PartnerStack alternatives (2026): what Rewardful, FirstPromoter, Tolt and Dub cost next to Spark's 10%

Owe your affiliates $3,000 next month on PartnerStack Spark and the bill is $3,300. The extra $300 is PartnerStack's "10% processing fee on commissions you pay out," and it's the only PartnerStack price you can read without booking a call.

The rest of PartnerStack is quoted on a demo. Its pricing page lists Launch, Growth and Enterprise, three "Book your demo" buttons, and this line in the FAQ: "Your final plan and pricing are confirmed during your demo." On top of the plan, PartnerStack adds what its help center calls a PartnerStack fee, "a percentage … on your partner commission invoice total." The rate isn't published. You ask your Customer Success Manager.

Rewardful, FirstPromoter, Tolt and Dub all publish their entry prices and start with a 14-day trial, no call needed. For a plain affiliate program on Stripe, Rewardful beats Spark once payouts pass about $490 a month if you send them yourself, and about $700 if Rewardful sends them for 3%. If PartnerStack's marketplace, deal registration or MDF brings you revenue, stay: none of the four lists deal registration or MDF on its pricing page.

Every price below comes from each vendor's own site, read Nov 11, 2026. I haven't run any of these tools in production. I'm a Dub affiliate, so I only quote each vendor about itself, and anything I couldn't find is marked UNKNOWN.

What PartnerStack publishes, and what it doesn't

From partnerstack.com/pricing:

• Launch: affiliate link tracking or lead and deal registration ("Select one"), PartnerStack Marketplace access, Partner Payments, onboarding and training tools, CRM integrations.
• Growth: adds an LMS, partner challenges, MDF management and payments, and advanced segmentation.
• Enterprise: full access to link tracking plus lead and deal registration, a designated CSM, and "network success" recruiting help.
• No cap on partners. "Pricing is based on your partner program size, feature needs and level of support."

What isn't there: a price for any of the three, the PartnerStack fee rate, a minimum contract term, a refund policy or a trial. All UNKNOWN until the demo.

Spark is the exception. It's self-serve, "no contracts," and you sign up without a call. You get a single user, simplified tracking links, simple commission offers, "Simple Sale tracking via Stripe," automated payouts and a custom domain. You don't get the network: "Spark does not include access to the PartnerStack Network of more than 117,000 B2B partners."

PartnerStack does document its fraud and tax handling, which matters when you compare. Its help center describes fraud flagging through Sift in a "Fraud Management" tab, with commissions held while you review (managing fraud). For partners who withdraw by direct deposit, it collects a W-9 from US partners and a W-8 from non-US ones, and it files a 1099-K for a partner with both "$20,000 USD in gross payment volume" and 200 transactions in a year (tax information). Which plans include the fraud tooling is UNKNOWN.

Two more things from PartnerStack's help center that matter for the math. Commissions are invoiced to you on the 1st, you have seven days to review, the invoice is charged on the 8th, and partners can withdraw from the 13th (Company FAQs). And partners pay their own withdrawal fees: "$2.25 USD + 0.25% to a max of $20USD per payout" via Stripe, or "2% to a max of $20 USD" via PayPal (payout providers).

What the alternatives cost as your program grows

Here is one program at a 20% commission, on monthly prices, so payouts are a fifth of affiliate revenue. "You pay" means you send the payouts yourself; "they pay" means the vendor does.

The table ignores your own time and any PayPal or Wise fees when you send payouts yourself; Rewardful's pricing page lists those third-party fees as outside its 0%. How each cell is built:

• Spark: 10% of payouts.
• Rewardful: Starter $49 up to $7,500 a month in affiliate-attributed revenue, Growth $99 up to $15,000, Enterprise from $149 up to $30,000 and $299 up to $75,000 (pricing, tier schedule). Rewardful says it takes 0% of affiliate revenue. "They pay" adds the 3% Managed Payouts fee.
• FirstPromoter: Starter $49 up to $5,000, Business $99 up to $15,000, Enterprise $149 "above $15,000/month," behind "Let's talk" (pricing). Its pricing page lists no transaction or payout fee, so its fee is UNKNOWN, not zero. Managed Auto Payouts is Enterprise only, "SaaS companies only, approval required," and its fee is UNKNOWN.
• Tolt: Growth $99 up to $20k a month in partner revenue, Pro $199 up to $50k, plus "2% of what's paid out" on every plan. Tolt pays the affiliates (pricing).
• Dub: Business $90 covers up to $2.5K a month in partner payouts, Advanced $300 covers up to $15K, plus a 5% payout fee by ACH (pricing, payouts help). Dub pays the partners. Fund payouts by card and the fee is 8%, which makes those four cells $170, $290, $700 and $1,100.

dub.co/pricing, Monthly view, Nov 11, 2026: Business at $90 covers $2.5K a month in partner payouts.

Three things stand out.

Spark is cheap only when you're small. Rewardful at $49 beats it once payouts pass $490 a month, if you're fine sending a PayPal or Wise batch yourself. If you want the vendor to pay affiliates, Rewardful with Managed Payouts beats Spark from about $700 in payouts, and Tolt from about $1,240.

Dub sits in the middle, with a cliff. Against Spark, Dub Business wins between $1,800 and $2,500 a month in payouts. Past $2,500 you need Advanced at $300, and Spark is cheaper again until about $6,000. From $6,000 up to Advanced's $15K cap, Dub wins. If your payouts land between $2,500 and $6,000 a month, Spark costs less than Dub, and I'm the one with the Dub link.

The PartnerStack column is the one that matters for most people reading this, and I can't fill it. If you're on Launch or Growth today, your invoice is the number to put there: the plan fee plus your PartnerStack fee percentage.

Who takes a cut, and how

Sources: the pricing pages above, plus Dub's free trial help and Rewardful's tier schedule.

Rewardful

The cheapest bill here if you'll send payouts yourself. Every plan has unlimited affiliates and "a 0% transaction fee on affiliate-attributed revenue." Managed Payouts is optional on any plan for 3%. Starter is limited to two team members. On billing, it's Stripe first, and its own Paddle page says "Rewardful only integrates with Paddle Classic, not Paddle Billing" (rewardful.com/paddle). If you go over a cap, Rewardful moves you "to the next pricing tier in the next billing cycle." No marketplace is listed.

FirstPromoter

Same $49 entry, lower first cap ($5,000 a month in revenue from affiliates) and 1,000 affiliates on Starter. It lists the widest billing support of the four: Stripe, Paddle, Chargebee, Recurly and Braintree, and its help center has a Paddle Billing guide. W-9 and W-8BEN collection is listed on every plan but is off by default. Fraud controls (self-referral detection, a paid-ad traffic policy, reCAPTCHA) are listed on every plan. The page is running a 20% off code, BF2026, as I write this.

Tolt

tolt.com/pricing, Monthly view, Nov 11, 2026: Growth is $99 a month for up to $20k in partner revenue.

The closest match to Spark's "they pay your partners" model, at a fifth of the cut. Every plan pays affiliates for you for 2% of what's paid out, and collects "W-9 and W-8 forms, 1099 filing" before a partner's first payout. Radar fraud protection starts on Pro. Billing is Stripe, Paddle or Chargebee, or webhooks and the API. The FAQ promises a full refund within 30 days. I went deeper on Tolt's plans in Tolt alternatives.

Dub

Dub Partners starts at $90 a month on Business, or $81 billed yearly. Dub pays partners, collects W-9s, sends a 1099-NEC to US partners paid $600 or more in a year, and collects W-8s from non-US partners (payouts help). Commissions sit in a holding period first, 30 days by default, and Dub's own advice is "We don't recommend a 0-day holding period."

Where Dub loses, from its own pages:

• Fraud tooling: risk monitoring "is only available on Advanced plans and above" (risk monitoring).
• Network: "Partner Network access" and "Program Marketplace listing" are on Enterprise only (pricing). PartnerStack puts Marketplace access on Launch.
• Caps: go over your monthly payout limit and "you won't be able to send payouts until the next billing period."
• Billing: dub.co lists Stripe, Shopify and Polar. I found no Paddle or Chargebee integration, so treat those as UNKNOWN.
• Trial: payouts are capped at $500 a month during the trial, and "your card will be automatically charged for the first month of your paid plan" when it ends (free trial help).

Leaving PartnerStack without losing partners

Whichever tool you pick:

1. Export partners, links and open commissions, and check your contract's notice period (UNKNOWN to me, it's in your contract).
2. Settle the last commission invoice inside PartnerStack so no partner has a balance in two places.
3. Collect payout details and tax forms in the new tool before the first payout.
4. Keep old links working through your cookie window.
5. Run one test customer through click, signup, payment and refund before you email partners.

If you're moving to Dub, its PartnerStack import guide uses your PartnerStack Public and Secret API keys and needs a custom domain and conversion tracking set up first. It only imports partners "In an 'approved' state" with "at least 1 lead / referral," and it recreates their links on your Dub domain. Because there's no /triggers endpoint, "your PartnerStack triggers will not be migrated," so every partner lands on your default reward. Commissions without a valid Stripe customer ID or transaction trace don't come over.

Who each tool fits

I earn a commission if you sign up for Dub, so here's where I'd send you elsewhere.

• Stay on PartnerStack if the marketplace recruits partners for you, or your partners register deals, take courses or spend MDF. None of the four lists deal registration or MDF on its pricing page, and only Dub lists a partner network, on Enterprise.
• Pick Spark if you pay partners under about $700 a month, want them paid for you, and one user is enough.
• Pick Rewardful for the lowest bill when you'll send payouts yourself, on Stripe or Paddle Classic.
• Pick FirstPromoter if you bill on Chargebee, Recurly, Braintree or Paddle Billing.
• Pick Tolt if you want the tool to pay affiliates and file 1099s for the smallest cut here, 2%.
• Pick Dub if Stripe is your source of truth, you want payouts and US tax forms inside the product, and your payouts sit between $1,800 and $2,500 a month or above $6,000. Price the $2,500 to $6,000 band honestly first.

For the three-way spec sheet with Stripe event details and refund handling, see Dub vs Rewardful vs PartnerStack.

Affiliate link - I may earn a commission: https://refer.dub.co/shamil

Quick answers

How much does PartnerStack cost? Launch, Growth and Enterprise aren't priced in public: "Your final plan and pricing are confirmed during your demo." There's also a PartnerStack fee on your commission invoice, rate not public. Spark is $0 a month plus 10% of the commissions you pay out.

What's the cheapest PartnerStack alternative? On published prices, Rewardful or FirstPromoter at $49 a month if you send payouts yourself. If you want the tool to pay affiliates, Rewardful with Managed Payouts (3%) or Tolt ($99 plus 2%).

Is Dub cheaper than PartnerStack? Than Spark, only between $1,800 and $2,500 a month in payouts, or above $6,000, paying by ACH. Than Launch or Growth: UNKNOWN, because those prices aren't public.

Does any alternative have a partner marketplace? Dub lists "Partner Network access" and "Program Marketplace listing" on Enterprise only. Rewardful, FirstPromoter and Tolt list none.

What I couldn't verify

• PartnerStack Launch, Growth and Enterprise prices, the PartnerStack fee rate, minimum contract, refund policy and whether a trial exists.
• FirstPromoter's fee on Managed Auto Payouts and its Enterprise tier above $15,000.
• Whether Dub tracks Paddle or Chargebee sales.

Prices read Nov 11, 2026 from partnerstack.com, rewardful.com, firstpromoter.com, tolt.com and dub.co (pricing, help and docs). Vendors change prices often, so check before you buy.