GRIN Alternatives

Modash calls itself a Shopify-first influencer marketing platform: you find and vet creators with AI search, filters and audience analytics across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, then manage partnerships (if you are leaving Modash itself, see our Modash switching guide), track content and sales, and pay creators from the same place. The two-way Shopify sync keeps discount codes, orders and revenue consistent in both tools, and the integration costs nothing extra on top of your plan. Modash also connects to other apps through its Zapier integration.

Opened profiles and unlocked emails are counted per month and reset monthly. Essentials gives 2 team members, 300 opened profiles (a full creator profile you open to vet and contact), 150 unlocked creator emails and 100 tracked creators. Performance, at $499 a month billed yearly ($5,988), raises that to 5 members, 800 profiles, 400 emails and 250 tracked creators, and adds payments and affiliate management, though affiliate management comes only with Performance billed yearly. Monthly billing costs $100 more a month on both plans. Against GRIN, the pricing logic is different: Modash charges a flat subscription, and on Performance billed yearly, payouts and affiliate commissions are fee-free up to $10,000 a year combined, with a 5% fee only on the amount above; Performance on monthly billing does not include that allowance. The 14-day trial is capped at 20 opened profiles, 6 unlocked emails and 10 tracked creators, so vet a short list rather than a whole campaign. GRIN adds 5% to 20% to every wallet deposit from the first dollar.

Influencer Hero is an all-in-one platform built around outreach volume. You can rotate outreach through email, Instagram and TikTok DMs and WhatsApp, with automated follow-ups, then run product seeding and gifting, payouts and UGC tracking from the same dashboard. It also scans code-leakage websites, rotates a leaked discount code and notifies the creator. Shopify, Klaviyo and native Gmail and Outlook are included on every plan; custom integrations start on Business.

The price depends on how long you commit. Standard costs $649 a month on the quarterly cycle (billed monthly, three-month commitment) and $519 a month on the semi-annual cycle ($3,114 invoiced every six months); the yearly cycle saves 30% on the quarterly price, invoiced upfront. Standard includes 1 seat, 1,000 reach-outs a month, 8,000 creator searches and 20 payouts a month; Pro ($1,049 quarterly) gives 3 seats, 5,000 reach-outs, 35,000 searches and 200 payouts; Business ($2,490 quarterly) 8 seats and 10,000 reach-outs. Next to GRIN, Influencer Hero costs more at entry than GRIN Starter, but it takes no cut of what you pay creators and passes bank payout fees through at cost (as low as 0.4% by ACH, Bacs or SEPA): on $10,000 a month of payouts, that is from about $40, where GRIN Starter adds $1,000 in fees on top of the $200 plan.

Collabstr is a creator marketplace rather than a CRM. You search more than 1.3 million vetted creators by platform, niche, location, follower count and engagement rate, see engagement rates and package prices on each profile, and hire directly. With no subscription you can still search, place orders and hire from creator profiles; a subscription adds campaigns (a brief creators apply to), live post analytics and a lower platform fee.

The fee is the number to watch. Free and Pro charge brands 10% on each order, Premium cuts it to 5%, and creators pay a separate 15% on their payout. Pro costs $249 a month billed yearly ($299 monthly), posts one campaign a month, tracks five posts at a time and gives 20 audience reports a month; Premium costs $333 a month billed yearly ($399 monthly) with unlimited campaigns, 15 tracked posts and 50 reports. Each tracked post is followed for up to three weeks only, so export results before a long-running post drops out. An Enterprise / Agency tier from $1,000 a month billed yearly adds subaccounts, team seats and white-label reporting. Compared with GRIN, Collabstr shows creator prices before you contact anyone, but it does not replace an affiliate program or a creator CRM. Our ranking of UGC platforms covers more marketplaces of this kind.

Upfluence covers the full program: search in a creator database of 14M+ profiles, brand safety screening, mass outreach, a CRM, affiliation and discount tools, one-click product shipment, a sales analytics dashboard and social listening. Its integrations are what set it apart from GRIN: Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce and Amazon are available on the Scale and Autopilot plans, where GRIN lists Shopify and connects other stores through its API.

There are three plans. Find Creators is the discovery tier (search, screening, outreach, audience data) and excludes the marketplace, e-commerce integrations and CRM. Scale Creator Programs adds Jaice AI campaign creation, the integrations, CRM, affiliation and social listening. Run Programs on Autopilot adds creator payments through Upfluence Pay, multi-currency payouts and automatic tax forms. Pricing is quoted by module and team size, with a fixed platform fee and no percentage taken on sales, and the minimum contract is 12 months because annual plans include a dedicated account manager. That is the opposite trade to GRIN's self-serve plans: you get a dedicated manager and broader integrations, but you commit for a year before you see results.

Shopify Collabs is Shopify's own affiliate marketing app. You recruit creators by sending direct invites, sharing instant commission offers through an open access program, or setting up an online store page that accepts affiliate applications. From the app you send gifts or discount codes, track affiliate sales and pay creators (for a dedicated tool, compare the best affiliate software), with attribution and order tracking that come straight from your store.

It is free to install, and the only listed cost is a 2.9% commission processing fee on automatic payments. On $10,000 of commissions paid automatically, that is $290, against $1,000 in management fees on GRIN Starter for the same amount deposited. The catch is eligibility and depth: Collabs is available on all Shopify plans except Starter and Retail, it runs inside the Shopify admin of one store, and it is built for affiliate sales rather than large-scale creator search and outreach. Teams that outgrow it usually add a discovery tool such as Heepsy or Modash rather than replace it.

Heepsy is a discovery and vetting tool first. You search more than 20 million creators on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn by niche, location, audience size and engagement rate, describe the creator you want in plain language for AI search, or use lookalike search from a creator you already trust. Each advanced profile shows how authentic a creator's audience is, with genuine versus suspicious followers, and Shopify or WooCommerce can be connected to track the sales, clicks and promo codes each creator drives.

The quota unit is the result: Free shows 500 results a month and 10 advanced profiles, Starter ($69 a month billed yearly, $89 monthly) 5,000 results, 100 advanced profiles, 300 outreach emails and 5 tracked creators, Plus ($149 yearly, $199 monthly) 25,000 results and 100 tracked creators, Advanced ($229 yearly, $299 monthly) 100,000 results and 400 tracked creators. There is no annual lock-in: you can cancel whenever you like and keep access until the end of the billing period. Next to GRIN, Heepsy is a cheaper way to find creators, but creator payments only start on Plus and the audience authenticity filter in search too, so on Starter you vet profile by profile and pay creators through another tool.