Upfluence alternatives in 2026: 9 influencer platforms compared, with prices

GRIN now publishes its prices. Every plan is month to month, and on top of the subscription GRIN adds a management fee to the money you deposit into its wallet to pay creators: 20% on Free, 10% on Starter, 7% on Growth and 5% on Scale. The fee is not refunded if you withdraw unspent funds, and paid or affiliate campaigns need at least $250 in the wallet. Free gives 2 live campaigns, 10 gifts in total and 1,200 creator searches a month; Starter (30-day free trial) gives unlimited campaigns, 100 gifts and 12,000 searches a month and unlocks exporting lists and emails. All plans include the CRM, its AI agent Gia for outreach drafts, deal records, gifting and affiliate links and codes. Shopify is the only e-commerce integration it names, but it is not required.

Aspire is the closest like-for-like alternative to GRIN and Upfluence: creator discovery with a marketplace where creators apply, a contact CRM, agreements, payments, gifting and seeding, and affiliate links and codes with flat, percentage or tiered commissions. Its Shopify integration is the deepest of the group (recruiting from your customers, fulfilment of gifts, storefronts and bulk promo codes), and it also supports WooCommerce. Aspire says it is trusted by 800+ brands. There is no public pricing page; you get a price after a demo.

Modash starts from discovery: it says it covers 380M+ Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles with 1,000+ followers, and its plans are priced by how many profiles you open and emails you unlock (Essentials: 2 seats, 300 opened profiles and 150 email unlocks a month). On top it adds a CRM, an inbox for Gmail or Outlook, content tracking, Shopify gifting on all plans, creator payments and affiliate payouts (affiliate management is on Performance billed yearly and Enterprise). Its pricing page is not fully consistent about monthly versus yearly billing, so check the billing toggle before you buy.

Influencity combines discovery across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitch with an influencer CRM, campaigns, reports and monitoring. The entry plan (Discover) is search only: 5,000 results a month and 1 user. CRM, bulk outreach and sequences start on Professional (3 users), and Shopify sales tracking, promo codes, content approval and creator payments are on Business. Yearly billing is 20% cheaper.

Heepsy is a budget discovery tool covering Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn, with a database it puts at 20M+ creators. The free plan has no time limit and includes 500 search results and 10 detailed profiles a month, a basic CRM and Shopify or WooCommerce integration. Starter adds outreach (300 emails a month), a marketplace and click and sales tracking; creator payments, reporting and authenticity filters start on Plus.

HypeAuditor is strongest on vetting. It says it has 227M influencers across Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X and Twitch with 35+ search filters, and it scores audiences for fraud and authenticity. It also has a CRM, AI outreach, automated contracts, PayPal payments and reports, but gifting, affiliate links and Shopify are not described on its site. Pricing is only given on a demo.

CreatorIQ is the enterprise option. It lets you search what 20M creators post, and it has recruiting, conversion and payment modules plus measurement with hundreds of metrics. It integrates with Shopify, DocuSign, Google Analytics, Tableau and affiliate networks (CJ, Awin, Impact, Rakuten, Partnerize). It covers Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat and Amazon, and says 1,300+ brands and agencies use it.

If you sell on Shopify and mostly use GRIN or Upfluence for gifting and affiliate codes, Collabs covers the basics for free: a creator search, an application page on your store, direct invites, product gifts and samples, affiliate links and codes with adjustable commission, and payouts through your Shopify bill. Two caveats from Shopify's own pages: its help centre says Collabs is not accepting new creator sign-ups at the moment (existing creators, invites and applications still work), and the eligible Shopify plans are listed inconsistently.