Influencer Marketing Platforms and Software: 33 Options Compared

By Jake Jorgovan, a partner in Fieldtrip, the agency group that includes inBeat, one of the 33 firms below
Published Updated 25 min read
Influencer marketing software promises to take the spreadsheets out of working with creators. The tools help a brand find creators who suit its audience, contact them, agree terms, approve their posts, pay them and report on what the campaign earned. They differ a great deal in how much of that work they do, who they are built for and what they cost.
Some brands do not need a platform subscription of their own. If nobody on the team has time to recruit creators and manage the relationships each week, a managed program run by an agency or by a platform's own service team may be the better buy.
This guide compares 33 options in three groups: software platforms for finding, running and measuring creator programs, creator marketplaces and managed programs. For each it gives what the vendor sells, what it publishes about price and the customer proof on its own pages. It then covers how to choose, what the costs add up to, why vendor risk matters in this category and what to ask before you sign.
Compare influencer marketing platforms by who does the work
The groups describe each option's main offer, and many sell more. Several platforms also sell a managed tier (Creator.co, partnrUP, Insense and Influencers Club among them), and several managed programs come with software of their own. This is a shortlist without a ranking, A to Z within each group, and it does not cover the whole market.
| Option | What it is | Published price | Proof on its pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software platforms for finding, running and measuring creator programs23 of 33 firms | |||
| Aspire | Creator, affiliate, gifting and UGC platform, with agency services | Not published | Veradek Outdoor: $400k in sales in 60 days from creator content in Partnership Ads |
| Creator.co | Platform with an AI agent, self-serve or managed | Self Serve $299 a month (3-month minimum) or $199 billed annually; Managed $2,199 or $1,499 billed annually (minimum term stated as 6 months on the plan card, 3 in the FAQ) | Poleberg: $66.5K in sales through influencers |
| CreatorIQ | Enterprise platform for multi-brand, multi-region programs | Quote on request | Nestlé customer story; 1,300+ brands and agencies |
| Emplifi Influencers | Creator management inside a social media suite | Not published for the influencer product | Benefit Cosmetics testimonial about Emplifi Social |
| Feedspot | Search and custom lists of blogs and YouTube channels | $99 to $450+ a month | Monaeo: a list of 700+ tax and fintech bloggers for PR |
| GRIN | Creator management platform with an AI assistant, priced by usage credits | Free; $200, $500 or $1,000 a month | Rookie: $53+ in earned media value per $1 spent, in a 2024 case study |
| Heepsy | Creator search with audience checks | Free; $69 to $229 a month billed annually | Logos including Birchbox; 50K+ brands and agencies |
| HypeAuditor | Discovery, audience analytics and campaign tools | Not published | Coffee Meets Bagel and Taj Exotica case studies |
| Influencers Club | Creator data with emails, API access and a managed option | From $140 a month | Kajabi and Pearpop cases |
| Influencity | Discovery, relationship and campaign management, plus social media tools | $198 to $1,398 a month, or $1,900 to $13,420 a year | Customer logos including Air France, Kellogg's and Samsung |
| IZEA | Creator marketing platform (ZED) and managed campaigns | Not published | Lidl: impression targets exceeded by 137% |
| Julius | Platform with analyst-built creator profiles | Not published | Customer logos including Allergan, Club Med and Unicef |
| Lefty | Platform for lifestyle brands, with consulting services | Custom pricing | Tommy Hilfiger: $140M in EMV growth |
| Meltwater | Influencer marketing inside a media intelligence suite | Contracts individually tailored; most annual, 12-month minimum | Canon testimonial |
| MightyScout | Tracking-led platform that captures posts and Stories | From $99 a month | Bolt: more than 500 influencers managed by two employees, in a 2020 case study |
| Modash | Discovery, tracking, gifting and payments, built around Shopify | From $199 a month billed yearly; 5% fee on payouts above a yearly limit | 2,600+ in-house teams; named user testimonials |
| partnrUP | Platform run by AI agents, with a done-for-you tier | Free; $299 or $699 a month; Scale custom | Jimmy Dean, managed: conversion up 130% |
| Refersion | Affiliate and influencer commission tracking | $39 a month billed monthly, or $29 billed annually, plus 3% of affiliate-generated sales | Boardroom Socks: affiliate traffic converts 5x higher |
| Shopify Collabs | Creator recruitment and affiliate commissions inside Shopify | Free to install on eligible Shopify plans; 2.9% processing fee on commission payments | Duradry: customer acquisition cost down 29% |
| Sprout Social Influencer Marketing | Creator discovery, vetting, workflows and payments, alongside Sprout's social tools | Not published | Care to Beauty: 75% less time analyzing creator profiles |
| Storyclash | Discovery, Stories monitoring and competitor insight | Starter €499, Growth €999, Scale €1,899 (billing period not stated) | Junglück: CAC cut by 36% |
| The Cirqle | Performance platform with ROAS forecasting and sales attribution | Not published | ABOUT YOU: CPA cut by 49% |
| Upfluence | Platform with AI search, outreach and affiliate tracking, plus managed services | Custom-quoted modules; 12-month minimum contract | Marriott Bonvoy, managed service: 11M+ cumulative audience reach |
| Creator marketplaces4 of 33 firms | |||
| BrandBacker | Network of bloggers and influencers for product content | Not published | Studio Gear Cosmetics and Markwins stories |
| Collabstr | Marketplace for hiring listed creators, with campaign tools | Free or $249 a month (annual), each with a 10% hiring fee; $333 a month (annual) with 5% | Mane Theorie, Orangetheory and Avery cases |
| #paid | Creator marketplace with a strategy team | Not published | IKEA: cost per visit down 40% |
| Insense | Marketplace for UGC and influencer campaigns, plus managed services | Brand plan $500 a month billed quarterly, plus a 10% marketplace fee | Fling: 6x more creators through product seeding |
| Managed programs6 of 33 firms | |||
| Bazaarvoice Creator Marketing | Managed creator programs from a reviews and UGC company | Not published | L'Occitane testimonial |
| inBeat | Agency for creator marketing, UGC and paid social | Not published | HelloFresh: global acquisition costs cut by 20% |
| Influential | Managed influencer campaigns on its own platform | Not published | Experian on Snapchat: click-through rate 44% above benchmarks |
| InfluencersFriend | Managed creator outreach, negotiation and reporting | Amount not published; management fee due only when you approve a creator partnership | Testimonial from Carly's senior brand marketing manager |
| Markerly | Full-service influencer agency since 2012 | Not published | Logos including Nike, Verizon and Mattel |
| NeoReach | Managed campaigns, plus a self-service platform and API | Full-service campaigns from a $50,000 minimum engagement; UGC programs from $10,000 | $350M+ creator spend managed; Netflix, NVIDIA and Walmart cases |
Software platforms for finding, running and measuring creator programs
23 of 33 firmsThese tools cover different parts of a creator program, from finding creators and their contact details to outreach, payments, affiliate tracking and reporting. Your team still owns the program, and the features included depend on the plan. Entry plans with published prices suit a brand testing the channel; the enterprise platforms quote each contract and add controls across brands, regions and agencies.
Aspire
Back to the comparisonAspire website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A consumer brand running influencer, affiliate and gifting programs together
Greg Boyer of Veradek Outdoor, quoted on Aspire's services page, says running Partnership Ads from creators' handles brought "$400k in sales in just two months". Aspire's homepage also credits its affiliate tools with "200% affiliate growth, one holiday season" for Fable Home.
The platform covers creator discovery, content approval, affiliate links, payments and workflow automation, and Aspire sells agency services, including creator content for ads, alongside it. No prices appear on the pages read; the site offers a demo.
Creator.co
Back to the comparisonCreator.co website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A brand that wants to start self-serve and move to expert help without changing platform
- Published pricing
- Self Serve $299 a month with a 3-month minimum, or $199 a month on annual billing; Managed $2,199 a month, or $1,499 a month on annual billing (the plan card states a 6-month minimum and the FAQ 3 months, so confirm the term in the proposal); Enterprise on request
Creator.co's stories page features Poleberg, which it says "Drove $66.5K via Influencers". The platform is built around London, an AI agent, and covers discovery, outreach, campaign management, content approvals, payouts and performance tracking. Brands can "run campaigns yourself or partner with our in-house experts"; the Managed plan includes a dedicated account manager and up to five creator collaborations a month. The pricing page offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and extra credits cost $99 for 100.
CreatorIQ
Back to the comparisonCreatorIQ website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A global brand or holding company that needs one system across brands, regions and agencies
CreatorIQ's homepage leads with a customer story, "Nestlé Unifies Creator and Paid Media with CreatorIQ", and says it is "Trusted by 1,300+ of the world's most innovative brands and agencies". Its page for global enterprises quotes Nestlé Health Science on running several brands' creator programs and rosters in one place.
The platform is built for that scale: shared reporting across sub-brands and regional offices, permissions by team, brand-safety screening and an API for connecting sales and other first-party data. Prices are given on a call. CreatorIQ acquired Tribe Dynamics in 2021, and tribedynamics.com now sends visitors to it.
Emplifi Influencers
Back to the comparisonEmplifi Influencers website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An enterprise brand that already uses Emplifi for social media management
Rachel Bouvier, senior digital analyst at Benefit Cosmetics, is quoted on the influencer product page describing how Benefit uses Emplifi Social, Emplifi's social media product, to compare engagement across global, local and influencer content. Emplifi says its influencer product "gives enterprise brands a single system to discover, vet, and manage creators at scale", searching "30M+ creator profiles".
Emplifi was formerly Socialbakers, and socialbakers.com now redirects to it. Its pricing page lists social media packages from $1,249 a month but does not say whether influencer management is included, so no influencer price is published.
Feedspot
Back to the comparison- Potential fit
- A PR or content team that needs lists of niche blogs or YouTube channels to pitch
- Published pricing
- plans at $99, $179, $299 and $450+ a month on its influencer pricing page
Samantha Dorin, marketing lead at Monaeo, is quoted on Feedspot's testimonials page saying Feedspot built a list of more than 700 bloggers in tax and fintech for its PR program. Feedspot's influencer search returns websites and YouTube channels by topic, with unlimited results and exports on paid plans. Its published offer is creator search and contact lists; plan separately for campaign operations.
GRIN website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An ecommerce brand that wants published prices and AI help with day-to-day creator work
- Published pricing
- Free; Starter $200 a month; Growth $500 a month; Scale $1,000 a month; 30-day free trial of Starter
- Evidence
- Rookie case study (opens in a new tab)
Rookie, a nutritional supplement brand, generates "$53+ in EMV for every $1 spent" each month, according to a GRIN case study published in 2024. GRIN's case-study index also features MVMT and Baby Brezza.
GRIN calls itself a creator operating system, with an AI assistant, Gia, that recruits and contacts creators, reviews applications and checks content against the brief while your team approves. Plans are priced by monthly usage credits, with no charge per seat: 2,000 credits on Starter, 7,500 on Growth and 20,000 on Scale. Growth adds multiple brands.
Heepsy
Back to the comparison- Potential fit
- A small team that needs creator search and audience checks at a low published price
- Published pricing
- Free; Starter $69 a month billed annually ($89 monthly); Plus $149 ($199 monthly); Advanced $229 ($299 monthly)
Heepsy says it is "Trusted by 50K+ brands and agencies" and shows logos including Birchbox, Burga and CabinZero. It searches "20M+ creators" on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn by niche, location, audience size and engagement, and flags fake followers before outreach.
HypeAuditor
Back to the comparisonHypeAuditor website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A team that wants to check creators' audience quality and fraud risk before paying them
Coffee Meets Bagel, a dating app, used HypeAuditor for influencer discovery, according to one of its case studies; another features Taj Exotica Resort & Spa in Dubai. The platform finds, vets and activates creators, analyzes competitors and builds media plans, with audience analytics meant to show "the true quality of any creator account". Its pricing address showed product information with no prices on the day it was read.
Influencers Club
Back to the comparisonInfluencers Club website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A growth team that wants creator emails and data by API, or a managed outreach service
- Published pricing
- Starter from $140 a month; Pro from $208 a month; its FAQ also cites a Dashboard plan at $199 a month
Influencers Club's customer stories include Kajabi, which matched creator sign-ups with social data, and Pearpop. It sells "discovery and enrichment of 340M+ creators with emails", an API and a fully managed agency service.
Influencity
Back to the comparisonInfluencity website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A brand or agency that wants published plans and social media tools in the same account
- Published pricing
- Discover $198 a month or $1,900 a year; Professional $398 a month or $3,816 a year; Business $1,398 a month or $13,420 a year; 7-day free trial
Air France, Kellogg's, Netflix, Pernod Ricard and Samsung are among the customer logos on Influencity's homepage, with agency groups such as Dentsu and Havas. The platform covers discovery, audience and brand-safety analysis, relationship management, outreach, campaign management, affiliate code tracking and reporting, plus scheduling and social listening. Prices come from the plan data on its pricing page.
- Potential fit
- A large brand that wants software and a campaign team from one company
A creator campaign IZEA ran for Lidl's digital leaflet exceeded impression targets by 137%, according to IZEA's case studies; another reports that creators promoting New York Bakery at Walmart generated "over 308,000 product cartings". Its homepage shows logos including Disney, Amazon, Walmart and Nike. IZEA sells ZED, a platform for planning, running and measuring creator campaigns, and runs campaigns for brands. TapInfluence's address now leads to IZEA. No prices appear on the pages read.
Julius
Back to the comparison- Potential fit
- An agency or brand that wants analyst-reviewed creator profiles
Allergan, Club Med, Unicef and the New York Islanders appear among the customers on Julius's homepage, with agencies such as Dentsu and M&C Saatchi. It searches profiles across eight social networks, and "our team of analysts works on every profile". Its homepage logo carries the line "A Triller Company", and the articles it features date from 2022 and 2023, so ask how the product is being developed. No prices appear on the pages read; the site offers a demo.
Lefty website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A fashion, beauty or luxury brand measuring earned media value across markets
Tommy Hilfiger "drove $140M in EMV growth" with a global influencer strategy run on Lefty, according to a Lefty case study; another reports "+1013% ROI on TikTok" for Sephora Collection. Clarins UK's PR department is quoted on its homepage. Lefty offers discovery, relationship management, campaign reporting and consulting services, with "custom pricing tailored to the size and scope of your influencer marketing program".
Meltwater
Back to the comparisonMeltwater website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A communications team that already buys media monitoring and wants influencer work in the same contract
Gareth Crew, who leads social and digital communications for Canon in EMEA, is quoted on Meltwater's influencer page: "We use Meltwater's Influencer Marketing Platform almost every day to search for micro and nano influencers." The product covers discovery, campaign management, discount-code tracking and reporting for global teams, agencies and ecommerce. Klear's address now redirects to this page. Meltwater's pricing page says "each Meltwater contract is individually tailored", and that most partnerships run on annual agreements with a minimum term of 12 months.
MightyScout
Back to the comparisonMightyScout website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A small team or agency whose main headache is capturing posts and Stories and reporting on them
- Evidence
- Bolt case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- from $99 a month (Mini plan); 14-day free trial; no long-term contracts
MightyScout's 2020 Bolt case study describes a two-person team managing more than 500 influencers; Bolt's influencer lead says tracking that used to take six to eight hours now takes 10 to 15 minutes. The platform finds creators, sends outreach, ships products, auto-captures Stories and reports on campaign ROI.
Modash
Back to the comparisonModash website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A Shopify brand that wants discovery, gifting, tracking and creator payments without an enterprise contract
- Published pricing
- Essentials from $199 a month billed yearly ($299 monthly); Performance from $499 ($599 monthly); 14-day free trial; payouts through Modash Payments carry a 5% fee above each plan's yearly fee-free limit ($10,000 on Performance Annual)
Modash says "2,600+ in-house teams" run paid partnerships, gifting and affiliates on it, and its customers page quotes named users, including an influencer marketing team lead and a creator partnerships manager. It calls itself a "Shopify-first influencer marketing platform" to find creators, manage partnerships, track performance and pay creators.
partnrUP
Back to the comparisonpartnrUP website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A mid-market brand that wants AI agents to handle discovery and outreach, with a done-for-you option
- Published pricing
- Free $0; Pro $299 a month; Growth $699 a month; Scale (full campaign execution) on custom pricing
Jimmy Dean "lifted conversion by 130% with recipe videos created and published through partnrUP's managed services", according to a partnrUP case study published in 2025; its case studies also include Lenovo. The platform assigns AI agents to discovery, recruitment, approvals and commerce integrations, and its Scale tier is "Full Campaign Execution, 'Done-For-You' by partnrUP". The Gen.video and Lionize addresses now lead to partnrUP's site.
Refersion
Back to the comparisonRefersion website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An ecommerce brand that pays creators a commission on sales
- Published pricing
- $39 a month billed monthly, or $29 a month billed annually, plus 3% of affiliate-generated sales, with lower rates as sales grow
Boardroom Socks is quoted on Refersion's homepage saying its affiliate traffic "converts 5x higher than the rest of our traffic". Refersion runs influencer and affiliate programs for creators, brand ambassadors, bloggers and a brand's own customers, with commission rates set by performance and referral sales tracked automatically.
Shopify Collabs
Back to the comparisonShopify Collabs website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A Shopify brand that wants a free way to recruit creators and pay them commission on sales
Duradry, a deodorant brand, reports a 29% decrease in customer acquisition cost from working with creators on Shopify Collabs, according to Shopify's customer story, with more than 250 creators in its partner network and over $50,000 in affiliate sales in under seven months.
Collabs runs inside the Shopify admin: brands search creator profiles, add an application page to their store, invite creators they already know and pay commissions. It is free to install for Shopify merchants on eligible plans; commission payments carry a 2.9% processing fee paid by the merchant. Dovetale's address now leads to Collabs.
Sprout Social Influencer Marketing
Back to the comparisonSprout Social Influencer Marketing website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A brand or agency that already uses Sprout Social, or wants influencer work tied to social listening
- Evidence
- Care to Beauty case study (opens in a new tab)
Care to Beauty, an online beauty retailer, reports a 75% reduction in the time it spends analyzing creator profiles using Sprout Social Influencer Marketing. Its 2025 case study also reports a tenfold increase in influencer-attributed sales on Black Friday 2024, compared with the program's previous sales period. Tagger, another influencer platform, is now this product.
The platform finds creators by topic, scores their fit with the brand, flags brand-safety risks in past content and runs outreach, contracting, content approvals and payments in one workflow. Sprout's pricing page lists influencer marketing as its own product ("No Sprout plan required") without a price.
Storyclash
Back to the comparisonStoryclash website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A European consumer brand that wants creator discovery and competitor monitoring
- Published pricing
- Starter €499; Growth €999; Scale €1,899 (billing period not stated in the text read)
Junglück, a Storyclash customer, used it to "cut CAC by 36%, and boost new customer share by 23%", according to its customers page, which also features Pets Deli and Westwing. Storyclash surfaces creators and brand and competitor mentions across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and archives Instagram Stories for up to 12 months. Its homepage announces that Storyclash and Kolsquare are joining forces.
The Cirqle
Back to the comparisonThe Cirqle website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A performance marketing team that wants to forecast and attribute sales from creators
ABOUT YOU cut its CPA by 49% with The Cirqle, according to a story on The Cirqle's homepage, which also features a LOOKFANTASTIC campaign with an 11x ROAS and a 76% ROAS uplift for Zelesta. The platform shows a creator's historic ROAS, ad spend and revenue before you contract, tracks first-party attribution and runs campaigns across Meta, TikTok and Shopify. No prices appear on the pages read.
Upfluence
Back to the comparisonUpfluence website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An ecommerce brand or agency that wants search, outreach and affiliate sales tracking in one platform
- Published pricing
- modular and custom-quoted; three named tiers; its pricing FAQ states a 12-month minimum contract
Upfluence reports more than 11 million in cumulative audience reach for a Marriott Bonvoy campaign run by its influencer marketing management service. Its case-study index also reports "$15.4M Sales for Farfetch". The platform searches a "14M+ creators database", personalizes outreach with its Jaice AI, runs affiliate programs and charges "zero fees on tracked sales" on its middle tier.
Creator marketplaces
4 of 33 firmsIn a marketplace, creators list their prices or apply to your brief, and you pay them through the platform, usually with a fee added to each hire.
BrandBacker
Back to the comparisonBrandBacker website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A product brand that wants blogger and influencer content to show on its own site
BrandBacker's homepage tells how Studio Gear Cosmetics used its influencer team for product feedback, and how Markwins used its tools to find influencers for a makeup line launched with the band One Direction. It connects brands with "over 50,000 bloggers and influencers" and displays their content on brands' sites. No prices appear on the pages read.
Collabstr
Back to the comparison- Potential fit
- A brand that wants to browse creators' listed prices and hire directly
- Published pricing
- Free or Pro ($249 a month billed annually), each with a 10% hiring fee; Premium $333 a month billed annually with a 5% hiring fee; enterprise from $1,000 a month on an annual contract
Collabstr links case studies for Mane Theorie, Orangetheory and Avery from its homepage. Brands can hire listed creators or post a campaign for creators to apply, chat before hiring, track live post analytics and pay through the platform.
#paid website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A large brand that wants creator matching with a strategy team behind it
#paid's case studies say IKEA used creator marketing "to drive in-store traffic and decrease the cost per visit by 40%", and that Sephora's Diwali campaign reached 96% positive sentiment (a case dated 2025 on its site). Brands and creators find each other on the marketplace, a team of experts builds the creative strategy, and #paid reports that "92% of creator matches are approved in the first round". No prices appear on the pages read.
Insense
Back to the comparisonInsense website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A brand that wants UGC and influencer posts from one marketplace, with a managed option
- Published pricing
- Trial from $650 for one month with a 20% marketplace fee; Brand plan $500 a month billed quarterly with a 10% fee; Agency from $640 a month billed yearly with a 7% fee; creator payments extra. Managed: a dedicated platform manager from $2,500 a month (creator cost not included), or eight custom videos from $3,500 including creator cost
Insense's case studies report that Fling sourced "6x more creators & 100K+ views with product seeding". The marketplace covers UGC, influencer posts, product seeding, Partnership Ads, TikTok Spark Ads and affiliates, and Insense sells managed services. Its pricing page says creator payments "must be budgeted separately", and a trial upgrades to the quarterly Brand plan unless you cancel at least 48 hours before it ends.
Managed programs
6 of 33 firmsHere a team outside yours recruits the creators, manages the relationships and reports the results. You approve the plan and the creators and pay for the agreed managed work; check whether software access and creator compensation are included.
Bazaarvoice Creator Marketing
Back to the comparisonBazaarvoice Creator Marketing website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A brand already using Bazaarvoice for reviews or sampling that wants a creator program from the same vendor
Celisse Ng, marketing manager at L'Occitane, is quoted on Bazaarvoice's Creator Marketing page recommending it for its insights on creators and its tracking and reporting. Bazaarvoice's team will "source, brief, negotiate, and vet creators", drawing on nano and micro creators from its network. Creator Marketing is one of the packages on its pricing page, with no prices shown.
inBeat
Back to the comparisonPart of Fieldtrip, in which the author is a partner
- Potential fit
- A consumer brand that wants creator campaigns tied to paid social performance
- Evidence
- HelloFresh case study (opens in a new tab)
inBeat reports that HelloFresh "cut global acquisition costs by 20%, with campaigns across 17 countries". Its case studies also include Yubo, which grew monthly sign-ups by 35% through organic creators and paid amplification.
inBeat is an agency. It works with creators of every size, from nano and micro to celebrity, and evaluates creators on audience demographics, engagement authenticity, category relevance, content quality and past campaign performance. It once sold a self-serve influencer database. It has since removed that database to focus on a free toolkit of calculators and ad mockup tools at inbeat.co, and no longer offers its own discovery or outreach tools. No prices appear on the pages read.
Influential
Back to the comparisonInfluential website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A large brand that wants a managed campaign with data-led creator matching
An Experian campaign Influential ran on Snapchat with named creators had a click-through rate 44% above Snapchat benchmarks, according to its work page. Influential describes itself as matching brands to influencers with AI and data, behind an "always-on platform", and Captiv8, an influencer platform, "has been integrated into Influential". No prices appear on the pages read.
InfluencersFriend
Back to the comparisonInfluencersFriend website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A brand that wants an outside team to handle outreach and negotiation with creators
Erin McBrayer, senior brand marketing manager at Carly, is quoted on InfluencersFriend's homepage saying it "allowed us to expand our influencer and affiliate marketing programs globally". The company finds creators who fit and handles outreach, negotiation, management and reporting, while the brand approves each partnership. It reports 10 years of experience and more than 10,000 creator conversations. Its management fee is payable only when your team approves a creator partnership; the amount is not published.
Markerly
Back to the comparisonMarkerly website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A public agency, health organization or consumer brand that wants a full-service campaign
AARP, Nike, Verizon, Mattel and Texas Parks & Wildlife are among the client logos on Markerly's homepage. Markerly describes itself as "a full-service influencer marketing agency running creator campaigns since 2012", covering strategy, vetted creators, content, activation and measurement, with specialties that include government agencies, public health and nonprofits. No prices appear on the pages read.
NeoReach
Back to the comparisonNeoReach website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A large brand that wants a managed team, with platform or API access for its own staff
- Published pricing
- full-service campaigns from a $50,000 minimum engagement; UGC content programs from $10,000
NeoReach reports "$350M+ in creator spend managed for NVIDIA, Netflix and Walmart" and lists 62 case studies, including Netflix, NVIDIA, Walmart, FIFA and Macy's. Companies can use its managed-service teams or its self-service platform, and its API offers "400+ endpoints built on a 250M-creator graph". Its pricing page sets a $50,000 minimum engagement for full-service campaigns, with UGC content programs from $10,000, priced per campaign, per project or as a monthly retainer.
Software or a managed program: how to choose
Start with who will do the work. Software saves time on searching, tracking and paying creators, but someone still has to pick creators, negotiate, write briefs, ship products, chase posts and approve content. If nobody on your team can take that on, the license will go underused, and a managed program, or a platform's managed tier, is the fairer comparison.
Then match the tool to the program you actually run:
| Your situation | Where to look first |
|---|---|
| You are testing influencer marketing and want low commitment | Published prices with a free plan or trial: GRIN, Heepsy, MightyScout, Modash, partnrUP; Shopify Collabs for Shopify stores |
| You run many brands or regions and need shared reporting and permissions | Enterprise platforms without published prices: CreatorIQ, Emplifi, Lefty, Meltwater, Sprout Social, Upfluence |
| Your team does outreach itself and needs creators' contact data | Creator data and discovery: Feedspot, Heepsy, Influencers Club, Modash |
| You pay creators on commission from sales | Refersion or Shopify Collabs, or the affiliate features in Aspire, GRIN, Upfluence and Modash (on its annual Performance and Enterprise plans) |
| You want to see creators' prices and hire quickly, or collect applications against a brief | Collabstr for listed creator prices and direct hiring; Insense for applications and quotes against a brief |
| Nobody in-house can run creator relationships week to week | Managed programs: inBeat, Influential, InfluencersFriend, Markerly, NeoReach, Bazaarvoice |
Prove the channel before you buy for scale. "Most companies that are successful have one or two marketing channels that work really, really well for them," I said on a 2021 episode of my podcast about how to think about marketing. You test a few, build a system around the one that produces results, then scale it. For influencer marketing that means a defined test, with a budget, a few creators and a sales or sign-up measure agreed in advance, on a trial, a monthly plan or a short managed engagement, before an annual enterprise contract.
What influencer software costs
The prices in the table follow three patterns, read in October 2026:
- Plan subscriptions: Feedspot, Heepsy, MightyScout, Modash, partnrUP, Creator.co, Influencity and Storyclash publish plan prices. Several offer lower monthly rates on annual billing; Storyclash's billing period is not stated on the page read.
- Usage credits: GRIN's plans differ mainly in how many credits its AI assistant can use, and it is "not priced per seat". Influencers Club also prices data by credit.
- Fees on creator payments: Collabstr and Insense add a percentage to each creator you hire (Insense's fee depends on the plan), and Refersion takes a share of affiliate-generated sales on top of its monthly fee. Modash charges a fee on creator payouts above a yearly fee-free limit, and Shopify Collabs a processing fee on commission payments.
Creator compensation is separate from the self-service subscriptions and marketplace fees listed here. A subscription you use to hire ten creators costs the subscription plus ten creators' fees, plus any marketplace fee on each payment. Managed packages vary: Insense's dedicated platform manager excludes creator costs, while its eight-video package includes them.
CreatorIQ, Lefty, Meltwater and Upfluence quote each contract, and Emplifi publishes no price for its influencer product. Published managed offers use different billing units: Creator.co and Insense quote monthly support, while NeoReach publishes a minimum campaign engagement. Compare the total budget for the same period and deliverables, including creator compensation, usage rights and any paid media. InfluencersFriend charges its management fee only when you approve a creator partnership. The other managed programs listed publish no price on the pages read. Check the minimum term as well as the price: Creator.co, Insense, Collabstr, Meltwater and Upfluence published minimums or annual billing on the pages read.
Vendor risk: tools close and change hands
Influencer software changes fast. Tribe Dynamics was acquired by CreatorIQ in 2021, Tagger is now Sprout Social Influencer Marketing, Klear's address leads to Meltwater and Socialbakers' to Emplifi, Dovetale's to Shopify Collabs, and TapInfluence's to IZEA. Captiv8 has been integrated into Influential, and Gen.video and Lionize both lead to partnrUP. Other tools that appeared on lists of influencer platforms are gone: trendHERO announced it is discontinuing its service, and the Influence.co domain is for sale. inBeat removed its own influencer database to focus on a free marketing toolkit; its agency is unaffected.
On a 2019 episode of my podcast I described how a Chrome extension that some of Lead Cookie's early processes were built on got shut down, and that "I made the decision at that point never to rely on an external bot or tool" when building that business. You cannot run a creator program without some software, but you can limit the damage when a vendor changes. Keep creator contacts, contracts, content files and usage rights in your own systems as well as the vendor's, and ask before signing how you would export them.
Questions to ask before you sign
- What outcome are we buying: creator content, audience reach, leads or sales, and how will we measure it?
- Who on our team will recruit creators, approve content and pay them, and how many hours a week will it take?
- Does the vendor support our kind of program, including B2B experts if those are the creators we need?
- Which networks and creator sizes does the platform cover, and in which countries?
- Do we need a database of creators, or will we bring our own and recruit from customers and applicants?
- What does the subscription include, how are credits or seats counted, and what fee is added to each creator payment?
- What is the minimum term, and is billing monthly, quarterly or annual?
- Can it track sales by code or link, and connect to our store, CRM and analytics?
- How does it check creators' audiences for fake followers and brand safety?
- Does it handle contracts, product shipping and payments, including in other currencies?
- Can our team complete recruitment, content approval and reporting in a demo using our own brief?
- Can we export all creator data, content and contracts if we leave?
- How does the vendor or agency check that creators disclose paid or gifted posts?
- For a managed program: who runs our account day to day, how many creators and posts does the fee cover, and which results are reported?
Who on your team will run the creator relationships every week, and is that the person the software is for?
Sources and method
How this list was made
Each vendor's homepage, product or service page, customer or case-study page and pricing page were read on October 6 and 7, 2026 where its navigation links them. A vendor is listed where those pages show a product or service brands buy to find, run or measure influencer programs and name at least one customer, case or result. Prices and results are the vendors' own published claims.
Vendor changes
- Tribe Dynamics has moved (opens in a new tab), read October 6, 2026
- Tagger is now Sprout Social Influencer Marketing (opens in a new tab), read October 6, 2026
- Captiv8 integrated into Influential (opens in a new tab), read October 6, 2026
- trendHERO discontinuation notice (opens in a new tab), read October 6, 2026
- inBeat service shutdown notice (opens in a new tab), read October 6, 2026
Vendor pages read October 6 and 7, 2026

Jake Jorgovan
Jake works with enterprise leaders on marketing strategy and executive talent. He co-founded Alpha Apex Group, founded Content Allies, owns Listen Network and is a partner in Fieldtrip, a group of marketing agencies. He founded Lead Cookie and later sold it.
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