Performance marketing platform

ViralPayouts vs Trakaff

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 Trakaff, you pay your affiliates yourself and has two-tier recruiting on some plans only. It costs $300 to $1,000 a month.

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

Why brands pick ViralPayouts over Trakaff

Best fit: A brand that wants recruiter overrides and payouts handled without a fixed subscription.

$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

	Trakaff	ViralPayouts
Price	$300 to $1,000 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	Higher plans2 levels'Affiliate Referral Program' is an add-on on Base, Premium and Pro; included on Agency and Brands	Yes Two levels on every program: share of commission, share of sale or fixed. Paid on approved sales, never sign-ups
Public program directory	Yes	Yes Partners browse and join with one account
Tracking	redirect tracking links / smart links; S2S postback (all plans); image pixel; parallel postback (Premium/Pro)	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	API	REST API for brands and partners with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server for AI agents, a signed event API and partner postbacks
Integrations	Postback integration with third-party trackers	Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API

Trakaff plans in full

Base: price not published. Up to 7K conversions, 350K clicks, no custom tracking domain
Premium: $300 a month. Up to 25K conversions, 1M clicks, 2 domains; price from G2/Capterra vendor listing, not on own pricing page
Pro: $500 a month. Up to 50K conversions, 3M clicks, 5 domains; price from G2/Capterra
Agency / Scale: $750 a month. Up to 80K conversions, 5M clicks, 8 domains; G2/Capterra list 'Scale' at $750
White Label: $1000 a month. Listed on Capterra only
Brands: price not published. Tailored, 12 domains, contact sales

Pricing source

Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of Trakaff

What Trakaff offers

CPA/affiliate networks, agencies and advertisers who want a white-label affiliate tracker.

Performance marketing platform · G2 4.5 (2 reviews) · Capterra 4.9 (7 reviews)

Why ViralPayouts is the better choice

No monthly fee vs roughly $300-$1,000/month
Pays partners for the brand; Trakaff only generates invoices
Two levels included by default with flexible override types (share of commission, share of sale, fixed) vs a single % add-on
Public directory with one partner account across programs

What Trakaff users say

Paraphrased from public reviews. Follow each link to read the original.

Praise

Easy to use and good value; one reviewer says pricing is among the best in the industry capterra.com
Responsive support that added requested features at no extra charge capterra.com
Simple postback and lead/sale tracking setup capterra.com

Complaints

Wants automated payments to affiliates and managers integrated with payment processing capterra.com
Publisher-facing appearance and email customisation could be better capterra.com
Usability 'should improve a bit' capterra.com

About Trakaff

In their words:: Build Run Manage Grow Your Affiliate Network
Named customers:: Clicksvalue (testimonial), Offersmansion (testimonial), Smscpalead (testimonial)
Website:: trakaff.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 Trakaff (10), checked 12 October 2026

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