The FirstPromoter alternative: per-link pricing, no revenue caps.
FirstPromoter runs $49 to $149+ a month, tiered by revenue from affiliates — and the $49 Starter caps that at just $5,000 a month, the lowest cap of any tool on these pages. RefDaddy is metered referral infrastructure: $12.99 a month plus 50¢ per credited link, with no revenue caps at all. The math below uses FirstPromoter's published pricing.
Pricing verified on FirstPromoter’s pricing page (August 2026). Every RefDaddy number traces back to our public production ledger.
What FirstPromoter costs today.
Taken from firstpromoter.com/pricing as of August 2026 — if it has changed since, tell us at [email protected] and we’ll correct it. RefDaddy’s price for every row: $12.99/mo + 50¢ per credited link.
| Plan | Price | What gates it |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49/mo | Up to $5,000/mo revenue from affiliates · 3 campaigns |
| Business | $99/mo | Up to $15,000/mo revenue from affiliates |
| Enterprise | from $149/mo | Above $15,000/mo revenue from affiliates · more Enterprise tiers above it |
| RefDaddy | $12.99/mo + 50¢ × credited links — no tiers, no caps | |
Tiers are gated by affiliate-driven revenue — clear $5,000/mo and the Starter price doubles; clear $15,000/mo and it triples, with further Enterprise tiers above that. Verified on firstpromoter.com/pricing, August 2026.
A year of metered vs a year of FirstPromoter.
One year of RefDaddy at each volume — 12 × ($12.99 + links × 50¢) — against the $588.00–$1,788.00 a year FirstPromoter costs at every one of these volumes, including zero.
| Links credited / month | RefDaddy, annual | FirstPromoter, annual | You keep (vs $149/mo Enterprise) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | $305.88 | $588.00–$1,788.00 | +$1,482.12 |
| 50 | $455.88 | $588.00–$1,788.00 | +$1,332.12 |
| 100 | $755.88 | $588.00–$1,788.00 | +$1,032.12 |
| 250 | $1,655.88 | $588.00–$1,788.00 | +$132.12 |
| 500 | $3,155.88 | $588.00–$1,788.00 | FirstPromoter wins by $1,367.88 |
| What the bill is made of | $12.99/mo + 50¢ × credited links | ||
The honest breakevens: past ~72 credited links a month FirstPromoter's $49 Starter beats our meter, past ~172 the $99 Business tier does, and past ~272 the $149 Enterprise tier does — if your affiliate revenue still fits the tier's cap. Our billing is public, so you'd see any of those lines coming.
Where metered stops winning, tier by tier.
At $12.99 base, RefDaddy stays cheaper than a given flat fee until (flat fee − $12.99) ÷ 50¢ links a month. Here’s that math at FirstPromoter’s numbers:
| FirstPromoter price point | RefDaddy is cheaper until |
|---|---|
| $49/mo Starter | ~72 links minted / month |
| $99/mo Business | ~172 links minted / month |
| $149/mo Enterprise (from) | ~272 links minted / month |
Formula: (flat fee − $12.99) ÷ $0.50. Below the breakeven you keep the difference every month; above it, FirstPromoterwins on price and we’ll tell you so.
Run the math at your exact volume.
Drag to your expected monthly link volume, set the FirstPromoterprice you’re comparing against, and watch the delta update — the same $12.99 + 50¢ × links math from the tables above, at your numbers. Full plan details on the pricing page.
At 150 links a month the $49.00 flat fee beats us by $38.99. Our billing is public, so you’d see that line coming on your own stats page.
Different tools for different jobs.
FirstPromoterand RefDaddy overlap on tracking, not on scope. If you need what they sell, buy it — this page exists for platforms that only need the infrastructure and shouldn’t pay program-suite prices for it.
- What FirstPromoter is
- An affiliate and referral tracking suite: branded affiliate dashboards, email marketing automation, W-9/W-8BEN tax-form collection, multi-tiered commissions, and managed auto payouts. Built for running an affiliate channel end to end.
- What RefDaddy is
- Referral infrastructure for platforms: we mint a link for every one of your users via API, serve the redirects, log every click, first-touch match conversions, and report. Your platform owns rewards and payouts — we never touch the money.
- When FirstPromoter wins
- You need affiliate email automation, tax-form collection, or managed payouts as part of the tool — or you're consistently past ~272 credited links a month, where their $149 tier beats our meter on price alone.
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, and a daily reconciliation job checks our ledger against the platform’s own records — disagreements land in our inbox before they land anywhere else. 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.
More comparisons: all comparisons, one table · vs flat-fee tools · vs Rewardful · vs PartnerStack · vs Tapfiliate
Run your numbers on a call.
Tell us your monthly signup volume and what FirstPromoterquoted you — even a rough guess. We’ll reply within one business day with the annual math 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.
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