Soku AI
The swipe file is the start of the work, not the end of it
Foreplay collects and organises competitor ads into briefs. Soku researches competitor ads, then generates the creative, launches it across Meta, Google, and TikTok, and optimizes toward your ROAS target.
Soku vs Foreplay
Foreplay ends at the brief. Soku starts there and carries it through to a running campaign.
| Feature | Soku | Foreplay |
|---|---|---|
| Competitor ad research | Yes, 200M+ ad library and Spyder tracking | |
| Swipe file and organised collections | Basic | Yes, a core strength |
| Creative briefs for a design team | Yes, Briefs | |
| AI ad creative generation (image and video) | ||
| Launch and manage campaigns | Yes, Meta, Google, TikTok | No, by design |
| Live budget optimization toward a target | ||
| Creative analytics | Ad-account and GA4 analytics | Yes, Lens |
| API and MCP access | Not published | Yes, API and MCP |
| Entry price | Free to start | $59/mo Basic, $20 per extra user |
Bottom line: Choose Foreplay if you have a creative team and want the best-organised reference library and briefing workflow available. Choose Soku if the bottleneck is not finding good ads but producing your own version and getting it live.
Comparison reflects publicly documented features at time of writing. Foreplay is a trademark of its owner.
Why teams choose Soku
It produces the asset, not the brief
Foreplay turns inspiration into a brief that someone still has to build. Soku generates the ad images and video from the insight directly.
Research and execution in one loop
Soku surfaces what competitors are running and then acts on it in the same conversation, rather than handing findings across to another tool and another person.
It launches and optimizes
Foreplay does not launch or manage campaigns — that is a deliberate product decision, not a gap. Soku takes the creative into live A/B tests and reallocates budget toward winners.
No per-seat tax on the team
Foreplay charges $20/month per additional user beyond the plan's included seats. Soku is free to start.
Useful without a creative team
Foreplay's workflow assumes designers downstream of the brief. Soku is built for teams who need the creative made for them.
Honest about the library
Foreplay's 200M+ ad library and Spyder brand tracking are deeper and better organised for browsing than Soku's research. If reference is what you need, Foreplay wins that comparison.
The Shortlist, By Reason For Leaving
Foreplay is a creative research product, so the reason people leave is almost never "it is bad at that" — it is that the job turned out to be a different job. Every price below was read from the vendor's own pricing page and verified on 2026-09-23; where a vendor publishes nothing, that is said plainly rather than filled in.
You only ever needed to look at competitor ads, and $59/month for that felt steep
Meta Ad Library
Free — Meta publishes no paid tier for it
Every active Meta ad, searchable by advertiser, with run dates and creative. No saving, no tagging, no collections, no team workflow — which is exactly what Foreplay's $59 buys on top. If you look up competitors twice a month, the free primary source is the honest answer. Checked 2026-09-23.
Foreplay Basic, kept
$59/mo · $175/mo · $459/mo monthly; $49 · $149 · $389 annual; $20 per additional user
Worth saying out loud: if the swipe file, Spyder brand tracking and Briefs are being used weekly by more than one person, nothing free replaces the organisation layer. Verified on foreplay.co/pricing 2026-09-23.
You wanted to know which ads worked, not which ads exist
Motion
$750/mo up to $50k monthly ad spend · $1,200/mo above $50k · top tier demo-quoted
Creative analytics joined to your own ad-account spend, so the unit of analysis is your performance rather than a public library. Priced for brands already spending at that level, and every plan is behind a demo booking. Verified on motionapp.com/pricing 2026-09-23.
Atria
$129/mo billed annually (up to $500K analysed ad spend, 5 seats, +$20/seat) · $479/mo · $959/mo
The closest thing to a direct swap that also scores performance, and it is roughly a third of Motion's entry. Note the headline prices are annual-billing figures. Verified on tryatria.com/pricing 2026-09-23.
Soku
Free · $19 Creator · $49 Starter · $249 Pro
Reads creative performance back from the ad account and GA4 rather than from a public library, but it is not a creative-analytics specialist — if dashboards are the deliverable, the two above are built for that and this is not.
The brief kept sitting in the queue because nobody had time to build the ad
Creatify
Starter $39/mo, 100 credits
Turns a product URL into UGC-style video with AI actors, which is the fastest path from a saved reference to a shippable cut. Only the Starter tier renders to a logged-out visitor; the higher tiers load client-side and did not resolve on 2026-09-23.
Soku
Free · $19 Creator · $49 Starter · $249 Pro
Generates the image and video creative and then launches and optimizes it on Meta, Google and TikTok, so the brief does not stop at a design queue. It does not have Foreplay's 200M-ad library depth and does not pretend to.
You need the research to reach a live campaign, not a document
Foreplay plus your existing ads manager
$59/mo plus whatever you already run
Foreplay does not launch campaigns, and that is a stated product decision rather than a missing feature. Pairing it with the platform you already buy media in is usually cheaper than replacing it. Verified 2026-09-23.
Soku
Free · $49 Starter · $249 Pro
Carries the finding through to a running ad with budget and status changes behind an approval gate. Choose this only if the gap you feel is execution; if the gap is reference material, the library is still the better purchase.
Move from Foreplay in three steps
Keep the inspiration. Skip the handoff.
Connect your ad accounts
Link Meta, Google, and TikTok plus GA4 in a few clicks. Soku reads existing campaigns and performance history immediately.
Bring the angle
Describe the competitor angle you want to answer, or paste a product URL. Soku generates image and video variants on that concept instead of writing a brief about it.
Let the agent run
Soku launches, A/B-tests, and shifts budget toward winners, reporting back in chat. Keep Foreplay as a reference library if your creative team still wants it.
What you can do with Soku
Answer a competitor's ad in a day
Spot the angle a competitor is running and have your own version generated, launched, and testing before the week is out.
Launch a product across channels
Paste a product URL and Soku generates creative and spins up coordinated Meta, Google, and TikTok campaigns from one prompt.
Refresh tired creative
Ask Soku for new variants on the winning concept and test them against the current set without a briefing cycle.
Run creative without a designer
Small teams get from insight to live ad without hiring or contracting the production step.
Foreplay alternative FAQ
How much does Foreplay cost?
Foreplay publishes Basic at $59/month, Workflow at $175/month, Agency at $459/month, and a custom Enterprise tier, with roughly 15% off annual billing. Additional users are $20/month each beyond the seats included in the plan. Verified 2026-08-19.
Does Foreplay launch ad campaigns?
No. Foreplay is a research, inspiration, and creative-analytics platform. It builds swipe files, tracks competitor brands, and produces briefs, but campaign launch and management happen in another tool.
Is Soku a direct Foreplay replacement?
For teams who used Foreplay mainly to find angles and brief them out, Soku replaces the whole path by generating the creative and launching it. For teams who value the organised 200M+ ad library and the Briefs workflow around a design team, Foreplay does that better and the two can coexist.
Does Soku have a competitor ad library?
Soku runs competitor ad intelligence to inform creative decisions, but it is not a browsable swipe-file product on Foreplay's scale. Soku's advantage is that the research feeds directly into generation and launch.
Is Soku free to try?
Yes. Soku is free to start with no credit card, so you can test the research-to-live-ad loop against your current Foreplay workflow before committing.
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