AI tender software, compared
Skim vs Stotles, Tussell, AutogenAI and mytender.io, compared
Most tender tools do one job — alerting, intelligence, or AI writing — and leave the rest to you. Skim is the all-in-one AI tender platform: it discovers UK and EU opportunities, scores bid/no-bid fit, drafts responses against the buyer’s marking scheme, and pairs the software with a bid team that has won £3bn+. Tools like Stotles, Tussell, AutogenAI and mytender.io are strong at one narrow stage; Skim covers the whole bid.
AI tender software, capability by capability
Each tool here is genuinely good at one part of the job. The table maps where each one leads, and where Skim covers the whole bid rather than a single stage.
| Capability | Skim | Stotles | Tussell | AutogenAI | mytender.io |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | SMEs winning UK & EU public sector bids end-to-end | Pre-tender buyer & market intelligence | Government spend & supplier analytics | Enterprise AI proposal writing | Budget AI bid drafting for small teams |
| AI bid/no-bid scoring | Limited | Limited | |||
| AI proposal / RFP drafting | |||||
| UK & EU tender discovery | UK-focused | UK-focused | Limited | ||
| Buyer & market intelligence | |||||
| Human bid team (£3bn+ won) | |||||
| Built for SMEs | Enterprise & SME | Enterprise | Enterprise | ||
| Pricing model | From £199/mo · free Skim Advisor | Free + paid | Quote-based | Quote-based | Subscription |
Comparison reflects each vendor’s public product positioning as of June 2026. Capabilities and pricing change — check each provider’s site for the latest. If anything here is out of date, email justin@justskim.ai and we will fix it.
Tool by tool
What each tool in this table suits
Every tool here is genuinely good at one part of the job. Skim is the option that does the whole bid, with a £3bn+ bid team behind the software.
Choose Stotles
When your priority is pre-tender market intelligence and engaging buyers early — Stotles is strong at surfacing signals before the RFP is published.
Skim vs Stotles →Choose Tussell
When you need government spend analytics and supplier intelligence for market research and account planning rather than running live bids.
Skim vs Tussell →Choose AutogenAI
When a large, dedicated bid team needs enterprise AI proposal-writing at scale and already has its own discovery and qualification stack.
Skim vs AutogenAI →Choose mytender.io
When a very small team or freelancer wants a budget AI bid-drafting tool and does not need opportunity discovery or strategic bid support.
Skim vs mytender.io →Choose Skim
When you bid regularly and lose tenders you should have won — because the work sits across discovery, qualification, drafting and buyer intelligence, not one stage. Skim covers all of it in one platform, with a human bid team behind £3bn+ in wins.
Pricing
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Free
Researchers and occasional bidders exploring the industry.
Skim Advisor agent — 5 messages per day
- Unlimited users
- 1 country to research
- 20+ years of public sector data and context
- Upcoming contract and competitor research
Starter
First-time bidders building their public sector pipeline.
Skim Advisor agent — standard usage
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited users
- Email and chat support
- Live tender tracking across 3 countries
- 24/7 opportunity monitoring
- Bid/no-bid analysis
- Document analysis on every tender pack
- Buyer intelligence reports
- Pipeline tracking and management
- Team permission controls
Growth
Experienced bidders who want strategy in the room, not just software.
Skim Advisor agent — 5× usage
- Everything in Starter
- Unlimited users
- Priority email and chat support
- Live tender tracking across 10 countries
- Extra countries as an add-on
- Custom portal integration (add-on)
- Dedicated account manager
- Advisory and bid support service
- Bi-weekly strategy meetings
- Dedicated Slack or Teams channel
Enterprise
Companies with no bid team of their own. Skim becomes the bid team.
Skim Advisor agent — 20× usage
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited users
- Live tracking across all UK and EU countries — no limit
- The Skim bid team writes and strengthens your responses
- Capability profile built from your service lines and accreditations
- Three strong matches a day, not a feed to sift through
- Forward pipeline mapping — incumbent, value and expiry on each contract
- Early engagement before the tender is written, plus named partner introductions
- Weekly strategy call, named account manager and priority support on all channels
- Enhanced data privacy, SSO, audit logging and security-led onboarding
- Bid team delivery in the UK and Ireland
Common questions
Skim vs the alternatives, answered.
Which of these tools covers the whole bid, and which cover one stage?
Read the table row by row and the split is clear. Stotles and Tussell cover discovery and market intelligence, then stop before the response. AutogenAI and mytender.io start at drafting and assume the opportunity is already chosen. Skim is the only column marked across every stage — discovery, bid/no-bid scoring, drafting against the marking scheme, and buyer intelligence. That gap matters most for SMEs with no dedicated bid function, where the space between point tools becomes someone's manual work.
How is Skim different from Stotles and Tussell?
Stotles and Tussell are intelligence tools. Stotles maps the market and surfaces buyer signals before a tender is published; Tussell analyses public sector spend, suppliers and contracts. Both tell you what is happening in the market. Skim goes further down the funnel: it scores bid/no-bid fit against the published criteria, drafts the response, and profiles the buyer — turning intelligence into a submitted bid.
Is Skim better than AutogenAI or mytender.io for writing bids?
AutogenAI and mytender.io are writing tools — they accelerate drafting once you have already chosen the bid. AutogenAI is built for large bid teams writing at volume; mytender.io is a budget assistant for very small teams. Skim drafts too, but it also handles the steps before the writing — discovery, qualification and buyer intelligence — and adds a human expert layer. If drafting speed is your only gap, a focused writing tool may be enough.
Does Skim replace Stotles, Tussell, AutogenAI and mytender.io, or run alongside them?
Either, depending on where the overlap sits. Most SMEs that adopt Skim drop a separate alert service and a separate drafting assistant, because those stages are already covered. Teams that rely on Tussell for spend analytics, or run AutogenAI across a large bid function, often keep them and use Skim for discovery, qualification and buyer intelligence. Nothing in Skim depends on the other tools being switched off.
How was this comparison put together?
From each vendor's public product pages, published pricing and documentation, checked in 2026. A capability is marked present only where the vendor describes it as a shipped feature, not where it is implied or sits on a roadmap. Where a tool covers part of a stage rather than all of it, the cell says so instead of showing full coverage. Pricing that is quote-only is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated.
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