Gleam pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Gleam (gleam.io) is a affiliate & referral tool. Separate subscriptions per app (Competitions, Rewards, Captures, Galleries) in Hobby/Pro/Business/Premium tiers, or a Full Package bundle; annual billing is much cheaper.. Free plan: Competitions Free: unlimited entries, 20+ entry types, random winner draw, but winner data only and no viral share action.
What Gleam costs
- $5k referred/mo: $59/mo (Competitions Pro $59/mo monthly ($39 billed annually) is the cheapest plan with the Viral Share Action (refer-a-friend bonus entries); Free and Hobby lack it. Entries are unlimited.)
- $25k referred/mo: $59/mo (Same Competitions Pro $59/mo: no limit on entries or campaigns, so 10,000 entrants and 500 referred sign-ups fit.)
Plan compared: Competitions Pro (monthly). Monthly USD on monthly billing for a defined program size (referred sales, affiliates, participants and clicks), including any platform fee the tool takes on referred sales or conversions. Commissions you pay affiliates and payout transfer fees are not included.
What Gleam does
Core: Viral waitlists & giveaways (partly).
Important: Newsletter referral program (partly), Fraud & self-referral protection (partly).
Also has: Affiliate program (partly), E-commerce store integrations (partly), Refer-a-friend programs (partly), Loyalty points & VIP tiers (partly), API, webhooks & Zapier (partly), Self-hosted / WordPress (partly).
Gleam price hikes
- Gleam raised Competitions Hobby from $19 to $29/mo on monthly billing · Apr 2026
The monthly-billed Competitions Hobby plan went from $19/mo to $29/mo (+53%); the annual price ($10/mo) and Pro/Business/Premium prices were unchanged.
Alternatives to Gleam
Gleam is the cheapest affiliate & referral tool we track at a small program ($5k/mo in referred sales, 100 affiliates). The others:
- Rewardful: $49/mo
- impact.com: $125/mo
Gleam alternatives: 2 affiliate & referral tools compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Apr 2026 · Price increase: The monthly-billed Competitions Hobby plan went from $19/mo to $29/mo (+53%); the annual price ($10/mo) and Pro/Business/Premium prices were unchanged.
Sources
Pricing page: gleam.io/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. gleam.io returns 403 to fetchers; prices read from Wayback snapshots of gleam.io/pricing/competitions (Apr 2025, Jan 2026, Jun 2026, Sep 2026) and PricingSaaS. Gleam is a giveaway/viral-referral tool with no affiliate commission tracking, so it is priced on the viral sign-up rule.