Rewardful vs FirstPromoter
Priced identically at every tier, which makes this a decision about seats and caps rather than money. Both prices were read from their own pricing pages on 28 August 2026.
From $49/mo
From $49/mo
Which should you pick?
These cost the same at every tier: $49, $99, and $149 upwards. That is unusual enough to be the most useful thing to know, because it means price cannot decide it and the differences underneath have to. Rewardful tracks $7,500 a month on the cheap plan against FirstPromoter's $5,000, so if the programme is already earning, Rewardful gets you further before the upgrade. FirstPromoter gives unlimited team members on that same plan where Rewardful gives two, so if more than a couple of people touch the programme, Rewardful's cheap tier is not really available to you. FirstPromoter caps affiliates at a thousand there; Rewardful does not cap them at all. Rewardful is the better known of the two, which matters more than it should: affiliates who have seen its dashboard before need less hand holding. Neither has a free tier and both give you fourteen days, FirstPromoter without asking for a card.
Rewardful and FirstPromoter, side by side
| Rewardful | FirstPromoter | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $49/mo | From $49/mo |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days |
| Plans | 3 | 3 |
| Open source | No | No |
| Priced on | Tracked affiliate revenue | Tracked affiliate revenue |
| Entry tracked revenue | $7,500/mo | $5,000/mo |
| Payments | Stripe, Paddle | Stripe, Paddle, Chargebee and others |
| Free tier | No, 14-day trial | No, 14-day trial with no card |
| Affiliates | Unlimited on every plan | 1,000 on Starter, then unlimited |
| Payouts | Manual, via your payment processor | Manual, plus bulk payout tooling |
Rows where both are the same are dimmed, so what is left is the actual difference.
What Rewardful is good at
- The most widely used option here, so most affiliates have seen its dashboard before
- Stripe and Paddle integration is direct rather than through a tracking script
- Two months free on annual billing
Where it falls short
- No free tier, so you pay before you know whether anybody will promote you
- Starter caps team members at two
- Priced identically to FirstPromoter at every tier, which makes the choice about everything except price
What FirstPromoter is good at
- Unlimited team members even on the cheapest plan
- Trial needs no card, which almost nothing else here manages
- Fraud detection built in rather than sold separately
Where it falls short
- Starter tracks $5,000 a month against Rewardful's $7,500 for the same $49
- Caps affiliates at 1,000 on Starter, where the rest are unlimited
- No free tier
Neither of these? All 5 referral programmes tools, compared on what they actually cost.