Modash is a good creator search tool. The reason people go looking for something else is almost always the same: the monthly caps run out before the month does. Here are nine alternatives with their real prices, what each one is actually for, and when you should stay where you are.
TL;DR
The short answer: Tokfluence if your campaigns are TikTok, GRIN if you need the whole creator programme rather than search, Heepsy if price is the constraint.
Why people leave: Modash meters profile views and email reveals by the month, and that is what runs out first.
The price: Modash starts at $199 a month for 300 opened profiles. Five of the nine here cost less.
The caveat: no two of these tools do the same job. Match the pick to the reason you started looking, not to whoever lists the most features.
Worth saying up front, because most lists like this do not. We read every price off the vendor's own pricing page in September 2026, and where a vendor hides its pricing behind a sales call we have labelled the figure as reported and told you where it came from. The complaints are taken from public reviews on G2 and Trustpilot, weighted towards the ones that several reviewers raise independently. The Tokfluence numbers come from our own index and our own pricing page.
What we did not do is run paid trials of all nine. We build one of these tools, so treat the ranking as informed rather than neutral, and use the "pick them instead if" line under each entry. Those are the honest ones.
Why do brands look for Modash alternatives?
Four complaints come up again and again across review sites, and they are not the same complaint dressed differently.
The monthly caps. Essentials gives you 300 opened profiles and 150 email unlocks a month. A single serious search session can eat a third of that, and the counter does not care that you were only checking.
Outreach is thin. There is a CRM, but reviewers describe it as light, with low email sending limits and no approval workflows.
The job mostly ends when the creator publishes. You get engagement figures, and tracked creator content is itself capped at 100 on Essentials. Teams that need to report back to a client, or tie a post to revenue, end up exporting into something else.
The entry price. $199 a month, and that is the discounted annual rate. For a first campaign it is a lot to commit before you know whether the channel works.
What Modash gets right
A comparison page that cannot say this is not worth reading. Modash rates 4.9 on G2 and it earns that.
Creator discovery. The filters are genuinely good and the data behind them is clean.
Audience analysis. Demographics and reachability on every profile, not as an upsell.
Fraud detection. Follower authenticity checked before you brief anyone.
Three platforms in one index, and contact details included rather than sold separately.
Profile views and email unlocks are capped by month on every plan.
Outreach and CRM are light, with low sending limits.
The job largely ends when the creator publishes. Tracked content is capped too.
The API is sold separately, at annual enterprise pricing.
All nine alternatives at a glance
Prices read in September 2026. Rows marked reported are vendors who do not publish pricing, so the figure comes from third-party data and should be treated as a starting point for the sales call, not a quote.
The third column is the one that decides whether you can actually do the job. Finding creators is not the work. Contacting them is, and every tool here meters that differently: contact reveals, export credits, or outreach emails sent. Four of the ten will not tell you the number until you are on a call, which is worth knowing before you book one.
Tool
Entry price
Creators you can contact / month
Billing model
Free option
Best for
Tokfluence
$99 / month
10,000 / month
One flat plan
Permanent free plan
TikTok-first brands
Modash
$199 / month
150 / month
Tiered, monthly caps
14-day trial
Multi-platform discovery
GRIN
$200 / month
Credit-metered
Credit-metered
Free plan, 200 credits
DTC creator programmes
Upfluence
Quote only
Not published
Modular, 12-month minimum
Trial after a sales call
Ecommerce at scale
HypeAuditor
From $299 / monthreported
~1,000 / month
Sales-led
Limited free access
Audience fraud checks
Influencity
From $168 / monthreported
Capped, not published
Tiered by analyses
7-day trial, no free tier
Small multi-platform teams
Heepsy
$69 / month
300 / month
Tiered caps
Free plan, 500 results
Tight budgets
Collabstr
Free + 10% fee
You book, no reveals
Marketplace commission
Free to browse
Hiring creators directly
Aspire
From ~$2,000 / monthreported
Not published
Quote, 12-month term
None
Enterprise campaign ops
CreatorIQ
From ~$30,000 / yearreported
Not published
Annual contract only
None
Fortune 500 programmes
Tokfluence logo aside, the ranking below is ours and we build one of these tools. Read the "pick them instead if" lines.
The 9 best Modash alternatives, compared
1
Tokfluence
Best for TikTok-first brands
Who it is for
Brands and agencies whose campaigns run on TikTok, who got tired of watching a monthly profile-view counter tick down.
Pricing
$99 a month, one plan, cancel any time. There is also a permanent free plan, not a trial. The API is priced separately from $49 a month, self-serve.
Where it beats Modash
Unlimited creator search and unlimited profile views on the paid plan. No monthly cap to run out of.
10,000 verified email reveals a month, against 150 on Modash Essentials.
No seat pricing. Add your whole team without changing plan.
If a creator is not in the index, we crawl the niche on demand and return the list in 30 to 60 minutes.
Campaign tracking is included rather than capped. Add posts by URL in bulk, get views, engagement and cost-per-view, and share the report by link with no login. Modash meters tracked creator content at 100 on Essentials.
We publish an MCP server, so Claude can query the index and build a shortlist in conversation.
Pick Modash instead if you want discovery and an outreach inbox in the same window. We deliberately did not build one. We reveal the contact details and export clean data into the sequencer or CRM you already use, which is the right call if you have those tools and the wrong one if you do not.
Searching the index in plain language. The query runs against more than 15 million TikTok creators and each result carries follower count, engagement rate, average views and a verified contact email where we have one. No counter ticks down as you open profiles.
2
GRIN
Best all-round replacement
Who it is for
DTC and Shopify brands running product seeding, affiliate links and creator payments as one ongoing programme rather than one-off campaigns.
Pricing
Public and credit-metered: Free with 200 monthly credits, Starter $200, Growth $500, Scale $1,000, Complete $1,500. Overage is metered at $0.10 a credit with a cap you set.
Where it beats Modash
It covers the part Modash leaves to you: CRM, product seeding, content collection, payments and affiliate tracking in one system.
Pricing is published. You can size a plan without booking a call.
The free tier is a real plan with no trial clock, not a two-week window.
Pick Modash instead if all you actually need is search. GRIN is a creator-management system, and you will pay for workflow you are not using.
3
Upfluence
Best for ecommerce at scale
Who it is for
Larger ecommerce teams that want discovery, outreach, affiliate and attribution under one contract, and have the budget to negotiate one.
Pricing
Quote only. Modular, priced by the modules you pick, your team size and programme volume. Annual plans carry a 12-month minimum, and the free trial is set up after an initial call.
Where it beats Modash
End-to-end workflow, where Modash stops at discovery and hands off.
Deep ecommerce integrations, with attribution tied back to sales rather than engagement.
Pick Modash instead if you need to know the price before you invest three meetings in finding it out, or you are not ready to sign for twelve months.
4
HypeAuditor
Best for audience fraud checks
Who it is for
Teams whose main worry is not finding creators but paying the wrong one. Fraud detection is the product, not a feature bolted on the side.
Pricing
Reported from around $299 a month billed annually. Not published: you request a demo. There is limited free access to media plans and demo versions of the paid modules.
Where it beats Modash
Audience quality analysis goes deeper than most of this list, which is the whole reason the tool exists.
Fraud scoring is applied consistently across the database rather than on request.
Pick Modash instead if you mostly need volume of search. You are paying a premium for analytical rigour you may only use on a shortlist.
5
Influencity
Cheapest credible multi-platform option
Who it is for
Small teams that genuinely need more than one platform and cannot justify Modash at $199.
Pricing
Reported at roughly $168 to $198 a month for Basic, which includes 30 analyses, and $348 to $398 for Professional with unlimited analyses. Month-to-month billing is available. There is a 7-day trial and no free tier. The public pricing page now sits behind a sign-in, so treat these as approximate.
Where it beats Modash
Cheaper entry point than Modash for multi-platform coverage.
Month-to-month billing with no annual commitment.
Pick Modash instead if you need more than 30 analyses a month on the entry plan. The next tier up closes most of the gap to Modash.
6
Heepsy
Best on a tight budget
Who it is for
Anyone running their first campaign who needs to find creators this week and cannot sign off $199 a month to do it.
Pricing
Free plan with 500 search results and 10 advanced profiles. Starter $69, Plus $149, Advanced $229, all on annual billing. A 14-day trial covers almost all paid features with no card.
Where it beats Modash
A third of the Modash entry price for the search half of the job.
The free plan is permanent, so you can test the database before paying anything.
Pick Modash instead if you need depth. The profile data is thinner than Modash and the caps arrive quickly once you are searching seriously.
7
Collabstr
Best for hiring creators directly
Who it is for
Brands that would rather buy a deliverable than run a discovery-then-outreach process. You browse listings, you book, the creator delivers.
Pricing
Free to browse, with a 10% fee added to each order. Pro is $299 a month for one campaign and analytics on 5 posts, Premium $399 a month for unlimited campaigns, analytics on 15 posts and a reduced 5% fee.
Where it beats Modash
There is no outreach step. Creators have listed themselves and priced their work.
Nothing to pay until you actually hire someone.
Pick Modash instead if you want the whole creator universe. You can only reach people who chose to list on the marketplace, which is a fraction of what a crawled index holds.
8
Aspire
Best for enterprise campaign operations
Who it is for
Brands with an always-on creator programme, a dedicated team, and approval and content-rights workflows that need to be auditable.
Pricing
Quote only, reported to start around $2,000 a month on a 12-month commitment. No free plan and no free trial: the tool is sold to teams already running a programme.
Where it beats Modash
Approval workflows and content rights management, both named as gaps in Modash.
Managed services available alongside the software.
Pick Modash instead if you are still testing whether influencer marketing works for you. There is no way to try it cheaply.
9
CreatorIQ
Best for Fortune 500 programmes
Who it is for
Global brands and large agencies with seven-figure creator budgets, multiple markets and a procurement process.
Pricing
Annual contract only, no monthly plans, nothing published. Third-party procurement data puts entry contracts in the $25,000 to $60,000 a year range, with large programmes going well beyond that.
Where it beats Modash
Governance, measurement and multi-market reporting at a scale Modash does not attempt.
Integrations and data warehousing built for teams with analysts.
Pick Modash instead if your annual creator spend is under roughly $1M. The platform is built for a scale of operation that would otherwise be paying for itself.
Modash vs Tokfluence, line by line
Since we are on this list, here is the detail rather than a claim. Modash figures read from their pricing page in September 2026.
Modash Essentials
Tokfluence
Entry price
$199 / month
$99 / month
Creator search
Included
Unlimited
Profile views
300 / month
Unlimited
Verified email reveals
150 / month
10,000 / month
Seats included
2
No seat pricing
Tracked creator content
100 creators
Included, add posts in bulk
Shareable client report
No
Yes, public link, no login
Free option
14-day trial
Permanent free plan
On-demand crawling
No
Yes, 30 to 60 min
MCP / AI assistant access
No
Yes
API entry price
$10,000 / year
$49 / month
Platforms covered
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube
TikTok, in depth
Built-in outreach inbox
Yes
No, exports to your tools
The last two rows are choices, not gaps. We put the crawler behind one network so we can go deeper in it, and we export clean data into whatever sequencer or CRM you already use rather than building a second inbox for you to live in. The full breakdown, including the API pricing gap, is on the Tokfluence vs Modash page.
Which Modash alternative should you pick?
Pick by the thing that made you start looking, not by the longest feature list. The useful question is usually how mature the programme is. Modash is built for the early stage, where the job is finding people. What changes as a programme grows is that discovery stops being the hard part, and the tool you need is the one that covers whatever came next for you.
The caps ran out and you are TikTok-first: Tokfluence, $99 flat, unlimited views.
Search was never the problem, the programme was: GRIN.
You run Shopify and need seeding, discount codes and sales attribution wired in: GRIN, or Upfluence if the store is bigger than the team.
You need to know what happened after the post went live: Tokfluence for the tracking, Aspire if approvals and rights matter too.
You are worried about fake audiences: HypeAuditor.
Budget is the constraint: Heepsy, or Collabstr if you only pay when you hire.
You need enterprise governance: Aspire, then CreatorIQ above roughly $1M of spend.
Stay on Modash if
One index has to serve several networks at once and breadth matters more to you than depth.
The caps are not actually binding for you. If you open 80 profiles a month, they are not.
You are early. Discovery really is the whole job right now, and it is the part Modash does best.
You have built reporting around their data and moving costs more than the licence saves.
The verdict
Most people do not need a bigger platform than Modash. They need the same job done without a meter running. If your campaigns live on TikTok, that is the whole argument for us: one plan at $99, unlimited search, unlimited profile views, 10,000 email reveals a month, and a crawler that goes and finds the creators when a niche turns out to be thin.
If what you actually need is the whole programme rather than better search, take GRIN. If breadth across networks matters more to you than depth in one, stay on Modash. We are not going to argue you out of either, because a signup won on the wrong premise comes back as a cancellation in month two.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Modash alternative?
It depends on what broke for you. If your campaigns are TikTok and you left because the profile-view cap kept running out, Tokfluence at $99 a month removes the cap entirely. If you left because discovery alone was not enough, GRIN covers the full programme and publishes its pricing. If price was the problem, Heepsy starts at $69 a month and has a permanent free plan.
Is there a free Modash alternative?
Three on this list have a permanent free plan rather than a trial: Tokfluence, GRIN with 200 monthly credits, and Heepsy with 500 search results. Collabstr is free to browse and only charges when you hire someone. Modash itself offers a 14-day trial, not a free tier.
Why do people leave Modash?
The complaint that repeats across review sites is the monthly caps. Essentials at $199 gives you 300 opened profiles and 150 email unlocks a month, and serious searching burns through both before the month ends. The second-most-common complaints are lightweight outreach and CRM, and reporting that stops short of real attribution.
How much does Modash cost in 2026?
Read from modash.io/pricing in September 2026: Essentials is $199 a month for 300 opened profiles, 150 email unlocks and 2 seats. Performance is $499 a month for 800 profiles, 400 unlocks and 5 seats. Enterprise starts at $14,700 a year. The API is sold separately at annual enterprise pricing.
Does Modash cover TikTok well?
It covers TikTok alongside Instagram and YouTube, and breadth is its main advantage. The trade-off is depth: spreading a crawler across three networks is not the same as pointing it at one. That is why we can go and fill a thin TikTok niche on request in 30 to 60 minutes, and a three-platform index generally cannot.
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