Amazon PPC, compared honestly
Quartile is a managed, cross-channel program: platform access plus a dedicated team, across Amazon, Walmart, Google, Meta and more, priced by custom quote. Astra is Amazon PPC software that does the work itself, with experts on call and every price published. If you are buying a managed program across nine channels, Quartile fits. If you want Amazon run on autopilot, that is Astra's entire job. Already inside a program where the results have not kept pace with the invoices? Start at the switching section below.
Every Quartile claim on this page links to its source. Last updated September 2026.
Brands running their Amazon ads on Astra
Sourced from Quartile's own pages and ours, September 2026.
| Attribute | Astra | Quartile |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Amazon sellers with real catalogs.Full-funnel PPC across every ASIN, optimized daily, from single brands to accounts running 22,000+ ASINs.See the self-service edition → | Brands buying a managed, cross-channel program.Platform access combined with dedicated account support and expert strategy.quartile.com |
| What the automation touches | The entire PPC workflow, end to end.Keyword harvesting into exact match, campaign and ad group creation, negatives, daily bid and budget optimization, dayparting. Sponsored Products, Brands and Display; DSP self-service is in development for 2026.See the self-service edition → | AI optimization run as a hybrid with their team.Specifics are scoped per engagement.quartile.com |
| Channels and marketplaces | Amazon, every marketplace worldwide.Seller Central only: no Walmart, and no Vendor Central. If you need ads beyond Amazon, that is a real limitation and we say so below. | Nine channels, from Amazon and DSP to Google and Meta.Also Walmart, Instacart, Criteo, Microsoft and ChatGPT Ads.quartile.com |
| How optimization works | A goal per product, not one model per account.Each ASIN runs Profit (ACOS target), Sales (monthly budget) or Visibility mode, and the strategy can differ across your catalog. | AI plus hands-on management.The mix of automation and human management depends on the program you scope with them.quartile.com |
| Human strategy access | Unlimited strategy calls with your account rep.From the free trial through every paid tier, with seasoned operators who have scaled brands of their own. A managed edition exists if you'd rather we run it.Book a live demo → | A dedicated team is the product.Account support and expert strategy sit at the core of the offering, by design.quartile.com |
| Pricing model | A monthly subscription plus a small percentage of ad revenue.Never a percentage of ad spend, and every number is published on our pricing page.See Astra's full pricing → | Custom quote only.No pricing is published anywhere on their site; every path starts with a demo request.quartile.com |
| Starting price | From $149 a month plus 1.75% of ad revenue.Explorer covers up to $10K monthly ad revenue ($119 on annual). Professional runs $299 to $499 plus 1.55% to 1.65%. Managed plans start at $1,499.See Astra's full pricing → | Not published (as of September 2026).You learn the price after the demo and scoping conversation.quartile.com |
| Free trial | 30 days free, no credit card.Full Explorer access, and your account rep from day one.Start the free trial → | None published.The site's entry point is a demo request.quartile.com |
| Getting started | Running the same day.Connect Seller Central and set a goal per product. Astra syncs up to 24 months of campaign history and builds the structure itself. | Scoped per engagement with their team.quartile.com |
A managed engagement moves at the cadence of the team running it. Astra is software doing the work itself: campaigns built, keywords harvested, bids and budgets adjusted daily across every ASIN, with experts one call away instead of in the critical path.
With a managed program, expert attention is the engagement itself, scoped and quoted. Every Astra account, free trial included, comes with an account rep and unlimited strategy calls, run by operators who have scaled brands of their own, at software prices.
Quartile publishes no pricing, so weighing cost against outcome starts with a quote. Astra's plans, the subscription and the ad-revenue fee behind them are on our pricing page for anyone to read, from a $149-a-month Explorer plan to managed programs, easy to hold up against your own numbers.
One quote, one program, one strategy is how managed engagements tend to be scoped. Astra's unit of strategy is the product: every ASIN gets its own goal, Profit, Sales or Visibility, optimized daily. That is what lets a 10,529-SKU catalog hold 17.8% ACOS on about 12 minutes a week.
Each one is a published case study, not a testimonial.
Astra Sellrbox makes Amazon ads feel simple. I don't have to overthink anything. The tools make campaign setup easy enough for a normal person to understand, and once your goals are clear, the AI takes over and handles the rest.
Works as advertised. The software is intuitive and easy to learn, and I got started quickly. I am pretty much hands off asides for the occasional checking of my performance and to adjust my budget and targets.
Sellrbox has been a great ecommerce partner and has grown our Amazon and Tiktok Shop accounts tremendously. We have increased our audience reach twofold and have lower ACOS and TACOS overall.
Responsive and very knowledgeable about Amazon and Walmart policies, especially on navigating 2024 fees. Helped us ~2x our sales through PPC + listing optimization. They definitely know their stuff.
Sellrbox is gold standard. They are responsive and understand all the nuances of the major etailer platforms to help ensure success and grow your brand.
We have automated our Amazon PPC spend, dropped our agency completely saving us about 95% of what we were spending, and doubled our sales in the last few months. I cannot express how grateful I am.
I'm a new Amazon seller, and learning how to manage ads on my own has been very challenging. I came across Astra and they've really helped me optimize my ads by significantly lowering my ACOS! My business is finally becoming profitable.
Sellrbox helped grow my amazon account from just under $1,000 in sales per month to over $5,000+ per month, really made my dreams a reality and showed me that making money online is very real and possible.
I've tried Teikametrics and Perpetua but they really don't work that well for advertising. Astra actually did what it was supposed to and scaled up my ads with AI. We moved our entire Amazon + Walmart management to the Sellrbox team.
I find the platform easy to use. There is a P&L section that succinctly describes my profitability which was an insanely manual task before. Support is great, they are reachable and proactively offer to help. Sales keep growing and can't complain.
We've seen a noticeable boost in profitability since using Astra. The automation features make campaign management effortless, and their customer support goes above and beyond. Perfect for teams that want to streamline ad performance and scale efficiently.
I was looking for a way to quickly scale my business across multiple platforms without expanding my team, and Sellrbox has been the perfect agency. They have in-house automation softwares that made managing ads so much easier.
Sellrbox worked out well for my brand, I was hesitant at first but they quickly showed that they were experts in the ecommerce world. Would work with them again!
Three steps, nothing to migrate by hand, nothing to turn off.
There is no engagement to unwind before trying Astra: the 30-day trial is free, needs no credit card, and can run on a slice of your catalog while everything else stays as it is. Our longest-running accounts began with exactly this kind of head-to-head.
Start the free trial →Want expert eyes on the account before moving anything? An analyst runs a free advertising audit and walks you through the findings — no commitment, and no quote required to hear them.
Book the free audit →Astra reads up to 24 months of your campaign history on connection, so the learning from your current program carries over rather than starting from zero. It creates its own campaign structure and begins optimizing day one; nothing gets rebuilt by hand.
Our comparison promise
Every claim about Quartile on this page links to its source, most of them Quartile's own pages, checked September 2026. If we got something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Quartile is a managed hybrid: platform plus dedicated account support and expert strategy, across many ad channels, priced by custom quote. Astra is Amazon-only software that runs the full PPC workflow itself, with published pricing and experts you can call rather than a team you hire. A program versus an engine is the fair one-line version.
Three motives come up most in this comparison: wanting the price visible before the conversation, wanting the daily work done by software rather than scheduled through a program, and wanting strategy set per product rather than per engagement. All three are structural differences, not quality judgments, which is why the honest move is running Astra's free trial next to your current setup and letting the numbers decide.
Quartile publishes no pricing; their site's only path is a demo request, and the cost is quoted per engagement (checked September 2026). Astra publishes everything: a monthly subscription from $149 (Explorer) to $499 (Professional's top band), plus 1.55% to 1.75% of ad revenue, and managed plans starting at $1,499 plus 3% to 3.5%. You can read every number before talking to anyone.
Both exist, separately and with published prices. The self-service editions are software that runs your PPC itself. The managed edition adds a dedicated PPC specialist who runs the account for you, from $1,499 a month plus 3.5% of ad revenue. You pick the relationship; you are not defaulted into one.
No. Astra charges a monthly subscription plus a small percentage of the ad revenue it manages, and both numbers are published rather than quoted. Nothing in the price is keyed to how much you spend.
No. Astra's territory is Amazon Seller Central, in every marketplace worldwide, and it ends there. Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display are covered today; DSP self-service is in development for 2026. If multi-channel coverage under one vendor is the requirement, Quartile is honestly the closer fit.
Yes. The 30-day free trial includes full Explorer access and needs no credit card. Run it on part of your catalog next to whatever you have today; our longest-running accounts started with exactly that side-by-side test.
No. Astra builds its own structure: once Seller Central is connected and each product has a goal, it reads back as much as 24 months of campaign data, creates the campaigns and optimizes daily from there.
Optimization starts the day you connect; meaningful movement shows up over weeks, because ad platforms learn in cycles. The published case studies set honest expectations: sales up 41% in 30 days for SpitJack, and a year-long side-by-side that ended at 19.4% versus 51.7% ACOS. The instant change is the hours you stop spending.
Yes, without the engagement pricing: an account rep and unlimited strategy calls come with every tier, free trial included, staffed by operators who have scaled brands of their own. A free advertising audit is on the table before you decide anything.
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