The best Modash alternative for a small agency is DataAtScale. You pay per result with no monthly fee or annual contract, you set a Sponsored posts filter before the search, and each TikTok or Instagram creator comes with the public email when listed, at $0.144 to $0.24.
The other tools we compared follow below.
We compared Modash with nine other influencer discovery tools. Each figure comes from the vendor's own pricing page, read on 4 November.
A small agency should first check whether the tool has a contract, what each email costs, and whether it filters for creators who have done sponsorships.
Modash publishes its prices, while Upfluence and HypeAuditor do not. Each price below links to the vendor's page, and where we did the sum ourselves, the table shows it.
Key takeaways
- We recommend DataAtScale for a small agency: a TikTok or Instagram creator with email costs several times less than a Modash unlocked email, which is at least $1.25 each when you use the full quota.
- Modash charges $199 a month on its Essentials plan when billed yearly, according to its pricing page.
- Upfluence requires a 12-month minimum contract, and neither it nor HypeAuditor publishes a price.
- Heepsy's Starter plan costs $69 a month billed annually, and Heepsy says it has no annual lock-in.
- Modash caps its Essentials plan at 2 team members, so a third person on the account needs Performance.
Modash alternatives at a glance
Prices are the starting figures each vendor publishes, and "Not stated" means the vendor's pages don't say. Favikon's €50 buys 500 credits, influencers.club's 47 platforms are for enrichment, and its FAQ gives $199 where its plan card says $140. The source for each cell is listed under Full pricing data.
| Tool | Platforms | Starting price | Annual contract required | Pay per result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataAtScale | 3 | $0 a month | No | Yes |
| Modash | 3 | $199 a month | No | No |
| Upfluence | 6 | Not stated | Yes | No |
| HypeAuditor | 5 | Not stated | Not stated | No |
| Heepsy | 4 | $69 a month | No | No |
| Favikon | 5 | €50 | No | Yes |
| GRIN | 3 | $200 a month | No | No |
| influencers.club | 47 | $140 a month | No | Yes |
| Collabstr | Not stated | $249 a month | No | No |
Cost per contact is easier to compare than plan prices. Each figure works out from a plan's price divided by its included quota, assuming you use the full quota.
| Tool | Per creator found | Per email | Per creator + email |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataAtScale | $0.144-$0.24 | $0.072-$0.12 | $0.144-$0.36 |
| Modash | $0.62-$1.00 | $1.25-$1.99 | $1.87-$2.99 |
| Upfluence | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| HypeAuditor | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Heepsy | $0.0023-$0.018 | $0.11-$0.89 | $0.12-$0.91 |
| Favikon | €0.07-€0.40 | €0.21-€1.19 | €0.29-€1.59 |
| GRIN | $0.042-$0.17 | Not published | $0.042-$0.17 |
| influencers.club | $0.0015-$0.0042 | $0.15-$0.42 | $0.15-$0.42 |
| Collabstr | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| CreatorIQ | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Influencity | Not published | Not published | Not published |
Each vendor's unit differs: ours includes the creator's stats and public email when listed, Modash's is an opened profile, Heepsy's is a search result row with its email priced per advanced profile, Favikon's is one credit, influencers.club's is a discovery request, GRIN's is a creator searched with emails included in the plan, and Collabstr charges a 10% fee per order instead.
Agencies building client lists also need these filters and features. Each cell says whether the vendor's pages list the feature.
| Tool | Email filter | Sponsorship filter | Lookalike search | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataAtScale | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Modash | Not stated | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Upfluence | Not stated | No | Yes | Yes |
| HypeAuditor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Heepsy | Yes | Not stated | Yes | Yes |
| Favikon | Not stated | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GRIN | Not stated | Not stated | Yes | Yes |
| influencers.club | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collabstr | Not stated | No | No | Not stated |
Modash vs Upfluence vs HypeAuditor: pricing for small agencies
Modash is the only one of the three that publishes a price, from $199 a month billed yearly.
Upfluence quotes a custom price based on the modules, team size and program volume, and it sets a 12-month minimum. HypeAuditor's pricing page shows no dollar figure and offers a demo instead.
On platforms, Upfluence indexes Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Pinterest and X, and HypeAuditor covers Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X and Twitch. Modash covers Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Key takeaway: If you need Twitch or X, Upfluence and HypeAuditor cover them, but you'll have to book a call to learn the price.
DataAtScale
DataAtScale is our own tool. It covers YouTube, TikTok and Instagram only, and its location filter works by country, not state or city.
There is no CRM integration, but the tools are available through a REST API with webhooks.
You set the filters before the search runs, including sponsored posts, has an email, follower range and country. You can also paste up to 10 YouTube channels or Instagram accounts and get creators like them. On TikTok you can paste up to 25 creators.
For agencies, you get a workspace per client, lists with your own statuses, and read-only share links that need no sign-in. You can pay as you go, with no monthly fee and no annual contract.
You aren't charged for a search that finds nothing, and only emails that work are charged. The emails are the addresses creators list publicly on their own profiles, and TikTok and Instagram results show them inline.
Modash
Modash covers Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and publishes its prices. Its page lists 380M+ creators. It offers 37 filters, lookalike search and a filter for creators who have worked with other brands. Its API comes as a Discovery API and a Raw API, priced separately; our influencer database API comparison covers what each API costs.
Billed yearly, Essentials costs $199 a month. Performance costs $499 a month on the same terms. Modash's FAQ says yearly billing saves you $100 a month.
Enterprise starts at $14,700 a year. It is meant for campaigns above 250 creators. Modash also offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card. The trial unlocks only 6 creator emails.
Essentials unlocks 150 creator emails a month. Performance unlocks 400 and allows more team members. Affiliate management is limited to Performance Annual and Enterprise.
Upfluence: custom pricing and a 12-month minimum
Upfluence offers an account manager and search across six platforms, including Twitch, Pinterest and X. Its pricing is custom, and it states that its plans carry a fixed platform fee with no percentage of sales.
Upfluence says its minimum contract is 12 months, which rules it out for an agency that can't commit for a year. It has no sponsorship filter, though its vetting covers sponsorship effectiveness.
HypeAuditor
HypeAuditor covers Twitch and X alongside the big three. Its homepage lists 227M+ creator profiles. It also advertises 35+ filters, lookalike search and AI Scout. Its sponsorship filter is brand mentions in the last 180 days, and it also has a contact-info filter and a Discovery API.
Its pricing page shows no figure, so you'll get a price only after a demo call.
Heepsy
Heepsy's Starter plan is $69 a month when billed annually. There is also a Free plan with 500 results.
Starter includes 300 outreach emails a month, and Heepsy confirms there is no annual lock-in.
Heepsy includes contact emails only for advanced profiles you've unlocked, where the creator has public contact details. API access sits under its custom plans. We found no sponsorship filter on its pricing page.
Favikon
Favikon sells credits, so you pay for each creator you look at. A search uses 1 credit per creator in the results. Finding a creator's email uses 3 credits.
Credit packs start at €50, and unused credits carry over. Favikon also lists monthly plans in euros, but the page doesn't make clear which figure is the monthly rate.
Its API is an add-on, from €199 a month. The sponsored post filter is on higher tiers.
GRIN
GRIN runs gifting and creator payments through one system. It has a free plan, and paid plans start at $200 a month.
Each paid plan also adds a management fee on wallet deposits, starting at 10% on Starter. GRIN is month to month and self-serve up to Scale, and Enterprise is an annual agreement. GRIN exports contact emails from Starter, offers creator and audience lookalikes and has a bi-directional API. Its filters cover performance and audience, with no sponsorship filter stated.
influencers.club
influencers.club sells credits, and its pricing page says 1 credit gets you one valid email export with real-time social stats.
The page contradicts itself on the entry price. The plan card says starting from $140 a month. The FAQ on the same page says the Dashboard plan starts at $199 a month with no annual commitment. Confirm the figure before you budget. It lists a brand collaborations filter, lookalikes and an API on the Pro plan.
Collabstr
Collabstr is a marketplace, so it does a different job from a search tool. You hire from a vetted marketplace of over 1.3 million creators who opted in.
The Pro plan is $249 a month billed annually. Hiring a creator adds a 10% fee to their price, and the fee is lower on Premium. Its pricing page doesn't state email access or an API, it lists no sponsorship filter, and chat and hiring happen in the platform. It matches creators from a brief instead of lookalike search.
CreatorIQ and Influencity
CreatorIQ is for enterprise teams. Its pricing page only offers a Request pricing now form, and it advertises a bi-directional API.
Influencity covers Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and it lets you cancel a monthly plan before the next billing cycle. We did not quote its prices because its pricing page didn't show them when we checked.
What each email or creator costs
The cost table above works out one price for each tool.
DataAtScale charges in credits. A credit costs $0.01 on Pay as you go and as little as $0.006 on yearly plans. A TikTok or Instagram creator from Find similar or Search by topic is 24 credits, with the public email included when the creator lists one. On YouTube, finding a channel is 24 credits. Getting its business email from Get channel emails is 12 more, charged only when an email is found.
The Modash figures assume you use the full monthly quota, and the quota also covers profile data exports to a CRM. Unused emails raise the real cost per email.
An unlocked email alone costs at least $1.25 on Modash. On DataAtScale, a TikTok or Instagram creator with their email costs at most $0.24. That makes a Modash email about 5.2 to 13.8 times the price of our creator with email. The Modash side assumes you use the full monthly quota, and our side includes finding the creator.
How a small agency should choose an influencer discovery tool
For a small agency, DataAtScale fits what affordable influencer marketing platforms should offer: a published price, no long contract and payment per result. The table shows how the others compare on the same points.
| Tool | Published price | No annual contract | Twitch or X | Pay per result | Hiring marketplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataAtScale | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Modash | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Upfluence | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| HypeAuditor | No | Not stated | Yes | No | No |
| Heepsy | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Favikon | Yes | Yes | Not stated | Yes | No |
| GRIN | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| influencers.club | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Collabstr | Yes | Yes | Not stated | No | Yes |
You can sign up for free to try DataAtScale's influencer discovery tool on one client brief. Run the same brief through a second tool and compare how many creators on each list have a usable email. Ask any vendor with a custom quote for the price in writing.
FAQ
Which Modash alternative is the cheapest?
DataAtScale prices a TikTok or Instagram creator with their email at $0.144 to $0.24, against $1.25 to $1.99 for one Modash unlocked email. Some plans price a bare search result lower, such as Heepsy at $0.0023 to $0.018 a result, but a result there doesn't include the email. We recommend DataAtScale because the creator comes with the public email and nothing found is nothing charged.
On monthly plans, Heepsy's Starter costs $69 a month billed annually. Modash starts at $199 a month billed yearly. influencers.club's plan card says $140 a month, but its FAQ gives a higher figure.
Which Upfluence alternatives suit small agencies?
DataAtScale, Heepsy, GRIN and Collabstr skip annual contracts, unlike Upfluence's 12-month minimum. DataAtScale has no annual contract, Heepsy says it has no annual lock-in, GRIN is month to month below Enterprise, and Collabstr says it has no contracts.
Is there a free alternative to Modash?
DataAtScale's Pay as you go has no monthly fee, so you pay only for results. Heepsy has a Free plan with 500 results. GRIN and Collabstr also list free plans. Modash offers a 14-day free trial with a small email allowance.
Which tool searches the most social platforms?
Of the search tools here, Upfluence lists six: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Pinterest and X. DataAtScale and Modash cover Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
What are influencer discovery tool prices in 2026?
DataAtScale has no monthly fee, and a TikTok or Instagram creator with email costs $0.144 to $0.24. Heepsy's Starter plan is $69 a month billed annually. At the top, GRIN Scale lists $1,500 a month. Modash Enterprise starts at $14,700 a year. Upfluence, HypeAuditor and CreatorIQ publish no price.
Does Modash have a seat limit?
Modash's Essentials plan allows 2 team members. Performance allows 5, so a bigger team needs Enterprise.
Full pricing data
| Tool | Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Billed yearly, per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modash | Essentials | $299 | $199 | $2,388 |
| Modash | Performance | $599 | $499 | $5,988 |
| Modash | Enterprise | Not stated | Not stated | $14,700 |
| Heepsy | Starter | $89 | $69 | Not stated |
| GRIN | Starter | $200 | Not stated | Not stated |
| GRIN | Growth | $500 | Not stated | Not stated |
| GRIN | Scale | $1,500 | Not stated | Not stated |
| Collabstr | Pro | Not stated | $249 | Not stated |
Sources
- Modash: Essentials $199 a month billed yearly, $2,388 paid yearly, 2 team members, 150 unlocked creator emails a month; Performance $499, $5,988, 5 team members, 400 emails; annual billing saves $100 a month on both; Enterprise starts at $14,700 a year; 14-day free trial that unlocks 6 creator emails; creator collabs filter and lookalikes. https://www.modash.io/pricing
- Modash: Discovery API and Raw API. https://docs.modash.io/
- Upfluence: custom quote, 12-month minimum, lookalikes, API and MCP. https://www.upfluence.com/pricing
- Upfluence: six platforms; sponsorship effectiveness listed under vetting. https://www.upfluence.com/influencer-search-engine
- HypeAuditor: no price shown, demo only. https://hypeauditor.com/pricing/
- HypeAuditor: five platforms; contact-info filter; brand mentions in the last 180 days; lookalike search. https://hypeauditor.com/discovery/
- HypeAuditor: Discovery API. https://hypeauditor.com/api-integration/
- Heepsy: Starter $69 a month billed annually, $89 billed monthly; 5K results, 100 advanced profiles and 300 outreach emails a month; Free plan with 500 results; no annual lock-in; contact emails for unlocked profiles; lookalike search; API on custom plans. https://www.heepsy.com/pricing
- Favikon: search 1 credit, lookalike 2, email 3 per creator; credit packs 500 credits for €50 up to 14,000 for €1,000; API add-on from €199 a month; sponsored post filter on higher tiers; 5 platforms. https://www.favikon.com/pricing
- GRIN: Starter $200 a month with a 10% wallet fee, Growth $500 with 7%, Scale $1,500 with 5%; month to month below Enterprise; contact email export. https://grin.co/pricing
- GRIN: Instagram, TikTok and YouTube; creator and audience lookalikes; performance and audience filters. https://grin.co/product/influencer-discovery-platform/
- GRIN: bi-directional API. https://grin.co/integrations/
- influencers.club: plan card $140 a month, FAQ $199 a month; no annual commitment; one credit per email export; 47 platforms for enrichment. https://influencers.club/pricing/
- influencers.club: brand collaborations filter. https://influencers.club/creator-discovery/
- influencers.club: lookalikes and API example. https://influencers.club/api/
- Collabstr: Pro $249 a month billed annually; 10% hiring fee, 5% on Premium; no contracts; marketplace of over 1.3 million creators; instant match from a brief. https://collabstr.com/pricing
Cost working
All figures are plan price divided by the plan's included quota, assuming the full quota is used. The low end is the cheapest published plan or billing, and the high end the dearest.
- DataAtScale: 24 credits × $0.006 = $0.144 and × $0.01 = $0.24 per creator; YouTube email 12 credits = $0.072 to $0.12; channel plus email 36 credits = $0.216 to $0.36. https://dataatscale.com/pricing
- Modash, creator found: $499 ÷ 800 opened profiles = $0.62 up to $299 ÷ 300 = $1.00. https://www.modash.io/pricing
- Modash, email: $499 ÷ 400 = $1.25 up to $299 ÷ 150 = $1.99. https://www.modash.io/pricing
- Modash, creator plus email: $0.62 + $1.25 = $1.87 up to $1.00 + $1.99 = $2.99. https://www.modash.io/pricing
- Modash email against DataAtScale creator with email: $1.25 ÷ $0.24 = 5.2 and $1.99 ÷ $0.144 = 13.8. https://www.modash.io/pricing
- Heepsy, result: $229 ÷ 100,000 = $0.0023 up to $89 ÷ 5,000 = $0.018. https://www.heepsy.com/pricing
- Heepsy, email: $229 ÷ 2,000 advanced profiles = $0.11 up to $89 ÷ 100 = $0.89; a profile without a public email still uses one. https://www.heepsy.com/pricing
- Heepsy, result plus email: $0.0023 + $0.11 = $0.12 up to $0.018 + $0.89 = $0.91. https://www.heepsy.com/pricing
- Favikon, credit: €1,000 ÷ 14,000 = €0.071 up to €199 ÷ 500 = €0.398; the page pairs its two plan figures ambiguously, so both are used. Creator found is 1 credit, email 3, both 4 (€0.07 to €0.40, €0.21 to €1.19, €0.29 to €1.59). https://www.favikon.com/pricing
- influencers.club: credit $0.15 to $0.42; discovery at 0.01 credits per profile = $0.0015 to $0.0042; one credit per valid email export, which carries the creator data. https://influencers.club/pricing/ and https://influencers.club/api/
- GRIN: $500 ÷ 12,000 creators = $0.042 up to $200 ÷ 1,200 = $0.17; email export is included in paid plans with no cap published. https://grin.co/pricing
- Collabstr: 10% fee per order on Free and Pro, 5% on Premium; no per-creator price. https://collabstr.com/pricing
- Upfluence: modular, custom-quoted pricing. https://www.upfluence.com/pricing
- HypeAuditor: demo request only. https://hypeauditor.com/pricing/
- CreatorIQ: "Request pricing now". https://www.creatoriq.com/pricing
- Influencity: plans listed without per-unit quotas. https://influencity.com/pricing/
