Sup vs Collabstr
The Collabstr alternative that runs it for you
Sup is a done-for-you influencer marketing service. Our team and our AI agents find, book, contract and pay Instagram and TikTok creators for brands and agencies, and you pay only for posts that go live. Collabstr is a marketplace: you pick creators and pay a fee on each order.
- $0 a month, and you pay for a creator only when their post is live
- You approve every creator’s price before anything is booked
- A shortlist in 6 hours. We do the outreach, the contracts and the payments
Send a brief. It is free to look around, and you pay for a creator only when their post is live.
“Sup has saved us hours and hours of pain and admin.”
Trusted by 650+ brands and agencies
- $0
- a month with Sup
- 6 hours
- from your brief to a shortlist
- 350M
- creators searched live on Instagram and TikTok
You pay for a creator only when their post is live.
You say yes or no to each creator.
Our AI agents search for each brief, and our team picks the shortlist.
The short answer
Sup or Collabstr: which one fits you
Collabstr is a good choice when you want to hire one or a few creators today, at the price on their profile, and you are happy to choose and manage them yourself. Sup fits when you want a whole campaign run for you, with creators found for your brief and not only from those who signed up to a marketplace.
The difference
A marketplace of creators who signed up, or a live search of Instagram and TikTok
Sup
$0 a month, plus the creator prices you approve
- No subscription, no retainer and no set-up fee
- You pay each creator only when their post is live
- We take our fee from creators, so the price you approve holds it
- A gifting-only campaign pays $19 per gift as our fee
Collabstr
Free to join, with a 10% fee on each order
- Free: $0 a month, with a 10% fee on each order
- Pro: $249 a month, billed yearly, with a 10% fee
- Premium: $333 a month, billed yearly, with a 5% fee
- Enterprise: from $1,000 a month, on a yearly contract
Choose Sup when
- You want a whole campaign run for you, from the search to the payment
- You want creators found on Instagram and TikTok for your brief, wherever they are
- You want each fee agreed for you, inside your budget
Choose Collabstr when
- You want to hire one or a few creators quickly, at a listed price
- You are happy to choose, brief and manage each creator yourself
- You want your payment held until you approve the work
Side by side
Collabstr and Sup, side by side
Collabstr is a marketplace where creators list their own packages and prices, and brands hire them directly or post a campaign for creators to apply to. Sup is a done-for-you influencer marketing service. Our team and our AI agents find, book, contract and pay Instagram and TikTok creators for brands and agencies, and you pay only for posts that go live. So this table compares two ways of getting the same work done.
Collabstr’s side read on 6 October 2026
What it is
Sup
A done-for-you influencer marketing service. Our team and our AI agents run the campaign, and you approve each step
Collabstr
A marketplace where creators list their own packages and prices
Who does the work
Sup
Our team and our AI agents: the search, the outreach, the fee talks, the contracts, the payments and the tracking
Collabstr
You. You search or post a campaign, choose the creators, and agree the details with each one
The price
Sup
$0 a month. You pay the price you approve for each creator, when their post is live, and we take our fee from creators. A gifting-only campaign pays $19 per gift
Collabstr
Free to join, with a 10% fee on each order. $249 or $333 a month, billed yearly, for campaigns and tracking. The fee falls to 5% on Premium
The commitment
Sup
No subscription, no minimum term and no lock-in. Each campaign is agreed in its own statement of work
Collabstr
Collabstr says there are no contracts on monthly plans. Enterprise is a yearly contract
Finding creators
Sup
A live search of Instagram and TikTok, run by our team and our AI agents for your brief. A shortlist comes back in 6 hours
Collabstr
A search of the 1.2m+ creators who have joined Collabstr
Outreach
Sup
We write, send, follow up and answer every reply. You never send a message
Collabstr
You message creators on the site, or they apply to your campaign
Agreeing fees
Sup
We agree each creator’s fee inside your budget. Nothing is booked until you approve it
Collabstr
Creators set their own prices. On a campaign, they apply with a price
Paying creators
Sup
One invoice from Sup. We pay every creator, after their post is live
Collabstr
Payment is held until you approve the work, then released to the creator
Tracking
Sup
Every post tracked in a live dashboard, with a tracked link and a promo code for each creator, and a report at the end
Collabstr
Live tracking of 5 posts at a time on Pro and 15 on Premium, for up to three weeks each
Collabstr’s column is from its own public pages, read on 6 October 2026. The page is listed under sources.
Send a brief and see what your campaign would cost. You pay for a creator only when their post is live.
The cost
What one campaign costs, on each
On both sides you pay for the creators. The difference is what you pay on top of that, and what you pay whether or not a post goes live.
With Sup
- The price you approve for each creator, which holds our fee
- On a gifting-only campaign, $19 per gift as our fee
- No subscription, and no fee for a creator whose post does not go live
- Three approvals from you: the shortlist, the rates and the content
With Collabstr
- The creators’ prices, as listed or as they apply
- A fee on each order: 10%, or 5% on Premium
- For campaigns and tracking, a plan at $249 or $333 a month, billed yearly
- Your time to choose, brief and manage each creator
What will your campaign cost? Use us to find out
We take our fee from creators, so what you pay is the price you approve for each creator. Creator prices differ by niche and by the size of the creator. Use us to find out what yours would be. You get a shortlist in 6 hours, and we collect a quote from each creator you keep. Nothing is booked until you approve the prices, and you can take back any balance you have not spent. The calculator in our offer adds it up for your own numbers. For a first idea of what creators of each size charge, try our free influencer rate calculator.
Collabstr’s lines are its own published terms, read on 6 October 2026. We give no figure for your team’s time: it depends on the size of the campaign. The price you approve for a creator already holds our fee. A gifting-only campaign pays $19 per gift as our fee.
One customer
What the work took, before and after
A price list never shows a platform’s largest cost, which is your team’s time. These are one agency’s own numbers after 12 months with Sup.
- 85 → 6
- admin hours for each campaign
- 32 → 61
- campaigns a year, run by one person
- $100k
- saved, as three campaign managers became one
- $600k
- in new revenue
“Sup has saved us hours and hours of pain and admin. We can now focus on the creative, winning new clients, and expansion.”
Common Good is a CPG agency in the US with a team of 20. These are one customer’s results over 12 months, and not a promise of yours. More customers are on the homepage.
Our offer
Sup is $0 a month, and you pay only the creator prices you approve
This is the whole offer, as it stands on our homepage. It is the same for every brand and agency, with no plan to choose, no seat to buy and no minimum term.
Pay As You Go
We negotiate and collect quotes from creators. You approve the ones you like, and only pay each creator when their content is live or sent.
We take our fee from creators.
- We source creators for you
- We negotiate for you
- We track them for you
- You approve each creator
- You approve content
- You pay when deliverables are met
What a campaign costs
What each creator gets
- For gifting-only campaigns, we charge $19 per gift as our fee
- $19
- You pay
- The admin your team does today, at $80 a creator
$80
- We source creators for you
- We negotiate for you
- We track them for you
- You approve each creator
- You approve content
- You pay when deliverables are met
- No live post, no fee.
- You approve every creator’s price before anything is booked.
- A shortlist of creators within 6 hours.
What you get
Our team and our AI agents do each part. You approve each creator and each post.
Your plan
- CampaignsUnlimited
- CreatorsUnlimited
- Team seatsUnlimited
- CountriesAny
Finding creators
- A live search across 350 million creatorsDone for you
- Creators who already post about your competitorsDone for you
- Creators like the ones you nameDone for you
- Audience data: location, age and genderIncluded
- Fake follower and quality checksDone for you
- A shortlist checked by a personDone for you
- Instagram, TikTok and YouTubeIncluded
Outreach and booking
- Outreach to every creatorDone for you
- Every reply and follow-upDone for you
- Rates negotiatedDone for you
- Each creator and their priceYou approve
- Briefs writtenDone for you
- Contracts and usage rightsDone for you
- See where every creator standsIncluded
Content
- UGC videos and photosDone for you
- Every draft checked against your briefDone for you
- Rounds of changesDone for you
- Each post before it goes liveYou approve
- Ad disclosure on every postDone for you
- All your content in one libraryIncluded
Products and gifting
- Product gifting and seedingDone for you
- Shopify connectionIncluded
Paid ads
- TikTok Spark Ads codesDone for you
- Meta Partnership Ads accessDone for you
Payments
- Creator payments in any countryDone for you
- Tax forms and invoicesDone for you
- No creator is paid until their post is liveIncluded
Tracking and reports
- Every live post found and trackedDone for you
- Views, engagement and CPM per creatorIncluded
- Tracking links and promo codesDone for you
- Sales from links and codesIncluded
- Affiliate commissionsDone for you
- Mentions of your brandIncluded
- Live dashboardIncluded
- End-of-campaign reportDone for you
Team and support
- A person on our team for every campaignIncluded
- Strategy for every campaignDone for you
- Support by email and chatIncluded
- Your creators moved in from another toolDone for you
- Several brands in one accountIncluded
Free with your setup call
- Your Audit Report
Normal price: $900 - Your Winning Videos Report
Normal price: $450 - Your Market Dataset
Normal price: $600
- Gifted
- Paid
- UGC
- TikTok Shop
- YouTube
- Local visits
- Affiliate
The price beside each report is our own price for that report when it is bought alone. The admin figure in the calculator is two hours of your team’s work for each creator, at $40 an hour. Neither is added to what you pay.
Who does the work
Our team and our AI agents run the campaign for you
Software gives your team a faster way to do the work. With Sup, our team and our AI agents do the work. We search Instagram and TikTok live for each brief, write to the creators, answer every reply and agree each fee inside your budget.
- A shortlist within 6 hours of your brief
- You say yes or no to every creator and every fee
- You never send a message or chase a reply
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Pay as you go
You pay for a creator when their post is live
You add a balance before our team and our AI agents contact creators. A creator’s approved price is taken from it when their post is live, or on a UGC campaign when you approve their content. On a gifting-only campaign, our $19 for each gift is taken the same way. You can take back any balance you have not spent. There is no subscription to pay while you wait. We take our fee from creators, so the price you approve holds it. If a creator does not post, you pay nothing for them.
- $0 a month, with no retainer and no set-up fee
- You approve every creator’s price before anything is booked
- One invoice from Sup. We pay every creator
Contracts and rights
A contract for every creator, written for you
Each creator signs an agreement that names the deliverables, the dates and how long you may use the content. Each draft is checked against your brief before you see it, and nothing goes live without your yes.
- Usage rights as a length of time, for organic use and for paid use
- Ad codes collected, so a post can run as an ad
- Every post tracked, with its views and engagement
Collabstr’s price
How much does Collabstr cost?
Collabstr publishes four plans. It says there are no contracts on its monthly plans and that you can cancel at any time. The fee on each order is shown before you confirm it. Collabstr also says creators pay a separate 15% fee on their payout.
| Plan | Published price | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 a month, and a 10% fee on each order | Search creators and hire from their profiles, with payment held until you approve the work |
| Pro | $249 a month, billed yearly, and a 10% fee on each order | Post one campaign a month, chat with creators before hiring, and track 5 live posts at a time |
| Premium | $333 a month, billed yearly, and a 5% fee on each order | Unlimited campaigns, 15 live posts tracked at a time and priority support |
| Enterprise or agencies | From $1,000 a month, on a yearly contract | Accounts for more than one brand, team seats and white label reports |
From Collabstr’s pricing page, read on 6 October 2026. Check the page before you buy: prices change.
Sup has one plan for everyone. It costs $0 a month, and you pay the price you approve for each creator when their post is live. We take our fee from creators. A gifting-only campaign pays $19 per gift as our fee. The whole offer is set out above.
To be fair
What Collabstr does well
A comparison written by one side should say what the other side is good at. These are Collabstr’s strengths, from its own pages.
Free to start, with no subscription
You can search, hire and pay from a creator’s profile on the free plan. The only cost is the fee on each order, which is shown before you confirm.
Prices you can see
Each creator lists packages and prices on their profile, so you know the cost before you send a message.
Your money is held until you approve
Collabstr holds the payment and releases it when you approve the work. It says it handles payments and tax documents in 150 countries.
Other options
Other alternatives to Collabstr
An alternative can be another tool your team runs, a marketplace, or a team that does the work. These are other options a buyer may weigh, with what each company publishes about its own price.
| Option | What it is | Published price | Compared with Sup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sup | A done-for-you service: our team and our AI agents run the campaign, and you approve each step | $0 a month, and you pay for a creator only when their post is live | This page |
| Billo | UGC video platform | From $99 a video, bought as packs | Sup vs Billo |
| Social Cat | Micro-influencer platform for small brands | From £79 a month, plus VAT | Sup vs Social Cat |
| SideShift | UGC creator marketplace | From $210 a month, billed yearly | Sup vs SideShift |
| Trybe | Performance-based UGC platform | Free to start, with a fee of up to 1.5% | Sup vs Trybe |
| GRIN | Creator management software with an AI agent | Free, then from $200 a month | Sup vs GRIN |
| Upfluence | All-in-one influencer marketing platform | No public price | Sup vs Upfluence |
| Aspire | All-in-one creator platform, with an agency service | No public price | Sup vs Aspire |
| CreatorIQ | Enterprise creator marketing software | No public price | Sup vs CreatorIQ |
| Later Influence | Enterprise influencer platform, with a services team | No public price | Sup vs Later Influence |
| Modash | Creator search and management software | From $199 a month, paid yearly | Sup vs Modash |
| HypeAuditor | Creator search and analytics software | From $299 a month, billed yearly | Sup vs HypeAuditor |
Each price is the company’s own published price on the day we read it, and each of our pages names its source. All of them are on the compare page.
Sources, and how we compared
This is Sup’s own comparison, written by Sup. Every fact about Collabstr is taken from Collabstr’s own public pages, read on 6 October 2026. We give no price that Collabstr does not publish, and we have not used an account with Collabstr to write this page. Collabstr is a trademark of its owner, and Sup has no connection with it.
Prices and features change. If something here is out of date or wrong, write to hello@sup.co and we will correct it.
Written by
Matt Greenwell, Co-Founder and CEO of Sup
Matt started Sup in 2024 with Hassan Munir. Before Sup he co-founded Storefront, the marketplace for booking pop-up retail space. Before that he worked at Goldman Sachs.
Every fact about Collabstr is from its own public pages, read on 6 October 2026. The facts about Sup are Matt’s. Updated 6 October 2026.
FAQ
Collabstr and Sup: questions
How much does Collabstr cost?
Collabstr is free to join, with a 10% fee on each order. Pro is $249 a month and Premium is $333 a month, both billed yearly, and Premium cuts the fee to 5%. Enterprise starts at $1,000 a month on a yearly contract. Collabstr says creators also pay a 15% fee on their payout. These are Collabstr’s own prices, read on 6 October 2026, so check its pricing page before you buy.
Is Sup a Collabstr alternative?
Yes, for a brand that wants a campaign run for it. On Collabstr you choose from creators who have joined the marketplace and manage each one yourself. Sup searches Instagram and TikTok for your brief, agrees the fees, writes the contracts and pays the creators. If you want one or two creators today at a listed price, Collabstr is the closer fit.
Is Sup cheaper than Collabstr?
It depends on the campaign. Collabstr adds a fee of 5% or 10% to each order, and its campaign tools need a yearly plan. Sup has no subscription. It is $0 a month, and you pay the price you approve for each creator, when their post is live. We take our fee from creators, so that price holds it. A gifting-only campaign pays $19 per gift as our fee.
Where do the creators come from?
On Collabstr, from the 1.2m+ creators who have signed up to its marketplace. With Sup, from a live search of Instagram and TikTok, run by our team and our AI agents for your brief, so a creator does not need to have joined anything.
What are the alternatives to Collabstr?
Sup is one: a done-for-you service, where our team and our AI agents run the campaign and you pay only for posts that go live. Other options in the same market include Billo, Social Cat, SideShift, Trybe and GRIN. Each has a page on this site, with the price it publishes.
What is Sup?
Sup is a done-for-you influencer marketing service. Our team and our AI agents find, book, contract and pay Instagram and TikTok creators for brands and agencies, and you pay only for posts that go live. Our AI agents run the search and the tracking, and our team does the outreach, the fee talks, the contracts and the payments. We run gifting, UGC, Spark Ads and partnership ads, influencer posts, ambassador programmes and TikTok Shop campaigns.
When do I pay, and what does Sup promise?
You add a balance before our team and our AI agents contact creators, and each creator’s approved price is taken from it when their post is live. We make three promises. If no post goes live, there is no fee. You approve every creator’s price before anything is booked. You get a shortlist of creators within 6 hours.
What does a campaign with Sup cost?
There is no monthly fee, and we take our fee from creators, so you pay the price you approve for each creator. That depends on your niche and on the size of creator you want. A gifting-only campaign pays $19 per gift as our fee. After your brief you get a shortlist in 6 hours. You add a balance before our team and our AI agents contact creators, we collect a quote from each creator you keep and negotiate it inside your budget, and nothing is booked until you approve the price. If the prices do not work for you, you can take back any balance you have not spent.
What do I get before I pay anything?
Book a setup call and you get a free intelligence report on up to 100 competitors in your market: their ads, their creators and the content that is working. It is yours to keep, whether or not you run a campaign with us. A shortlist of creators comes back within 6 hours of the brief, and you say yes or no to each one.
Can I use Collabstr and Sup together?
Yes. You can hire a creator on Collabstr for a one-off job and hand a campaign to us. You can also bring the creators you already work with: we contract and pay them in the same way, and they are priced the same way.
What does pay as you go mean?
There is no monthly fee. We negotiate and collect quotes from creators, and you approve the ones you like. You pay each creator’s approved price only when their post is live, or for content delivered as files (UGC), when you approve it. We take our fee from creators, so the price you approve holds it, and it is not a share of your sales. A gifting-only campaign pays $19 per gift as our fee. If a creator does not deliver, you pay nothing for them.
Comparing Collabstr with other options?
Book a setup call and get a free report on up to 100 competitors in your market. Send a brief and a shortlist comes back in 6 hours, then every creator’s quote. You pay for a creator only when their post is live.
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