework, buyer or spend intelligence.
• Drafts still need your own evidence and editing.

3. AI Tender Writer: Best for SMEs that want every tender scored and drafted¶

AI Tender Writer pricing

When to choose AI Tender Writer

• You bid often and want unlimited drafting at a fixed monthly price.
• You want each tender scored against your profile before you commit.
• You want advance warning of contracts coming up for re-tender.

Where AI Tender Writer falls short

• Lighter on buyer, framework and decision-maker data.
• UK public sector only.
• Drafts still need your review and real evidence.

4. Tussell: Best for detailed public-sector market data¶

Tussell pricing

When to choose Tussell

• You need spend and incumbent data to size a market.
• Your account teams plan across many public bodies.
• You want framework data in depth.

Where Tussell falls short

• Prices aren't published.
• No scoring or drafting.
• More than a small bidder needs.

5. Tracker Intelligence: Best for researched leads and award data¶

Tracker Intelligence pricing

When to choose Tracker Intelligence

• You bid in the Republic of Ireland as well as the UK.
• You want award and forward-planning data alongside alerts.
• You're comfortable with an annual, sales-led contract.

Where Tracker Intelligence falls short

• Prices aren't published.
• No AI scoring or drafting.
• Check renewal terms closely before signing.

6. Bidstats: Best for free UK tender search¶

Bidstats pricing

When to choose Bidstats

• You bid a few times a year and don't want another subscription.
• You want to look up past awards for a buyer quickly.
• You're happy to check for tenders yourself.

Where Bidstats falls short

• No fit scoring or bid writing help.
• No CRM or team features.
• Less intelligence than paid platforms.

Stotles alternatives pricing compared¶

How to choose a Stotles alternative¶

What to look for in a tender finder¶

• Every UK portal. Since the Procurement Act 2023 came into force on 24 February 2025, above-threshold notices publish through the Central Digital Platform and Find a Tender, but devolved portals still carry their own notices.
• Early signals. Pipeline notices, preliminary market engagement and contract expiries give you months to prepare.
• Scored alerts. What most people get wrong here is chasing volume; a short list of winnable tenders beats a long list of matches.
• Price at the tier you need. Compare the plan that has your must-have features, not the entry plan.
• Help with the response. For most SMEs, writing time is the real limit on how many bids they can submit.
• Thresholds. Central government goods and services contracts above £139,688 go on Find a Tender; lower-value work often appears on Contracts Finder.

Frankly, Stotles is hard to beat as a free starting point for UK tender search. Switch when you've got a clear gap: wider geographic coverage, deeper market data, a sector-filtered feed or more help writing the bid. Each tool above fills one of those gaps.

A simple rule helps. If your team sells into a small number of big public bodies and needs to know every buyer and framework, stay on a data platform. If you bid on lots of smaller contracts across councils, schools and NHS trusts, the time you spend writing is the cost to cut. Work out what each bid costs you in staff hours first. For most small suppliers, a tool that drafts answers from their own evidence pays back faster than extra market data does.

Related guides: the best tender alert services, government tenders in the UK, bid/no-bid software, tender software compared and how to win tenders. Free tools: CPV code finder, tender scoring calculator and bid answer grader.