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 "summary": "All-in-one influencer marketing platform: AI creator discovery, automated outreach, an influencer CRM, UGC tracking and affiliate management on one record per creator, with 45-plus native integrations and payouts run through bank debit at 0.1-0.4% rather than 2-3% card fees. Every plan carries the full toolset — the ladder is gated on quota and seats. A reach-out is counted once when a new influencer is first contacted — all later messaging with that creator is unlimited. Three-month minimum on every plan and no free trial.",
 "best_for": "brands running influencer marketing as a continuous programme rather than a campaign, with enough volume to use 1,000 reach-outs a month from the first month, who want discovery, outreach, a creator CRM, UGC tracking and affiliate management in one place instead of a spreadsheet plus four tools",
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  "notes": "(pricing matrix read 18 September 2026 in documentation the vendor sent us; the public ladder at influencer-hero.com/pricing was read the same week and shows the quarterly column) Four plans, and the figure you see depends entirely on the billing term you pick. Billed monthly: Standard $649, Pro $1,049, Business $2,490. Billed quarterly: $519, $839 and $1,992 — and this is the column the public pricing page leads with, which is why $519 is the number most people quote. Billed annually: $454, $734 and $1,743. The advertised 20% and 30% savings check out exactly against the monthly rate ($649 × 0.8 = $519.20, × 0.7 = $454.30), so the discounts are real and the headline is simply the discounted one.\n\nWhat each plan carries: Standard is one seat, 1,000 reach-outs a month and 20 influencer payouts. Pro is three seats, 5,000 reach-outs and 200 payouts. Business is eight seats, 10,000 reach-outs and 500 payouts, and Enterprise has unlimited payouts. On 19 September the Business plan card still said unlimited while the comparison grid on the same page said 500; Influencer Hero told us the card was a leftover from a site revamp, and when we re-read the page on 24 September 2026 the card and the grid both said 500 for Business and unlimited for Enterprise. Enterprise is custom on every other axis. Every plan carries a three-month minimum term and there is no free trial, so the smallest real commitment is three months of Standard: $1,947 billed monthly, or $1,557 if you take the quarterly rate. The influencer CRM, the outreach automation and the UGC tracking are in every plan; the ladder is gated on quota and seats. Influencer payouts can run through bank direct debit (ACH in the US, Bacs in the UK, SEPA in the EU) with only Stripe's processing fee passed through: 0.1% to 0.4% by the vendor's own account, around 0.4% to 0.5% effective by its Payout Manager post, with US ACH capped at $5 a payout, against the 2-3% that card processors typically charge.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-21",
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   "description": "Standard, per month, billed month-to-month. From our pricing notes: “Billed monthly: Standard $649, Pro $1,049, Business $2,490. Billed quarterly: $519, $839 and $1,992 — and this is the column the public pricing page leads with, which is why $519 is the number most people quote.” Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-21.",
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  "name": "Superfiliate, Stamped",
  "why": "The useful comparison in this category is who will tell you the price. Superfiliate, from our own dossier (re-checked 5 September 2026), publishes none at all: superfiliate.com/pricing returns a 404, there is no pricing item in the navigation, and the only call to action is Book Demo — its Shopify listing publishes the shape rather than the amount. Against that, Influencer Hero putting $519, $839 and $1,992 on a public page with the quotas attached is the more respectful treatment of a buyer, and it is the reason a fair write-up is even possible.\n\nStamped is the other end and a different job: reviews, loyalty and repeat purchasing rather than creator outreach, priced on your monthly order volume (re-verified 12 September 2026) — Reviews at $23 a month at the 200-order step, $199 at 5,000 orders, Loyalty $299, Repeat $499, and a multi-product bundle at a flat $798. If what you actually want is more from the customers you already have, that ladder starts an order of magnitude lower than this one. Influencer Hero is for going and finding people who have not bought from you yet, and the three-month minimum says the vendor knows that takes a while."
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  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
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  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
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