Affiliate Software True Cost Calculator
The price on the pricing page is not the price
Enter your monthly affiliate revenue, clicks, conversions and payout method, and see your real monthly bill on every affiliate platform that publishes one. Most meter on affiliate revenue with hard cliffs; some take a percentage of every referral sale; one charges per 1,000 clicks. Referly is included and is not always the cheapest answer.
All pricing sourced publicly from vendor pricing pages. Last checked 2026-08-13
Worked example
What every platform would actually bill you
One program, priced by every vendor's own published rates.
$12,000/mo affiliate revenue · 200 active affiliates · 20,000 clicks · 300 conversions · 20% commission · manual payouts · monthly billing
| Platform | Plan the numbers force you onto | Subscription | Per-sale / overage | Total per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BixGrow | Scale | $14.99 | None | $14.99 |
| Partnero | Starter | $59 | None | $59 |
| Affonso | Elite | ≈$85.32€79/mo list | None | ≈$85.32 |
| Rewardful | Growth | $99 | None | $99 |
| FirstPromoter | Business | $99 | None | $99 |
| Tolt | Growth | $99 | None | $99 |
| Endorsely | Scale | $99 | None | $99 |
| Post Affiliate Pro | Pro | $139 | None | $139 |
| Referly | Business | $149 | 0%, no per-sale fee | $149 |
| Tapfiliate | Scale | $179 | None | $179 |
| Dub | Business | $90 | +$120 5% of payouts | $210 |
| UpPromote | Growth | $29.99 | +$240 2% of referred sales | $269.99 |
| Trackdesk | Business | $329 | None | $329 |
| LeadDyno | Advanced | $349 | None | $349 |
| Refersion | Launch | $39 | +$360 3% of referred sales | $399 |
Referly is 9th cheapest of 15 here, with 6 above it. It is also the only one tracking Stripe and Shopify in one program.
All pricing sourced publicly from vendor pricing pages; each vendor is re-verified on its own schedule. Last checked 2026-08-13
View as a table
| Platform | Plan | Subscription | Fees & overage | Total per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BixGrow | Scale | $14.99 | None | $14.99 |
| Partnero | Starter | $59 | None | $59 |
| Affonso | Elite | $85.32 | None | ≈$85.32 |
| Rewardful | Growth | $99 | None | $99 |
| FirstPromoter | Business | $99 | None | $99 |
| Tolt | Growth | $99 | None | $99 |
| Endorsely | Scale | $99 | None | $99 |
| Post Affiliate Pro | Pro | $139 | None | $139 |
| Referly | Business | $149 | None | $149 |
| Tapfiliate | Scale | $179 | None | $179 |
| Dub | Business | $90 | $120 | $210 |
| UpPromote | Growth | $29.99 | $240 | $269.99 |
| Trackdesk | Business | $329 | None | $329 |
| LeadDyno | Advanced | $349 | None | $349 |
| Refersion | Launch | $39 | $360 | $399 |
How you're charged
Nobody in this category charges the same way
Which is why comparing sticker prices tells you almost nothing.
Affiliate revenue, with hard cliffs
The bill steps at published thresholds. Cross one mid-month and the plan changes under you.
- Referly
- Rewardful
- FirstPromoter
- Tolt
- Affonso
- Endorsely
- Trackdesk
A percentage of your sales
Grows with the channel and never stops, whether or not you pay anyone that month.
- UpPromote
- Refersion
Clicks and conversions
Traffic is the meter, not revenue. Tapfiliate is the only vendor in the category publishing its overage rates.
- Tapfiliate
- Post Affiliate Pro
Seats, programs or payouts
Revenue never moves the bill. Partnero genuinely does not cap it.
- Partnero
- LeadDyno
- Dub
- BixGrow
See every platform's cliffs and fees
| Platform | Meters on | Hard cliffs | Extra fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Referly | Affiliate revenue | $10k → $30k → Enterprise | 0% transaction fee on every plan. Agency client billing 5% / 2.5% / 1% if an agency bills its clients through Referly; Referly Payouts 5% bank / 8% card if you use the managed rail. Both opt-in. |
| Rewardful | Affiliate revenue | $7.5k → $15k → above | States 0% transaction fee. No W-9/W-8 collection at any plan. |
| FirstPromoter | Affiliate revenue | $5k → $15k → above | Not stated. Starter caps affiliates at 1,000. |
| Tolt | Affiliate revenue | $10k → $20k → $50k → above | 2% payout processing fee on automated payouts. Basic is manual payouts only and carries no fee. |
| Affonso | Affiliate revenue | $1k → $10k → $30k | Not stated. Priced in EUR, so dollar figures here are converted and approximate. |
| Endorsely | Affiliate revenue | $1k → $5k → $20k | None stated. Free until $1,000/mo. |
| Tapfiliate | Clicks and conversions | 5,000 / 500 → 100,000 / 10,000 | $1.50 per 1,000 clicks and $15 per 1,000 conversions on Launch; $1.00 and $10 on Scale. The only vendor publishing overage rates. |
| Post Affiliate Pro | Tracking requests | 10k → 1M → 6M → 20M | None stated. Every click and conversion draws the allowance down, and no overage rate is published. |
| Partnero | Programs and seats only | No revenue cliffs | None. The only vendor in the band that genuinely does not cap revenue. |
| LeadDyno | Active affiliates | 50 → 150 → 500 → unlimited | None stated. The bill scales on headcount, so revenue never moves it. |
| UpPromote | Referral sales reviewed | Free stops at $3,000/mo | 2% / 1.5% / 1% of every referral sale by plan, with no upper bound. |
| Refersion | Affiliate-driven sales | No revenue cliffs | 3% of affiliate-driven sales on Launch, 2% on Growth, on top of the subscription. |
| Dub | Partner payouts | $2.5k → $15k of payouts | 5% payout fee (3% on Enterprise). Business also caps partners at 500. |
| Trackdesk | Program revenue | $30k → undisclosed | None published. No plan exists under $329/mo. |
| BixGrow | Referral orders and seats | 50 orders / 30 affiliates free | None at any tier. Shopify-only. |
Not in the table, and why
- PartnerStack, publishes no prices and no meters. All three tiers are demo-gated, and their pricing page says the plan is confirmed on the call.
- impact.com, publishes no pricing of any kind.
- Everflow, quotes per buyer through a form that segments by affiliate payout volume.
- Trackdesk above $30,000/mo, publishes $329/mo up to $30,000 and then a matrix cell reading “Pricing Tiers” with no figure. Their $499 Enterprise entry is a floor, not a price, and this page treats it as one.
Every figure on this page comes from a published price. Where a vendor publishes nothing, this page says so instead of estimating.
The honest part
Where Referly is the wrong answer
Four cases, and what to buy instead.
If this is you
Under about $3,000/mo in affiliate revenue
If this is you
You want one flat fee at any volume
If this is you
Shopify only, and price decides it
If this is you
Above $30,000/mo in affiliate revenue
The whole range
Every price step, $0 to $50,000
Flat means the plan stops costing more. Sloped means a percentage that never stops.
View as a table
| Monthly affiliate revenue | Referly | Rewardful | FirstPromoter | Tolt | UpPromote | Tapfiliate | Partnero | Affonso | Refersion | Trackdesk | Dub | LeadDyno | Post Affiliate Pro | BixGrow | Endorsely |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | $75 · Startup | $99 · Growth | $99 · Business | $69 · Basic | $230 · Growth | $179 · Scale | $59 · Starter | ≈$31 · Growth | $339 · Launch | $329 · Business | $190 · Business | $349 · Advanced | $139 · Pro | $15 · Scale | $99 · Scale |
| $20,000 | $149 · Business | $149 · Enterprise | $149 · Enterprise | $99 · Growth | $390 · Professional | $179 · Scale | $59 · Starter | ≈$85 · Elite | $599 · Growth | $329 · Business | $500 · Advanced | $349 · Advanced | $139 · Pro | $15 · Scale | $99 · Scale |
| $30,000 | $149 · Business | $149 · Enterprise | $149 · Enterprise | $199 · Pro | $500 · Enterprise | $179 · Scale | $59 · Starter | ≈$85 · Elite | $799 · Growth | $329 · Business | $600 · Advanced | $349 · Advanced | $139 · Pro | $15 · Scale | $99 · Scale |
| $40,000 | $399 · Enterprise | $149 · Enterprise | $149 · Enterprise | $199 · Pro | $600 · Enterprise | $179 · Scale | $59 · Starter | ≈$85 · Elite | $999 · Growth | $499 · Enterprise | $700 · Advanced | $349 · Advanced | $139 · Pro | $15 · Scale | $99 · Scale |
| $50,000 | $399 · Enterprise | $149 · Enterprise | $149 · Enterprise | $199 · Pro | $700 · Enterprise | $179 · Scale | $59 · Starter | ≈$85 · Elite | $1,199 · Growth | $499 · Enterprise | $800 · Advanced | $349 · Advanced | $139 · Pro | $15 · Scale | $99 · Scale |
The fee after the fee
Sending the money costs money too
Two different things get called a fee in this category, and the difference is large.
2%
A payout fee
Tolt charges 2% on automated payouts. On $12,000 of affiliate revenue at 20%, that is about $48.
$240
A cut of every sale
UpPromote's 2% applies to referral sales, not payouts. Same percentage, five times the cost, paid whether or not you pay anyone.
0%
Referly's transaction fee
No cut of sales or commission on any plan. Referly Payouts is 5% bank or 8% card, and it is opt-in.
View as a table
| Payout rail | Fee rate | Fee | Total leaving the merchant |
|---|---|---|---|
| PayPal | 0% | $0 | $2,400 |
| Wise | 0% | $0 | $2,400 |
| Referly Payouts, bank | 5% | $120 | $2,520 |
| Tolt, automated payouts | 2% | $48 | $2,448 |
Price a single vendor
Every platform above has its own teardown: what it meters on, where the cliffs land, and what the fees actually come to at your volume.
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