ScoutyScoped and priced on a call
- A team that runs your creator program
- Scouty pays the creators
- Every video reviewed, measured and scaled
Cohley alternatives: six options outside the enterprise brief
The main Cohley alternatives are Scouty, Insense, SideShift, JoinBrands, Billo and Influee. Insense and Influee publish their plans, SideShift hires through job listings, JoinBrands has a free plan, and Billo sells finished videos per order. Scouty is a services company whose team recruits, pays and manages creators, with each program scoped on a call.
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Who looks for a Cohley alternative
Cohley publishes who it is for: mid-market and enterprise brands that sell physical products in the United States and Canada and need content all year. Every plan is custom priced and reached through a demo, and its own answer on fit says some brands may do better elsewhere. The buyers who look for an alternative are mostly the ones outside that description.
- Smaller brands that want to see a price before booking a demo, where every Cohley plan is custom priced.
- Brands that sell an app or a service, a case Cohley's own fit answer says may suit another option.
- Teams with one-off content needs, not a continuous supply of UGC, reviews and seeding.
- Brands that sell outside the United States and Canada, the two markets Cohley names.
How Scouty is priced, next to Cohley
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Pricing as published on
No public price list
Custom pricing on every plan, based on how much content you generate.
- No public prices.
- The plans page says all plans have custom pricing based on the amount of content you generate, and offers an optional 3 month paid pilot.
- Creator compensation is set by the brand in each brief and is separate.
6 alternatives to Cohley
Scouty is first because this is its site. The rest are in no order of merit, and each note says who the option suits.
1. Scouty
A creator marketing services company: our team builds, runs and scales your creator program.
Best for a brand that wants the creator work done by a team, with no platform to license. Scouty works with startups and brands, scopes each program on a call, and its team recruits and pays the creators, briefs them, reviews every video and measures what the program brings in. It is the wrong choice if reviews on retailer pages, product seeding or photography are the core of the need.
2. Insense
A subscription creator marketplace with outreach beyond the marketplace, automated contracts and ad integrations.
Best for a paid social team that wants a platform bought from a published price list and run in house: a creator marketplace, email outreach beyond it, automated contracts and Meta and TikTok ad connections. It starts with a paid trial month, then bills quarterly or yearly, and needs someone on your side to operate it.
3. SideShift
A subscription creator hiring platform built on job listings, with contracts, usage rights, payouts and 1099s.
Best for brands that hire creators all year and want payouts and tax forms handled in the product, without a sales led contract. SideShift is built on job listings that creators apply to, with contracts, usage rights and reminders to follow up, and its monthly plans start with a free period.
4. JoinBrands
A creator marketplace for UGC, influencers and TikTok Shop affiliates, with a free pay as you go plan and a platform fee on creator payments.
Best for smaller sellers who want to start free and choose creators themselves. JoinBrands has a pay as you go plan with a platform fee on each creator payment, lists creators by United States state and city, and describes products for TikTok Shop and Amazon sellers.
5. Billo
A pay per video UGC ad platform with a vetted creator pool and an optional managed service.
Best for one-off needs: a batch of short ad videos bought per order, with creator pay inside the price, from a pool in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Billo funds orders from prepaid packs and also sells a managed service for teams that want the follow-up done.
6. Influee
A subscription UGC marketplace with creators in 30+ countries, escrow payments and its own MCP agent.
Best for brands selling in Europe. Influee publishes creators in more than thirty countries, most of them European, on a monthly subscription sized by collaborations, with payment through escrow. Its own MCP agent lets you run campaigns from Claude or ChatGPT.
The options and Cohley, side by side
Each vendor's cells are what that vendor publishes, with the page it was read on. Cohley is the last row, for reference.
| Option | Model | Pricing, as published | Who pays creators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scouty | A creator and UGC marketing services company. A team of creator marketing operators builds, runs and scales your creator program end to end, with our own technology making the team faster. | No public price list. A program is scoped and priced on a call, and you pay Scouty for the service. | Scouty does. You pay Scouty for the service, and the team recruits, pays and manages every creator on your behalf. |
| Insense | A subscription platform with a creator marketplace. The brand pays for the platform, then pays creators per collaboration with a marketplace fee added. Managed services are sold by demo.Source: insense.pro/pricing | Trial plan: $650 for one month, up to 1 campaign and 10 creators. Brand plan: from $500 a month billed quarterly, or from $400 a month billed yearly. Agency plan: from $800 a month billed quarterly, or from $640 a month billed yearly. A marketplace fee that varies by plan is added to each creator payment, and creator pay is separate.Source: insense.pro/pricing | The brand, through Insense. The terms say creator fees are charged to the credit card on the sponsor's account.Source: Insense terms of service |
| SideShift | A subscription creator hiring platform. Brands post job listings and creators apply, with contracts, usage rights, payouts and 1099s built in. Creator pay is separate.Source: sideshift.app/plans/brands | Monthly: Starter $299, Growth $499, Scale $999, with 14 days free and then billed monthly. Annual: $210, $349 and $699 a month, billed yearly. The managed option lists a starting campaign budget of $20,000 a month. Starter covers 15 creators live.Source: sideshift.app/plans/brands | Payouts and 1099s are built into the platform, and creator pay is separate from the subscription.Source: sideshift.app/plans/brands |
| JoinBrands | A creator marketplace with a free pay as you go plan and three paid subscriptions. A brand hires from creator profiles or launches a campaign that creators apply to, and a platform fee is added to each creator payment.Source: joinbrands.com/pricing, joinbrands.com | Pay as you go: free, with a 15% platform fee. Start-up: $99 a month with a 12% fee. Pro: $299 a month with a 10% fee. Max: $499 a month with an 8% fee. Annual billing is advertised at 10% off. Listed content prices start from $10 for a UGC image and from $25 for a UGC video, with the platform fee on top.Source: joinbrands.com/pricing | The brand, through JoinBrands. The platform fee is added to each creator payment, and JoinBrands says your payment stays protected until the content is approved.Source: joinbrands.com/pricing, joinbrands.com |
| Billo | A UGC video platform. A brand posts a brief, qualified creators apply, the brand selects creators and sends out the products. A managed service is sold separately.Source: Billo help center: how does Billo work, billo.app/managed-service | Prepaid packs, valid for 12 months: Essential at $1,000 covers up to 10 videos, Professional at $2,500 adds a $300 bonus and covers up to 28, and Refine at $5,000 adds a $700 bonus and covers up to 57. Videos start at $99 per video. The managed service starts from $2,000 a month plus video costs.Source: billo.app/pricing, Billo blog: how Billo pricing works, billo.app/managed-service | Creator compensation is included in the per video price, according to Billo's own pricing post.Source: Billo blog: how Billo pricing works |
| Influee | A monthly subscription that unlocks a creator marketplace. Creators set their own prices, and each collaboration carries a 10% marketplace fee.Source: influee.co/pricing/ugc-creation, Influee terms | Starter: $229 a month for up to 10 creator collaborations a month. Basic: $529 a month for up to 25. Pro: $999 a month for up to 50. Enterprise is quoted by sales. A 10% marketplace fee applies to each creator's fee, and there is no free trial. Read as shown to a United States visitor: Influee runs country sites and prices may differ by market.Source: influee.co/pricing/ugc-creation, Influee terms | The brand pays the creator's fee into Influee's escrow account when a collaboration is accepted, and Influee pays the creator.Source: Influee terms |
| Cohley | A creator content platform for mid-market and enterprise brands that sell physical products in the United States and Canada, sold as a platform license or as managed services. Brands post a Creative Brief and vetted creators apply.Source: cohley.com, cohley.com/plans | No public prices. The plans page says all plans have custom pricing based on the amount of content you generate, and offers an optional 3 month paid pilot. Creator compensation is set by the brand in each brief and is separate.Source: cohley.com/plans, cohley.com | The brand sets creator compensation in the brief, and Cohley processes creator payments inside the platform, including end of year tax documents such as 1099s.Source: cohley.com, cohley.com/faq |
Vendor facts as published on each vendor's own site, read on November 9, 2026. A linked name opens the full comparison with Scouty. Vendors change their pages, so open a source before you rely on a figure.
How to choose among them
- Your size and your product. Cohley is built for mid-market and enterprise brands with physical products. If that is not you, start with the options built for your case.
- How you want to buy. Decide between a published price you can pay today, a free plan, a demo with a custom quote, or a program scoped on a call.
- Beyond UGC video. If reviews on retailer product pages, product seeding or photography are part of the job, confirm each one on the vendor's own pages before you move.
- Who does the work. Cohley describes its agent, Finn, doing much of the operating work. Decide whether you want a tool someone on your team runs, or a team that runs the program for you.
When staying with Cohley is the right call
If you are a mid-market or enterprise brand with physical products in the United States or Canada, and you need UGC, reviews, seeding and photography from one place, with SOC 2 documentation and creator payments and tax forms handled, Cohley is built for exactly that brief. Of the vendors we have read, it is the one that describes all of it in one product.
Cohley alternatives, in short
Short answers, in plain words. Each one stands on its own.
What is the closest alternative to Cohley?
Among vendors with published prices, Insense is the nearest in scope: a marketplace with outreach, automated contracts, creator payments in the platform and ad connections, sold by subscription instead of by demo. Cohley's review and seeding products are not described on the Insense pages we read.
Which Cohley alternatives publish their prices?
Insense, Influee, SideShift, JoinBrands and Billo each publish prices on their own sites, while every Cohley plan is custom priced. Scouty is a managed service, priced on a call. The table on this page carries each published figure with its source and the date it was read.
Is there a Cohley alternative for a small brand?
Yes. JoinBrands and Collabstr have free plans, SideShift starts its monthly plans with a free period, and Billo sells videos per order from prepaid packs. Scouty works with startups and brands, with each program scoped on a call. Cohley itself says it is built for mid-market and enterprise brands.
Which Cohley alternatives have an agent like Finn?
Influee publishes Influee Agent, which lets Claude and ChatGPT create campaigns and message creators. Insense publishes an MCP connection that reads and acts across campaigns, with actions confirmed by you first. JoinBrands lists a read-only MCP server. Scouty is a team of operators rather than a tool, with our own technology behind it.