Commission & Platform Fees
Who pays what, how transaction fees scale by plan, and what counts as commission base.
Both sides may incur platform fees depending on plan and deal type. The brand-side transaction fee scales with tier:
- Free: 25%
- Starter: 20%
- Pro: 15%
- Ultimate: 3%
The creator pays a separate 20% payout fee when they withdraw their earnings. That fee is Ainfluencer’s own, it is the same on every payout method, and it is taken at withdrawal rather than deducted from the agreed price. For full pricing detail, see Plans, Limits & Upgrading.
The platform’s transaction fee (what Ainfluencer takes) is tied to your subscription tier, not negotiable per creator. But the deal price with each creator is fully negotiable in chat, both rate and structure.
Transaction fees are the published rate per tier (25%/20%/15%/3%). No hidden costs, no markup on shipping or product cost, no per-deal admin fees, and no payment-processing fee added on top. Topping up your wallet is free: the full amount you pay reaches your balance. The only optional extra is content insurance at 10% of the deal, which you choose at checkout. Every charge is itemised on the transaction row as Amount, Platform fee, Content insurance, Coupon discount and Total paid by you.
There is nothing to cover, because Ainfluencer does not pass payment-processing costs on to you. Your card or PayPal is charged the amount shown and the full amount reaches your wallet, with no processing line added. The only fee on a collaboration is the platform fee for your plan, charged on top of the agreed price.
Charges that are genuinely not ours can still appear: your own bank’s currency conversion if you do not hold US dollars, and, for creators taking a crypto payout, the blockchain network fee. Neither passes through Ainfluencer.
There are exactly two fees on a collaboration. One is paid by the brand, one by the creator, and they are charged at different moments:
| Fee | Who pays | When | How much |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collaboration fee | The brand | At checkout, on top of the agreed price | 25%, 20%, 15% or 3%, set by the brand’s plan |
| Payout fee | The creator | When they withdraw, not when they earn | 20%, the same on every payout method |
Everything else is free: topping up a wallet, posting a campaign, messaging creators, negotiating, and receiving a refund.
So on a $100 deal, a brand on the Pro plan pays $115 and the creator withdraws $80. The $100 agreed price is what both sides see in the chat; neither fee is hidden inside it.
It falls as the plan rises, and this is the main financial reason to upgrade:
| Plan | Collaboration fee | On a $1,000 month of creator fees you pay |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 25% | $1,250 |
| Starter | 20% | $1,200 |
| Pro | 15% | $1,150 |
| Ultimate | 3% | $1,030 |
The fee is charged on each offer at checkout, calculated on the agreed price, and added on top. It is not deducted from what the creator receives.
Work out the crossover before you upgrade. The gap between Free and Pro is ten points, so a brand paying creators about $1,500 a month saves roughly $150 a month in fees, which is most of the Pro subscription. Below that, the Free plan is genuinely cheaper.
No, and this catches returning brands out. The collaboration fee began being charged in May 2026. Every paid order before that month carried no platform fee at all, and every paid order since carries one.
If you ran campaigns in 2025 and are comparing costs, the agreed creator price has not changed. The line you are seeing for the first time is the fee.
The fee is always itemised. Open Payments & Billing, click a transaction, and the breakdown separates Amount, Platform fee, Content insurance, Coupon discount and Total paid by you.
No. Every payout method carries the same 20%: PayPal, and every cryptocurrency and network we support. There is no cheaper route and nothing to optimise.
Two details are worth knowing:
- The percentage is frozen onto your request when you send it. If the rate ever changes, a request already in the queue is paid at the rate you saw.
- A legacy balance, meaning earnings from before August 2025, is withdrawn with no fee at all.
Your wallet always shows the full deal price, not 80% of it. The fee is taken at withdrawal, which is why the wallet figure and the amount that arrives are different numbers. The withdrawal screen shows Offer Amount, Ainfluencer Fee (20%) and You Will Receive before you confirm.
No, and the sequence matters if you are tracking your own income:
| Stage | What your wallet shows | Has the fee been taken? |
|---|---|---|
| The brand pays for the deal | The full agreed price, in escrow | No |
| The brand approves your post | The full agreed price, now spendable | No |
| You request a withdrawal | Unchanged until it is paid | The fee is calculated and shown to you here |
| Ainfluencer pays you | The full price leaves your wallet | Yes, you receive 80% |
One display quirk to expect. The offer card in chat estimates your earnings as price × 0.8 as soon as the deal is approved. That is the same 20%, shown early. It is an estimate on the card and the exact figure appears on the withdrawal screen.
Separate the two things that get called commission, because one is fully negotiable and the other is not at all:
| Negotiable? | |
|---|---|
| The price you and the creator agree on | Entirely. Rate, deliverables, usage rights, revisions, all of it, in the offer chat |
| The platform fees above | No. They are set by the brand’s plan and by the payout method, and no account can be given a different rate |
One plan-level rule does constrain a negotiation. If you run an affiliate programme on the Free plan, the commission you offer affiliates must be at least 25%. On Starter, Pro and Ultimate there is no minimum, so you can set any rate your creators will accept.
That minimum is a real reason to upgrade if affiliate marketing is your model. A 25% floor is far above typical affiliate rates in most categories, and on the Free plan it cannot be lowered.
Not from Ainfluencer. Beyond the two fees above, we add nothing. But three charges can appear that are not ours:
| Charge | Whose it is | How to avoid or reduce it |
|---|---|---|
| Currency conversion on your card or bank statement | Your bank. Ainfluencer bills in US dollars only | Pay from a US dollar account or card where you can |
| PayPal’s own fees on a payout you receive | PayPal, applied on their side after we send the money | Compare against a crypto payout, where the network fee is usually smaller |
| Blockchain network fees on a crypto payout | The network, not us | Choose a cheaper network when you save your wallet address. The available networks are listed when you add it |
Two things people expect to be charged for and are not: topping up a wallet is free, and receiving a refund is free. Content insurance, at 10% of the deal, is genuinely optional and only appears if you tick it at checkout.
The creator’s price does. The fee does not.
| Line on your original payment | Returned to your wallet? |
|---|---|
| The agreed creator price | Yes, in full |
| The collaboration fee | No |
| A coupon or credit you applied | No, that part returns to Ainfluencer |
| Content insurance | Handled as its own line, shown separately on the transaction |
On the creator’s side there is nothing to return. The payout fee is only charged when money is actually paid out, so a deal that is refunded never reaches the point of being charged.
This is a concrete argument for checking a creator’s delivery history before you pay. A refunded deal costs you the fee and the time, even though the price itself comes back.
It costs 10% of the deal, it is optional, and you tick it at checkout. It is charged as a separate line and appears on its own in your transaction breakdown and under Total spent.
An honest note on usage: almost nobody takes it. Across the platform’s whole history it has been bought on a handful of orders, all within a single month of 2026. For most brands the automatic refund path already covers the main risk, which is a creator not delivering.
Where it earns its cost is a deal large enough that a non delivery would hurt, with a creator you have not worked with before. On a $50 gifting collaboration it is $5 of protection against a risk the refund flow already handles.
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