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Tussell alternatives in 2026

UK tenders as rows from 5¢ each.

Tussell publishes no price. It is an annual subscription sold through its sales team, and its own FAQ says it typically costs more than basic tender monitoring tools. Early Opportunities, unlimited contact credits and API access are priced on top.

SpecStream is the live web data engine. Describe the UK tenders and awards you track in plain words, and each comes back as a row with its buyer, value, deadline and link. 300 tenders with 15 facts cost $45 for the whole team.

Describe your data

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

SpecStream and Tussell side by side

SpecStreamTussell
What you sendThe tenders and awards you track in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet: the work, the buyers, the region, the value, the deadlineSearches and alerts inside its platform, across UK tenders, contract awards, frameworks and spend
What you get backStructured rows, one record per tender or award, with facts from many sites joined: buyer, value, deadline, framework, incumbent and contact. Source URL and read time on every valueRecords in its platform, cleaned and matched by Tussell, with a named Account Manager on every subscription
Where it looksThe live web. One request covers central government, councils, the NHS and the devolved portals, and a notice on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder or a council's own portal is found the same way. The same request can add Ireland or the EUUK public procurement: early buying signals, tenders, contract awards, framework agreements and spending. £8trn+ of invoice data, and 170k+ call-offs matched to frameworks
Buyer contactsAny row can carry a person's email for 5¢ more or a phone for 15¢ more, charged when the row carries itOver 80,000 decision-makers at 4,500+ buying organizations, drawn with Contact Information Credits. Unlimited credits are an added cost
What it costsA delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs. The same rate on every plan. 300 tenders with 15 facts each cost $45, quoted before the runNo published price. An annual subscription whose price varies by tier, modules and integrations. Tussell says it typically costs more than basic tender monitoring tools
How to start$10 of credit, no card. Pro $19, Scale $99 and Team $499 a month, all spent as credit at the same row rates. A yearly plan adds 20% more creditA demo booked with its sales team, then an annual subscription
Who can use itThe whole team, with no seats. People and agents spend from one balanceOver 300 companies, from SMEs to the government's Strategic Suppliers, each on its own annual subscription
Reruns and change labelsHourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢New tender alerts, collected from UK-wide, devolved, framework and some private tender portals
API and agentsMCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A on every account. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDCThe API is listed under Premium Add-ons on every plan, beside the Analyst Service and the Salesforce integration
Where the data goesGoogle Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooksIts own platform, your Salesforce, or your CRM through its API

Why Tussell buyers move to SpecStream

The tenders you track are the request

A bid team tracks a niche that no saved search quite matches. On SpecStream you write it as you would say it: "open NHS tenders for digital patient records due in the next 30 days", or "council contracts for waste collection that end in 2027, with the incumbent and the value". SpecStream returns one record per tender or award, with the buyer, the value, the deadline and the link to the notice. Central government, councils, the NHS and the devolved nations come in one request, at one rate.

The price is printed

Tussell's plans page has a Talk to Sales button where the price would be, and its FAQ says the price varies by tier, modules and integrations. SpecStream prints its rates: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ for up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. 300 tenders with 15 facts each cost $45, and every request gets a quote of the most it can cost before it runs. Nothing renews for a year unless you choose a yearly plan.

Contacts come with the row

Tussell holds over 80,000 decision-maker contacts and meters them with Contact Information Credits, with unlimited credits as an added cost. On SpecStream the contact is a fact you ask for. A row that carries the person's email costs 5¢ more and one that carries a phone costs 15¢ more, and a row without the contact you asked for is charged at the row rate alone.

Every tender is rechecked on your schedule

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each tender comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, with its notice page and the time it was read, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook. A changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 300 tenders that did not change costs $3.

The search under every request leads the public benchmarks

SimpleQA Verified: 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official questions (978 correct). WideSearch: 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and their method are on benchmarks, and the page for bid teams is grants and tenders.

Other Tussell alternatives

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. Every UK tender and award you track arrives as a structured row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1, priced before the run, rechecked on your schedule and delivered to your CRM, sheet or agent. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Stotles

A UK and Irish tender platform sold by the month: Basic from £99 for individuals, Growth from £475 for small teams with buyer intent signals and decision-maker contacts, and a custom Expert plan. SpecStream has one rate for every team size, and 300 tenders with 15 facts each cost $45.

Tenders Direct

A UK tender alert service from Proactis, with Tender Alert Subscriptions from £1,359 per year. On SpecStream the alert is your own request rerun on your schedule, and an unchanged row costs 1¢.

Jorpex

A tender alert service that watches 50+ public procurement sources and sends matches to Slack and email, from $49 a month after 14 free days. SpecStream searches the live web for your request, so a tender on a portal no alert service watches comes back in the same rows.

Find a Tender

The UK government's free notice service. For procurements that began before 24 February 2025 it publishes above threshold notices, usually over £139,688 including VAT, and sends you to other portals for smaller contracts. A SpecStream request covers every portal at once and returns rows, with the facts a notice does not print, such as the incumbent.

How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

SpecStreamParallelExaTavilyPerplexity
Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna60.945.553.047.947.0
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna9694919494
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol9997919295

How to switch from Tussell

Write the tenders and awards you track in plain words, in place of the saved searches you run today. Or import a list you already hold, as a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 15¢ a row, that is 66 tenders with up to 15 facts each.

Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.

curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"request": "Open UK public sector tenders for cloud hosting and managed IT services, with the buyer, the value, the deadline, the framework and the link to the notice", "count": 25}'

Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance.

Describe your data

Frequently asked questions

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How much does Tussell cost?
Tussell publishes no price. It is sold as an annual subscription through its sales team, the price varies by tier, modules and integrations, and its FAQ says it typically costs more than basic tender monitoring tools. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, so 300 tenders with 15 facts each cost $45.
What is the best Tussell alternative?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row with no seats and no annual contract. You describe the UK tenders and awards you track in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get each one as a structured row with the buyer, the value, the deadline and the link. The rows land in your CRM, your sheet, Slack or your agent.
What data does Tussell cover?
UK public procurement: early buying signals, tenders, contract awards, framework agreements, spending and buyer contacts. Its pages count £8trn+ of invoice data, 170k+ call-offs matched to frameworks and over 80,000 decision-maker contacts at 4,500+ buying organizations. SpecStream searches the live web for each request, in the UK and outside it.
Does Tussell have an API?
Yes, as a Premium Add-on to a plan. SpecStream's API is on every account at published prices: the Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches, the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with an MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.
Is there a free alternative to Tussell?
Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are free and show the notices buyers publish there, one portal at a time. SpecStream starts with $10 of credit, no card, which is 66 tenders with up to 15 facts each at 15¢ a row, gathered from every portal into one table.
Does SpecStream cover council and NHS tenders?
Yes, at the same 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row as central government ones. SpecStream searches the live web for your request, so a tender on a council, NHS trust or devolved portal comes back in the same rows as a Find a Tender notice.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Every rival figure comes from that company's own page, read on the date shown.

  1. SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
  3. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 12, 2026
  4. Tusselltussell.com, read Nov 12, 2026
  5. Tussell plans and FAQtussell.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  6. Tussell, how it comparestussell.com/competitors, read Nov 12, 2026
  7. Tussell decision-maker datatussell.com/products/decision-maker-data, read Nov 12, 2026
  8. Stotles pricingstotles.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  9. Stotles, Stotles and Tussellstotles.com/competitors/tussell, read Nov 12, 2026
  10. Tenders Direct pricingtendersdirect.co.uk/pricing/, read Nov 12, 2026
  11. Jorpex pricingjorpex.com/pricing/, read Nov 12, 2026
  12. Jorpex, Jorpex vs Tusselljorpex.com/compare/jorpex-vs-tussell/, read Nov 12, 2026
  13. Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Search, read Nov 12, 2026