A simpler Stape alternative
Both host server-side tagging. Tiide is the focused one — a flat price per site, a setup measured in minutes, and support inside Australian hours.
Ten client sites cost ten times one client site. No usage curve to model before you quote, and your GTM configuration comes across untouched.
Why people look for an alternative
Almost everyone evaluating a different server-side tagging host arrives for one of three reasons.
- 1. The bill moves. Usage-based pricing is hard to forecast, and harder still to put inside a fixed client retainer.
- 2. The setup asks for more expertise than you wanted to build. Server-side GTM has a real learning curve, and it is rarely the thing you set out to become good at.
- 3. Client sites multiply the problem. What is manageable for one site becomes a spreadsheet once you are running ten of them for other people.
Tiide is built around all three.
Why teams move to Tiide
The bill is predictable
A site costs US$24 a month with 1M events, or US$49 with 5M. That number does not move with traffic spikes, and there is no separate line item for each ad platform you connect. When you are pricing a retainer, you already know the input.
It is built for client work
Billing sits with the account, so you can own the account and bill the client inside your retainer, or let the client own it and add your team as users — and mix the two across your book. One login belongs to multiple accounts, so moving between clients does not mean separate credentials. More on how agencies use Tiide.
Support in your timezone
Tiide is Australian. If you are in Australia or the wider APAC region, questions get answered inside your working day rather than overnight.
Nothing to run
We host and scale the container. No servers for your developers to maintain, and no DevOps time to bill against a client retainer.
At a glance
| Tiide | Stape | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing shape | Flat per site — two plans, US$24 and US$49 | Tiered by usage, with separate products priced separately |
| Cost of ten sites | Ten times the cost of one, known up front | Depends on usage across the account |
| Multiple client sites | Supported on every plan; one login across client accounts, flexible billing owner | Supported |
| Price per site | US$24 / month with 1M events, or US$49 with 5M | Varies with usage |
| Entry price | US$24 per site / month, 1M events included | Free tier available; paid hosting from about US$20 / month |
| Setup | Point DNS, connect GTM, live in minutes | Server GTM hosting |
| Support hours | Australian timezone | Not stated on their site |
| Product breadth | Focused on hosted server-side tagging | Broader — platform gateways, bot filtering, data enrichment, consent management |
Stape details taken from stape.io and last verified on 18 September 2026. Pricing and features change — check their site before deciding.
Who should switch
You are going to compare these two properly, so here is the straight version.
Tiide is the better fit if
- ✓You run several sites and need each to cost a flat, predictable amount
- ✓You are billing clients and want the input to your retainer to be a known number
- ✓You would rather the tagging infrastructure was somebody else's problem
- ✓You want a new client site live in minutes, not scheduled as a project
- ✓You are in Australia or APAC and want support inside your working day
Stape may suit you better if
- •You need a free plan for a single low-traffic site
- •Your measurement depends on their separate gateway products, bot filtering or consent management
- •You want every configuration option exposed and enjoy tuning it yourself
If you landed in the left-hand column, the rest of this page is about how quickly you can be running.
Switching is smaller than it sounds
The work you invested does not move. Your tags, triggers and variables live in your Google Tag Manager server container — they belong to your GTM account, not to whoever hosts the container. Changing host does not touch them.
Point a subdomain
Add one DNS record so tagging is served first-party from your own domain.
Repoint the container
Update the server URL your existing GTM container answers on. The configuration stays as it is.
Check the data flows
Confirm events arriving in GA4, Google Ads and Meta, then retire the old host.
Your historical data is unaffected — it lives in the destination platforms, not in the tagging server. If you would like a second pair of eyes on the cutover, talk to us before you start.
What changes after you switch
Your reporting gets its missing conversions back. Events are collected first-party and forwarded from our servers, so the sales that ad blockers and privacy updates currently hide reach GA4, Google Ads and Meta like any other.
Your costs stop moving. US$24 per site per month with 1M events, or US$49 with 5M. A traffic spike does not produce a surprise invoice, and adding a client site adds a known number to the bill.
Your team stops maintaining infrastructure. We host and scale the container. Nobody on your side patches a server or gets paged, and there is no DevOps time to absorb into a retainer.
Setup stops being a project. Point a subdomain, connect Tag Manager, and the site is live. Onboarding the tenth client site is the same job as the first.
Integrations
Works with the platforms you rely on
Unlock the full potential of the platforms you're spending on.
Tiide feeds each one the event and
conversion data it needs to optimize effectively and achieve a better ROAS.
GA4
Google Ads
Meta
TikTok
Snapchat
HubSpot
Mailchimp
We keep this simple too
All plans include all Tiide features. Just choose the plan that suits your site's volume.
$24 $240 USD
per site / month per site / year
Low Tiide
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Up to 1,000,000 events / month
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Google Tag Manager server-side events
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Bypass ad blockers
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Track iOS users
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Google Ads integration
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Meta Ads integration
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Basic support
$49 $490 USD
per site / month per site / year
High Tiide
POPULAR
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Up to 5,000,000 events / month
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Google Tag Manager server-side events
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Bypass ad blockers
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Track iOS users
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Google Ads integration
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Meta Ads integration
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Priority support
Custom
Enterprise
AGENCIES
Managing client sites? See Tiide for agencies
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All inclusions from the High Tiide plan
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Tailored volume
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Dedicated account manager
Questions about switching
It depends entirely on how many sites you run. Tiide is flat: US$24 per site per month with 1M events, or US$49 with 5M, and that figure does not move with traffic or with the number of ad platforms you connect. Stape offers a free tier for server-side Google Tag Manager and paid hosting from around US$20 per month, so for one low-traffic site they will cost less. Across a portfolio the position reverses, because ten sites cost ten times one site and you can quote a retainer without modelling a usage curve first.
Easier than most migrations, because the part you built does not move. Your tags, triggers and variables live in your Google Tag Manager server container, not with your host. Switching hosts means pointing a subdomain at Tiide and updating the URL your container answers on. The configuration you spent time on comes with you untouched.
Your historical data lives in the destinations — GA4, Google Ads, Meta — not in the tagging server. Switching where events are processed does not alter data those platforms have already received. What changes from the switch onward is where your events are processed before being forwarded.
GA4, Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, HubSpot and Mailchimp — from one server-side event stream, with no per-platform pricing. You do not need to be a server-side Google Tag Manager expert to get reliable measurement out of any of them; that is the part we handle.
No, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a gap we are working towards. Stape ships a broader surface, including separate gateway products for individual ad platforms, bot filtering, data enrichment and consent management. Tiide does hosted server-side tagging with flat per-site pricing and a short setup. If your measurement depends on those extra products, Stape covers more ground. If what you actually want is reliable tagging that somebody else runs, the narrower product is the reason Tiide is quicker to stand up and easier to price.
Per-site pricing means each client site costs a known amount you can put straight into a retainer. Billing sits with the account, so you can own the account and bill the client, or let the client own it and add your team as users, mixing the two across your book. One login can belong to multiple accounts, so switching between clients does not mean juggling credentials.
Tiide is Australian, and the infrastructure is managed for you wherever you are. If you are in Australia or the wider APAC region it also means support lands inside your working day rather than as an overnight email round-trip.
Try it on one site first
Move a single site across, watch the data for a fortnight, and scale from there. Per-site pricing, cancel anytime.