# Pacvue Alternatives: Perpetua, Quartile and More Canonical page: https://www.kuudo.com/compare/pacvue-alternatives/ Pacvue alternatives include Perpetua, Quartile, Teikametrics and Kuudo. Choose Perpetua for published pricing, Quartile for hourly optimization with a strategist, or Teikametrics for a self-serve start. Kuudo runs Ads, Seller Central and Vendor Central work from Claude or ChatGPT; Pacvue combines Amazon advertising and commerce with 100 or more retailers. Choose Managed MCP or Private Cloud. ## Comparison ### Agent access - Pacvue: Pacvue MCP is an endpoint into Pacvue's platform: report, data query and share-of-voice services, read-only, with a 50,000-row cap per report, two years of history and a 180-day maximum per pull. A campaign-management MCP with human confirmation is described as in development. Your agent reaches Pacvue, and Pacvue reaches Amazon. - Perpetua: Perpetua is used through its browser app. Help-center searches return no public API, mobile app, or ChatGPT, Claude or MCP integration; the Premium plan lists custom data integrations without detail. Whatever your agent does, it does through Perpetua's screens. - Quartile: No MCP server, customer API documentation, or ChatGPT or Claude integration is published; ChatGPT appears on Quartile's site only as an ad channel it manages. Quartile describes an ad optimization platform with white-glove service and a dedicated strategist, so no path for your agent is published. - Teikametrics: Teikametrics MCP, in early access, gives Claude and ChatGPT twelve read-only tools over Teikametrics' own data, with no write or campaign-management actions. Your agent reaches Teikametrics, and Teikametrics reaches Amazon. - Kuudo: Amazon. Kuudo's MCP servers expose Amazon's own API operations as tools, 756 of them for Ads across 55 services. Choose Managed MCP or Private Cloud; the tools are the operations Amazon publishes. ### Live connection - Pacvue: Pacvue says it integrates directly with Amazon APIs for advertising, sales, inventory, pricing and Buy Box data, and its DSP page names real-time Vendor Central sales data. Seller Central is not named on any page checked. - Perpetua: Sellers authorize the Amazon Advertising API and the Selling Partner API during connection; vendors authorize the Ads API, with SP-API optional but recommended for sales and traffic reporting. The Ads API connection is what lets Perpetua read data and launch and optimize campaigns. - Quartile: Quartile says its bidding is built on Amazon Marketing Stream and that Amazon recognized it for its use of the Amazon Ads API. Seller Central and Vendor Central are not named; the privacy policy describes holding an Amazon MWS API token while the account is active. - Teikametrics: Amazon Ads is authorized by signing in through Seller Central, product data through the Selling Partner API, and Vendor Central by granting a Teikametrics service user report permissions. Walmart ads connect through an API partner integration with write access plus Retail Link for product data. - Kuudo: Yes. Your AI works inside your Ads account through the Amazon Ads MCP, inside Seller Central through the Amazon Selling Partner MCP, and inside Vendor Central through the Amazon Vendor Central MCP, from the client you want to use. ### Reads performance - Pacvue: Pacvue pulls performance at ASIN, keyword, campaign and account level with report export, names Marketing Stream data and placement modifiers, and its automation harvests search terms from performance data. - Perpetua: Perpetua pulls campaign and search-term data from Amazon itself, and custom reporting includes a placements dimension. Hourly data through Amazon Marketing Stream is listed on the Growth plan and above. - Quartile: Quartile pulls real-time performance data through Amazon Marketing Stream and offers expanded, granular reports. Search-term reports are not named on any page. - Teikametrics: Ads data syncs from Amazon with a stated one-day reporting delay, and Ads Manager shows campaign, ad group, product ad, keyword-target and product-target levels with hourly performance. No search-term or placement report view is documented in the help center. - Kuudo: Yes. The Build the Right Amazon Ads Report Skill returns a ready-to-submit report request with the correct field grain, ad product filter, advertiser context, and known caveats, and the Ads MCP runs it. ### Structure audit - Pacvue: Automation covers campaign activation, pausing and restructuring, and routes keywords and product targets into the correct campaign structures; Prism describes an agent auditing accounts and generating an execution plan. Duplicate, concentration or serving-problem checks are not published. - Perpetua: One goal auto-launches a set of auto, keyword and product-targeting campaigns in Perpetua's structure, or Campaign Takeover adopts existing campaigns as they are. No page describes an audit of serving problems, concentration or duplicates. - Quartile: Quartile applies its single-keyword, single-ASIN, single-match-type campaign structure or works inside the customer's existing structure. No page describes auditing portfolio health, serving problems, concentration or duplicate campaigns. - Teikametrics: The recommendation hub flags unadvertised products and advertised products not yet in smart campaigns, and campaigns built elsewhere can opt into goal-based bidding. No audit of serving problems, spend concentration or duplicate targets is documented. - Kuudo: Yes. The Audit Sponsored Products Campaign Structure Skill returns a portfolio health report that separates serving problems, concentration risk, and structural hints from unsupported optimization claims. It is not for automatic pause or budget changes. ### Search-term mining - Pacvue: Rules harvest high-performing search terms, expand targeting and negate low-performing keywords. The Agent page says it explains the why behind each change; for rule-driven negations the published reasoning is the threshold the team set. - Perpetua: The engine harvests converting search terms as new targets, fully automatically, after a set conversion count, or on manual approval, and suggests negatives for terms past click and spend thresholds with no or one conversion. The pages state the thresholds but do not show per-term reasoning. - Quartile: No page mentions search-term mining, keyword harvesting, negative keywords, or reasoning shown for them. - Teikametrics: Every day the AI recommends keywords and product targets to add and keywords to negate, gated by a fixed threshold; users accept, snooze or dismiss, or switch to automatic. The only stated justification is the click and conversion threshold, not a per-term rationale. - Kuudo: Yes. The Mine Sponsored Products Search Terms Skill returns two scale tables, a sufficiency-gated negative list, rising terms to watch, and a separate product-targeting stream, from a validated search-term report. ### Bids and budgets - Pacvue: Bids and budgets are changed by AI models optimizing toward return and efficiency targets, by rules and performance thresholds the team defines, and by Agent recommendations the team approves. - Perpetua: You set a target advertising cost of sales and a daily budget per goal; the ad engine recalculates bids daily, hourly with the Stream-based conversion optimization beta, to hit that target and shifts budget between the goal's campaigns. You can override with fixed bids, multipliers, minimum and maximum bids, placement multipliers and rules. - Quartile: Quartile's algorithm changes bids, budgets and placements automatically on an hourly cadence from Marketing Stream data. Customers can also write their own bid and budget rules and run them on a schedule alongside or instead of the AI. - Teikametrics: Goal-based bidding sets bids hourly on Amazon and daily on Walmart from a forecast conversion rate and payoff per order; the user sets a goal, an advertising cost of sales limit, a bid modifier and optional minimum and maximum bids. Campaign budgets are not changed by the bidder; budget pacing only monitors them. - Kuudo: Your AI proposes bid and budget changes from live reports. Write tools on the Ads MCP are guarded: they validate input, apply your workspace policy, and may require explicit human approval before a change reaches Amazon. ### Budget pacing - Pacvue: Budgets are managed with pacing, flighting and out-of-budget controls; pacing prevents overspending early and rebalances budgets on pacing and performance. Pacing to a monthly plan is not stated in those words. - Perpetua: Budgets are daily per goal, minimum $10, and the engine balances them across the goal's campaigns. The monthly budget tracker shows projected spend against a monthly target but does not pace or cap spend; scheduled budget multipliers can be set for specific dates. - Quartile: No page describes pacing spend to a monthly plan or target; budgets are only described as updated automatically together with bids and placements. - Teikametrics: Budget pacing lets you set a monthly budget goal per merchant and shows month-to-date spend, a daily breakdown, a full-month forecast and a daily Slack or email snapshot. No automatic adjustment of bids or daily budgets to land the monthly target is documented. - Kuudo: Yes. The Pace Amazon Ads Budgets to Plan Skill returns a plan-versus-actual report, a rest-of-month forecast, and a campaign-level budget change set that remains a proposal until approved. ### Applies changes - Pacvue: Rule and AI automations run continuously without manual intervention, and Prism describes applying changes across budgets, bids and creatives instantly. Pacvue Agent actions are approval-based: the team approves changes before anything runs. - Perpetua: Engine bid changes, automatic-mode harvesting and automatic-mode rules write to Amazon without a click, and bid edits made in the Amazon console are overridden by the engine. Rules, harvesting and recommendations can instead be set to require approval. - Quartile: Quartile applies changes to Amazon itself with no user step described: bids, budgets and placements update in real time, and customer rules run automatically on the chosen schedule. - Teikametrics: Once AI bidding is on, the bidder writes bids to Amazon and Walmart itself. Keyword and negative recommendations default to a review list the user accepts, but smart filters and custom filters can be set to automatic so matches are added or negated without review. - Kuudo: Yes, and every write is guarded. Read tools return data only. Write tools validate input, apply your workspace policy, and may require explicit human approval before a change reaches Amazon, so whether a given change waits on a person is your policy's call. ### Checks the result - Pacvue: Every Agent action carries change logs and visibility into what changed, why, and what impact it had, and the automation page promises full change transparency. A separate confirmation that a change landed in Amazon is not described. - Perpetua: An optional Amazon status column shows the status Amazon reports back, normally about 15 minutes after a change, with an explanation of mismatches; a red dot flags ads Amazon is not serving. No page describes reporting the performance outcome of an individual change. - Quartile: No page states that Quartile confirms an individual change took effect or reports that change's outcome; reporting is described in aggregate. - Teikametrics: Bid changes are described as expected to appear in the channel within minutes, and the Compass AI value view graphs the count of automated bid changes and an estimated money-saved figure. No per-change confirmation that a write succeeded, and no before-and-after outcome report per change, is documented. - Kuudo: No separate verification step is documented for ads. Your AI can read the campaign back through the same Ads MCP after a write and report what it finds. ### Ad products - Pacvue: Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands including video, Sponsored Display, Amazon DSP and AMC on Amazon; Sponsored TV appears only as measured through AMC. Also 100 or more retailers including Walmart Connect, Instacart, Target, Kroger, Criteo and TikTok Shop. - Perpetua: Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands including video, and Sponsored Display for sellers and vendors across 20 or more marketplaces, plus DSP goals. Sponsored TV is not mentioned on the site or help center. Walmart Sponsored Products and Instacart ads are also supported. - Quartile: Amazon coverage is stated as Amazon Sponsored Ads and Amazon DSP; Sponsored Products, Brands, Display and TV are not named individually. Other channels: Walmart, Instacart, Criteo (Target, Best Buy), Google Ads, Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads. - Teikametrics: Amazon Sponsored Products get creation and optimization; Sponsored Brands and Display get optimization through basic bidding; Amazon DSP orders and line items can be edited on Advanced and Enterprise. Walmart Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, video and onsite display, plus TikTok Shop, are covered. Sponsored TV is not listed. - Kuudo: 756 Amazon Ads operations across Sponsored Products, Brands, Display, and TV, plus DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud, through the Amazon Ads MCP. ### Who decides - Pacvue: Three mechanisms are published: Pacvue's proprietary AI models optimizing toward defined targets, rules and thresholds the team defines, and Agent recommendations the team reviews and approves. The Agent explains the reason for each change and every action is logged. - Perpetua: Perpetua's engine decides bids against your target; rules you configure for negatives, organic rank, competitor signals and inventory, and recommendations you approve or dismiss, add user-driven changes. A history dashboard logs when rule changes applied, but no page shows why the engine chose a given bid. - Quartile: Quartile's proprietary, patented AI decides changes toward a target the customer sets, such as return on ad spend or total advertising cost of sales; customers can add or substitute their own scheduled rules. No page says the customer can see why a specific change was made. - Teikametrics: Teikametrics' own goal-based bidding algorithm decides bids inside the user's goal, cost limit and minimum and maximum; user-written logic is limited to keyword custom filters and dayparting schedules. The FAQ explains the general drivers of bid moves but no per-change explanation or change log is documented. - Kuudo: Your playbook: 20 Skills (2 Kuudo-certified), each stating the job it does, the inputs it needs, the outputs it returns, and the limits it keeps, or Skills you write in the same format. Your AI runs them where you can read every step. ### Amazon Marketing Cloud - Pacvue: A drag-and-drop AMC canvas, a vetted SQL query library, Amazon-certified and Pacvue-trained audience models, and pushing AMC audiences into Sponsored Display and DSP. Pacvue Agent converts business questions into AMC-ready SQL. - Perpetua: You connect an AMC instance in Perpetua, can write SQL queries against it, build template-based AMC audiences that apply as bid multipliers on Sponsored Products and Brands and to DSP, and view a consumer lifetime-value report without SQL. Custom AMC reporting is listed on the Premium plan. - Quartile: Quartile says it uses Amazon Marketing Cloud data to build personas and tailored audiences and to inform full-funnel strategy. No page describes customers running their own AMC queries or managing AMC audiences themselves. - Teikametrics: Pricing lists integrated Amazon Marketing Cloud on Advanced and Enterprise; the help center says AMC is for managed and agency editions, offers prebuilt AMC dashboards and template-built AMC and DSP audiences for accounts with a DSP connection. Custom SQL AMC queries are not documented. - Kuudo: Yes. Amazon Marketing Cloud queries and audiences run through the Amazon Ads MCP, and the Turn AMC Questions Into Answers and Audiences Skill returns validated SQL, privacy-safe results, and a segment ready to activate in DSP. ### Seller operations - Pacvue: Pacvue tracks inventory, Buy Box, pricing and product content, alerts on sales, inventory and purchase orders, and routes issues to sales, supply chain or marketing. It is not described as managing orders, editing listings or changing prices on Amazon; the only writes it makes are to ad spend. - Perpetua: The SP-API connection supplies product data such as new ASINs and inventory levels, plus sales and traffic reporting, and rules can pause ads on inventory levels. No page describes editing listings, prices, orders or catalog. - Quartile: Beyond ads, Quartile manages Amazon promotions (coupons, Lightning Deals, Prime Exclusive Deals, Subscribe and Save). Order handling, repricing and catalog edits are not published. - Teikametrics: Beyond ads it reads Seller Central product and sales data, provides inventory demand forecasts and stockout alerts as reporting, generates listing content that is held for review before submission, and offers FBA refunds recovery through a partner at a 25 percent commission. Order management and repricing are not published. - Kuudo: Yes. 341 Selling Partner operations for orders, inventory, pricing, catalog, and reports, through the Selling Partner MCP. ### Vendor Central - Pacvue: Revenue Recovery audits up to two years of Vendor Central data for invoice shortages, chargebacks, price claims and co-op overbilling, raises purchase order and invoice mismatch alerts, and identifies and files disputes. Whether disputes are filed inside Vendor Central or prepared for the user is not stated. - Perpetua: Vendors see Amazon Retail Analytics sales data and Rapid Retail Analytics inventory alongside advertising data. No purchase-order or other Vendor Central operations are published. - Quartile: No page or doc mentions Vendor Central, purchase orders or retail analytics. - Teikametrics: Vendor onboarding grants a Teikametrics user Vendor Central report permissions so total sales and inventory flow in; ordered revenue is limited to brand-registered vendors, inventory refreshes weekly and sales lag up to 72 hours. No purchase-order or retail-analytics workflow is published. - Kuudo: Yes. 42 Vendor Central operations: purchase orders, direct fulfillment, shipments and invoices, and Retail Analytics, through the Amazon Vendor Central MCP. ### Creative - Pacvue: Pacvue publishes image generation for Sponsored Brands: its GenAI tool creates custom visuals during campaign setup from the product images on your Amazon detail page plus a keyword-aligned text prompt, built on Amazon's image generation. Pacvue reports that advertisers using Image Generator increased campaign submissions by over 20%. The capability it publishes is images; its current platform and AI pages describe agents, automation and reporting, not video or listing copy generation. - Perpetua: Perpetua's DSP Creatives Builder assembles ads from assets you bring: you pick up to 20 products, a product image pulled from Amazon or a custom one, plus your logo and headline, and static images and video are uploaded to spec. The builder validates and submits what you supply. No image, video or listing copy generation is published on it. - Quartile: Quartile's Amazon Sponsored Ads page lists flexible campaign structure, automated hourly bidding, Amazon Marketing Cloud signals, rules-based optimization and reports, and claims no creation of images, video or listing content. Its Amazon DSP launch tool is described as component-based creative launches with bulk uploads, which manages creative you already have. Checked the Sponsored Ads page, the homepage and the DSP launch tool page; nothing published covers generating creative. - Teikametrics: Teikametrics generates listing content and images through GenAI Smart Pages: AI-crafted titles, bullet points and descriptions for Amazon and Walmart listings, plus AI-generated product images tailored to each platform's guidelines. The page publishing the image capability is an early access signup. It describes no video generation. - Kuudo: Yes. Agent Iris generates and audits listing images, and creates, edits, or extends owned product videos with Google Gemini Omni. Approved images publish through the Selling Partner MCP with ingestion checks; video assembly and final upload remain external. Video returns through signed download URLs. ### Playbooks - Pacvue: Users can apply rule-based optimizations from Pacvue's template library or build their own rules and thresholds. Pacvue Agent ships fixed skills for data analysis, recommendations, report building, guided actions and AMC queries; no user-readable or user-written playbooks for the Agent or its models are published. - Perpetua: Readable playbooks exist, such as AMC audiences for sponsored ads and seasonal recommendations and strategies, plus free Ad School courses. User automation is limited to configurable rules, strategies and scheduled changes; no page offers user-written automation logic. - Quartile: Customers can write their own bid and budget rules, apply them to campaigns and schedule them. No published library of playbooks or strategies the customer can read exists, and no automation logic beyond rules is described. - Teikametrics: Campaign creator offers basic, auto, manual and custom structures and named goals such as grow, profit, launch and liquidate, and the help center publishes readable strategy guides. User-authored logic is limited to custom filters with performance thresholds and dayparting schedules; no user-written playbooks or scripts. - Kuudo: 20 Skills (2 Kuudo-certified) for Amazon Ads and seller work, each publishing what it is not for, and you can write your own in the same format. ### Operating knowledge - Pacvue: Pacvue states its recommendations come from proprietary machine learning models built for commerce media, that Pacvue for Amazon is purpose-built for Amazon's complexity, and that in-platform assistance delivers module-specific best practices. The know-how itself is not published or inspectable. - Perpetua: Perpetua publishes Amazon strategy content, but its pages describe recommendations as generated from your strategies and goal performance and do not state that Amazon operating rules or know-how are encoded in them. - Quartile: Amazon know-how is delivered by a dedicated human strategist and channel experts alongside the AI. No page states that Amazon operating rules or best practices are encoded into the recommendations themselves. - Teikametrics: Marketing calls it retail-trained AI; the bidder is said to fold in seasonality, day of week and Prime Day, the recommendation hub pre-fills goals and cost limits from product performance and category trends, and Compass benchmarks aggregate Teikametrics users. Amazon policy or operating rules are not described as inputs. - Kuudo: Agent Atlas supplies curated Amazon operating playbooks and rules that your agent retrieves before it acts. ### Your data - Pacvue: Data lives in Pacvue's platform; the DaaS product pushes daily feeds into Snowflake, BigQuery and other warehouses, Console exports reports, and MCP returns CSV or Excel with up to two years of history. No retention period is published; the terms allow Pacvue to use customer data in aggregated form. - Perpetua: Advertising data lives in Perpetua's platform; custom reporting and dashboards export CSV, and no warehouse destination or public API is published. The terms say customers own their materials but Perpetua may freely use data to improve its services; the privacy policy gives no retention period or hosting location. - Quartile: Advertising data lands on Quartile's US servers and the terms let Quartile retain data derived from the services. No customer API or warehouse destination is published. Click-tracking data is kept up to about 13 months. - Teikametrics: Advertising data lives in Teikametrics' platform; users can export tables and Compass data as CSV or Excel, but no warehouse destination or customer API is published. The terms say the company has no obligation to retain customer data after termination and may use it for aggregated metrics. - Kuudo: Agent Flow in Private Cloud lands your Ads and Selling Partner data in a data lake in your own cloud; your warehouse and BI tools read it downstream. ### Where you use it - Pacvue: Web Console, Pacvue Agent inside Slack, and a Pacvue MCP endpoint for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. The MCP is read-only today (reports, data queries, share of voice); a write-capable campaign MCP is described as in development. No mobile app or public API documentation is published. - Perpetua: Perpetua is used through its browser app. Help-center searches for mobile app and API return no mobile app, public API, or ChatGPT, Claude or MCP integration; the Premium plan lists custom data integrations without detail. - Quartile: Quartile describes an ad optimization platform paired with white-glove service, and every customer gets a dedicated strategist. No mobile app, customer API documentation, MCP server, or ChatGPT or Claude integration is published. - Teikametrics: A web app with an in-app assistant chat, a Teikametrics MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT in early access with twelve read-only tools and no write actions, and daily Slack budget-pacing notifications. No mobile app and no customer-facing API are published. - Kuudo: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, n8n, or any MCP client. ### Where it runs - Pacvue: Pacvue is used through its hosted Console, which the MCP page calls the governance, configuration and operational hub. No option to deploy in the customer's own cloud account is published. - Perpetua: Perpetua is a hosted web application with user credentials issued by Perpetua. No option to deploy in the customer's own cloud account is published. - Quartile: Quartile runs its own hosted platform; the privacy policy says it operates in the United States and stores data on its own servers. No option to deploy in the customer's cloud account is published. - Teikametrics: Teikametrics is a hosted web application; the terms define the services as Teikametrics-operated websites, platform and software accessed over the internet. No option to deploy in the customer's own cloud account is published. - Kuudo: Choose Managed MCP, operated by Kuudo, or Private Cloud in your own AWS, GCP, Azure, or Cloudflare account. Agent Flow and its data lake run in Private Cloud. ### Approval - Pacvue: Teams can apply approval workflows and guardrails and choose the level of automation. Pacvue Agent actions are approval-based in every case, while rule automations run continuously once enabled. - Perpetua: Rules and keyword harvesting can be set to manual approval in a pending-approval tab or to apply automatically, and recommendations require approve or dismiss. The engine's own bid changes have no approval step. - Quartile: No review queue, approval step or manual mode is described. The AI updates bids, budgets and placements in real time and customer rules run automatically on schedule. - Teikametrics: There is no approval queue for bids: once AI bidding is enabled they post automatically, and manual bid edits are only available when automation is off. Keyword and negative filters default to review mode with accept, snooze and dismiss, and can be switched to automatic. - Kuudo: Read tools return data only. Write tools are guarded and may require your explicit approval before a change reaches Amazon. ### Pricing model - Pacvue: No pricing page exists; the pricing and plans URLs return 404 and the demo, contact and platform pages carry no prices, plan tiers, percentage-of-spend terms, minimums or contract length. The only route is a demo request. - Perpetua: Essentials is $695 a month for up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend; Growth is $695 a month plus an undisclosed percentage of ad spend above $10,000; Premium is custom above $500,000. Annual commitment is not published; the terms say contracts auto-renew per the order form. - Quartile: No prices are published and there is no pricing page. The terms say fees are set in an order form under standard pricing tiers based on aggregate monthly ad spend, number of channels and service level, due in advance and non-refundable, on a one-year auto-renewing term. - Teikametrics: Essentials is $179 a month, or $149 a month billed annually, for up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend; above that, plans add 3 percent of monthly ad spend over $10,000. The help center also lists Essential Tier 2 at $599, Advanced at $1,439, Enterprise as custom, and a free basic plan without AI. - Kuudo: Kuudo Community (Private Cloud) includes 10,000 free Amazon API calls per month. Kuudo Pro (Private Cloud): $0 a month plus $0.95 per 1,000 Amazon API calls. Kuudo Scale (Private Cloud): $249 a month plus $0.55 per 1,000 Amazon API calls. No percentage of ad spend, and the calculator models a month for a brand owner, an agency or aggregator, and an automation-heavy seller. ### Seats and organizations - Pacvue: No user, seat or account counts and no plan tiers appear on the Amazon, automation, orchestration or demo pages; the Amazon page lists user roles only. The MCP page says access scopes to your existing Pacvue account permissions. - Perpetua: There is no limit on team members, and unlimited accounts can be added as long as combined monthly ad spend stays within the plan's spend tier. Manager accounts add administrator and manager roles for agencies. - Quartile: No user, seat or account limits are published for any tier; the solutions pages and terms refer to a single Quartile account without counts. - Teikametrics: Neither the pricing page nor the billing article states user, seat or account limits; plans are tiered by ad spend. Roles are account owner, admin and viewer, and an agency edition manages multiple nested client accounts. - Kuudo: Kuudo Pro (Private Cloud): up to 25 seats across 5 organizations. Kuudo Scale (Private Cloud): up to 50 seats across 10 organizations. Enterprise: unlimited. ### Free tier - Pacvue: No free trial or free tier is mentioned on the homepage, demo, contact, platform or Amazon pages; the entry point offered is a personalized demo. - Perpetua: The pricing and features pages list no free trial or free tier; the call to action is a demo. The only trial in the help center is a 60-day trial of a paid AMC purchase dataset. - Quartile: No free trial or free tier is published. The terms define a 60-day evaluation period in which the client may terminate for convenience through a button in the portal, effective 30 days after clicking; fees are otherwise due in advance and non-refundable. - Teikametrics: The signup page advertises a 30-day trial for Essentials, for sellers with up to $10,000 in monthly marketplace ad spend. It lists $179 a month or $149 a month billed annually. The current page does not state card requirements or a free-plan fallback. - Kuudo: Kuudo Community (Private Cloud) includes 10,000 free Amazon API calls per month, with one instance of each Amazon MCP server in your own cloud. ## Choose Perpetua if - You run several brands and want one published price, with no seat math. Perpetua lists its plans: Essentials at $695 a month for up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend, Growth at $695 plus an undisclosed percentage of spend above that, Premium custom above $500,000. There is no limit on team members, and unlimited accounts can be added while combined monthly ad spend stays inside the plan's tier, with administrator and manager roles for agencies. Pacvue publishes no prices, plan tiers or seat counts; its pricing and plans URLs return 404 and the route is a demo request. - You want an engine you set and leave, running to a target on its own. You set a target advertising cost of sales and a daily budget per goal, and the ad engine recalculates bids daily, or hourly in the Stream-based conversion optimization beta, then shifts budget between that goal's campaigns. Template-based AMC audiences apply as bid multipliers on Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands and carry through to DSP. Fixed bids, multipliers, minimum and maximum bids, placement multipliers and rules are yours to override with, and an optional Amazon status column shows what Amazon reported back about 15 minutes after a change. Kuudo runs the advertising job as agent tasks on a playbook, on request or on a schedule; it ships no standing bid engine. ## Choose Quartile if - One algorithm should run Amazon alongside Walmart, Instacart, Criteo, Google, Meta and Microsoft. Quartile's algorithm changes bids, budgets and placements automatically on an hourly cadence from Amazon Marketing Stream data, across Amazon Sponsored Ads and Amazon DSP plus Walmart, Instacart, Criteo for Target and Best Buy, Google Ads, Meta Ads and Microsoft Ads. Amazon recognized Quartile for its use of the Amazon Ads API. A dedicated human strategist and channel experts come with the platform, so the Amazon know-how arrives as a person rather than as software your team configures. - The deal calendar and the bidding belong to the same team. Beyond advertising, Quartile manages Amazon coupons, Lightning Deals, Prime Exclusive Deals and Subscribe and Save. Pacvue alerts on pricing and Buy Box but is not described as running promotions, and neither Perpetua nor Teikametrics publishes promotion management. If the same people set the promotion and then fund it with ads, that is one product instead of two. ## Choose Teikametrics if - You are under $10,000 of monthly ad spend and want a published price with a trial. Teikametrics publishes a trial described as risk-free for 30 days for sellers with up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend, converting to $149 or $179 a month, with card requirements and a free-plan fallback unstated on the current signup page. Essentials is $179 a month, or $149 billed annually, and above $10,000 the plans add 3 percent of monthly ad spend over that line. Pacvue and Quartile publish no prices and no trial. - You want a monthly budget number watched for you, and a daily note about it. Budget pacing sets a monthly budget goal per merchant and shows month-to-date spend, a daily breakdown, a full-month forecast and a daily Slack or email snapshot. It reports rather than acts: no automatic adjustment of bids or daily budgets to land the monthly target is documented, so the decision stays with your team, and the daily note is the product. ## Choose Kuudo if - You want the advertising job and everything beyond PPC: ads, seller, vendor and creative, from the same AI. Amazon Ads: 756 operations across 55 services, for Sponsored Products, Brands, Display and TV, DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud. Selling Partner: 341 operations for orders, inventory, pricing, catalog and reports. Vendor Central: 42 operations for purchase orders, shipments, invoices and Retail Analytics. Creative: listing images and product video through Agent Iris. The operating context from Agent Atlas, and your data in a lake you own, all from the AI client you want to use. Pacvue's console does the advertising slice of this. Kuudo does the whole job. - Your AI client is already chosen, and it is not a vendor's. Kuudo connects to Claude, Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, n8n, Make, Activepieces and any other client that speaks Model Context Protocol. Where a vendor on this page ships an MCP, it points at the vendor's app and exposes the vendor's list; Kuudo's expose Amazon's own API operations through Managed MCP or Private Cloud. Your team keeps the client it runs today, and the agent that handles advertising is the one that handles the rest of the Amazon job. - Your rules, your logic, your workflows: read the Skill before it runs, and write the next one. 20 Skills (2 Kuudo-certified) state the job each one does, the inputs it needs, the outputs it returns and the limits it keeps, and you write your own logic, rules and workflows in the same format the structure audit and search-term Skills ship in. The Marketing Cloud Skill is the example: a plain-English question becomes validated SQL, privacy-safe results, and a segment ready to activate in DSP behind your approval. Agent Atlas supplies the Amazon operating knowledge the agent reads before it acts. A vendor's engine runs the vendor's logic; here the logic is yours to read and change. - Your knowledge, your rules and your choice of deployment. Private. Trusted. Owned. Choose Managed MCP, operated by Kuudo, or Private Cloud in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Cloudflare account. In Private Cloud, Agent Flow lands your Ads and Selling Partner data in a data lake there for your warehouse and BI tools; your cloud resources connect directly to Amazon without routing substantive requests through Kuudo. Kuudo Pro (Private Cloud) is $0 a month plus $0.95 per 1,000 Amazon API calls, and Kuudo Scale (Private Cloud) is $249 a month plus $0.55 per 1,000 Amazon API calls: a price for the work, not a share of the budget. - How much you automate, and who does the work, is your call. Read tools return data only. Write tools validate the input, apply your workspace policy, and may require a person's approval before a change reaches Amazon, and every call is recorded with its parameters and approval state in a run log. An engine you set and leave is a fine working style; here it is a policy you wrote, not a default you inherited. ## Stay with Pacvue if - Amazon is one of a dozen retail media networks you buy. Pacvue covers Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands including video, Sponsored Display, Amazon DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud, plus 100 or more retailers including Walmart Connect, Instacart, Target, Kroger, Criteo and TikTok Shop. Quartile reaches Walmart, Instacart, Criteo, Google, Meta and Microsoft; Teikametrics reaches Walmart and TikTok Shop; Kuudo's advertising coverage is the Amazon Ads API. If the media plan spans that many networks, replacing the console is a bigger project than a bidding decision. - You want someone else chasing the shortages, chargebacks and co-op overbilling, dispute by dispute. Revenue Recovery audits up to two years of Vendor Central data for invoice shortages, chargebacks, price claims and co-op overbilling, raises purchase order and invoice mismatch alerts, and identifies and files disputes. None of the three alternatives here publishes anything comparable. Kuudo's Vendor Central MCP puts the purchase orders, shipments, invoices and Retail Analytics behind that audit in front of your agent; the filing is Pacvue's service, and the reason to stay is that you want it done for you. - The console is where your team already works, and the team is trained on it. Pacvue holds ad automation, budget pacing and flighting, its drag-and-drop Amazon Marketing Cloud canvas and vetted query library, inventory, Buy Box, pricing and content alerts routed to sales, supply chain or marketing, approval workflows and guardrails, and change logs on every Agent action. Its Data-as-a-Service product pushes daily feeds into Snowflake, BigQuery and other warehouses. Each of those is a vendor's screen for a job your own agent runs on Amazon's surface from the client you want to use; a migration buys little if a trained team already works well in those screens. ## Questions that decide fit ### If I connect an AI assistant, does it reach Amazon or the vendor's platform? Pacvue and Teikametrics both ship an MCP, and both point at their own product: their reports, their row limits, their read-only tool lists. Kuudo's MCP servers expose Amazon's own API operations, so the tools your agent holds are the operations Amazon publishes. - Pacvue: An MCP to Pacvue: report, data query and share-of-voice services, read-only, with a 50,000-row cap per report, two years of history and a 180-day maximum per pull. A campaign-management MCP with human confirmation is described as in development. - Perpetua: Perpetua is used through its browser app. Help-center searches return no public API, mobile app, or ChatGPT, Claude or MCP integration; the Premium plan lists custom data integrations without detail. - Quartile: No MCP server, customer API documentation, or ChatGPT or Claude integration is published; ChatGPT appears on Quartile's site only as an ad channel it manages. Quartile describes an ad optimization platform with white-glove service and a dedicated strategist, so no path for your agent is published. - Teikametrics: An MCP to Teikametrics, in early access: twelve read-only tools over Teikametrics' own data for Claude and ChatGPT, with no write or campaign-management actions. - Kuudo: Amazon. Kuudo's MCP servers expose Amazon's own API operations as tools, 756 of them for Ads across 55 services. Choose Managed MCP or Private Cloud. A vendor MCP is an interview with the vendor's database. What your agent sees is what the vendor exports, and what it can do is what the vendor has built so far. That is a fine trade when the vendor's product is what you are buying, and a hard ceiling when the agent is. ### What decides a bid change, and can I read the reasoning? Each of the four decides with its own model, plus rules you configure inside its product. Kuudo has no bidding algorithm: decisions come from Skills, playbooks that state the job, the inputs, the outputs and the limits, and your AI runs them where you can read every step. - Pacvue: Proprietary machine learning models optimizing toward defined targets, rules and thresholds your team sets, and Agent recommendations your team approves. The Agent explains the reason for each change and every action is logged; the models' own logic is not published. - Perpetua: The engine decides bids against your target, and you add rules for negatives, organic rank, competitor signals and inventory. A history dashboard logs when rule changes applied, and no page shows why the engine chose a given bid. - Quartile: Quartile's proprietary, patented AI decides changes toward a target you set, and you can add or substitute your own scheduled rules. No page says a customer can see why a specific change was made. - Teikametrics: Goal-based bidding decides inside your goal, cost limit and optional minimum and maximum. User-written logic is limited to keyword custom filters and dayparting schedules, and the FAQ explains the general drivers rather than a per-change rationale. - Kuudo: Your playbook: 20 Skills (2 Kuudo-certified), each stating the job it does, the inputs it needs, the outputs it returns, and the limits it keeps, or Skills you write in the same format. If the algorithm is the thing you are buying, its opacity is part of the deal and a reasonable one. If the judgment your team earned is the asset, it needs a form you can read, edit and hand to someone new. ### What can change on my Amazon account before I approve it? The answer differs by product and by feature. Quartile posts changes in real time with no review step described, Pacvue's Agent actions are approval-based while its rule automations run continuously, and Kuudo's read tools change nothing while its write tools apply your workspace policy first. - Pacvue: Teams can apply approval workflows and guardrails and choose the level of automation. Agent actions are approval-based in every case, while rule automations run continuously once enabled. - Perpetua: Rules and keyword harvesting can be set to manual approval in a pending-approval tab or to apply automatically, and recommendations require approve or dismiss. The engine's own bid changes have no approval step. - Quartile: No review queue, approval step or manual mode is described. The AI updates bids, budgets and placements in real time, and customer rules run automatically on the chosen schedule. - Teikametrics: There is no approval queue for bids: once AI bidding is on they post automatically, and manual bid edits are only available when automation is off. Keyword and negative filters default to review and can be switched to automatic. - Kuudo: Read tools return data only. Write tools are guarded: they validate input, apply your workspace policy, and may require your explicit approval before a change reaches Amazon. Automation is the point of all of these, so an unattended write is a feature, not a flaw. The question is who sets the boundary. A policy you configure per workspace is a different thing from a mode a vendor ships. ### What does each one cost, and can I see the price before a call? Of Pacvue and its alternatives, Perpetua and Teikametrics publish prices: both start at a $10,000 monthly ad spend tier and add a percentage above it; Pacvue and Quartile price through a demo and an order form. Kuudo meters Amazon API calls and takes no percentage of ad spend. - Pacvue: No pricing page exists; the pricing and plans URLs return 404, and the demo, contact and platform pages carry no prices, plan tiers, percentage-of-spend terms, minimums or contract length. The only route is a demo request. - Perpetua: Essentials is $695 a month for up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend; Growth is $695 a month plus an undisclosed percentage of ad spend above $10,000; Premium is custom above $500,000. The terms say contracts auto-renew per the order form. - Quartile: No prices are published. The terms set fees in an order form under standard tiers based on aggregate monthly ad spend, number of channels and service level, due in advance and non-refundable, on a one-year auto-renewing term. - Teikametrics: Essentials is $179 a month, or $149 billed annually, for up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend; above that, plans add 3 percent of monthly ad spend over $10,000. Essential Tier 2 is $599, Advanced $1,439, Enterprise custom, and a free basic plan carries no AI. - Kuudo: Kuudo Pro (Private Cloud): $0 a month plus $0.95 per 1,000 Amazon API calls. Kuudo Scale (Private Cloud): $249 a month plus $0.55 per 1,000 Amazon API calls. No percentage of ad spend, and the calculator models a month for a brand owner, an agency or aggregator, and an automation-heavy seller. A percentage of ad spend rises with the budget whether or not the work does, which is why it suits a managed service and chafes on a self-run account. Metering API calls prices the work, so model the month you expect: reports pulled, audits run, writes applied. ## Questions and answers ### What are the best Pacvue alternatives and competitors? Perpetua, Quartile and Teikametrics are the closest like-for-like alternatives: each runs Amazon Sponsored Ads with its own bidding, and Perpetua and Teikametrics publish their prices while Quartile prices by order form. Kuudo is a different shape: MCP servers that expose Amazon's own API operations through Managed MCP or Private Cloud to the AI client your team wants to use. ### How much does Pacvue cost? Pacvue does not publish prices. Its pricing and plans URLs return 404, and the demo, contact and platform pages carry no plan tiers, percentage-of-spend terms, minimums or contract length, so the only route is a demo request. Among the alternatives, Perpetua starts at $695 a month and Teikametrics at $179 a month, both for up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend. ### Does Pacvue have a free trial? No free trial or free tier appears on Pacvue's homepage, demo, contact, platform or Amazon pages; the entry point offered is a personalized demo. Teikametrics publishes a 30-day risk-free trial for sellers up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend, and Kuudo Community (Private Cloud) is free for one instance of each Amazon MCP server in your own cloud. ### Which Pacvue alternative has an MCP server? Teikametrics has one in early access: twelve read-only tools over its own data for Claude and ChatGPT. Perpetua and Quartile publish none. Teikametrics' MCP, like Pacvue's own read-only one, is an MCP to the vendor; Kuudo's MCP servers expose Amazon's API operations through Managed MCP or Private Cloud. ### Can I run Pacvue and Kuudo together? Yes. Keep Pacvue for the retailers beyond Amazon, Vendor Central revenue recovery and the Amazon Marketing Cloud canvas, and use Kuudo for the Amazon API work your AI client does directly. Keep bid and budget writing in one of the two rather than both. ### Which of these is best for an agency running many accounts? Perpetua puts no limit on team members and allows unlimited accounts while combined monthly ad spend stays inside the plan's tier, with administrator and manager roles. Teikametrics has an agency edition managing nested client accounts. Kuudo Pro (Private Cloud) covers up to 25 seats across 5 organizations and Scale up to 50 across 10, with unlimited on Enterprise. ### Which of these can query Amazon Marketing Cloud? Pacvue has a drag-and-drop canvas, a vetted SQL library and audience activation into Sponsored Display and DSP. Perpetua lets you write SQL against a connected instance and build template audiences, Teikametrics lists it on Advanced and Enterprise with prebuilt dashboards, and Quartile uses the data to build personas rather than letting customers query it. Kuudo runs Amazon Marketing Cloud queries and audiences through the Ads MCP. ## Sources - [Amazon Ads MCP tools reference](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/mcp-reference/amazon-ads-tools/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Amazon Agent Atlas documentation](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/amazon-agent-atlas/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Kuudo pricing calculator](https://www.kuudo.com/pricing/calculator/) (checked 2026-09-03) - [Amazon Agent Flow documentation](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/amazon-agent-flow/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Amazon Agent Iris documentation](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/amazon-agent-iris/) (checked 2026-09-08) - [Kuudo MCP servers reference](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/mcp-reference/tools/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Kuudo pricing](https://www.kuudo.com/pricing/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Amazon Agent Skills reference](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/skills-reference/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Amazon Selling Partner MCP tools reference](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/mcp-reference/amazon-sp-tools/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue MCP](https://pacvue.com/platform/mcp-data-centralization/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue book a demo](https://pacvue.com/book-a-demo/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue contact](https://pacvue.com/about/contact-us/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue for Amazon](https://pacvue.com/marketplaces/pacvue-for-amazon/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue real-time automation and optimization](https://pacvue.com/platform/real-time-automation-and-optimization/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue Agent](https://pacvue.com/platform/artificial-intelligence/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue Amazon Marketing Cloud](https://pacvue.com/amazon-marketing-cloud/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue unified commerce operations](https://pacvue.com/platform/unified-commerce-execution-operation/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue revenue recovery](https://pacvue.com/platform/revenue-recovery/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue Amazon DSP](https://pacvue.com/amazon-demand-side-platform/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue Data-as-a-Service](https://pacvue.com/platform/daas/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Pacvue blog: changes to Amazon Sponsored Brands images requirement](https://pacvue.com/blog/changes-to-amazon-sponsored-brands-images-requirement/) (checked 2026-09-08) - [Perpetua pricing](https://perpetua.io/pricing/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: DSP and AMC audiences](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/9271635-dsp-and-amc-audiences) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: sales and traffic for vendors](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/5549403-sales-traffic-reporting-tab-for-vendors) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: rules for negative matches](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/12458912-rules-negative-match-based-on-search-term-performance) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: recommendations and strategies](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/4332332-recommendations-and-strategies) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua privacy policy](https://perpetua.io/privacy/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua terms of service](https://perpetua.io/tos/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: team members](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/3948317-adding-removing-team-members) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: account connection guide](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/9041975-account-connection-guide) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: Sponsored Products goal structure](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/3685907-sponsored-products-goal-structure) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua Amazon PPC software page](https://perpetua.io/amazon-ppc-software-sponsored-ads-management-tool/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: what the ad engine is doing](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/5897118-what-is-the-ad-engine-doing) (checked 2026-10-14) - [Perpetua help: monthly budget tracker](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/5395764-monthly-budget-tracker) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: campaign status columns](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/6888469-understanding-perpetua-s-campaign-toggle-status-and-amazon-status-columns) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua for agencies](https://perpetua.io/agencies/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: rules on organic rank](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/15925566-rules-adjust-bids-based-on-organic-rank) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Perpetua help: DSP Creatives Builder](https://help.perpetua.io/en/articles/10616072-dsp-creatives-builder) (checked 2026-09-08) - [Quartile for Amazon Sponsored Ads](https://www.quartile.com/amazon-ppc) (checked 2026-09-08) - [Quartile homepage](https://www.quartile.com/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Quartile Amazon promotion management](https://www.quartile.com/solutions/amazon-promotion-management) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Quartile for Mid-Market and Enterprise](https://www.quartile.com/solutions/quartile-for-mid-market-enterprise) (checked 2026-09-18) - [Quartile for SMB](https://www.quartile.com/solutions/quartile-for-smb) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Quartile privacy policy](https://www.quartile.com/legal/privacy-policy) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Quartile terms and conditions](https://www.quartile.com/legal/terms-and-conditions) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: MCP overview](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/16191857-teikametrics-mcp-overview) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: ad types and levels in Ads Manager](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/8369858-what-are-the-different-ad-types-and-ad-levels-in-ads-manager) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: bidding algorithm FAQ](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/5644025-bidding-algorithm-faq) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: Amazon audiences](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/10739194-create-amazon-audiences-in-teikametrics) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: ARI catalog recommendations](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/14848105-getting-started-with-ari-catalog-recommendations) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: Amazon 1P onboarding](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/9150961-amazon-1p-onboarding) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: keyword and targeting actions](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/11390286-keyword-and-targeting-actions) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: intro to recommendations](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/8307966-intro-to-recommendations) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics terms and conditions](https://www.teikametrics.com/terms-conditions/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics pricing](https://www.teikametrics.com/pricing/) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: the viewer role](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/9414979-what-is-the-user-role-viewer) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: connecting your Amazon account](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/5554704-connecting-your-amazon-account-to-teikametrics) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics free trial signup](https://go.teikametrics.com/flywheel-get-started-for-free) (checked 2026-10-14) - [Teikametrics help: performance trends and metrics](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/9016286-how-to-view-performance-trends-metrics-for-campaigns-ad-groups-and-products) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: products not in smart campaigns](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/8514758-campaign-creator-products-not-in-smart-campaigns) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: keyword recommendations](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/5918329-campaign-creator-keyword-recommendations) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: decoding predictive AI bidding](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/5644036-decoding-predictive-ai-bidding-a-guide-to-optimizing-your-advertising-strategy) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: budget pacing](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/8728385-budget-pacing) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: intro to the bidder](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/8308845-intro-to-the-teikametrics-bidder) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics help: Compass and AI value](https://help.teikametrics.com/en/articles/10722047-compass-ai-value) (checked 2026-09-02) - [Teikametrics GenAI Smart Pages early access](https://go.teikametrics.com/genai-smartpages) (checked 2026-09-08) - [Kuudo deployment choices](https://www.kuudo.com/docs/deployment-choice/) (checked 2026-11-02) ## What we could not verify - Pacvue's image generation is documented in a Pacvue blog post that describes the GenAI tool as set to launch in Q3, and reports Image Generator results after the fact. Pacvue's current platform, AI and automation pages do not describe it, so the live state of the feature is stated by that post rather than by a product page. - Perpetua's marketing blog announced a Sponsored Brands video creator that builds a video for any ASIN from preset themes. The current help center article for launching a Sponsored Brands video goal documents uploading an MP4 or MOV to spec with no such option, and the Sponsored Brand Goals collection lists no video creator article, so that tool could not be confirmed as live today. - Teikametrics publishes AI-generated product images only on the GenAI Smart Pages early access landing page. The main www.teikametrics.com/genai-smart-pages/ URL describes Gen AI that enhances titles and descriptions and does not mention images, so image generation may be limited to the pilot. - quartile-2 (https://www.quartile.com/amazon-ppc) and scaleinsights-15 (https://scaleinsights.com/) were both re-verified today, 2026-09-08; their checkedOn values in comparePages.js still read 2026-09-02 and should be bumped if this row ships reusing them. - The exact percentage of ad spend Perpetua charges on Growth and Premium; its invoice article says to review the contract signed at onboarding. - Perpetua's annual commitment, minimum term or cancellation notice period; its terms defer these to the order form. - Whether Perpetua supports Sponsored TV; no site or help-center page mentions it. - Whether Perpetua explains why its engine chose a specific bid; the ad-engine and bid-adjustment articles do not say. - Perpetua's cloud provider, hosting region or data retention period; its privacy policy gives none. - A named Seller Central connection for Pacvue: its pages say Amazon APIs and its terms say your Amazon account; only Vendor Central is named. - Whether Pacvue manages Sponsored TV campaigns: its DSP page only says Sponsored TV is measured through AMC. - Whether Pacvue confirms a bid or budget change actually landed in Amazon, as opposed to logging the change and its impact. - Whether Pacvue's approval workflows are on by default for rule automations, given its FAQ says automations run without manual intervention. - Pacvue's data retention period and hosting provider: its terms name none. - Whether Pacvue's Revenue Recovery files disputes inside Vendor Central or prepares them for the user. - Whether Pacvue Agent's skills or its models' logic can be read or edited by the user; only rule templates and custom rules are described as editable. - Whether Quartile covers Sponsored Products, Brands, Display and TV individually; its pages say only Amazon Sponsored Ads. - Whether Quartile connects to Seller Central or Vendor Central; its privacy policy references an Amazon MWS API token and neither SP-API nor either console is named. - Quartile's search-term harvesting, negative keywords, budget pacing, approval step and per-change verification: none is published. - Quartile's actual prices, minimums or percentage-of-spend rate; its terms describe tiering by ad spend, channel count and service level only. - Teikametrics' search-term and placement report views: not found in Ads Manager or help searches; the only search-term mention tells users to download the report from Amazon. - Whether Teikametrics supports Sponsored TV; it is not listed among supported ad types. - Whether Teikametrics' predictive bidding applies to Amazon DSP; its DSP article documents manual bid edits only. - Teikametrics' data retention period and hosting region; neither its privacy policy nor its terms state them. - Which Teikametrics plan includes its MCP; the overview says a paid plan without naming a tier.