Affiliate tracking software pricing,
one table.
Every affiliate and referral tracking tool prices differently — revenue tiers, click caps, quote-only contracts, flat fees. RefDaddy is one number: $12.99 a month plus 50¢ per credited link. The table below puts verified 2026 pricing for Rewardful, FirstPromoter, PartnerStack, Tapfiliate, and the flat-fee field next to the exact monthly link volume where each one starts beating our meter.
Every competitor price is verified against the vendor’s own pricing page; every RefDaddy number traces back to our public production ledger.
Verified pricing and breakevens, side by side.
RefDaddy’s price on every row is the same: $12.99/mo + 50¢ × credited links, no tiers, no caps. The breakeven columns answer the only question that matters — up to what monthly link volume the meter stays cheaper than each of their price points. Formula: (their monthly price − $12.99) ÷ $0.50.
| Tool | Their pricing (verified) | Meter cheaper until — their entry price | Meter cheaper until — their top price | Full breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rewardful | $49–$149+/mo, tiered by monthly affiliate-driven revenue verified: August 2026 | ~72 links/mo vs $49/mo Starter | ~272 links/mo vs $149/mo Enterprise (from) | vs Rewardful → |
| FirstPromoter | $49–$149+/mo, tiered by affiliate revenue — Starter caps at $5,000/mo verified: August 2026 | ~72 links/mo vs $49/mo Starter | ~272 links/mo vs $149/mo Enterprise (from) | vs FirstPromoter → |
| PartnerStack | Quote-only — median buyer $19,616/yr, typical $500–$2,500/mo (Vendr 2026 data) verified: August 2026 | ~974 links/mo vs $500/mo (typical low end, Vendr) | ~4,974 links/mo vs $2,500/mo (typical high end, Vendr) | vs PartnerStack → |
| Tapfiliate | $89–$179/mo flat, plus click/conversion caps with overage fees on top verified: August 2026 | ~152 links/mo vs $89/mo Launch | ~332 links/mo vs $179/mo Scale | vs Tapfiliate → |
| Typical flat-fee vendors | $200–750/mo flat, billed the same whether anyone shares or not verified: vendor quotes | ~374 links/mo vs $200/mo | ~1,474 links/mo vs $750/mo | vs flat-fee tools → |
| RefDaddy, every row | $12.99/mo + 50¢ × credited links — below the breakeven you keep the difference every month | |||
PartnerStack publishes no prices — its figures are third-party market data (Vendr buyer data, 2026), labeled as such on the full comparison. Above a breakeven, that vendor wins on price and the per-tool page says so explicitly.
Each tool gets the full worked math.
Every page below carries the vendor’s verified tier table, a worked annual cost table at realistic volumes, the tier-by-tier breakevens, an interactive calculator, and an honest “when they win” section.
- RefDaddy vs Rewardful
- The Rewardful alternative: per-link pricing, no revenue tiers. Their pricing: $49–$149+/mo, tiered by monthly affiliate-driven revenue. Metered stays cheaper up to ~72–272 credited links a month, depending on the tier.
- RefDaddy vs FirstPromoter
- The FirstPromoter alternative: per-link pricing, no revenue caps. Their pricing: $49–$149+/mo, tiered by affiliate revenue — Starter caps at $5,000/mo. Metered stays cheaper up to ~72–272 credited links a month, depending on the tier.
- RefDaddy vs PartnerStack
- The PartnerStack alternative with public, per-link pricing. Their pricing: Quote-only — median buyer $19,616/yr, typical $500–$2,500/mo (Vendr 2026 data). Metered stays cheaper up to ~974–4,974 credited links a month, depending on the tier.
- RefDaddy vs Tapfiliate
- The Tapfiliate alternative: per-link pricing, no click caps. Their pricing: $89–$179/mo flat, plus click/conversion caps with overage fees on top. Metered stays cheaper up to ~152–332 credited links a month, depending on the tier.
- RefDaddy vs flat-fee tools
- Affiliate tracking pricing, without the flat fee. Their pricing: $200–750/mo flat, billed the same whether anyone shares or not. Metered stays cheaper up to ~374–1,474 credited links a month, depending on the tier.
This pricing runs a real business today.
Customer #1 is the Acoco platform, live in production. The figures below are read from our link ledger — the same database the pollers write to — at the moment you load this page, never a marketing snapshot, and a daily reconciliation job checks that ledger against the platform’s own records. Audit everything on the stats page, failure log included.
Latest daily reconciliation run: 2026-09-16 (UTC). Read live from the same ledger the pollers write to — audit every number, failure log included, on the stats page.
Where these numbers come from.
- Competitor prices
- Verified against each vendor’s live pricing page on the date shown in the table, and re-verified whenever a number changes. PartnerStack is quote-based, so its figures are Vendr 2026 buyer data, labeled as market data everywhere they appear. Spot a stale price? Email [email protected] and we’ll correct it.
- Breakevens
- One formula, applied to every price point: (their monthly price − $12.99) ÷ $0.50 = the monthly credited-link volume where their flat price starts beating our meter. Below it you keep the difference; above it they win on price and we say so.
- RefDaddy’s side
- $12.99/month plus 50¢ per credited referral link — the same public billing our customer #1 pays today, auditable line by line on the live stats page and detailed on the pricing page.
Want this math at your exact volume?
Tell us your monthly signup volume and any quote or tier you’re comparing — even a rough guess. We reply within one business day with the worked annual numbers at your volume, the four endpoints you’d expose, and a realistic go-live date. It’s the same scoping call the platforms page books, and it starts the free migration and the 500-link pilot above.
Prefer email? Write to [email protected] — the same person reads both. Full plan details on the pricing page.