Affiliate software for SaaS

ViralPayouts vs Numok

ViralPayouts has no monthly fee, pays your affiliates for you and pays recruiters on every program. You pay 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3%, and nothing in a month when nobody sells. With Numok, you pay your affiliates yourself and does not say it has two-tier recruiting. It costs $0 a month.

Every figure for Numok comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.

Why brands pick ViralPayouts over Numok

Best fit: A brand that wants payouts handled, a built-in recruiter tier and a partner directory without hosting anything, and accepts a 10% falling to 3% fee on what it pays partners.

$0 a month
No plan and no setup fee. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month.
Payouts done for you
One invoice per program. ViralPayouts sends every partner and recruiter their money and collects tax forms.
Recruiters built in
Customer links and recruit links on every program, with the override set your way and reversed on refunds.

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Side by side

	Numok	ViralPayouts
Price	$0 a month	$0 a month. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month.
Setup fee	Not stated	None
Fee for paying affiliates	Not stated	Included in the fee above: no charge to the brand for sending payoutsPartners pay Whop's own fee when they withdraw to their bank
Pays your affiliates for you	No	Yes You fund by bank transfer; we pay every partner
Two-tier recruiting	Not stated	Yes Two levels on every program: share of commission, share of sale or fixed. Paid on approved sales, never sign-ups
Public program directory	No	Yes Partners browse and join with one account
Tracking	Tracking links with ?via= parameter; Stripe webhook (checkout.session.completed, payment_intent.succeeded, invoice.paid)	First-party links with click IDs, signed server-to-server events, Stripe Checkout webhook
Coupon tracking	Not stated	Yes A code per partner, per program
Mobile app tracking	Not stated	App installs, sign-ups and purchases reported from your server through the signed event API, with bounties on them. No SDK to ship in your app.
API, webhooks, MCP	Not stated	REST API for brands and partners with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server for AI agents, a signed event API and partner postbacks
Integrations	Stripe (only payment provider referenced)	Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API

Numok plans in full

Open Source (self-hosted): $0 a month. "Self-host for free. Full control, no limits." Unlimited affiliates; you run the server (PHP 8.1+, MySQL 5.7+)

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Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of Numok

What Numok offers

SaaS companies billing through Stripe that are willing to self-host a PHP/MySQL app to run a basic affiliate program for free.

Affiliate software for SaaS

Why ViralPayouts is the better choice

ViralPayouts actually pays the affiliates (via Whop); Numok only calculates and queues commissions
Two levels built in (partner commission plus recruiter override, separate recruit link); Numok states nothing on multi-tier
Hosted, no servers to run; signed server-to-server event API and test network with simulated money
Public directory of live programs with one partner account across programs

About Numok

In their words:: "Stop Tracking Affiliates in Spreadsheets" (title: "Numok - Open Source Affiliate Platform")
Company:: Not stated on Numok's site; maker Diego Gonzalez Marignac's site uses a .ar (Argentina) domain · "A dfg product" - dfg.ar, the project portfolio of Diego Gonzalez Marignac, who lists Numok as an open-source project
Website:: numok.com

Try ViralPayouts on test money

Set your commission and recruiter override, see what each sale costs you, and run it on the test network before a real partner joins. No monthly fee.

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Sources for Numok (4), checked 12 October 2026

Numok is a trademark of its owner. ViralPayouts is not affiliated with Numok. Prices and features change: check numok.com before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.