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Comparison Published October 2026 · By Vincent Wesley Couey
Retail media platforms for Amazon brands

Pacvue vs Skai vs Perpetua (2026): only Skai prints a full price ladder, and it is a sawtooth

Of the three, Skai prints a price at every tier, Perpetua prints a start and hides the percentage, and Pacvue prints nothing: its pricing page returned "Page not found". Here is what each page says and what the fee works out to as a share of ad spend.

The short answer

How we built this page. We read each vendor's own pricing page on 26 October 2026: Pacvue, Skai and Perpetua in a browser, Teikametrics, Quartile and Intentwise by page fetch. Pacvue's other pages return a bot challenge to automated reads, so we did not read them. We checked each site is live and still sells the product, and drew demand from the questions AI assistants cite BagEngine for. We did not buy these plans, ask any vendor for a quote or run any platform for this comparison; where a vendor does not publish prices we say so instead of estimating.

Prices read: 26 October 2026 Next review: January 2027
PlatformPrice and spend bands as publishedRetail media it names on its own pagesAI, agents and Amazon Marketing Cloud it names
PacvueNone printed. Pricing page returned "Page not found"; Book a Demo.Not read: its pages block automated readsNot read
Skai$114k, $276k, $504k, $756k a year for up to $4M, $10M, $20M, $35M of yearly ad spend; above $35M a quote"120+ publishers"; Retail Media, Paid Search, Paid SocialCeleste AI; Agent Connect (MCP). AMC not named on the pages read
Perpetua$695 a month to 10k a month of ad spend; Growth $695 + "% of ad spend" (rate not printed) over 10k; Premium custom over 500kAmazon, Walmart, "other marketplaces"; display and video advertising"AI-powered bid optimization"; "custom AMC reporting" on Premium; Amazon Marketing Stream on Growth
Teikametrics$149 a month annual, $179 monthly to $10K a month; Advanced over $10K and Enterprise over $100K a month: custom + 3% of spend over $10KAmazon, Walmart; Amazon DSP and Walmart Onsite Display on AdvancedARI platform; "Integrated Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC)" on Advanced and Enterprise
QuartileNone printed. /pricing redirects to the home page; Request Demo.Amazon Sponsored Ads, Amazon DSP, Walmart, Instacart, Criteo, Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads, Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads"advanced AI solutions". AMC not named on the page read
IntentwiseNone printed. /pricing redirects to the home page; Book a Demo.Amazon, Walmart, Criteo, Instacart, Target Roundel, TikTok; "21 Marketplaces Supported"AI Gateway (MCP server); "Intentwise Explore (AMC)"
 From each vendor's own pages, read 26 October 2026: Pacvue, Skai and Perpetua pricing pages in a browser, the others by page fetch. Where a cell says "not named" or "not read", the page we read did not say it, which is not a finding that the product cannot do it. Pacvue's product pages return a bot challenge to automated reads, so only its pricing page result is reported.

Which retail media platform fits which brand?

For a brand that wants a price before a call, the answer starts with who prints one. Skai prints four annual tiers, $114k to $756k, keyed to ad spend. Perpetua prints $695 a month and a percentage of spend it does not state. Teikametrics prints $149 a month and 3% of spend over $10K. Pacvue, Quartile and Intentwise print none, and Pacvue's pricing page returned "Page not found" when read in a browser on 26 October 2026.

If you spend under $10K a month on Amazon ads

Start with Teikametrics Essentials

Because it prints the lowest entry price of the six, $149 a month billed annually or $179 monthly, covers up to $10K a month of ad spend and lists a free trial. Perpetua Essentials covers the same band at $695 a month.

If you want a full annual price before a sales call

Read Skai's ladder

Because Skai is the only one of the six that prints a complete fee at every tier up to $35M a year of ad spend, and promises "the flexibility to review your commitment after the first three months".

If you are over $10K a month and mostly on Amazon

Ask Perpetua for the Growth percentage

Because Growth is $695 a month "+ % of ad spend" and the page does not print the percentage. Get the rate in writing before comparing it with anything else.

If you run many retailers at eight-figure spend

Get written quotes from Pacvue, Quartile and Intentwise

Because none of the three prints a price, and Pacvue's pricing page returned "Page not found". Use the question sheet below so the quotes can be compared.

What does each vendor publish about price?

Three of the six print a price and three do not, and of the three that do, only Skai prints a full fee at every tier it lists. Skai's page offers "predictable annual pricing" on four tiers; Perpetua's offers three tiers with a percentage missing from the middle one; Teikametrics prints Essentials and describes the two higher tiers as "Custom Pricing" plus 3% of ad spend over $10K. The ladder below puts all six on one axis of annual ad spend, so you can see which tier your spend unlocks and where each vendor stops printing.

MechanismThe annual cost ladder, by annual ad spend
Annual cost ladder: what each platform prints, by annual ad spendSix retail media platforms on one log-scale axis of annual ad spend from 60 thousand to 60 million dollars. Skai prints four annual fees: 114 thousand dollars up to 4 million of ad spend, 276 thousand up to 10 million, 504 thousand up to 20 million and 756 thousand up to 35 million, then a quote. Perpetua prints 8,340 dollars a year up to 120 thousand of ad spend, then 8,340 plus a percentage it does not print, then a custom Premium tier above 6 million. Teikametrics prints 1,788 dollars a year up to 120 thousand, then custom pricing plus 3 percent of spend over 10 thousand a month. Pacvue, Quartile and Intentwise print no price.$100k$1M$10MSkaiannual fee by tier$4M$10M$20M$35MStandard: $114k a year, for advertisers spending up to $4M a year$114kAdvanced: $276k a year, up to $10M$276kEnterprise: $504k a year, up to $20M$504kEnterprise Premier: $756k a year, up to $35M$756kEnterprise Premier+: for advertisers spending more than $35M a year, tailored (no price printed)quotePerpetuamonthly fee x 12$10k/mo$500k/moEssentials: $695 a month ($8,340 a year), up to 10k in monthly ad spend$8.3kGrowth: $695 a month plus a percentage of ad spend, over 10k a month; the percentage is not printedfrom $8.3k + unstated %Premium: custom pricing, over 500k in monthly ad spend (no price printed)customTeikametricsbilled annually x 12$10k/mo$100k/moEssentials: $149 a month billed annually ($1,788 a year; $179 monthly), up to $10K a month in ad spend$1.8kAdvanced: custom pricing plus 3% of ad spend over $10K, over $10K a monthcustom + 3%Enterprise: custom pricing plus 3% of ad spend over $10K, over $100K a monthcustom + 3% of spend over $10k/moPacvueno price printedPacvue: /pricing returned Page not found on 26 October 2026; the site offers Book a Demo onlypricing page: "Page not found"; Book a DemoQuartileno price printedQuartile: /pricing redirects to the home page, which carries Request Demo and no priceno price printed: Request DemoIntentwiseno price printedIntentwise: /pricing redirects to the home page, which carries Book a Demo and no priceno price printed: Book a Demoannual ad spend, log scale
Each segment is a tier the vendor prints, drawn on its spend band. Perpetua and Teikametrics bands are monthly spend multiplied by 12. Bars start at the left edge of the chart, not at a tier floor the vendor states. Read from the vendors' own pricing pages on 26 October 2026; Pacvue's pricing page returned "Page not found".

Two cautions on reading it. First, the axis is logarithmic, so each gridline is ten times the one before and the Skai tiers, which look wide, cover small steps in spend at the top. Second, a tier boundary is a statement about which fee you pay, not about whether the platform fits, and the pages we read do not say how a mid-year change in spend moves you between tiers. Where other pages report a price for a vendor that prints none, including estimates on our Pacvue review and our Perpetua review, those are reports and not vendor prices; Perpetua's own page read on 26 October 2026 prints $695 a month, and that is the figure used here.

What does the fee amount to as a share of ad spend?

Divide Skai's fee by the ad spend at the top of each tier and the rate looks steady: 2.85% on Standard, 2.76% on Advanced, 2.52% on Enterprise and 2.16% on Enterprise Premier. That is the rate if you spend right up to the ceiling. Spend one dollar more and you move to the next tier at the next flat fee, so the rate on entering Advanced is 6.90% (276k on 4M), on entering Enterprise 5.04% and on entering Enterprise Premier 3.78%. Lower down the same logic bites harder: a brand spending $1M a year pays 11.4% on Standard.

Lattice finding, drawnFee as a share of ad spend: the sawtooth
Skai fee as a share of ad spend: a sawtoothFee as a percentage of annual ad spend. Skai Standard falls to 2.85 percent at 4 million dollars of ad spend, jumps to 6.90 percent as spend enters Advanced, falls to 2.76 percent at 10 million, jumps to 5.04 percent in Enterprise, falls to 2.52 percent at 20 million, jumps to 3.78 percent in Enterprise Premier and falls to 2.16 percent at 35 million. Perpetua Essentials is 6.95 percent at its 120 thousand dollar ceiling and Teikametrics Essentials 1.49 percent.0%3%6%9%12%$100k$1M$10Mannual ad spend, log scaleSkai Standard: $114,000 a year up to $4M of ad spend, 2.85% at the ceiling2.85%6.90%Skai Advanced: $276,000 a year up to $10M of ad spend, 2.76% at the ceiling2.76%5.04%Skai Enterprise: $504,000 a year up to $20M of ad spend, 2.52% at the ceiling2.52%3.78%Skai Enterprise Premier: $756,000 a year up to $35M of ad spend, 2.16% at the ceiling2.16%Skai Standard, $114k a yearPerpetua Essentials: $8,340 a year, up to $120,000 a year of ad spend, 6.95% at the ceilingPerpetua Essentials 6.95%Growth adds a % it does not printTeikametrics Essentials: $149 a month billed annually ($1,788 a year), up to $120,000 a year of ad spend, 1.49% at the ceilingTeikametrics Essentials 1.49%
Fee divided by annual ad spend, on the same log axis as the ladder. Solid lines fall inside a tier because the fee is flat; dashed rises are the jump on crossing a tier ceiling. Perpetua and Teikametrics are drawn on Essentials only: their higher tiers add a percentage or a custom fee that the pages do not state, so no honest line exists for them. Teikametrics Essentials is shown at annual billing; at $179 a month it is 2,148 a year, 1.79% at the $120k ceiling.

Perpetua and Teikametrics sit lower on the chart because they stop printing a full price where the money gets large. Perpetua Essentials works out to 6.95% at its $120k ceiling ($8,340 against $120,000) and Teikametrics Essentials to 1.49%. Above those bands both add a charge the pages describe but do not total, so a rate cannot be calculated from what they print. That gap is the point: the platforms that publish the least are the ones where the first quote decides the rate.

What does each vendor say it does?

These are the vendors' own descriptions of their own pages, read on 26 October 2026, and not ratings. Pacvue is described only by what we could read.

Skai

The only one that prints a full price

Skai's pricing page lists Standard for advertisers spending up to $4M a year at $114k, Advanced up to $10M at $276k, Enterprise up to $20M at $504k and Enterprise Premier up to $35M at $756k, with a tailored tier above $35M. Every tier includes 120+ publishers, "Best-in-class automation & optimization", dedicated client success support and Celeste AI. Advanced adds Competitive Insights and Search Term Analysis; Enterprise adds expanded read-only publishers, customizable audits and QA, and customer journey intelligence; Enterprise Premier adds incrementality testing, white glove onboarding and custom solution development.

$114k to $756k a year3-month commitment review

Perpetua

Published start, unstated percentage

Perpetua's pricing page lists Essentials at $695 a month for up to 10k in monthly ad spend, with AI-powered bid optimization, automated keyword harvesting and reporting. Growth is $695 a month "+ % of ad spend" over 10k and adds hourly reporting and intraday optimization via Amazon Marketing Stream, hourly share-of-voice and organic rank insights, and a client success team. Premium is custom over 500k a month and adds competitor and market intelligence data and custom AMC reporting. Its home page says it optimizes advertising "on Amazon, Walmart, and other marketplaces". The percentage is not printed.

$695/mo + % over 10k/moRate not printed

Teikametrics

Lowest printed entry price

Teikametrics lists Essentials at $149 a month billed annually or $179 monthly for up to $10K a month in ad spend, with a free trial available. Advanced, for over $10K a month, is custom pricing plus 3% of ad spend over $10K and adds Amazon DSP and Walmart Onsite Display, integrated Amazon Marketing Cloud and dedicated onboarding. Enterprise, over $100K a month, adds Teikametrics Managed Services. Our Perpetua vs Teikametrics comparison goes deeper on the two self-serve tools.

From $149/moFree trial

Pacvue

No public price

Pacvue's pricing address returned "Page not found" when read in a browser on 26 October 2026, and the site offers Book a Demo only. Its other pages return a bot challenge to automated reads, so we do not describe its channels or features here; read them on Pacvue's own site. Our Pacvue review carries the longer profile.

No price publishedBook a Demo

Quartile

Channel list, no price

Quartile's home page lists the channels it covers: Amazon Sponsored Ads, Amazon DSP, Walmart, Instacart, Criteo (Target, Best Buy, etc.), Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads, Meta Ads and Microsoft Ads. It describes a platform plus a full-service team and says it fuels "full-funnel growth for thousands of ecommerce brands". Its /pricing address redirects to the home page, which carries Request Demo and no price.

No price publishedRequest Demo

Intentwise

Data foundation, no price

Intentwise says it unifies marketplace data from Amazon, Walmart and other commerce channels into "one AI-ready commerce data foundation", lists "21 Marketplaces Supported" and offers an AI Gateway, an MCP server that brings its analytics into AI assistants such as Claude and Copilot. Its product menu names Intentwise Explore (AMC), Optimize and DSP. Its /pricing address redirects to the home page, which carries Book a Demo and no price.

No price publishedBook a Demo
Disclosure matrixWhat each platform prints about price
What each retail media platform prints about priceSix platforms by five claims read on their own pages on 26 October 2026. Skai prints a price, four tiers, spend bands and a full fee. Perpetua and Teikametrics print prices and spend bands but not the full fee. Pacvue, Quartile and Intentwise print none of the five.Printsa pricePrintseach tierSpendbandsPrintsfull feeTrialor exitSkaiSkai: Prints a price: four annual tiers $114k to $756kSkai: Prints each tier: Premier+ above $35M is a quoteSkai: Spend bands: up to $4M, $10M, $20M, $35M a yearSkai: Prints full fee: flat annual fee per tier, no percentageSkai: Trial or exit: review your commitment after three monthsPerpetuaPerpetua: Prints a price: $695 a monthPerpetua: Prints each tier: Premium is customPerpetua: Spend bands: up to 10k, over 10k, over 500k a monthPerpetua: Prints full fee: Growth adds a percentage of ad spend that is not printedPerpetua: Trial or exit: no trial or exit wording on the pricing pageTeikametricsTeikametrics: Prints a price: $149 a month annual, $179 monthlyTeikametrics: Prints each tier: Advanced and Enterprise are customTeikametrics: Spend bands: up to $10K, over $10K, over $100K a monthTeikametrics: Prints full fee: custom fee plus 3% of ad spend over $10KTeikametrics: Trial or exit: free trial available on EssentialsPacvuePacvue: Prints a price: pricing page returned Page not foundPacvue: Prints each tier: nonePacvue: Spend bands: nonePacvue: Prints full fee: nonePacvue: Trial or exit: Book a Demo onlyQuartileQuartile: Prints a price: /pricing redirects to the home pageQuartile: Prints each tier: noneQuartile: Spend bands: noneQuartile: Prints full fee: noneQuartile: Trial or exit: Request Demo onlyIntentwiseIntentwise: Prints a price: /pricing redirects to the home pageIntentwise: Prints each tier: noneIntentwise: Spend bands: noneIntentwise: Prints full fee: noneIntentwise: Trial or exit: Book a Demo only
Each dot is a claim found on the vendor page named in the sources. A half dot is partial: a tier or fee is printed but something is custom or unstated. A missing dot means we did not find it on the page we read, not that it does not exist. Hover or tap a dot for the exact reading.

What do they say about automation, AI agents and Amazon Marketing Cloud?

On automation, Skai names Celeste AI in every tier and Agent Connect, an MCP connection for outside AI agents; Perpetua names "AI-powered bid optimization" from Essentials up; Intentwise names an AI Gateway MCP server; Quartile names real-time dynamic bidding and hourly placement adjustment. On Amazon Marketing Cloud, which Amazon describes as "a secure, privacy-safe, and cloud-based clean room solution", three vendors name it on the pages we read: Teikametrics ("Integrated Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC)" on Advanced and Enterprise), Perpetua ("custom AMC reporting" on Premium) and Intentwise ("Intentwise Explore (AMC)").

Skai's and Quartile's pages we read do not name AMC, and Pacvue's we could not read. That is a gap in what we read, not a finding about the products. If clean-room reporting matters to you, put it on the question sheet below and ask each vendor whether it is included or priced separately.

When does a self-serve tool fit better than a platform?

A self-serve tool fits when the ad budget is mostly Amazon, the team is small and a price you can read matters more than breadth. Teikametrics Essentials ($149 a month billed annually) and Perpetua Essentials ($695 a month) both cover up to $10K a month of ad spend, and Teikametrics prints a free trial. A platform fits when the budget is spread over many retailers, you need the vendor's service team, or the contract is negotiated anyway. In that case the price is set by the quote, and the useful move is to make every vendor quote the same thing at the same spend.

Perpetua's Essentials costs 4.7 times Teikametrics's annual-billed Essentials for the same published spend band. That does not make one better: the pages describe different features and service. It does make the entry price the first thing to explain in a sales call. For the longer comparison of the two see our Perpetua vs Teikametrics page, and for tool-by-tool cost as a share of ad spend see our Amazon PPC software ranking and Amazon DSP software ranking.

Decision ladderWhich retail media platform fits which brand
Which retail media platform fits which brandDecision ladder: under 10 thousand dollars a month of Amazon ad spend, Teikametrics Essentials for the lowest printed entry price; want a full annual price in writing before a call, Skai; over 10 thousand a month and mostly Amazon with published terms, Perpetua Growth, asking for the percentage; otherwise get written quotes from Pacvue, Quartile and Intentwise.Under $10K a monthof Amazon ad spend?TeikametricsEssentials$149 a month billedannually, $179 monthly,free trial. PerpetuaEssentials is $695.YESNOWant a full annualprice in writingbefore any call?SkaiThe only one of the sixthat prints it: $114k to$756k a year by tier.YESNOOver $10K a month,mostly Amazon, wantpublished terms?Perpetua Growth$695 a month plus apercentage it does notprint. Ask for the rate.YESNOSeveral retailers at 8-figure spend? Getwritten quotesPacvue, Quartile and Intentwise print no price. Use thequestion sheet below.
Read top to bottom: the first YES is your pick. Prices as published on 26 October 2026; Pacvue, Quartile and Intentwise print none.

If you are in the last box, the question sheet turns three demo-only vendors into three comparable quotes.

Question sheetWhat to ask a retail media platform before you sign
STEP 1: your annual ad spend, all retail media networks    $______
        and the next tier ceiling you expect to cross in 12 months  $______

STEP 2: ask each vendor for the FULL annual fee at that spend, and at
        25% above it, in writing.

STEP 3: fee / spend = ______ %   (Skai at a tier ceiling: 2.85%, 2.76%, 2.52%, 2.16%;
        the moment spend crosses into the next tier: 6.90%, 5.04%, 3.78%)

STEP 4: is any percentage of ad spend in the contract, and is the rate
        written down? (Perpetua prints "% of ad spend" without the rate.)

STEP 5: commitment length, the review or exit point, and what happens
        to your data on exit. (Skai prints a review after three months.)

STEP 6: which retailers and publishers are included, and is Amazon
        Marketing Cloud access included or priced separately?

STEP 7: software only, or software plus a managed team? Who sets bids?

STEP 8: what changes at your next tier, and what is the price there?

Date: ____________   Vendor: ______________   Quoted by: ______________
Bottom line

The bottom line

If you want to compare before you talk to anyone, only Skai gives you numbers to compare: $114k, $276k, $504k or $756k a year by tier, which is 2.16% to 2.85% of spend at a ceiling and up to 6.90% just past one. If you are a smaller Amazon-first brand, Teikametrics Essentials is the lowest printed entry price and Perpetua is the one to press for its Growth percentage. If your budget needs Pacvue, Quartile or Intentwise, expect the price to be set in a sales call and use the question sheet so the three quotes are comparable. Whichever you choose, ask what changes at your next tier before you sign.

Sources behind this page

Every price and status on this page comes from the vendor's own page (or its Shopify App Store listing where named), read on 26 October 2026. Each link below says what it supports.

  1. Pacvue pricing address: returned "Page not found" when read in a browser on 26 October 2026; the site offers Book a Demo only.
  2. Skai pricing: four annual tiers $114k, $276k, $504k, $756k by yearly ad spend; tailored above $35M; commitment review after three months.
  3. Perpetua pricing: Essentials $695 a month to 10k monthly ad spend; Growth $695 a month + % of ad spend; Premium custom over 500k.
  4. Perpetua home: advertising optimization on "Amazon, Walmart, and other marketplaces".
  5. Teikametrics pricing: Essentials $149 a month annual, $179 monthly; Advanced and Enterprise custom + 3% of ad spend over $10K; AMC integrated.
  6. Quartile home: channel list, Request Demo; /pricing redirects here with no price.
  7. Intentwise home: 21 marketplaces, AI Gateway MCP server, Intentwise Explore (AMC), Book a Demo; /pricing redirects here with no price.
  8. Amazon Ads: Amazon Marketing Cloud: Amazon's description of AMC as a clean room solution.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Pacvue cost?
Pacvue does not publish a price. Its pricing address returned "Page not found" when read in a browser on 26 October 2026, and the site offers Book a Demo only. Any figure elsewhere, including estimates on BagEngine's own Pacvue review, is a report and not a vendor-published price.
How much does Skai cost?
Skai prints four annual tiers keyed to yearly ad spend: Standard $114k for advertisers spending up to $4M, Advanced $276k up to $10M, Enterprise $504k up to $20M and Enterprise Premier $756k up to $35M, with a tailored tier above that. Its page promises the flexibility to review the commitment after the first three months. Read 26 October 2026.
How much does Perpetua cost?
Perpetua's pricing page lists Essentials at $695 a month for up to 10k in monthly ad spend and Growth at $695 a month plus a percentage of ad spend over 10k. The percentage is not printed. Premium is custom pricing over 500k a month. Read 26 October 2026.
Is Skai or Perpetua cheaper?
It depends on spend, and for Perpetua Growth it cannot be calculated because the percentage is not printed. At Skai's tier ceilings the fee is 2.16% to 2.85% of ad spend, but on crossing into the next tier the rate is 3.78% to 6.90%. Perpetua Essentials is 6.95% of ad spend at its 10k a month ceiling.
What is the cheapest way into a retail media platform?
Of the vendors that print a price, Teikametrics Essentials is lowest: $149 a month billed annually or $179 monthly, for up to $10K a month of ad spend, with a free trial available. Perpetua Essentials is $695 a month for the same band, 4.7 times the annual-billed Teikametrics price. Read 26 October 2026.
Do Quartile and Intentwise publish prices?
No. On 26 October 2026 both /pricing addresses redirected to the vendor's home page, which carries a demo button and no price. We did not ask either vendor for a quote.
What should I ask a retail media vendor before signing?
Ask for the full annual fee at your spend and at 25% above it, whether any percentage of ad spend applies and whether the rate is written down, the commitment and exit terms, which retailers and Amazon Marketing Cloud access are included, and what the price is at your next tier. The question sheet on this page lists them.
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