Looking for a Smartly.io alternative? First check whether you need one. Smartly is built for large advertisers; Tempomat is built for stores and agencies that want to start on their own. This comparison, by the Tempomat team, uses Smartly's own pages as checked on October 4, 2026.
What is Smartly?
Smartly (formerly Smartly.io) is an advertising platform that joins creative production and media buying. Its site describes "one powerful platform to create, launch, manage, and optimize campaigns in real-time across all your media platforms". It covers social, search, retail media, audio, programmatic and connected TV, and says it works with 700+ brands.
Its AI layer, Smartly Synapse, has agents for planning, execution and optimization. A campaign assembly agent turns briefs into campaigns you can create, edit and clone by prompt, and Smartly says built-in approvals make sure agents act only when you choose.
What is Tempomat?
Tempomat is an AI media-buying copilot for e-commerce brands and agencies. You connect Meta, TikTok, Google Ads and your store, then ask questions in a chat, get reports, generate creatives and build campaigns. Every campaign is created paused, and turning it on needs a person's approval. See the features page.
How much does Smartly cost?
Smartly doesn't publish prices; its pricing URL returns a not-found page and the site asks you to book a demo. Treat it as a sales-led enterprise contract. Tempomat publishes its prices: Starter $49, Growth $149 and Agency $399 a month, each with a 7-day free trial. See pricing.
Smartly vs Tempomat: what is different?
Scale and channels
Smartly reaches far more channels: Amazon, Reddit, Spotify, Roku, programmatic DSPs and connected TV on top of the big social and search platforms. Tempomat covers Meta (Facebook and Instagram), TikTok and Google Ads. If your plan spans retail media and CTV, Smartly is built for that and we are not.
Creative production
Smartly is strong on templated creative at scale: templates from After Effects, Photoshop or Figma, dynamic creative and feed-based generation. Tempomat generates single images, product videos and presenter videos from a script, and helps you brief them from winning ads. Large creative teams will find more depth in Smartly. See our AI ad creative guide.
Getting started
Smartly starts with a demo. Tempomat starts with a sign-up: connect an ad account, ask a question and see your own numbers in a few minutes. For a small team, time to first answer often matters more than the length of the feature list.
Stores and cash on delivery
Tempomat reads orders from Shopify, YouCan and Lightfunnels and tracks cash-on-delivery orders from placed to delivered, so ROAS can be measured on orders you actually banked. Smartly's pages don't mention store order data. Our ROAS formula guide explains why that matters.
Control
Both talk about approvals. Smartly's agents act when you choose, and its optimization triggers can run automatically once set. Tempomat has no auto-activate setting: campaigns are built paused and every turn-on, budget increase or suggested change waits for a person whose role allows it.
Who should choose Smartly?
Choose Smartly if you are an enterprise brand or a large agency with many channels, a creative studio and a measurement team, and you want one vendor with onboarding and support for all of it.
Who should choose Tempomat?
Choose Tempomat if you are a store or a small to mid-sized agency on Meta, TikTok and Google Ads, you want a published price and a free trial, and you want an AI that does the work while a person approves anything that spends. Read how we approach Facebook ads automation.
How do you try Tempomat next to your current setup?
- Start the 7-day trial and connect one ad account and your store.
- Ask the questions your team answers every week and compare the numbers with your current dashboard.
- Schedule one weekly report by email for a brand.
- Build one paused test campaign and walk through the approval.
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