Sentrum vs Atria

Atria helps you find ads to make. Sentrum tells you which of your ads need help.

Pre-launch research vs. post-launch diagnostics. Completely different stages of the workflow.

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Atria

Creative Intelligence & Ad Research

AI-powered creative intelligence platform with a 25M+ ad library, AI-generated scripts and copy, competitor ad tracking, and creative analytics. Chrome extension for saving ads, Canva templates, and a "Radar" AI strategist for surface-level analytics. Free tier available, paid plans from ~$49–99/mo.

Best for: Creative strategists and teams who need ad inspiration, competitor research, and AI-assisted creative generation
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Sentrum

Diagnostic dashboard for Meta + TikTok

Root cause diagnosis for Meta campaigns. Tells you why performance changed and what to do next.

Best for: Media buyers who need to diagnose performance and take action
TikTok support coming soon

Atria and Sentrum operate at different stages of the advertising workflow. Atria is a creative research and generation tool: browse competitor ads, find inspiration, generate scripts and copy with AI, and organize your creative assets. It's excellent at the pre-launch phase — figuring out what ads to make. But Atria has no connection to your ad account performance data. It can't tell you why YOUR ads are underperforming. It can't diagnose why CPA spiked, whether it's creative fatigue or audience saturation, or what you should change today. Sentrum is the diagnostic dashboard for Meta buyers. Built by a media buyer with 8 years of experience, it connects to your Meta account and diagnoses what's actually happening with your live campaigns — why performance changed, which levers moved, and what to do next. Atria helps before you launch. Sentrum helps after.

What Atria does well

25M+ ad library — largest creative research database in market
AI-generated scripts, copy, and ad concepts
Chrome extension to save ads from anywhere
Competitor ad tracking and monitoring
Asset management with boards and organization
Canva templates for quick creative production
Brand profiles for consistent creative direction
Clean UI that's better than the native Meta Ad Library

Why choose Sentrum instead?

If diagnosis and action are your priority, here's where Sentrum delivers:

Connected to YOUR account data

Atria has no connection to your ad account. It can't see your CPMs, your CTR trends, your frequency patterns, or your conversion data. Sentrum connects directly to your Meta account and diagnoses your live campaign performance — not hypothetical benchmarks or competitor examples.

Diagnoses why YOUR ads stopped working

Atria can show you what competitors are running. It can't tell you why your winning ad from last month is now burning budget. Sentrum detects creative fatigue signals, frequency thresholds, CTR decay patterns, and tells you exactly which ads need attention and why.

Root cause analysis, not surface metrics

Atria's "Radar" AI strategist provides surface-level analytics. Sentrum performs root cause decomposition: Was the CPA increase driven by CPM pressure? CTR decline? CVR shift? Budget reallocation? Every diagnostic comes with evidence and specific actions.

Post-launch decisions, not pre-launch research

Atria overlaps heavily with the free Meta Ad Library and tools like Foreplay for research. Sentrum occupies a space nothing else fills: diagnosing live campaign performance and telling you what to change. Research is step one. Diagnosis is every day after.

Actionable recommendations tied to real problems

Atria might inspire your next ad. Sentrum tells you "pause this ad because frequency hit 3.5 and CTR has dropped 40% in 7 days — reallocate budget to these 2 ad sets that still have headroom." Specific. Evidence-based. Actionable.

Feature comparison

FeatureSentrumAtria
Root cause diagnosis
Connected to your ad account
Optimization timeline tracking
Mix shift detection
Driver breakdown (CPM/CTR/CVR)
Objective-aware KPIs
Creative fatigue detection
Ad library (25M+ ads)
AI creative generation
Chrome extension
Competitor ad tracking
Asset management
AI recommendationsCause-basedInspiration-based

The verdict

Choose Atria if...

Your biggest challenge is creative ideation. You need a massive ad library for inspiration, AI tools to generate scripts and copy, and a way to organize your creative assets. You're in the pre-launch research phase and need to figure out what ads to make next.

Choose Sentrum if...

Your ads are live and performance changed — you need to know why. You want root cause diagnosis showing whether it's CPM pressure, creative fatigue, audience saturation, or budget pacing. You need specific, evidence-based recommendations tied to diagnosed problems. You're in the post-launch optimization phase and need to make decisions today.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use both Atria and Sentrum?

They're natural complements. Sentrum diagnoses the problem ("CTR declining due to creative fatigue in ad sets X, Y, Z — these 3 ads need refresh"). Atria helps solve it ("here's creative inspiration and AI-generated concepts for your next batch"). Research → Launch → Diagnose → Research again. Atria and Sentrum handle different steps in that loop.

Does Sentrum have an ad library?

No. We focus entirely on diagnosing your live campaign performance. For ad research and inspiration, tools like Atria and Foreplay are purpose-built and excellent. We'd rather integrate with them than build a worse version of what they already do well.

Is Atria's "Radar" AI similar to Sentrum's diagnostics?

Radar provides surface-level analytics and general recommendations. Sentrum performs root cause decomposition — breaking down every performance change into specific drivers (CPM, CTR, CVR, frequency, mix shifts) with evidence and targeted actions. Different depth entirely.

Atria is free / cheap. Why pay for Sentrum?

They solve different problems. Atria gives you ad inspiration — which the free Meta Ad Library also does. Sentrum gives you diagnostic intelligence on your live campaigns — which nothing else does. The question isn't Atria vs. Sentrum; it's whether you need post-launch diagnosis in addition to pre-launch research.

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