Teikametrics Review (2026)3% of Spend Above $10K

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 28 Oct 2026

(2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit; unchanged on 2026-10-13) Essentials, for up to $10K a month in ad spend: $149 a month billed annually, or $179 billed monthly. Advanced, for over $10K a month in ad spend: custom pricing plus 3% of ad spend above $10K. Enterprise, for over $100K a month in ad spend: also custom pricing plus 3% of ad spend above $10K.

A free trial and a free opportunity assessment are offered. Re-read on 28 October 2026 with a plain fetch: teikametrics.com/pricing is unchanged (Essentials $149 a month on the annual plan or $179 monthly up to $10K of monthly ad spend; Advanced and Enterprise 'Custom Pricing' with '+3% of ad spend over $10K'). Teikametrics' own help article 'Billing, Plans and Pricing Information' (dated 25 September 2025, read 28 October 2026) still publishes a fully priced ladder that the pricing page does not show: a free Basic plan without the AI features; Essentials Tier 1 ($0 to $10K of monthly ad spend) at $179 monthly or $149 a month with 12 months billed upfront; Essentials Tier 2 ($10K and up) at $599 monthly or $499 a month billed upfront, plus 3% of monthly ad spend over $10K; Advanced at $1,439 monthly or $1,199 a month billed upfront; and Enterprise on custom pricing.

The article says the tier is set by your previous 30 days of ad spend, that paying a year upfront saves 20%, and that unused time on a yearly plan is not refunded. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

Category context: E-commerce. Across the 49 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $19 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Teikametrics’s entry price of $149 a month sits above that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →

What the price did

We read Teikametrics’s own pricing page on a schedule and keep every reading, so this is our record of the page — not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary. A change appears here only after we confirmed the new price on the page itself.

What the pricing page doesn’t say

The catch

Three per cent of ad spend above $10,000 means a seller spending $40,000 a month pays an extra $900 on top of whatever the custom base is, and that line scales with the thing the product is supposed to make more efficient. That is not automatically wrong — it aligns them with your growth — but it does mean your bill rises when your advertising does, and you should model it at your expected spend rather than your current one.

The $10K threshold is the number to watch: crossing it changes the pricing model, not just the price. The 3% does not stop when the subscription does. The billing article says that even after cancellation you still incur the 3% monthly charge on any ad spend over $10K unless your connected merchants are removed, and that removal is done by contacting support; the same applies on the free Basic plan you are moved to when you cancel.

A seller who cancels at $30,000 a month of ad spend and forgets the merchant connection keeps paying $600 a month for a plan it no longer uses. The two official price lists disagree above $10K. The pricing page shows Advanced as custom pricing plus 3%; the help article prices Advanced at $1,199 to $1,439 a month without mentioning the 3%, and adds an Essentials Tier 2 at $499 to $599 plus 3% that the pricing page does not list.

Get the tier name, the base fee and the percentage in writing before you connect an account that spends more than $10K. The contract terms are written for a fixed term. Orders renew automatically for the same length unless you give written notice (email is enough) at least 15 days before the term ends; the customer has no right to terminate for convenience, and ending early means paying the fees for the rest of the term within 30 days.

Late invoices can carry 1.5% interest a month, and disputes go to the courts of Massachusetts. Only Essentials can be cancelled on the billing page; on Advanced or Enterprise you cancel through your Customer Success Manager or product support.

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What Teikametrics does

Advertising optimisation for Amazon and Walmart sellers, with inventory and catalogue signals.

What buyers report about Teikametrics

Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: G2, Gartner Peer Insights and Tekpon, read August 2026

Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Teikametrics ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

Past $10K the pricing model changes, not the price

Essentials covers up to $10,000 a month in ad spend at $149 a month billed annually, or $179 monthly. Advanced, for anything above that, is custom pricing PLUS 3% of ad spend over $10,000. Enterprise, for over $100,000 a month, is quoted on the same terms: its card carries the identical 3% line, so the percentage does not fall away at the top of the range. A free trial and a free opportunity assessment are offered (2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit).

The $10,000 threshold is the number to watch, and not because the price steps up. Crossing it changes the pricing MODEL: below it you pay a subscription, above it you pay a subscription plus a percentage of the thing the product is meant to make more efficient. Work that through at your real spend rather than your current one. A seller putting $40,000 a month into ads pays an extra $900 on top of whatever the custom base turns out to be — and at $100,000 that percentage alone is $2,700 a month.

The base is not published, so the honest position is that you cannot cost Advanced without a quote; what you can do is know the percentage component in advance and ask for the base separately. None of this is automatically wrong. A percentage of spend aligns the vendor with your growth in a way a flat fee does not, and for a seller who genuinely improves ROAS the arrangement can be worth having.

But it does mean your bill rises when your advertising does, regardless of whether the returns rise with it — so ask what happens in a month where spend goes up and performance does not. Use Essentials as the anchor for any comparison. At $149 for up to $10K of spend, that is 1.5% of spend at the top of the band — a useful yardstick to hold other tools in this category against, including the ones that publish nothing at all.

On the help article's own ladder the step above $10K is expensive even before the percentage. At $25,000 a month of ad spend, Essentials Tier 2 costs $599 monthly plus 3% of $15,000, or $1,049 a month; on the yearly plan it is $499 plus $450, or $11,388 for the year paid partly upfront. Advanced on the same article is $1,199 a month on the yearly plan, $14,388 a year before any percentage.

Against that, the self-serve Essentials at $149 is cheap only while your trailing 30-day spend stays under $10K. If you are near the line, ask which tier a $10,001 month triggers and whether a month back under $10K moves you down again.

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How to actually use Teikametrics

Find out which side of $10,000 a month in ad spend you are on before anything else, because that threshold changes the pricing model rather than the price. Below it you pay $149 a month billed annually and that is the whole bill. Above it you pay a custom base plus 3% of everything over $10,000 — $900 a month at $40K of spend, $2,700 at $100K. If you are above it, ask for the base and the percentage as separate lines in the quote, and ask one specific question: what happens in a month where spend rises and performance does not?

A percentage of spend aligns them with your growth, and it also means the invoice goes up in exactly the month you least want it to. Take the free opportunity assessment before the trial. It costs nothing, and what you want from it is a specific claim about your own account — which campaigns are wasting money and how much — that you can check afterwards against your own numbers.

Then use the trial to test the thing the subscription is for: does the automated bidding beat what you were doing manually, on your own catalogue? Set a baseline of your current ROAS before you switch anything on, because without it you will be comparing against a memory. Build the trial around new campaigns. The getting-started article says Teikametrics works best when you create new campaigns with its Campaign Creator, recommends the Basic strategy (it harvests search terms from an automatic campaign into manual ones), and currently creates Sponsored Products keyword-targeting campaigns.

Two settings deserve a look on day one: the default maximum bid ceiling is $5, which high-ticket products may need raised, and a keyword recommendation you dismiss is never recommended again. The trial ends cleanly if you cancel before it runs out: the cancellation article says your account is then moved to the free Basic plan and you are not billed. Your tier is set by the previous 30 days of ad spend, so a seasonal spike in the month before the first invoice can put you above $10K.

If you leave, ask support to remove your connected merchants at the same time, because the 3% above $10K keeps running while they are connected.

The natural comparison is Perpetua or Helium 10 — the direct marketplace-advertising peers — compare total cost at your real monthly ad spend, including any percentage component.

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Frequently asked questions

How long is the free trial, and does it need a card?

Thirty days, with no credit card — the page says “Try free for 30 days” and “Start without a credit card”. It is an Essentials trial: the Start Free Trial button sits on the Essentials column and on the SMB route in the navigation, while Advanced and Enterprise send you to a demo or a free opportunity assessment instead. So if your ad spend is already over $10,000 a month, the self-serve trial is not the door you will be using, and the assessment is the free step available to you.

Does the 3% of ad spend still apply on Enterprise?

Yes, and that is the line most worth reading twice. Advanced and Enterprise carry the identical text — custom pricing, plus 3% of ad spend over $10K — even though Enterprise is described as being for sellers spending over $100,000 a month. The percentage does not taper and does not fall away at the top of the range, so at $100,000 of monthly spend the percentage component alone is $2,700 a month, before whatever the unpublished base turns out to be. Ask for the base and the percentage as separate lines in any quote.

What does the step up from Essentials actually buy?

Channels and people, more than features. Essentials is the ARI suite — Ads, Catalog, Inventory, Insights — plus Refunds Recovery, standard data integrations and email support. Advanced adds Amazon DSP and Walmart Onsite Display, integrated Amazon Marketing Cloud, dedicated onboarding, profitability and search dashboards, priority support, and the option to add Managed Services. Enterprise adds customisable dashboards and reporting, Managed Services proper, custom and API integrations, and a dedicated account team. If you do not advertise through DSP or AMC, much of what the higher tiers charge a percentage for is not addressed to you.

Do I still pay Teikametrics 3% of ad spend after cancelling?

Yes, unless your connected merchants are removed. The billing article (read 28 October 2026) says that after cancellation, and on the free Basic plan, you still incur the 3% monthly charge on ad spend over $10K until the merchants are disconnected, which you request from support (customersupport@teikametrics.com or the in-app chat).

Is there a free Teikametrics plan?

There is a free Basic plan, which the billing article describes as limited access to a few features without the AI capabilities; ad spend over $10K a month still incurs the 3% charge on it. Separately, three Smart Pages can be tried free. The 30-day trial without a card is an Essentials trial.

Can I get a refund on a Teikametrics yearly plan?

No. The billing article (read 28 October 2026) says refunds for unused time on yearly plans are not permitted; you keep access until the prepaid term ends and can switch to monthly from then. Upgrading to Advanced or Enterprise mid-term credits the unused time to the new plan.

Does Teikametrics connect to Claude or ChatGPT?

Yes, through the Teikametrics MCP, which is in early access: you sign up at mcp.teikametrics.com and the FAQ (5 August 2026) says access has been rolling out within roughly one to two weeks. It is read-only (it cannot change bids, budgets or listings), exposes 12 tools, uses fixed lookback windows of 7, 14, 30 or 90 days, and Amazon data lags one day and Walmart two. Teikametrics charges nothing extra for it; your Claude or ChatGPT plan is your own cost.

Is this a hands-on review of Teikametrics?

This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we have no affiliate relationship with Teikametrics — we earn nothing whether you sign up or not.

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