What Influence X costs
Influence X is free to join, free to browse, and free to apply. The only fee on a deal is 15% of a completed paid deal, and there is no minimum spend on either side. Creator Pro is an optional toolkit for creators on top of that — it is never required to browse, apply or get paid.
Payments held in escrow via Stripe — creators get paid, brands approve first.
$7.99 a month for the toolkit. Joining, browsing and getting paid stay free.
- Cancel anytime
- No fee to receive your money
For creators
Free to join
- No listing fee and nothing to pay to apply. The marketplace is free.
- You keep 85% of the rate the brand approves.
- On Creator Pro the fee drops to 5% on the first $1,000 of paid deals you complete each month.
- Gifted collabs — a product or an experience for your content — cost nothing. There's no cash deal to take a fee from.
- Payouts go to your bank through Stripe, per deliverable as it's approved.
For businesses
Free to join
- No subscription, no platform access fee, no minimum spend.
- You pay the rate you approve for each creator — never a lump sum before work starts.
- Our 15% platform fee comes out of that rate, so the creator receives 85.
- Money is held via Stripe and released deliverable by deliverable as you approve the work.
What a $100 collab actually costs
The creator quotes
$100
The business approves and pays
$100
Platform fee / creator takes home
$15 / $85
Nothing else is charged on a deal — no signup fee, no card needed to join, and no fee to post a campaign. Creator Pro is optional and separate, and no creator ever pays a monthly fee to receive their own money.
The same $100 collab with Creator Pro
Creator Pro takes the fee down to 5% on the first $1,000 of paid deals you complete each month, so the creator takes home $95 instead of $85. Above $1,000 in a single month the standard 15% applies again. The reduced rate is locked per deal, so deals already set up keep the fee they were created with.
Free and Creator Pro
Free gets you in. Pro helps you grow.
The marketplace is free for creators, always. Creator Pro adds the tools — for less than two coffees a month.
Free
$0
Forever. No card needed.
- Browse and apply to every campaign
- Basic storefront and public creator profile
- AI match scores on campaigns
- Values-aligned matching
- Stripe escrow payments
- One business at a time when you pitch by hand
- Invite engine writes 3 proposals a month for you
- 2 proposal templates
- View challenges, competitions and workshops
Creator Pro
$7.99/month
Cancel any time, keep everything you built.
- Everything in Free
- 5% platform fee on your first $1,000 of paid deals each month
- Invite engine writes up to 25 proposals a month for you
- Auto-pilot finds and sends those proposals for you
- Batch proposals to up to 10 businesses at once
- Full proposal template library, plus save and duplicate your own
- Rate calculator for nano and micro creators
- Proposal analytics and peer benchmarks
- Growth score with a weekly action plan
- Early access to campaigns (24 hours before Free)
- Challenge and competition entry with prizes
- Upgraded portfolio builder with skills and style tags
- Local business discovery map
- Deal history, earnings tracker and Creator Levels
The marketplace stays free
Browsing, applying and getting paid are free forever. We will not wall off the part that finds you work.
Values-aligned matching stays free
Matching is the reason people come here. Everyone gets it.
Your money stays yours
There is no monthly fee to receive a payout. Our fee comes from the completed deal, on the business side.
Pro is a toolkit, not a promise. It does not guarantee campaign selection, income, reach or growth.
How that compares
The two marketplaces most local businesses compare us to publish different models: Collabstr stacks a subscription on top of hiring and creator fees, covari charges per side on every closed deal. We keep it to one fee.
Cost to join
- Influence X
- Free
- Collabstr
- Free tier
- covari
- Free
Subscription
- Influence X
- None
- Collabstr
- Pro $249/mo, Agency from $1,000/mo
- covari
- None
Fee on a completed paid deal
- Influence X
- One platform fee from the approved rate
- Collabstr
- 10% hiring fee + 15% from the creator
- covari
- 5% per side
Minimum follower count
- Influence X
- None
- Collabstr
- Vetted profiles
- covari
- Not stated
Local-first matching
- Influence X
- Yes — city, category and values
- Collabstr
- Not a focus
- covari
- Not a focus
| Influence X | Collabstr | covari | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to join | Free | Free tier | Free |
| Subscription | None | Pro $249/mo, Agency from $1,000/mo | None |
| Fee on a completed paid deal | One platform fee from the approved rate | 10% hiring fee + 15% from the creator | 5% per side |
| Minimum follower count | None | Vetted profiles | Not stated |
| Local-first matching | Yes — city, category and values | Not a focus | Not a focus |
Competitor terms as published in October 2026. Their pricing pages are the source of truth — tell us if anything here is out of date.
Read the full side-by-side, including follower minimums and who each platform suits: vs Collabstr, vs covari, and vs cold DMs.
Questions people ask before joining
Straight answers, including the ones about money.
Do I get paid, or do I just get free stuff?
Both happen on Influence X, and every campaign tells you which before you apply. A paid campaign pays cash for each deliverable. A gifted campaign trades a product or an experience for your content. A judged challenge awards a prize to the best entries.
Is it free, and what does the platform take?
Free to join, free to browse every campaign, and free to apply — there's no subscription for creators or businesses. A completed paid deal carries one 15% platform fee, taken from the rate the brand approved: on a $100 collab the creator receives $85 and the platform fee is $15. Creator Pro members pay 5% on the first $1,000 of paid deals they complete each month, then the standard rate applies again. Gifted campaigns have no cash deal, so there's no fee to take.
Do I need a minimum following?
No. There's no minimum follower count anywhere on Influence X. Each campaign shows what it asks for — plenty ask for nothing at all, and the card says “No min” when they don't.
How do I know creators will actually deliver?
The work is broken into deliverables with due dates before anything starts, and payment is released one deliverable at a time as the brand approves it — the money sits with Stripe until then. If a review stalls, it escalates to a human on our side after seven days instead of quietly disappearing.
What happens if my content is rejected?
A brand can approve it or ask for a specific change, and you get the reason so you can resubmit. If you and the brand can't agree, the deal goes to platform review rather than being dropped — and the deliverables that were already approved are paid either way.
What do you do with my data?
Your email is used to run your account and to tell you when a campaign you applied to moves. Social handles are stored so they can appear on your storefront, and you can change or remove them at any time. We never ask for your social passwords, and nothing is posted to your accounts on your behalf.
How does values-first matching work?
You choose labels like Faith-based Content, Family-friendly or Purpose-driven, and a business can ask for the same on a campaign. Overlapping labels raise a match score; they never filter anyone out. Skip the labels and you're matched on category, city and budget instead.
Who is Influence X not for?
If you need one creator with millions of followers, or a single viral moment, this isn't the right fit. Influence X is built for many small posts from real local creators — the shop's regulars, not a celebrity.
Still unsure? See exactly what it costs or ask us directly.
Comparing us with another platform? vs Collabstr · vs covari · vs cold DMs
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