The PartnerStack alternative with public, per-link pricing.
PartnerStack publishes no prices — their own pricing page confirms your plan and price on a demo call, and third-party market data (Vendr, 2026) puts the median buyer at $19,616 a year, with typical spend of $500–$2,500 a month. RefDaddy's entire price list: $12.99 a month plus 50¢ per credited link, public, no call required. The math below uses their market data because published numbers don't exist.
Pricing verified on PartnerStack’s pricing page (August 2026). Every RefDaddy number traces back to our public production ledger.
What PartnerStack costs today.
Taken from partnerstack.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Any plan (Starter, Growth, Enterprise) | Unpublished — demo required | Their pricing page's own FAQ: final plan and pricing are confirmed during your demo |
| Typical SMB / mid-market spend | $500–$2,500/mo | Third-party market data (Vendr, 2026) — not a vendor list price |
| Median buyer | $19,616/yr (≈$1,635/mo) | Vendr marketplace buyer data, 2026 — not a vendor list price |
| RefDaddy | $12.99/mo + 50¢ × credited links — no tiers, no caps | |
PartnerStack publishes no prices; the figures above are third-party market data (Vendr buyer data, 2026), clearly labeled as such — not vendor list prices. Checked against partnerstack.com/pricing, August 2026: still quote-based.
A year of metered vs a year of PartnerStack.
One year of RefDaddy at each volume — 12 × ($12.99 + links × 50¢) — against the $9,186.00–$37,770.00 a year PartnerStack costs at every one of these volumes, including zero.
| Links credited / month | RefDaddy, annual | PartnerStack, annual (Vendr data) | You keep (vs the $19,616/yr median buyer) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $755.88 | $9,186.00–$37,770.00 | +$18,860.12 |
| 500 | $3,155.88 | $9,186.00–$37,770.00 | +$16,460.12 |
| 1,000 | $6,155.88 | $9,186.00–$37,770.00 | +$13,460.12 |
| 2,500 | $15,155.88 | $9,186.00–$37,770.00 | +$4,460.12 |
| 5,000 | $30,155.88 | $9,186.00–$37,770.00 | PartnerStack wins by $10,539.88 |
| What the bill is made of | $12.99/mo + 50¢ × credited links | ||
The honest breakevens, using their market data: past ~974 credited links a month a $500/mo PartnerStack contract beats our meter, past ~3,244 the $19,616/yr median does, and past ~4,974 a $2,500/mo contract does. Our billing is public, so you'd see any of those lines coming on your own stats page.
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 PartnerStack’s numbers:
| PartnerStack price point | RefDaddy is cheaper until |
|---|---|
| $500/mo (typical low end, Vendr) | ~974 links minted / month |
| ≈$1,635/mo (median buyer, Vendr) | ~3,244 links minted / month |
| $2,500/mo (typical high end, Vendr) | ~4,974 links minted / month |
Formula: (flat fee − $12.99) ÷ $0.50. Below the breakeven you keep the difference every month; above it, PartnerStackwins on price and we’ll tell you so.
Run the math at your exact volume.
Drag to your expected monthly link volume, set the PartnerStackprice 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 $1,635.00 flat fee — you keep $1,547.01 a month.
Different tools for different jobs.
PartnerStackand 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 PartnerStack is
- A B2B partner-ecosystem platform: affiliate, referral, and reseller programs in one place, a marketplace of recruited partners, and managed partner payouts. It's sold with onboarding, demos, and a contract — a program you buy, not an API you call.
- 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. Four endpoints, live in under a week.
- When PartnerStack wins
- You're an enterprise SaaS building a multi-partner-type ecosystem and want their partner marketplace and managed service — at that scale you're buying a program, not infrastructure. On pure link volume, their median price only beats our meter past ~3,244 credited links a month.
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.
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Run your numbers on a call.
Tell us your monthly signup volume and what PartnerStackquoted 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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