What GRIN costs in November 2026
GRIN offers four self-serve plans, plus Enterprise. Free costs $0 a month with a 20% management fee on wallet deposits. Starter is $200 a month plus 10%. Growth and Scale run $500 and $1,500 monthly, plus 7% and 5%1.
Enterprise is custom-priced for brands sending thousands of gifts a month or funding large creator budgets, and it comes on an annual agreement. Prices are monthly in USD1. These figures were checked on grin.co/pricing on November 5, 2026.
The self-serve plans have no annual billing option yet (it's still coming), so your yearly plan cost is 12 times the monthly price: $0, $2,400, $6,000 or $18,000 before fees1. The deposit fee comes on top of that. Plan price alone understates your spend.
| Plan | Monthly price | Management fee | Gifts | Creator search a month | Live campaigns | Multi-brand | Billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 20% | 10 total | 100 result pages | 2 | No | Card or ACH |
| Starter | $200 | 10% | 100/month | 1,000 result pages | Unlimited | No | Card or ACH |
| Growth | $500 | 7% | 300/month | 3,000 result pages | Unlimited | Yes | Card or ACH |
| Scale | $1,500 | 5% | 1,000/month | 10,000 result pages | Unlimited | Yes | Card or ACH |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Unlimited | Yes | Card, ACH or invoice, annual |
Plans aren't priced per seat. GRIN takes nothing from creators' pay1.
How the management fee works
The fee lands on top of each wallet deposit at your plan's rate. On Starter, a $1,000 deposit costs you $1,1001.
Creator fees sit in that wallet until payout through Stripe1. Affiliate commissions come from the same pool.
Withdraw unspent funds and the fee is gone1. Say you deposit $1,000 on Starter and pay $1,100, spend $400 on creators, then withdraw the remaining $600. GRIN keeps the full $100 fee, which works out to 25% of the $400 that actually reached creators. Deposit only what you plan to spend. Top up when you need more.
Card deposits may carry a processing fee. GRIN doesn't publish the rate. ACH is the cheapest route1.
Paid partnership and affiliate campaigns need at least $250 in the wallet before they can run, while gifting-only campaigns need no deposit at all1. On Free, that minimum $250 deposit costs $300 once the 20% fee is added.
Which GRIN plan is cheapest for your creator budget
GRIN publishes its own break-evens1. Starter beats Free once monthly creator funding passes about $2,000. Growth beats Starter above about $10,000, and Scale beats Growth above about $50,000.
Total plan cost plus management fee as a share of monthly creator funding, using the cheapest plan at each level, based on GRIN's published prices and fee break-evens. Source: 1.
| Monthly creator funding | Free (20%) | Starter (10%) | Growth (7%) | Scale (5%) | Overhead on cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $200 | $300 | $570 | $1,550 | 20% |
| $2,000 | $400 | $400 (tie) | $640 | $1,600 | 20% |
| $5,000 | $1,000 | $700 | $850 | $1,750 | 14% |
| $10,000 | $2,000 | $1,200 (tie) | $1,200 (tie) | $2,000 | 12% |
| $25,000 | $5,000 | $2,700 | $2,250 | $2,750 | 9% |
| $50,000 | $10,000 | $5,200 | $4,000 (tie) | $4,000 (tie) | 8% |
Pick Free if you're sending a handful of gifts to test the water. Limits can force a plan before the fees do. Free caps you at 10 gifts total and 2 live campaigns, with no list or email export. Running more than one brand means you need Growth, because Free and Starter are single-brand1.
A gift counts when its $0 order or shipment is created in GRIN, and that includes product sent inside a paid deal, so paid campaigns eat into your gift limit too. Limits reset monthly (except Free's 10 lifetime gifts), and hitting one prompts an upgrade, never an overage charge1.
Trial, contracts and cancelling
Starter comes with a 30-day trial. A card or ACH account goes on file at signup on every plan, Free included. On day 30, billing starts at $200 a month automatically unless you switch to Free or another plan first. Growth and Scale bill from the day you buy them1.
Deposits you make during the trial still carry the 10% fee1. So if you deposit $2,000 during the trial, you pay a $200 fee, and if you forget to switch plans, the first $200 plan charge follows on day 30. That's $400 in plan price and fees on $2,000 of funding in your first month.
Self-serve plans are month to month. GRIN's January 2026 launch promised no annual contracts and cancel anytime12. If you're only trying the platform, switching down to Free before the trial ends is the safer move.
Enterprise works differently: it is an annual agreement with a dedicated account manager and custom limits, plus invoice billing1. Vendr reports 12, 24 and 36-month terms and yearly price increases of about 3-7% in GRIN contracts3. GRIN also doesn't publish an Enterprise onboarding fee, though competitor partnrUP reports implementation fees of $2,000-$8,000 in its own coverage, not a GRIN figure4.
GRIN price history and why other sites show different numbers
Before January 27, 2026, GRIN sold only through demos and annual contracts5. On that date it announced instant self-serve access without demos or contracts, and no long-term commitments2. That switch is why older articles describe a sales-call buying process that no longer exists.
The Growth plan's listed monthly price fell from $1,149 in April to $500 by August 2026, as logged by price tracker PulseSignal and archived pricing tables. Sources: 1, 6, 7, 8.
Third-party records show how fast the pricing moved after launch. Archive's April 29, 2026 guide (a competitor) recorded the first self-serve tiers as Lite $399, Essentials $699, Growth $1,149 and Complete $1,799 a month, and StackScored logged the same $399 to $1,799 range on April 2167.
Price tracker PulseSignal then logged Growth falling from $1,149 to $699 on May 16, 2026, when Lite, Essentials and Complete were removed, and a second cut from $699 to $500 on August 2, 20268. Today Growth is $500 plus a 7% deposit fee1. All of those tier names and prices are third-party records of GRIN's page. They are history, not current pricing.
| Source | What it says | Date | Status vs grin.co today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capterra | Starts at $999/month, no free trial or free version | Undated | Outdated: Free plan and 30-day Starter trial exist |
| Influencer Hero (competitor) | Starts at $2,500/month, annual commitment | Updated Oct 12, 2026 | Outdated: self-serve starts at $0, month to month |
| partnrUP (competitor) | GRIN does not publish pricing | Jul 28, 2026 | Outdated: prices are on grin.co/pricing |
| Vendr (buyer data) | Custom-quote, median contract $27,150/year | Undated | Outdated: grin.co now publishes prices |
| Archive (competitor) | Creators paid via PayPal | Apr 29, 2026 | GRIN's page says payouts go through Stripe |
For how the platform itself performs beyond pricing, the full GRIN review covers how it works and what users report.
Vendr's numbers also contradict each other: its median contract of $27,150 a year (range $16,828 to $32,808) sits below its own claim that small "starter" deployments run $30,000 to $50,0003. Treat Vendr as a rough benchmark from the era of custom quotes. For context, a Growth brand funding $25,000 a month pays $2,250 a month, or about $27,000 a year in plan price plus fees, which lands almost exactly on that median.
Is GRIN worth it for a TikTok Shop brand?
GRIN gives you published prices with no sales call and every campaign type (gifting, paid partnership, affiliate and UGC) on all plans including Free. You also get payouts through Stripe, one-click Shopify connection, no per-seat pricing and a cited network of 700K+ creators1.
GRIN doesn't publish a TikTok Shop sync. The pricing page lists Shopify and an API for custom or headless setups, and you can't yet boost creator content as ads1. If you run a full gifting and affiliate program on Shopify, GRIN fits. If you only book individual TikTok Shop creators, it is more platform than you need.
Brands booking TikTok Shop creators on Rateful from a creator list on a brand page pay booking protection of 10% on top of the deal amount, shown before they pay, and Rateful takes 0% from creators. Rateful holds the whole payment until 3 days after every post is verified live. GRIN is a full program platform with search, CRM, gifting and payouts, while Rateful handles booking and payment for individual creators.
For prices on other tools, see the pages on GRIN alternatives, GRIN vs Upfluence and Aspire vs GRIN.
Questions people ask
How much does GRIN cost per month?
GRIN's self-serve plans cost $0 (Free), $200 (Starter), $500 (Growth) or $1,500 (Scale) a month, each plus a fee of 20%, 10%, 7% or 5% on every wallet deposit. Enterprise is custom-priced, with terms set with GRIN's team1. Your real monthly cost is the plan price plus the fee on whatever you deposit to pay creators.
Does GRIN have a free plan?
Yes. The Free plan costs nothing to hold, and the 20% fee only applies when you fund the wallet. Free limits you to 10 gifts overall, 2 live campaigns, one brand and no list exports. Gifting-only campaigns need no deposit, so you can test the platform without funding the wallet1.
What is the GRIN management fee?
It is a percentage added on top of every wallet deposit: 20% on Free, 10% on Starter, 7% on Growth and 5% on Scale. On a $1,000 Starter deposit, that means $100 on top. The fee is not refunded if you withdraw unspent funds, so deposit only what you plan to spend1.
Does GRIN require an annual contract?
Self-serve plans (Free, Starter, Growth and Scale) are month to month with no annual contract. Only Enterprise is an annual agreement1. Vendr's third-party data reports Enterprise terms of 12, 24 and 36 months with yearly increases of about 3-7%3.
Can I cancel GRIN anytime?
Self-serve plans bill monthly, so you can cancel anytime12. If you're on the Starter trial and only testing, switch to Free before day 30 so the $200 monthly charge never starts1.
Does GRIN work with TikTok Shop?
GRIN's pricing page lists a one-click Shopify integration and an API for custom or headless stores. Boosting creator content as ads is also a roadmap item rather than a live feature. GRIN doesn't publish a TikTok Shop sync1. If you just need to book TikTok Shop creators, you can do that directly through Rateful's marketplace.