Compare Ziwi with LocaliQ, Hibu, Thryv, Scorpion, Birdeye, Podium, WebFX, Marketing 360, Townsquare Interactive and Weave (2026)
Ziwi prints every price, local SEO or ads management from $297 a month and reviews $197, month to month on SEO, ads and reviews, with a website you own. This page sets that beside what ten marketing vendors publish about their prices and contracts, checked October 2026, and names where each is still the better buy. See Ziwi's pricing.
Every line priced, next to what ten vendors publish
- $297/moLocal SEO Essentials or ads management, the starting price
- $197/moReviews and reputation, per location
- $0Website build with a hosting or Ziwi Care plan kept 12 months
vsThe ten vendors, as published4 of 10 print a starting price, $99 to $575 a month; 6 publish terms but no price; contracts from month to month to 12 months (checked October 2026)
Local SEO, Google and Facebook ads management, reviews, lead answering and a $0 website build with a plan kept 12 months, each priced on its own. Call tracking included with ads management.
See how we compareZiwi publishes these comparisons and lists its own prices first: local SEO at $297, $597 or $997 a month per location, ads management at $297, $497 or $797 a month by total ad spend, reviews and reputation at $197 a month per location, Ziwi Engage lead answering at $99 or $299 a month, and a $0 website build with a hosting or Ziwi Care plan kept 12 months, with SEO, ads, reviews and Engage month to month. The ten vendors below are ones small business owners ask AI assistants and search engines for an alternative to, and only three of them, Thryv, Podium and Weave, print a monthly price for the product a small business would buy; WebFX prints starting prices, and the other six keep the number for a sales call. Each linked page quotes the vendor's own price and contract term with its source and date, sets it beside Ziwi's published price for the same job in a table, says where the vendor is still the better buy, and works out what switching costs. Every figure was checked in October 2026 and is labelled as published by the vendor, written in its terms, or reported by a third party.
Which marketing vendors does Ziwi compare itself with, and what does each one publish?
Ziwi compares itself with 10 vendors on these pages, LocaliQ, Hibu, Thryv, Scorpion, Birdeye, Podium, WebFX, Marketing 360, Townsquare Interactive and Weave, and prints its own prices first: local SEO or ads management from $297 a month, reviews $197, month to month. Of the 10, Thryv at $99, Weave at $199, Podium at $399 and WebFX at $575 print a starting price on their own sites, and the other 6 publish terms but no price, so their figures here come from their contracts, third-party reports or client reviews, each labelled as such (checked October 2026).
The table gives the one-line version, and each vendor's page carries the full table, the sources and the switching steps.
| Vendor | What it publishes (checked October 2026) | Contract, as published | Full comparison |
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| LocaliQ | No price; an Initial Term of 30-day Cycles per Order Form, 50% of the unpaid balance to leave early, website licensed not owned (its terms) | Initial Term of Cycles, then 30-day renewals | LocaliQ alternative |
| Hibu | No price; $299 implementation fee and the domain registered to Hibu (its legal terms) | Typically 6 to 12 months, then month to month | Hibu alternative |
| Thryv | Starter $99 and Signature $399 a month for software your team runs; done-for-you Boosts by quote; Social Ads $500 to $1,000 a month | Per order, 30 days notice before renewal; Social Ads six-month minimum | Thryv alternative |
| Scorpion | No price; typically a 12-month contract for the platform and SEO, advertising month to month; you own the domain, content and imagery but not the CMS (its FAQ) | Typically 12 months on the platform and SEO | Scorpion alternative |
| Birdeye | No price; a price tracker reports $299 to $449 a month per location; 90 days notice of non-renewal and an 8% fee at each renewal (its terms) | Per Order Form, non-cancellable, auto-renews on 90 days notice | Birdeye alternative |
| Podium | Core $399 and Pro $599 a month for software your team runs, plus a $5 a month carrier fee per location | 12-month initial term, auto-renews, 30 days notice, no early exit | Podium alternative |
| WebFX | Local SEO from $575 a month, PPC from $750 after a $1,200 first month, SEO packages from $2,900 a month after an $8,600 initial campaign | Six-month initial commitment on SEO | WebFX alternative |
| Marketing 360 | No price; Initial Term and onboarding package set in the Service Agreement, 30 days written notice, ad accounts not transferred (its terms) | Initial Term per Service Agreement, then auto-renews | Marketing 360 alternative |
| Townsquare Interactive | No price; about $300 a month per investor coverage of its parent; the website stays Townsquare's at termination (its terms) | Initial Term per Order, then month to month; balance due on early exit | Townsquare Interactive alternative |
| Weave | Base plan from $199 a month plus $149 bundles for software your front desk runs; higher plans by quote | No long-term contract required; 30 days notice; annual orders auto-renew | Weave alternative |
A printed price is not the same as a lower price, and the three cheapest printed numbers on this list, Thryv at $99, Weave at $199 and Podium at $399, are software seats your own team runs, while Ziwi's $197 and $297 lines are a marketer doing the work (checked October 2026). The honest comparison on every page is the job, then the price, then the term.
What does Ziwi charge?
Ziwi does: local SEO at $297, $597 or $997 a month per location, ads management at $297, $497 or $797 a month by total ad spend, one fee for Google, Facebook and Instagram, reviews and reputation at $197 a month per location, and Ziwi Engage lead answering at $99 or $299 a month, every price printed on the site before any call. SEO, ads, reviews and Engage run month to month with no notice period, and the website is a $0 build with a hosting or Ziwi Care plan kept 12 months, otherwise $1,000 for a designed template or $2,500 custom.
The business owns the website, the domain, the Google listing and the ad accounts from day one, with hosting access through the Ziwi portal.
- Website. A $0 build with a hosting or Ziwi Care plan kept 12 months, live in 3 days from kickoff, with no page cap; otherwise $1,000 for a designed template or $2,500 custom.
- Local SEO. Essentials at $297 a month per location covers the Google Business Profile, business listings, fixes to your own pages and two new pages or posts a month; $597 steps that up to two a week; $997 adds landing pages per service and area.
- Ads management. $297 a month on ad spend up to $1,500, $497 from $1,500 to $3,500 and $797 above that, one fee for Google, Facebook and Instagram, with the spend paid to the platform from your own account.
- Reviews. $197 a month per location: the same review request to everyone you invite, replies written, the profile kept clean.
- Lead answering. Ziwi Engage at $99 a month texts back every missed call and new lead within seconds; Engage Pro at $299 answers, qualifies and books, plus AI usage billed at cost.
- Hosting and care. $99 a month for hosting and maintenance, or $299 a month per location for Ziwi Care with a new post every week and unlimited small edits, first month free, changes done within 24 hours.
Call tracking is included with Ziwi ads management. The full rate card is on the pricing page, the lines are added up in marketing retainer packages, and the terms are explained on the page about working with a marketing agency with no contract.
Want every price before you talk to sales?
Ziwi prints every plan, from $197 a month for reviews and $297 for local SEO or ads management. SEO, ads and reviews run month to month, and the website and ad accounts stay in your name.
How were these comparisons built?
Each of the 10 pages was built the same way in October 2026: the vendor's own pricing page, plans page and terms of service were read first, and only where the vendor prints nothing was a third-party listing, price tracker, investor coverage or client review used, labelled as a report. Every figure carries the vendor's name, its source page and the month it was checked, and a figure we could not confirm on a page we could open was left out rather than guessed. Ziwi's figures are its published prices, and the vendor pages name where the vendor is still the better buy, because a comparison that never says so is an advertisement.
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Read the vendor's own pages first. Pricing, plans, FAQ and terms of service, with the page date recorded.
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Use outside figures only where the vendor prints none. Listings, price trackers, investor coverage and client reviews, each named and dated as a report.
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Set each line beside Ziwi's published price for the same job. Software a team runs is marked as such against a service run for you.
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Name the term and the exit. Initial terms, notice periods, auto-renewals, cancellation fees and who keeps the website and the accounts, quoted from the terms.
Which comparison should a small business read first?
Read the page for the vendor you are already paying or already talking to, and if you are choosing between kinds of product, the split is 3 ways: LocaliQ, Hibu, Scorpion, WebFX, Marketing 360 and Townsquare Interactive sell done-for-you marketing like Ziwi does, Birdeye, Podium and Weave sell software your team runs, and Thryv sells software with done-for-you add-ons by quote (checked October 2026). For a done-for-you agency, compare the term and who keeps the website and the ad accounts, because that is where the 6 agencies differ most from Ziwi's month to month terms on SEO, ads and reviews. For software, compare what your team would still have to do at $99 to $599 a month against Ziwi's $197 reviews line and $99 Engage line run for you.
- Paying an agency on a term. Start with Hibu, Scorpion, LocaliQ, Marketing 360 or Townsquare Interactive; the switching section on each page counts the months left.
- Comparing printed agency prices. WebFX is the one agency on this list that prints a rate card, so that page compares published numbers on both sides.
- Buying reviews or missed-call texting. Birdeye, Podium and Weave are software; Thryv is software with add-ons by quote.
Prices and terms change, so check each vendor's page on the day you buy; every outside figure on these pages was checked in October 2026 and each page carries its date. Ziwi's prices are on the pricing page, the agencies that print a price are listed in marketing agencies that publish their prices, and the reasons most do not are in why agencies hide prices.