Australian Tenders and Stipple: $67 a month against free browsing

What Australian Tenders charges

Australian Tenders is unusual in this market for publishing a straightforward price list, and it deserves credit for that. Lite is $67 per month and covers one user, one region or state or territory, and two tender alert profiles. Core is $99 and lifts that to ten users, Australia-wide coverage, twenty alert profiles, two current tender advertisements and API access. Premium is $145 for twenty users, Australia and New Zealand coverage, unlimited alert profiles and five advertisements.

Every plan, on their own description, includes unlimited alert emails, a tender watchlist, future and awarded tenders, a dedicated account manager, phone support and ten-year archive access. Annual payment gets one month free.

What varies between the tiers is worth reading closely, because it is not the data. All three plans see the same tenders; what changes is how many people can log in, how many regions are covered and how many alert profiles you can run. A sole trader in one state pays $67 to see one state. A sole trader who works across a border pays $99.

They hold more tenders than we do

Their home page states “4,444 Active tenders” and “676 Industry Categories”, and describes coverage of “federal, state, territory, and local government tenders plus private sector opportunities”. On 12 September 2026 our live corpus held 2,034 tenders across 23 nightly sources.

We are not going to argue our way around that. Their figure is a marketing claim on their own site and ours is an API response anyone can re-run, but a reader who wants the most tenders in one place should know that on the published numbers it is not us.

Two differences in what is counted are worth stating, without using them as an excuse. They include private sector opportunities; our corpus is government and public-sector work. And they publish awarded and future tenders alongside live ones, plus a ten-year archive — we publish current opportunities only, with no awards, no supplier profiles and no historical archive on the public site.

The difference is what you can see before you pay

This is the clearest practical difference between the two products, and it is not about size. To see what Australian Tenders holds, you subscribe. To see what we hold, you open the page. There is no account, no key and no trial period, and the filters work on the whole corpus.

For a business that has already decided tendering is core to how it grows, that difference matters less than coverage does, and $67 a month is not a serious obstacle. For a business trying to work out whether public sector work is realistic for it at all — which, on our own research into how fragmented this market is, describes most small suppliers looking at it for the first time — paying to find out is the wrong order.

The second difference is provenance. Every Stipple result names the source it came from, and one-time verified imports are labelled as snapshots rather than shown as live. You can see which portal a tender came from before you act on it.

The third is our source registry, a public endpoint listing every source we attempt, its status, and the reason it returned nothing — login walls, blocked automated access, sources redundant because another feed already carries them. It is an unflattering document and no competitor publishes an equivalent. It is also why our count is the smaller number.

Which one fits you

Australian Tenders is the better purchase on several concrete things we simply do not offer. Awarded tenders and a ten-year archive let you research what a buyer has bought before and who from — genuinely useful when deciding whether to bid. Private sector opportunities widen the net past government. A dedicated account manager is worth real money to a business new to tendering. And at $67 a month the entry price is low against the value of a single won contract.

Stipple is the better starting point on two things. Looking is free, so the decision to spend comes after you have seen the market rather than before. And the capability matching — paste your website, get the corpus ranked against what you actually do, with the requirements you have not evidenced named — is a different job from an alert profile you configure by category.

The sequence we would argue for is unremarkable: browse free, work out whether your buyers are publishing work you can win, and then buy the subscription that fits. If the answer is that you need awards data and a decade of history, that is a straightforward case for them.

How we checked

Every Australian Tenders figure on this page was taken from australiantenders.com.au and its pricing page on 13 September 2026, and is quoted or closely paraphrased. We did not subscribe, test their coverage, or estimate anything they do not publish. Prices and claims change; if you are reading this well after September 2026, check the current pricing page.

Our figures come from the live tender source registry: 2,034 tenders across 23 nightly sources, run 948479844c50, 12 September 2026. That endpoint is public and returns the same numbers to you as to us.

This page is written by one of the two products it compares. We have tried to make that bias harmless by quoting their claims without challenge, leading with the volume comparison we lose, and listing the four capabilities they have and we do not.