Dub vs Affonso
Ninety dollars against fifteen euros, and they are not the same product: one is a link platform with partners attached. Both prices were read from their own pricing pages on 28 August 2026.
Which should you pick?
The prices are $90 and about €15, and the gap is not a discount, it is a different product. Affonso does one thing: it runs an affiliate programme for your SaaS, wired into Stripe, Paddle or Polar, built by somebody who spent twelve years in affiliate marketing before making the tool. Dub is a link management platform, with short links, click analytics and custom domains, that grew a partner programme on top of the same tracking. If you already have links handled and you want affiliates, you are paying Dub $75 a month for infrastructure you will not open. If you want both, Dub is genuinely one bill instead of two and its partner payouts are managed rather than left to you. The other thing worth weighing is the ceiling. Dub caps partner payouts at $2,500 a month on Business, so a programme that works pushes you towards the $300 tier faster than the link limits will. Affonso is capped on tracked revenue instead, at roughly €1,000 a month on Launch, which is a lower bar but a much cheaper step up.
Dub and Affonso, side by side
| Dub | Affonso | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $90/mo | From €19/mo |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Free trial | 14 days | None listed |
| Plans | 2 | 4 |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Priced on | Links, events and partner payouts | Not published |
| Entry tracked revenue | $2,500/mo in payouts | Not published |
| Payments | Stripe, with managed partner payouts | Not published |
| Free tier | Not on the pricing page | No |
| Affiliates | 500 on Business, then unlimited | Not published |
| Payouts | Managed, capped by plan | Not published |
| Integrations | Not published | Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Zapier, n8n |
| Self-hostable | Not published | No |
| AI steps | Not published | MCP, ChatGPT, Claude |
| Pricing model | Not published | Revenue-tiered |
| Learning curve | Not published | Low |
Rows where both are the same are dimmed, so what is left is the actual difference.
What Dub is good at
- Link management and partner tracking on one bill, which nothing else here offers
- Open source, with a serious API and generous rate limits
- Partner payouts handled rather than left to you
Where it falls short
- Most expensive way into this category at $90, and the jump to Advanced is $300
- Payout caps are a second ceiling on top of the plan price
- Overkill if you only want an affiliate programme and already have links handled
What Affonso is good at
- Built solo by a 12-year affiliate marketing veteran
- Native Stripe, Paddle, Polar payout support
- MCP and AI-agent integrations included
Where it falls short
- Revenue-tier pricing can jump fast at scale
- Yearly price shown higher per-month on Launch tier
Neither of these? All 5 referral programmes tools, compared on what they actually cost.