Short answer. Teikametrics is AI bidding software: you set a goal and an ACOS limit, and its model changes your bids every hour. Gloriads is software you control: rules you write, tested before they act, and your own edits respected. At $20,000 of monthly ad spend, Gloriads costs $379 a month against about $1,730 at Teikametrics; at $10,000, Teikametrics Essentials costs $179, less than Gloriads' $239.
What is Teikametrics?
Teikametrics is Amazon and Walmart advertising software from Boston. Its platform has been called ARI (Artificial Retail Intelligence) since December 2025; it was called Flywheel before.
You give each campaign a goal (Grow, Profit, ROAS, Product Launch, Liquidate or Awareness) and each ad group an ACOS limit. Its AI then sets keyword and target bids every hour, from the figures Amazon Marketing Stream sends. Its Campaign Creator builds campaigns for your products, it suggests keywords to add and to negate, which you review or let it add by itself, and a Dayparting Bid Scheduler changes bids by hour of the day.
Teikametrics also runs Walmart, TikTok Shop and, on its Advanced plan, Amazon DSP. It sells inventory forecasts, AI-written product listings and managed services, serves 16 Amazon marketplaces by its own list, and tests an MCP connector in early access, read only.
How much does Teikametrics cost in 2026?
Teikametrics Essentials is $179 a month, or $149 a month billed yearly, up to $10,000 of monthly ad spend. Its 30-day trial asks for a card, after you connect your Amazon accounts.
Above $10,000, you move to Advanced: « Custom Pricing », plus 3% of the ad spend above $10,000. Until April 2026, its pricing page showed Advanced at $1,430 a month ($1,199 billed yearly) plus that 3%: at $20,000 of ad spend, about $1,730 a month. Above $100,000, Enterprise is a custom quote.
Its terms renew a plan for the same length unless you give written notice, by email, at least 15 days before its end. They give no right to leave early: ending a plan before its term means paying the rest of it within 30 days, and fees are not refunded.
Cancelling Essentials turns off its AI and moves your account to a free Basic plan. Its help center says that plan still bills 3% of your monthly ad spend above $10,000 until you remove your connected merchants, and only its support can remove them.
Gloriads publishes its price, set by your Amazon ad spend of the previous month, with no percentage up to $100,000 a month. Every account starts with 14 days free and no card, then pays month by month, and billing stops when you cancel.
Why advertisers leave Teikametrics
Most negative reviews of Teikametrics come back to the same points:
- charges after cancelling, including the 3% that keeps running until the accounts are removed;
- support answered by bots, and account managers who leave;
- ad spend and ACOS that went up with no more sales;
- a price that jumps once the ad spend passes $10,000 a month;
- an AI that changes bids every hour without saying why.
How Gloriads works instead
Gloriads keeps your campaigns as they are. It reads your Amazon Ads account, and changes only what a rule you turned on says to change. When you change something yourself in Amazon, your rules leave it alone for 7 days.
A rule is IF, AND, OR, NOT and ELSE IF on any metric and any time window, running every hour to every 3 months, with ceilings it never goes past. Test now shows every change it would make on your account before it acts.
Every change lands in Activity with its reason, and one click undoes it, or a whole run. Gloriads reads 14 months of your ad history day by day when you connect, and covers Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display and Streaming TV, for sellers, vendors, KDP authors and Merch on Demand.
Where Teikametrics is better
Teikametrics Essentials costs less than Gloriads when you spend between $5,000 and $10,000 a month: at $10,000, it is $179 against $239. Gloriads costs less up to $5,000, and far less above $10,000.
Teikametrics recalculates bids by itself every hour from live hour-by-hour figures. Gloriads has figures hour by hour, updated every night, and a day × hour schedule like its Bid Scheduler, but no automatic re-bid every hour. Teikametrics also runs Walmart, TikTok Shop, Amazon DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud, which Gloriads does not.
Teikametrics reads your seller data for profit per product and inventory forecasts, writes product listings with AI, has an AI chat in its app and sells managed services with a strategist. Gloriads reads a margin per product, and gives you the controls, not a person.
What happens to your campaigns when you leave Teikametrics
Your campaigns stay in your Amazon Ads account, and nothing is put back. Teikametrics' help center has no guide for leaving and no way to restore bids: they keep the last value its AI set, which can be a night-time value. Ad groups its scheduler pauses at 0% can stay paused, and the existing ads its Campaign Creator paused when it started stay paused.
Cancelling is not enough to stop the bills: the free plan you land on still charges 3% of your ad spend above $10,000. Ask its support in writing, the day you cancel, to remove all your connected merchants, then remove its access from your Amazon accounts.
The order that pays nothing twice: note your renewal date, prepare Gloriads with every rule off and export your campaign list, then on your last paid day cancel, ask for your merchants to be removed and remove its access. Bring your bids back to their daytime levels, turn back on the ads you keep, then turn your rules on.