Short answer: GRIN now sells four month-to-month plans priced by usage credits, not seats: GRIN Free at $0 with 50 credits, GRIN Starter at $200 with 2,000, GRIN Growth at $500 with 7,500 and GRIN Scale at $1,000 with 20,000. Paid plans can buy additional credits whenever they need them, but GRIN does not publish that price. There is no annual contract, and every new account gets a free 30-day trial of GRIN Starter.
Most GRIN pricing articles you will find still describe the old model: annual contracts quoted after a demo, often cited at $25,000 a year or more, or a self-serve range of $399 to $1,799 a month. Even the first version of the credit plans is out of date, because GRIN has since dropped its $1,500 Complete tier and its published overage rate. The numbers below come from GRIN's own pricing page as read on October 1, 2026. We build flat-priced software for agencies that buy UGC, which is a different category from GRIN, so treat this as an outside read and confirm anything you plan to sign.
GRIN pricing plans at a glance
| GRIN plan | Price per month | Monthly credits | Cost per bundled credit | What the plan adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRIN Free | $0 | 50 | n/a | Affiliate links, codes and GMV tracking; cannot buy additional credits |
| GRIN Starter | $200 | 2,000 | $0.100 | Gia's Desk and customizable dashboards |
| GRIN Growth | $500 | 7,500 | $0.067 | Multiple brands, multiple currencies and paid boosting |
| GRIN Scale | $1,000 | 20,000 | $0.050 | Everything in GRIN Growth with the largest bundle |
Gia is GRIN's AI agent, and the plan you pick mostly sets how much work Gia can do each month. The cost per credit in the table applies only to the bundle. GRIN states that its bundled rates are not the rates for additional credits, and it does not publish what an additional credit costs.
How much does GRIN cost?
GRIN costs $0 a month on GRIN Free, $200 on GRIN Starter, $500 on GRIN Growth and $1,000 on GRIN Scale, billed month to month with 50, 2,000, 7,500 or 20,000 credits, and paid plans can buy additional credits at a rate GRIN does not publish. GRIN marks GRIN Growth as its popular plan, and it is also the cheapest plan that manages multiple brands. Paid plans need a card up front, and an upgrade mid-cycle is prorated.
What the subscription does not include matters just as much for a budget. Creator fees, gifted product and shipping all sit outside GRIN's price, the same as on any creator platform. On the other side, GRIN takes no percentage of affiliate sales (links, discount codes and GMV tracking are included, though each affiliate commission payable it creates uses credits), the affiliate program runs on every plan including GRIN Free, and plans are not priced by the size of your creator list.
Does GRIN have a free trial?
Yes, in two forms. GRIN Free is a permanent $0 plan with 50 monthly credits, no card and no time limit, though it cannot buy additional credits. Every new account also gets a free 30-day trial of GRIN Starter, the $200 plan that adds Gia's Desk and customizable dashboards. Fifty credits covers only a little of Gia's work, so the trial is the realistic way to test sourcing and outreach on a live program before you pay.
How do GRIN credits work?
A GRIN credit is the unit that meters work Gia does for you. Light work, such as sending outreach and messages, uses the fewest credits. Medium work covers finding, scoring and shortlisting creators. Heavy work covers building personas, running reports and analysis, gifting workflows and setting up campaigns.
Several things never use credits: viewing and filtering, configuration, previews, manual messages you send yourself, affiliate link and code generation, and migration from a CSV, another platform or GRIN Classic. Creating an affiliate commission payable does use credits. Included credits reset every billing cycle and do not roll over. On a paid plan you can buy additional prepaid credits whenever you run short, and those do roll over.
The practical question is which plan covers the work you expect. Because GRIN does not publish the price of additional credits, there is no exact breakeven between topping up a smaller plan and moving up a tier. What you can work out is the smallest bundle that covers a month:
| Credits you use per month | Smallest GRIN plan that covers it | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 50 | GRIN Free | $0 |
| 51 to 2,000 | GRIN Starter | $200 |
| 2,001 to 7,500 | GRIN Growth | $500 |
| 7,501 to 20,000 | GRIN Scale | $1,000 |
| Over 20,000 | GRIN Scale plus additional credits | $1,000 plus a rate GRIN does not publish |
Ask GRIN for the additional-credit rate before you plan on topping up, and compare it with the jump to the next bundle. GRIN's own example splits a GRIN Growth bundle of 7,500 credits as Creator Match 43%, Chat Messages 34%, Reporting 12%, Creator Lookup 6%, Persona Builds 3% and Automations 2%, so creator matching and messaging take more than three quarters of it. Your mix will differ, so watch the first full month before you upgrade.
Does GRIN require an annual contract?
No. GRIN's current plans are month-to-month with no annual contract, no minimum commitment and no required sales call. If you cancel, the plan runs to the end of the billing cycle and your CRM, affiliate links and program data stay in place. Brands on the older GRIN Classic product may still be on contracts signed under the previous model, so check your own paperwork before assuming the new terms apply.
What does GRIN cost an agency with several clients?
GRIN still lists no agency plan, but GRIN Growth and GRIN Scale now manage multiple brands in one account, with one credit bundle shared across those brands. So an agency can hold several client brands under one GRIN login from $500 a month. What GRIN does not list is client workspaces or client-facing reporting, because the product is built for brands running their own influencer and affiliate programs.
If each client program uses about 2,000 credits a month, the size of the GRIN Starter bundle, a roster prices out like this:
| Client programs | Credits a month (about 2,000 each) | GRIN plan that covers it | Monthly GRIN cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,000 | GRIN Starter | $200 |
| 2 to 3 | 4,000 to 6,000 | GRIN Growth, the first plan with multiple brands | $500 |
| 4 to 10 | 8,000 to 20,000 | GRIN Scale | $1,000 |
| More than 10 | Over 20,000 | GRIN Scale plus additional credits | $1,000 plus a rate GRIN does not publish |
Sharing one bundle is the cheap route, but one client's heavy month draws down the credits you planned for the others, and you need your own way to split the bill fairly. The other route is a separate GRIN Starter account per client at $200 each, which keeps data and costs apart at a higher price once you pass two or three clients.
Either way, the platform line moves with workload. A client that asks for more sourcing and reporting this quarter costs you more credits, while the retainer you agreed stays the same.
Is GRIN worth it for agencies?
GRIN is worth it for agencies whose clients run influencer and affiliate programs on Shopify or a tracked storefront: discount codes, affiliate links, GMV reporting and ongoing creator relationships at volume. It has 700K+ creators, a real CRM and no percentage cut of affiliate sales. It is a weaker fit when the deliverable is paid UGC made to a brief for each client.
GRIN reports on codes, links and revenue. If a client also wants to know how often its brand gets talked about after creators post, pair it with a brand monitoring and social listening tool rather than stretching credits on custom reporting.
Agencies selling UGC as a service line have a different problem. They buy a video from a creator, mark it up, and deliver it to a client under their own name. What they need is a workspace per client, a usage-rights record for every asset and client reports that show the agency's rate instead of the creator's. That is the job AgencyUGC is built for, at a flat price that does not change with usage.
GRIN vs a flat-priced UGC platform for agencies
| GRIN | AgencyUGC | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $0 to $1,000 a month in credits, plus additional credits at an unpublished rate | Flat $49, $149 or $499 a month |
| What changes the bill | How much work Gia does each month | Nothing within a plan |
| Client separation | Multiple brands from GRIN Growth ($500), sharing one credit bundle; no agency plan or client workspaces | A workspace per client: 3, 10 or unlimited |
| Client-facing reports | Program and GMV reporting | Reports and invoices priced at your client rate, never the creator's |
| Affiliate links, codes, GMV | Yes, no percentage cut; commission payables use credits | No |
| Shopify | One-click connection, plus an SDK and webhooks for other stacks | No |
| Creator network | 700K+ creators | Smaller vetted pool, US-focused |
| Best for | Always-on influencer and affiliate programs | Agencies reselling UGC to several clients on retainers |
Three of those rows go clearly to GRIN. If affiliate revenue is how your clients measure you, GRIN is the stronger tool and the credit model is a fair way to pay for it. If the client pays you for content and judges you on cost per asset, a flat plan is easier to put into a retainer. You can see how that plays out per plan on the AgencyUGC pricing page, and what clients see and do not see on the white label UGC platform page.
Cheaper GRIN alternatives for agencies
For agencies buying UGC rather than running affiliate programs, the closest alternatives price very differently. We compare GRIN row by row with a flat per-client workspace, including a cost table by number of client programs, on the GRIN alternative for agencies page. JoinBrands Max is $499 a month plus 8% of every creator payment, which we cost out at four spend levels on our JoinBrands alternative for agencies page. Insense's Agency plan is $800 a month billed quarterly for five brands plus a 7% fee, covered on the Insense alternative for agencies page. If you are weighing GRIN against another influencer platform, Upfluence signs for 12 months and lists $11,940 to $42,600 a year by seat count; our Upfluence pricing for agencies breakdown runs those tiers for a roster, and the Upfluence competitors for agencies page compares the tools agencies move to. Before comparing platforms at all, it helps to know what the creators cost, which is in our breakdown of UGC creator rates in 2026. Influencer Hero is the other suite agencies shortlist against GRIN, and it starts higher, at $649 a month on a three-month minimum; the Influencer Hero alternative for agencies page has the comparison.
If you want to test whether a flat UGC workspace fits one of your clients, write a real brief in the builder at the top of this page. It matches vetted creators without an account, so you can judge the match before you pay anything.
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Written by the AgencyUGC. AgencyUGC is a white-label workspace agencies use to source, brief, and manage vetted UGC creators for their clients, so our rate and workflow guidance is drawn directly from how agency creator budgets actually get built.
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