Five Media Buyers, One Subscription: What Each Vendor Charges

what does five seats cost on each vendor that prices per user?

Anstrex is the one vendor in this set whose price literally multiplies by headcount, because every listing is quoted per month per user. Native Solo runs $79.99/month/user, so five buyers cost $399.95/month; Push and Pops each run $89.99/month/user for $449.95/month at five seats; InStream (TikTok) is cheaper per head at $39.99/month/user, or $199.95/month for five. Buying the Native + Push bundle instead of both products separately drops the per-user rate to $139.99, which knocks the five-seat total for two networks down to $699.95/month rather than $849.90 for the same coverage bought piece by piece. (Source: Anstrex Native pricing)

Foreplay and Atria only charge per seat once a team exceeds what the base plan already includes, which changes the math on both. Foreplay's Basic plan bundles one user for $59/month ($49 billed annually) and adds $20/month for every extra seat, so five buyers on Basic run $139/month ($129 annually) — cheaper than Anstrex's Native five-seat total, though Basic's own Spyder and Lens brand limits below the Workflow tier are not stated anywhere on the pricing page. (Source: Foreplay pricing)

which plans already include five seats in the base price?

Atria Core and Foreplay Workflow are the only two plans checked here that name five seats in the base price, and they land at different tradeoffs. Atria Core is $129/month billed annually with 5 seats, a $500,000/month ad-spend limit, 4,000 AI credits and 50 followed brands. Foreplay Workflow is $175/month billed monthly or $149/month billed annually for up to 5 users, with Spyder capped at 15 brands and Lens capped at 1 brand. (Source: Atria pricing)

AdSpy publishes no seat count at all. Its homepage shows one $149/month subscription with a single 'Subscribe' button and no tiered plan structure, so whether five people can share one login is simply not addressed anywhere on the site. Anstrex never bundles seats either — every product multiplies linearly from one user, which is why it belongs in the per-seat section above rather than this one. AdHeart's Team plan is pitched at 'teams of all sizes - from 3 to 100+ participants' but is quote-gated with no published price, so it can't be scored against the others yet, and this is exactly the trap flagged in ad spy tool prices compared for CIS media buyers 2026: the sticker price and the team price are often different questions entirely.

does the five-seat tier gate anything the single-seat tier doesn't?

Foreplay's five-seat tier trades higher headcount for tighter brand limits, which is the clearest gate in this set. Moving from Basic to Workflow adds four seats and lifts the price from $59 to $175/month, but it also caps Spyder tracking at 15 brands and Lens at 1 brand — restrictions Basic's published feature list doesn't mention, likely because a single user was never expected to track that many competitors. Whether Basic carries its own lower Spyder or Lens caps isn't published, so treat that specific comparison as directional rather than exact.

Atria doesn't gate anything by reaching five seats, because Core is the entry tier and already includes them; the ad-spend cap, AI credit allowance and brand count all attach to the plan itself, not to a seat threshold inside it. Anstrex gates nothing per seat either. Every added user pays the same $79.99–$139.99/month rate and gets the same search, filter and Landing Page Ripper access as the first user, since Anstrex prices strictly by headcount rather than by feature tier.

how many brands or trackers does each five-seat plan allow?

Foreplay and Atria are the only two vendors that name a brand or tracker ceiling next to their five-seat price, and the two numbers diverge sharply once you line them up. Anstrex and AdSpy don't publish a brand cap at all, which cuts two ways: Anstrex meters usage through generative-AI credits and search limits instead of brand counts, while AdSpy's homepage states no gating of any kind next to its single price.

does any vendor cap the team's combined ad spend?

Only Atria publishes an ad-spend ceiling tied to the subscription, and it's a hard one: Core caps the team at $500,000/month in tracked ad spend, Plus raises that to $1,000,000/month at $479/month (8 seats), and only Business, at $959/month, removes the cap entirely. That's the catch on the cheapest flat-for-five option in this set — a team running $600,000/month combined would need to upgrade past Core no matter how many seats it actually uses.

AdSpy, Anstrex and Foreplay don't publish any ad-spend limit at all, because none of them connects to the team's own ad accounts the way Atria does; they index other advertisers' creative rather than metering campaign budgets. That's a structural difference, not an oversight. A tool built to watch competitors has no obvious reason to cap your spend, while a platform that bulk-uploads creative and auto-scales winners inside your own ad accounts has every reason to.

what does a flat-priced tool with no seat terms mean for a team?

A flat price with no seat terms means the vendor hasn't told you what happens when a fifth person logs in, and that silence is a cost, not a bargain. AdSpy's $149/month is the cheapest nominal price in this entire set, but it's also the only one where a five-person team is operating in undocumented territory — no seat count, no named multi-user policy, nothing beyond a single 'Subscribe' button on the homepage. AdSpy's own refund language grants a full refund only within 24 hours of purchase and leaves everything after that 'at the discretion of AdSpy,' and a vendor reserving that much discretion on refunds is unlikely to look kindly on five people sharing one login if it decides to check. (Source: AdSpy homepage)

AdSpy also flags its own $149 rate as 'an introductory offer' that 'will not be the same for long,' so a five-person team planning a year of budget around that price is planning around a number the vendor has already said it may change. Whether that risk is worth the savings is exactly the question should a CIS media buyer pay for a spy tool at all works through in more depth.

which configuration covers five buyers on two traffic sources?

Foreplay Workflow covers the most traffic sources for five buyers without any extra multiplication, because Discovery already indexes Facebook, Instagram, TikTok (including organic content) and LinkedIn, with the Chrome extension additionally saving from YouTube Shorts and the Google Ads Transparency Center — all inside the same $175/month, or $149 annual, five-user plan. That breadth answers the two-source question outright: a team doesn't pay twice to watch two networks, it pays once.

Anstrex requires stacking products to cover two traffic sources, and that cost compounds by seat. Five buyers needing native and push inventory together pay the Native + Push bundle rate of $139.99/month/user, or $699.95/month total — several times Foreplay's five-user price for a narrower footprint, since Anstrex still excludes Facebook and Instagram entirely by its own admission.

AdSpy covers only Facebook and Instagram, which counts as one traffic source under its own description of itself as 'the largest searchable database of Facebook and Instagram ads in the world,' so it doesn't answer a two-source brief regardless of team size. Atria is built around Meta and TikTok for the team's own campaigns, not for spying on competitors' native or push inventory, which makes it a poor fit whenever the second source a team needs is push or native rather than a second paid-social platform — a distinction worth understanding before shopping by price alone, covered in what an ad spy service does and why buyers use one.

what does each option cost over twelve months?

Over twelve months the ranking from the opening section flips again, because annual billing terms favor the vendors that already bundle five seats. Atria's annual-only billing makes it the cheapest 12-month total in this set for five seats with a spend cap, at $1,548/year, while Foreplay Workflow's annual term lands almost exactly on AdSpy's flat rate at $1,788/year despite covering five named users against AdSpy's unstated headcount.

Anstrex's per-seat model produces the widest range of the group: a single-product, single-network setup for five buyers runs $4,799.40/year, and stacking two networks for the same five buyers nearly doubles that to $8,399.40/year. None of these totals include AdPlexity, BigSpy, PowerAdSpy or AdHeart, because none of the source pages checked on 2026-08-05 published a verified five-seat rate for those vendors — AdHeart's Team plan and BigSpy's Group Buy and Enterprise tiers are quote-gated, so their 12-month cost needs a sales call rather than a published number, and what that annual spend actually needs to return is worked through in ad spy tool ROI math for media buyers based in the CIS.

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