Affiliate tracking pricing,
without the flat fee.
Most referral and affiliate tracking tools charge $200–750 a month whether your users share anything or not — $2,400 to $9,000 a year for a dashboard. RefDaddy meters instead: $12.99/month base plus 50¢ per referral link actually credited. The table below is the whole argument, worked out at realistic volumes.
No tiers, no seats, no annual contract. Every number on this page traces back to our public production ledger.
A year of metered vs a year of flat.
One year of RefDaddy at each volume — 12 × ($12.99 + links × 50¢) — against the $2,400.00–$9,000.00 a year that $200–750/mo flat-fee vendors bill at every one of these volumes, including zero.
| Links credited / month | RefDaddy, annual | Flat-fee vendor, annual | You keep (vs $750/mo) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | $455.88 | $2,400.00–$9,000.00 | +$8,544.12 |
| 150 | $1,055.88 | $2,400.00–$9,000.00 | +$7,944.12 |
| 300 | $1,955.88 | $2,400.00–$9,000.00 | +$7,044.12 |
| 750 | $4,655.88 | $2,400.00–$9,000.00 | +$4,344.12 |
| 2,000 | $12,155.88 | $2,400.00–$9,000.00 | flat fee wins by $3,155.88 |
| What the bill is made of | $12.99/mo + 50¢ × credited links | ||
The honest breakevens, so you don’t have to derive them: past roughly 1,474 credited links a month a $750 flat fee wins, and past roughly 374a $200 one does. Our billing is public, so you’d see either line coming on your own stats page — and we’ll say so before you cross it.
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 the tiers flat-fee referral and affiliate tools actually quote:
| Flat-fee tier | RefDaddy is cheaper until |
|---|---|
| $49.00/mo | ~72 links minted / month |
| $99.00/mo | ~172 links minted / month |
| $149.00/mo | ~272 links minted / month |
| $200.00/mo | ~374 links minted / month |
| $500.00/mo (enterprise) | ~974 links minted / month |
| $750.00/mo (enterprise) | ~1,474 links minted / month |
Formula: (flat fee − $12.99) ÷ $0.50. Below the breakeven you keep the difference every month; above it, a flat fee wins and we’ll tell you so.
Run the math at your exact volume.
Drag to your expected monthly link volume, set the flat fee 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, RefDaddy runs $87.99 against the $200.00 flat fee — you keep $112.01 a month.
Flat fees bill your ambition. Meters bill your usage.
A referral program’s first year is its cheapest year: volume ramps from zero while a flat-fee vendor bills the same from month one. Metered pricing means the tool costs almost nothing until the program is actually working — and by the time it costs something, it’s paying for itself in credited signups.
- Month one
- A flat-fee vendor bills $200–750 before your first user shares a link. RefDaddy bills $12.99— and the pilot’s first 500 credited links are free on top of that.
- The slow months
- Referral volume is spiky. In a quiet month a flat fee costs exactly the same; a meter costs almost nothing. You stop paying for the dashboard and start paying for the links.
- No contract math
- No annual commitment, no tier upgrades, no seat counting. The invoice is one base fee plus one multiplication — auditable against a ledger you can read any day.
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.
Run your numbers on a call.
Tell us your monthly signup volume and what you pay a flat-fee vendor today — 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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