DRAFT Trackdesk vs Affise: How the Two Platforms Compare on Price and Terms

Both Affise and Trackdesk are used to run complex affiliate operations. Affise has developed into a broader performance marketing suite - while Trackdesk has concentrated more narrowly on affiliate programs, networks and verticals where tracking volume can become a material software cost.

For a buyer comparing them in 2026, the useful questions concern how each vendor prices growth and which plan contains the functions the team actually needs, while adjacent products such as mobile attribution matter only when they belong in the current operating stack.

Every figure in this comparison comes from the vendors' current pricing or product pages, supplemented by G2 and Capterra for review counts, and all figures were checked in August 2026 because both pricing pages and review totals can change after publication.

The Short Version

Affise Performance publishes four tiers, with Beginner showing $625 (without commitment) and a lower $499 (with commitment) figure under the page's commitment pricing control, while the higher plans move upward in both price and capacity. The standard tiers include defined conversion and impression allowances, although clicks are currently listed as unlimited.

Trackdesk Network starts at $499 per month, followed by Growth Network from $833 and Network PLUS from $1,499, and its published matrix keeps affiliates and tracking volume unlimited across those tiers. Volumes above roughly 20 million clicks per month may require private infrastructure.

Affise sells a dedicated MMP (mobile measurement platform) for app attribution and related mobile measurement work, whereas Trackdesk remains focused on affiliate and partner operations.

Both vendors now offer MCP access, though their implementations reflect different operating assumptions. Affise describes its public toolset as read-only by design while Trackdesk allows permitted actions through the API token, including conversion approvals, affiliate status changes and commission adjustments.

 

Review figures as of August 2026. Pricing verified against each vendor's live properties in August 2026.

Product scope

Affise Performance is built for networks and agencies managing their own partner relationships, and the wider Affise portfolio extends into mobile measurement and partner discovery. This gives companies the option of keeping several performance marketing functions with one vendor when that broader product family suits the stack.

Trackdesk takes a more concentrated approach around affiliate and network management, covering advertisers, affiliates, offers, commissions, attribution, reporting and payouts - without trying to turn the same platform into a standalone mobile measurement product or a broader acquisition suite.

For teams whose main problem is running an affiliate network rather than consolidating several performance marketing categories under one supplier, that narrower scope can make the Trackdesk proposition easier to evaluate. Its Network pricing is structured around the network operation rather than the volume of conversions being recorded.

Affise's broader product surface can still be valuable, particularly when Affise MMP or its more extensive performance marketing tooling already forms part of the company's infrastructure. The product breadth should be treated as an advantage only when those additional capabilities are actually required.

Pricing

Affise

Affise currently publishes four Performance tiers, beginning with a Beginner plan that shows $625 alongside a lower $499 figure under its commitment pricing control, with 7,000 conversions, 5 million impressions, unlimited clicks, 50 offers, unlimited partners and users, and a 14-day trial.

Core is shown at $888 with a lower $699 figure (with commitment), increasing the allowance to 40,000 conversions and 15 million impressions while removing the offer limit and adding functionality and onboarding support that are unavailable on the entry plan.

Expand is shown at $1,239 with a lower $999 figure, and its published allowance reaches 50,000 conversions and 20 million impressions while additional domains, customer-success support and several more advanced capabilities become available.

Custom is shown at $2,499 with a lower $1,999 figure, although conversion volume and impressions are tailored rather than fixed. A number of Affise's more advanced automation and customization options sit at this level.

The budgeting still depends on identifying which conversion allowance and feature set match your production environment. 

Trackdesk

Program plans on the pricing page: Business at $329/month, Enterprise at $499/month, Enterprise PLUS from $1,199/month. Business covers program revenue up to $30,000/month with 5 seats and 10 active offers. Enterprise removes the seat and offer limits, adds full white label with a custom domain, full API access and priority support.

Network plans on the network pricing page: Seed Network at $499/month, Growth Network from $833/month, Network PLUS from $1,499/month. Networks get unlimited advertisers, each with their own dashboard. All three Network plans publish unlimited affiliates, clicks and conversions, although Trackdesk notes that networks processing more than roughly 20 million clicks each month may require private infrastructure.

iGaming plans on the iGaming pricing page: Slot from $1,499/month, Jackpot from $1,999/month, Full House on quote. This is the one Trackdesk line that meters traffic. Slot plan covers one brand and 5M clicks per month, Jackpot covers up to ten brands and 20M clicks, and Full House is custom on both. Conversions and affiliates stay unlimited across all three.

Annual billing saves two months on every line. There is no setup fee and no transaction charge on payouts.

Feature access by plan

Affise distributes capabilities across its Performance tiers as well as varying usage allowances, with functions such as view-through attribution and Smartlinks beginning above Beginner while other reporting, iGaming and automation capabilities appear further up the pricing matrix.

Trackdesk also varies functionality between Network plans, which makes a general claim that Affise charges extra for advanced features too weak to support a useful comparison because both vendors use conventional SaaS tiering for parts of their product.

For teams whose requirements remain relatively straightforward: Trackdesk's unlimited tracking model can become more attractive because additional conversion volume does not create another variable alongside those feature requirements.

MCP and AI access

Both platforms now support the Model Context Protocol, although their implementations set different boundaries around the work an AI client can perform inside an affiliate account.

Affise provides remote and local MCP options, with its public implementation exposing 23 tools for accessing affiliate and performance data, while the company explicitly describes that public toolset as read-only by design.

That approach provides a clear security boundary for teams that primarily want AI-assisted analysis, since an account manager can query offers, affiliates, advertisers and conversion data without giving the connected model permission to change production records.

Trackdesk uses the permissions associated with the connected access token and allows the MCP client to perform approved API operations, including actions such as approving conversions, updating affiliate statuses and adjusting commissions alongside ordinary reporting and data retrieval. Trackdesk hosts the server, so setup is a token and a configuration snippet, and it is available across plans rather than gated to a tier.

For teams using AI primarily to investigate reports, both implementations cover the central use case, while Trackdesk has the stronger position when AI is expected to become part of actual affiliate operations because the workflow can continue beyond reading data into permitted account changes.

Security and compliance

Trackdesk states that it is ISO 27001:2022 certified and publishes compliance information covering GDPR, CCPA and CPRA, while Affise lists SOC2, ePrivacy, GDPR and CCPA among its security and privacy credentials.

These credentials use different frameworks and should be evaluated against each company's procurement requirements, since an ISO certification and a SOC 2 report do not prove the same thing and some security teams will explicitly require one document rather than accepting another as an equivalent.

Trackdesk's ISO certification can be particularly relevant to organizations whose vendor-security process specifically calls for ISO 27001, although Affise also publishes substantial security credentials and should not be described as lacking an established compliance program.

Mobile attribution

Mobile measurement is the strongest area where Affise has a broader native product offering, since Affise MMP covers app attribution, uninstall tracking, retargeting, reattribution and related mobile acquisition workflows that extend beyond the affiliate-management functions of Affise Performance.

Trackdesk does not sell a standalone MMP, so an app-first business that wants affiliate management and mobile measurement from the same vendor has a legitimate reason to prefer the Affise product family rather than assembling those capabilities across separate systems.

This difference matters much less for companies that already use AppsFlyer, Adjust or another mobile measurement provider, or whose partner program is primarily web-based, because the existence of a native MMP adds limited value when mobile measurement is already solved elsewhere.

For those businesses, the comparison returns to network operations, pricing and tracking volume, where Trackdesk generally has the cleaner commercial argument.

iGaming support

Affise has substantial dedicated iGaming functionality and publishes support for CPA, RevShare and Hybrid models together with commission tiers, separate CPA and RevShare balances, FTD payouts and other workflows used by operators and affiliate networks.

Trackdesk has a dedicated iGaming product, so describing Affise as unsuitable for the vertical would ignore functionality that the company documents publicly and would weaken the credibility of the comparison for anyone already familiar with the platform.

An iGaming buyer should instead compare the conversion types and commission rules already used in production, including FTD treatment, RevShare calculation, player reporting, brand structure and advertiser access, because those details determine how much work a migration will actually involve.

Where Trackdesk gains ground is the combination of iGaming support with unlimited conversions on its Network plans, which can be commercially relevant for operators and networks processing large numbers of tracked events even when the two products support similar commission models.

What Reviewers Report

As of August 2026, G2 lists Trackdesk at 4.8 across 342 reviews and Affise Performance at 4.6 across 85 reviews. Capterra lists Trackdesk at 4.8 across 140 reviews and Affise at 4.6 across 84 reviews.

Those averages favor Trackdesk and are based on larger review samples on both platforms, although the difference between 4.8 and 4.6 should not be treated as proof that one product will perform better for every network or use case.

Affise reviewers frequently praise its interface, campaign management, analytics and support, while recurring criticism includes price sensitivity, access to some functionality on higher tiers and the learning curve associated with more advanced parts of the product.

Trackdesk's higher current averages provide evidence for higher customer satisfaction, although review scores are most informative when used alongside the pricing and product differences rather than as the main reason for selecting an affiliate platform.

How Feature Requests Are Handled

Affise handles feature requests through a standard product roadmap, as most established platforms do. Some features are available by request or for additional payment.

Trackdesk reviews customer requests weekly and builds the ones judged useful to other clients at no additional cost. Roadmap influence is also a named line on the Enterprise PLUS and Network PLUS tiers. Trackdesk also offers a 7-day feature guarantee to those customers who decide to migrate. 

This matters more than it sounds for teams in verticals where the platform rarely fits out of the box. If your commission logic, payout structure or reporting requirement is unusual enough that it needs development, the question of whether that development is a quote or a queue position is a real operating variable.

Migration from Affise

Trackdesk recommends leaving the incumbent platform operational for a period after the replacement environment is launched, allowing teams to compare recorded data before closing the previous account rather than treating migration as a one-day import.

For an Affise customer, that approach allows both systems to be checked against real traffic while the team reconciles click IDs, postbacks, conversion statuses, commission outcomes and reporting totals before deciding that Trackdesk should become the production source of record.

Trackdesk also publishes documentation for connecting with Affise, including an example in which a Trackdesk click ID is passed into the Affise tracking flow and the resulting conversion is returned through an Affise postback.

Which One Fits Your Team

An existing Affise customer whose conversion allowance still leaves substantial room, whose current tier contains every required feature and whose team uses Affise MMP has relatively little reason to migrate based on the published entry prices alone.

A network that is moving through Affise conversion tiers, expects event volume to grow faster than revenue, wants unlimited advertisers or plans to use AI for approved operational actions has a stronger reason to test Trackdesk.

The most defensible comparison uses a recent month of real traffic and the actual features already in use, then matches those requirements to the relevant Affise tier and Trackdesk Network plan rather than building the business case around headline prices.

For that comparison, Trackdesk tends to become more attractive as affiliate volume and operational complexity increase without a corresponding need for Affise's wider mobile measurement portfolio, which is also the point at which pricing by conversion capacity becomes easiest to question.

If you are running an Affise program now and the trigger for looking is cost or contract terms rather than a capability gap, the comparison is straightforward to test: run both against the same traffic for a period you set, reconcile against your own reports, and decide from your numbers. The detailed feature comparison covers what that looks like, and Trackdesk's migration team handles the rebuild.

FAQ

How much does Affise cost?
Affise Performance currently shows four published tiers, with Beginner at $625 and a lower $499 figure (commitment), Core at $888 with $699 shown lower, Expand at $1,239 with $999 shown lower, and Custom at $2,499 with $1,999 shown lower. Those prices should be read together with the plan limits rather than on their own, because Beginner includes 7,000 conversions and 5 million impressions, Core includes 40,000 conversions and 15 million impressions, while Expand includes 50,000 conversions and 20 million impressions.

How much does Trackdesk cost for affiliate networks?
Trackdesk currently lists Seed Network at $499 per month, Growth Network from $833 per month and Network PLUS from $1,499 per month, with annual billing available at a lower effective monthly cost. All three Network plans include unlimited affiliates, advertisers, clicks and conversions.

Is Trackdesk cheaper than Affise?
At entry level, the price difference can be small, since Trackdesk Seed Network starts at $499 per month and Affise Beginner also displays a lower $499 figure alongside its standard $625 price. The larger difference appears as traffic and conversion volume grow, because Affise assigns conversion and impression allowances to its standard Performance tiers while Trackdesk keeps conversions unlimited across its published Network plans.

Does Affise limit conversions?
Affise currently publishes conversion allowances of 7,000 on Beginner, 40,000 on Core and 50,000 on Expand, while the Custom plan uses a tailored conversion allowance rather than a fixed public number.

How is Trackdesk MCP different from Affise MCP?
Trackdesk MCP can retrieve account data and also perform actions allowed by the permissions attached to the user's access token, including conversion approvals, affiliate status updates and commission changes. Affise's public MCP implementation is read-only, so the main difference concerns whether the AI client is intended only to inspect data or also to participate in approved operational workflows.

Is Affise or Trackdesk more suitable for iGaming?
Affise has dedicated iGaming functionality and publicly supports CPA, RevShare and Hybrid models together with features around FTD payouts, commission tiers, player reporting and separate CPA and RevShare balances. Trackdesk also has a dedicated iGaming offering for operators and affiliate networks, covering casino, sportsbook, poker and related use cases. For iGaming buyers, Trackdesk becomes particularly relevant when unlimited conversion volume, advertiser access and a network-focused pricing model matter alongside the usual player attribution and commission requirements.

Can I migrate from Affise to Trackdesk?
Trackdesk provides migration support and recommends keeping the incumbent platform active while the new environment is tested against real traffic, giving teams time to compare attribution, conversion statuses, postbacks and reporting before the final cutover.

Trackdesk also publishes Affise-specific connection examples in its documentation, which can be used when testing how click IDs and conversion postbacks move between the two platforms during a migration.

What is the best Affise alternative?
The answer depends on why a company is considering a move from Affise, because a team using Affise MMP or relying heavily on its broader performance marketing stack may have different requirements from a network whose main concern is conversion-based plan limits. Trackdesk is a particularly relevant Affise alternative, when conversion allowances are beginning to affect software cost, when unlimited advertiser and tracking volume matter, or when the team wants MCP AI tools to perform approved actions inside the affiliate program rather than limiting them to reporting and analysis.