Rewardful is one of the best-known affiliate tools for Stripe-based SaaS, and it deserves that reputation โ the Stripe integration is clean and they charge 0% transaction fees. But the pricing model asks you to commit before you have proof that affiliates will work for your product. Rewardful's Starter plan is $49/month and it stops at $7,500/month in tracked affiliate revenue. PromoteBoost gives you the same category of tooling for $0 until your affiliates generate $10,000/month โ and unlimited revenue for $49/month after that, which is what Rewardful charges you on day one.
Plan limits and pricing as published by each vendor.
| Side-by-side comparison | PromoteBoost | Rewardful |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $0, then $49/mo | $49/mo (Starter) |
| Free plan | Yes โ free forever until $10,000/mo | No โ 14-day trial |
| Revenue cap on entry plan | $10,000/mo on Free, unlimited on Pro | $7,500/mo on Starter |
| White-label + custom domain | Included in Pro ($49/mo) | Growth plan, $99/mo |
| Transaction fees | 0% | 0% |
| Affiliates | Unlimited on every plan | Not published as a plan limit |
| Team members | 3 on Free, unlimited on Pro | 2 on Starter, unlimited on Growth |
| Campaigns | Unlimited on every plan | 1 on Starter, unlimited on Growth |
| Automated payouts | PayPal, Wise, crypto, bank transfer (Pro) | PayPal, Wise |
| Native Stripe integration | Yes โ Stripe Connect + direct webhooks | Yes โ native |
This is the whole argument in one line. Rewardful has no free plan โ there is a 14-day trial, and then the meter starts at $49/month whether your program produced $0 or $7,000 that month. Most affiliate programs take three to six months to reach meaningful volume, so you are typically paying $150 to $300 before the channel proves itself. PromoteBoost's Free plan is not a trial and not a crippled demo: unlimited affiliates, unlimited campaigns, unlimited referrals, percentage and fixed-amount commissions, cookie tracking, Stripe integration. It stays free until affiliates have generated $10,000 in a month for you. At that point the channel has paid for itself many times over, and $49/month is an easy decision rather than a gamble.
Rewardful's Starter tier is capped at $7,500/month in affiliate revenue, and it allows one campaign and two team members. Cross $7,500 and you move to Growth at $99/month, which raises the ceiling to $15,000/month and unlocks unlimited campaigns and unlimited team seats. Beyond $15,000/month you are on Enterprise, starting at $149/month. So a program doing $16,000/month in affiliate revenue is a $149/month line item. On PromoteBoost that same program is $49/month with unlimited revenue โ there is no next tier to be pushed into, because Pro has no revenue ceiling at all. The ceiling matters more than the headline price: success on Rewardful costs you more money, which is a strange incentive for a growth tool.
A branded affiliate portal on your own domain is not a vanity feature. It is what makes partners trust that your program is real, and it keeps your brand in front of them every time they check their stats. Rewardful puts white-label and custom domain on the Growth plan at $99/month. PromoteBoost includes both in Pro at $49/month, alongside automated payouts via PayPal, Wise, crypto and bank transfer, affiliate coupon codes, unlimited data history and priority support. You are getting the feature set Rewardful bundles at $99 for half the price, with no revenue cap attached.
Both platforms integrate natively with Stripe, so this is not a differentiator to oversell โ Rewardful's Stripe support is genuinely good. Where PromoteBoost adds surface area is around it: Stripe promo-code tracking so affiliates can be credited without a link, configurable cookie windows from 1 to 365 days, sub-ID parameters for granular attribution, recurring commissions that you can cap at X months or leave lifetime, two-tier commissions, automatic self-referral detection, a public marketplace to get discovered by new affiliates, plus inbound webhooks for Shopify and Kajabi and a full API when you need to wire something custom.
Launch your affiliate program in minutes. Free until you generate $10,000/month in affiliate revenue โ then $49/month flat, white-label included.
Rewardful charges 0% transaction fees on payouts, the same as us, and it has years of production history with thousands of SaaS companies โ that track record is worth something real when you are choosing infrastructure you plan to keep for years. If your program is already well past $15,000/month and you want a vendor with a long enterprise reference list, Rewardful is a credible choice and we will not pretend otherwise.
Choose Rewardful if brand maturity and a long customer reference list matter more to you than price, or if your team has already standardised on it and migration cost outweighs the savings. If you are launching a program, or you are under $10,000/month in affiliate revenue, paying $49/month for Rewardful when PromoteBoost is free is money you are simply choosing to spend.
Launch your affiliate program in minutes. Free until you generate $10,000/month in affiliate revenue โ then $49/month flat, white-label included.
Pricing verified in August 2026 โ check the vendor's website for up-to-date pricing.
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