GRIN now publishes its prices: four self-serve plans from $0 to $1,500 a month, plus a management fee of 5% to 20% on every dollar you put in the creator wallet. Here is what that costs at your volume, why teams leave, and eight GRIN competitors with prices from their own sites.
The best GRIN alternatives are Modash or Heepsy if you mainly need creator search, Upfluence or Influencer Hero for a full program suite, and Collabstr, Insense or QuickAds' Remy if you would rather buy creator content than run software. GRIN itself costs $0 to $1,500 a month plus a 5% to 20% fee on what you fund for creators.
Last updated October 2026 · GRIN pricing and every competitor price checked 24 October 2026
GRIN costs $0, $200, $500 or $1,500 a month on its self-serve plans, plus a management fee of 20%, 10%, 7% or 5% on every wallet deposit. Enterprise is quoted and sold on an annual agreement.
| Plan | Price | Fee on wallet deposits | Gifts | Creator search a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 20% | 10 in total | 1,200 |
| Starter | $200/mo | 10% | 100 a month | 12,000 |
| Growth | $500/mo | 7% | 300 a month | 36,000 |
| Scale | $1,500/mo | 5% | 1,000 a month | 120,000 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom, annual agreement |
The fee is the part to model. It is added on top when you fund the wallet that pays creators: on Starter, a $1,000 deposit costs $1,100. It is not refunded if you withdraw unspent money later, card deposits may carry a processing fee, and paid or affiliate campaigns need at least $250 in the wallet. GRIN's own FAQ says Starter beats Free above about $2,000 a month in creator funding, Growth beats Starter above about $10,000, and Scale beats Growth above about $50,000. Those breakpoints are where the totals tie:
| Creator budget a month | Cheapest plan | Plan plus fee | Platform cost as a share of creator spend | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | Free or Starter (tie) | $400 | 20% | $4,800 |
| $10,000 | Starter or Growth (tie) | $1,200 | 12% | $14,400 |
| $50,000 | Growth or Scale (tie) | $4,000 | 8% | $48,000 |
That is software and payments only. The brief, filming, edits and the right to run the video as an ad are still on your side of the ledger. GRIN pricing page, read 24 October 2026.
GRIN sold through demos and annual agreements until January 2026. A third-party guide from April lists self-serve plans at $399 to $1,799 a month, and a review checked 8 October describes credit-based tiers. The page we read on 24 October shows the wallet-fee model above. Check the live page on the day you buy, and get the fee rate in writing.
Most teams leave GRIN for one of four reasons: the fee climbs with creator spend, plan limits force an upgrade, the production work stays with them, or the large-program tier needs an annual agreement.
Published prices, month-to-month self-serve plans and no per-seat billing. Escrow payouts through Stripe, Shopify in one click, a creator marketplace on every plan, and GRIN takes nothing from creator earnings. For a Shopify brand running gifting, affiliate and paid partnerships with one team, it is a strong product. SKIMS, ColourPop and IPSY are named customers.
Grouped by the reason you are leaving, so the order is not a ranking. We sell one of them, Remy, and say where it is the wrong pick.
| Tool | Entry price | Fee on creator spend | Commitment | What you get back |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRIN | $0; $200/mo | 5% to 20% of deposits | Monthly; Enterprise annual | Software your team runs |
| Modash | $199/mo billed annually | 0% to $10K a year of payouts, then 5% | Monthly or annual | Search, CRM, tracking |
| Upfluence | Quote | None on sales | 12-month minimum | Search, CRM, payouts |
| Influencer Hero | $649/mo | Not listed | 3-month minimum | Outreach automation, CRM |
| Heepsy | Free; $69/mo billed annually | Not listed | Monthly or annual | Search and outreach |
| Intellifluence | Free; $99/mo | Not listed | Cancel anytime | Marketplace, optional management |
| Collabstr | Free | 10% (5% on Premium) | Annual for paid plans | Creators deliver per gig |
| Insense | Trial from $650 | 7% to 20% | Quarterly, auto-renews | Creators deliver; managed options |
| QuickAds Remy | $129 per UGC video | None; creator fee inside the price | Per booking | Finished video, rights attached |
How we chose: a live, self-serve way to start or a clearly labelled quote; prices from the vendor's own site; and coverage of the job GRIN does, from search to payouts. Enterprise suites such as Aspire and CreatorIQ quote on a call; our Insense, Upfluence and Aspire comparison covers them.
Best for: teams that will keep running the program themselves, with a bigger search index
Modash is creator search, CRM, inbox and content tracking over 380M+ Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles with 1K+ followers. Payments and affiliate links come on Performance.
Best for: search and outreach on a small budget
Heepsy searches Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn with AI, lookalike and text search, then handles email outreach and tracking.
Best for: ecommerce brands with large programs who want a fixed fee
Upfluence covers search across a 14M+ creator database, outreach, campaign management with its Jaice AI, ecommerce integrations and payments with automatic 1099s.
Best for: outreach-heavy programs that want a known monthly bill
Influencer Hero is an influencer CRM with automated outreach, product send-outs, payouts, affiliate links and UGC tracking. It also owns the Afluencer marketplace.
Best for: smaller brands that want a marketplace and, sometimes, someone to run it
Intellifluence is a marketplace of 268K signed-up influencers. Its Advanced plan adds a dedicated manager with up to 20 hours of campaign work a month.
Best for: paid posts and UGC bought gig by gig at posted rates
Collabstr lists creators with their own package prices. You hire from a profile or post a campaign, and payment sits in escrow until delivery.
Best for: UGC from creators plus Meta Partnership Ads and Spark Ads
Insense is a marketplace built around UGC, seeding and creator ads, with an in-house team for managed campaigns.
Best for: teams that want finished creator video, not another CRM to operate
Remy is our influencer agent, AI assisted and human reviewed. It searches Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, negotiates from your handle under your cap, and the scripts draw on 32M+ ads. You get finished video with usage terms attached.
Remy has sourced 1,000+ creators and run 1,000+ negotiations for 10+ brands. Creators reply in 1 to 2 days.
Software prices rarely include the expensive part. Our UGC Creator Sourcing Report 2026 found roughly one in five briefed creators delivers nothing usable, and that internal briefing and review time costs $150 to $600 per video. Market rates for the video itself run $150 to $212 on average, per our UGC rates guide, before paid usage rights.
Every vendor detail comes from the vendor's own site, checked 24 October 2026. Third-party figures are labelled as reported.
GRIN's self-serve plans cost $0, $200, $500 or $1,500 a month, plus a management fee of 20%, 10%, 7% or 5% on every wallet deposit used to pay creators. At $10,000 a month in creator funding, the cheapest setup is $1,200 a month. Enterprise is quoted on an annual agreement. Prices read 24 October 2026.
Yes. GRIN is an established creator marketing platform that names SKIMS, ColourPop and IPSY as customers and says 700K+ creators are in its network. It publishes its prices, runs creator payouts through escrow and Stripe, and states that it takes nothing from what creators earn.
You fund a wallet, then GRIN and its AI agent Gia find creators, draft outreach, build gifting, paid, affiliate or UGC campaigns and track the posts. Creator fees are held in escrow and paid out through Stripe. Your plan sets the limits on gifts, brands and searches, and the management fee rate.
GRIN's pricing page names SKIMS, ColourPop and IPSY. It is built for ecommerce and DTC brands, especially on Shopify, that run gifting, affiliate and paid creator programs. Brands sending thousands of gifts a month move to its Enterprise plan with a dedicated account manager.
For search, Modash or Heepsy. For a full suite with a fixed fee, Influencer Hero or Upfluence. For buying creator content instead of running software, Collabstr, Insense or QuickAds' Remy, which charges $129 per UGC video with the creator fee included. The right one depends on whether you want to run the program or buy the output.
Often at low volume, because GRIN publishes plans from $0 and Upfluence quotes, with third-party reports starting near $478 a month on a 12-month contract. As creator spend grows, GRIN's 5% to 20% fee adds up, while Upfluence says its fee is fixed. Get both quotes at your real monthly budget.
Yes. Small programs run on a spreadsheet plus a marketplace such as Intellifluence or Collabstr. Larger ones use another suite such as Modash or Influencer Hero. If you would rather not run outreach at all, an agent like Remy finds creators, negotiates and delivers finished video at a published price.
No wallet, no fee on top of what the creator is paid. UGC at $129 you own outright, Gold creators at $299 and Mega creators at $699, found, negotiated and delivered by Remy in 5 to 7 days from brief.
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