The platforms' own2
Power tools5
The other half of the job2
No tool by that name.
Admiral vs Ryze
AdmiralFinds what your Google and Meta ads waste, files each fix with its evidence, and changes nothing until you approve.
RyzeAI that runs paid ads, SEO and a website for small businesses and agencies, across eight ad platforms.
Their side read from their own pages on 17 October 2026. If a line is wrong, it is wrong in public: tell us and it will be corrected with the date.
Where Admiral is ahead of Ryze
Each line is in the product today, or marked Next, set beside what their own pages say.
- 1An autopilot that can’t run away with your budgetLive
AdmiralSwitch autopilot on and it stops waste by itself, blocking searches and pausing what never converts, up to 10 times a day. It never raises a budget or a bid; every other change waits for you.
RyzeRyze’s Managed Campaigns pause ads, move budget and swap creative on their own, with no limit stated on how many changes. Its terms say the agent “can and will sometimes make mistakes”.
- 2Try it without a cardLive
AdmiralThe free trial needs no card and never turns into a charge on its own. Nothing is billed until you choose a plan.
RyzeRyze’s trial asks for a card and turns into a charge automatically, and its refund policy says payments are final once processed.
- 3Nothing changes until you say yesLive
AdmiralEvery change waits for your approval. Autopilot is the one exception, and only if you switch it on.
RyzeIn Ryze’s chat the approval setting starts on “Skip all approvals”, and its terms make you responsible for stopping the agent. Its Inbox does wait for Approve.
- 4Change your mind in one clickLive
AdmiralUndo, one click, wherever the platform allows a clean reverse; a change that cannot be reversed is labelled final.
RyzeNo undo in any of Ryze’s 137 help pages. Its own review page points you to the ad platform’s change history instead.
- 5No cut of your ad spendLive
AdmiralOne flat price set by your monthly ad spend. Admiral never takes a percentage of what you spend on ads.
RyzeRyze’s Managed Campaigns add 5% of the ad spend they run, on top of the $89 plan (the rate falls to 0.8% only at very large budgets).
- 6New campaigns arrive pausedLive
AdmiralNew campaigns start safe: Search network only, people in your area only, paused. Before any click is bought, the landing page is checked for your conversion tag.
RyzeRyze’s Managed Campaigns build and go live unless you tell the agent “Don’t launch without my approval”.
Where they match
- Both price what a problem costs: Ryze’s approval cards show “what it costs you” in real numbers, as Admiral’s findings do.
Where Ryze is ahead
Said plainly, because a comparison that hides this is not one.
- Eight ad platforms with managed campaigns, including LinkedIn, Microsoft, TikTok and ChatGPT ads, against Admiral’s two today.
- A lower flat price: $89 a month with unlimited ad accounts, and $279 for agencies with full white label.
- SEO, content and a website in the same product.
- A Claude and ChatGPT connector that can write to the ad account, with approval you set.
Pick Ryze ifyou want one flat price across many channels and accounts, and you are happy to let an agent act and watch it yourself.
Pick Admiral ifyou want every change asked first, a hard limit on anything automatic, and an undo where the change can be reversed.
The ledger, row by row
| Row | Ryze | Admiral |
|---|---|---|
| Channels | Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft Ads, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit and ChatGPT ads with managed campaigns; more in chat. | Google Ads and Meta. Microsoft Advertising, ChatGPT ads and LinkedIn Ads next, no dates yet. |
| Before a change | Chat approvals start on “Skip all approvals”; the Inbox waits for Approve; Claude write tools can be set to need approval. | Every change waits for your approval. Autopilot is the one exception, and only if you switch it on. |
| Acting on its own | Managed Campaigns pause ads, shift budget and rotate creative inside a budget mandate; up to 5 per workspace; no cap on the number of changes stated. | Autopilot may only add negative keywords or pause a keyword, and no more than 10 a day. |
| Undo | Not found in its help centre, changelog or terms. | One click, wherever the platform allows a clean reverse; a change that cannot be reversed is labelled final. |
| Record of changes | A before and after table on each Inbox card and a progress note per managed run; a log of every applied change is not described. | A receipt for every change: before and after, who approved it, when, and its undo where the change can be reversed. |
| Checks | No published list or count. | 61 named checks, each with its own page. |
| New campaigns | Managed Campaigns launch live unless told otherwise; Performance Max made in chat stays paused. | Drafted from your website and answers, checked against what the platform accepts, handed over paused. |
| Price | Paid Ads $89 a month flat with unlimited ad accounts; Agency $279; Managed Campaigns add 5%, falling to 0.8%, of the spend they manage. | $99 to $399 a month by monthly ad spend. No fee on ad spend. |
| Trial | 7 days. | 7 days free, no card, for workspaces made by 12 November (the launch offer), then 3 days. |
| Agencies | Unlimited client workspaces and full white label (logo, colours, domain, email sender) on Agency. | A monthly client report with your agency’s name and colour on a link you can revoke; Agency plan with 15 ad accounts, by conversation. |
| Your own assistant | A connector for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor that can read, write and schedule, with approval you set; Grok and Slack too. | From your own Claude or ChatGPT it reads findings and files or closes a proposal; nothing it can do from there touches Google or Meta. |
Their column: get-ryze.ai/pricing · help.get-ryze.ai/agent/chat.md · help.get-ryze.ai/paid-ads/managed-campaigns.md · help.get-ryze.ai/paid-ads/faq.md · get-ryze.ai/terms-of-use, read 17 October 2026. “Not on their pages” means the pages named did not say it.
Check it on your own account.
Connect Google Ads or Meta and every check runs on the history already there. Nothing changes until you approve.
- Search terms that spend and never convert“free consultation”, “skin clinic jobs”$212this month
- Keywords with nothing to show for the money“cheap facial near me”, 31 clicks, no bookings$64this week
- Ads leaking onto search partners and the Display network11% of spend, no bookings$118this month
- One enquiry counted many timesThe booking form counts each booking twice2×bookings overstated
49 named checks on Google Ads and 14 on Meta, each time it reads.