Do my creators need to sign up?

No. You add their handle or paste a link, and we follow the public numbers from there. There is nothing for them to install, approve or log in to. Asking creators to sign up is the step that kills most tools like this, so there isn't one.

Which apps does it work with?

TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Those three cover almost all the short video that brings people to an app.

What if my creators do not tag me?

That is the normal case, and it still works. We watch the accounts on your list instead of watching for mentions of your brand. Posts with no tag, and accounts with no face, are covered the same way.

Why not just use a spreadsheet?

A spreadsheet cannot check view counts every day, cannot tell you a creator is two posts short, and cannot compare 400 posts by hook type in one click.

39 dollars a month if you are on your own, 99 once you run a full list of creators, and 249 for agencies handling a few brands. No sales call and no yearly contract.

How does the free trial work?

Seven days on any plan, and you do not need a card. The trial covers one campaign and 500 posts, and exports unlock when you subscribe. The fair test is to load a campaign you already ran and see what it tells you about posts you already know.

What UGC creator tracking software costs in 2026

Published prices for the tools brands use to track creator posts, from free tiers to enterprise contracts, and which ones make you talk to sales before quoting a number.

Pricing in this category is unusually hard to compare, because half the vendors will not publish a number and the other half meter on different units. Here is what the tools actually cost in 2026, with the units they bill on.

Published prices

Tool	Entry price	Meters on	Self-serve
GRIN	Free tier, then $200/mo	Credits and active creators	Yes
MightyScout	$99/mo for 40 creators	Tracked creator profiles	Yes
Shortimize	$99/mo	Tracked accounts and videos	Yes
viral.app	$99/mo Pro	Tracked videos and active creators	Yes
UGC Trackr	$150/mo Starter	Seats and tracked accounts	Yes
Modash	$199/mo, $299 list	Tracked creators, discovery credits	Yes
Insense	$400 to $650/mo	Seats and brands, plus 7 to 20% marketplace fee	Yes
Upfluence	About $1,276/mo for one module	Modules and seats, $695 onboarding	No
Aspire	About $2,000 to $2,499/mo	Seats, annual contract	No
CreatorIQ	$36,000/yr and up	Negotiated	No
Whop Content Rewards	No platform fee	Takes a cut of creator spend	Yes

Three things the table hides

The unit matters more than the number

A tool that meters on tracked creators punishes you for a wide roster of small accounts, which is exactly the shape of a consumer app UGC programme. A tool that meters on tracked posts punishes volume instead. A tool that meters on seats is priced for a marketing team, not a founder. Work out which unit you generate most of before comparing headline prices.

Free is rarely free

The marketplaces that bundle tracking at no platform fee fund it by taking a percentage of what you pay creators. If you are spending $10,000 a month on creator payouts, a 10% cut is $1,000 a month for the tracking you thought was free. That can still be the right deal, but it is not a free tier.

There is very little between $0 and $99

The category has a floor, and the tools built specifically for UGC campaign tracking sit right on it: Shortimize and viral.app both open at $99, UGC Trackr at $150. Below that you are looking at spreadsheets, marketplace-bundled tracking, or nothing. This is a real gap: a founder running 30 creators has the same tracking problem as a brand running 300, at a fraction of the budget.

What you should expect to pay

For a solo founder or a small team running 15 to 100 creators, anything above roughly $250 a month is priced for a different buyer. The functionality you need, which is knowing whether people posted and which posts worked, is not the expensive part of these platforms. Creator discovery databases and enterprise reporting are.

A useful sanity check: if you pay creators $2 per thousand views across five million views a month, that is $10,000 in payouts. Tooling at 1 to 3% of payout spend is reasonable. Tooling at 25% is not.

Note on sources

Prices are the vendors' own published figures as of September 2026, or, where pricing is gated behind a sales call, the figures reported by procurement data aggregators. Demo-gated vendors change pricing without announcement, so treat the bottom half of the table as an order of magnitude rather than a quote.