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How Discover compares with the influencer tools agencies pay for

Discover is a free, YouTube-only channel search with the sponsor history of each channel on the row. The paid suites are multi-network platforms that add audience demographics, fraud scores, email reveals, campaign management and payments, at prices that start around $59 a month for a single seat and run to five figures a year on annual contracts. If you need Instagram or TikTok, demographics, or a CRM, you need one of them. If you need to find and shortlist YouTube channels in a niche and see who already sponsors them, you may not.

Every price below is from the vendor's pricing page or a review site on 3 November 2026, in the currency shown, and will drift. Discover's own plans are Free, Agency at $79 a month ($708 a year, a launch price) and Agency Team at $249 a month ($2,388 a year, three accounts), monthly or yearly, cancel any time, no seat fees, with a 14-day refund on a first payment; the Creator and Pro plans at $12 and $29 are for the comment inbox.

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What is the best tool to find YouTube influencers?

It depends on what the tool must also do. For YouTube-only sourcing with sponsor history, the shortlist is ChannelCrawler (from $59 a month billed yearly, sponsor intelligence from $117), SponsorRadar ($59) and Discover (free). For audience demographics and fraud scoring across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, Modash (Essentials $199 a month yearly) and HypeAuditor (about $299 a month yearly) lead. For running campaigns and paying creators, GRIN, Aspire and CreatorIQ, from $200 a month to $39,000 a year.

Is there a free YouTube influencer search tool?

Discover is free for the search itself: niche, keyword, subscriber range, country and posting pace, with sponsors, two scores and a contact flag on every row, 10 rows per search without an account and the whole list with a free account. Other free tiers are demo-sized: Heepsy's free plan shows 500 results and 10 profiles with no export, Favikon's gives 15 credits a month, HypeAuditor's free tools answer one channel at a time. None of them shows sponsor history for free.

How much do influencer discovery tools cost per month?

Bands on 3 November 2026: $59 to $99 for metered search with a few email credits (ChannelCrawler Starter $59 yearly or $99 monthly, Heepsy Starter $69 or $89); $117 to $199 for exports with contacts and sponsor data (ChannelCrawler Power $117, Heepsy Plus $149, Favikon Core €159, Modash Essentials $199); $229 to $499 for team tiers and unmetered CSV (Heepsy Advanced $229, HypeAuditor Basic about $299 with CSV only on Pro at about $499, Modash Performance $499); then quote-only annual contracts from $12,000 to $55,000 a year (Upfluence, Traackr, Klear, CreatorIQ).

Discover vs ChannelCrawler: what is the difference?

ChannelCrawler indexes tens of millions of YouTube channels and sells credits: 2,000 search credits and 50 email credits for $59 a month billed yearly, sponsorship search from the $117 Power plan, one user below Enterprise. Discover's inventory is the channels people have analyzed or searched for, hundreds rather than millions, with the sponsor list, two scores and the contact flag on every row for free and no credits. Use ChannelCrawler for breadth and email enrichment; use Discover to shortlist and read sponsorship history without paying.

Discover vs Modash: which should an agency use?

Modash covers Instagram, TikTok and YouTube with audience demographics, fake-follower scores and email reveals, from $199 a month billed yearly ($299 monthly) for 2 seats, 300 opened profiles and 150 emails a month. Discover is YouTube only, has no demographics and no email reveals, and is free. If your clients buy on Instagram too, Modash. If the job is finding YouTube channels in a niche and seeing which brands sponsor them, Discover does that part at no cost and exports it on the $79 Agency plan.

Discover vs HypeAuditor?

HypeAuditor's strength is the audience quality report (fraud signals, demographics refreshed monthly) across networks, at about $299 a month billed yearly, with CSV export of search results reserved for the Pro tier at about $499; its Trustpilot score was 2.1 of 5 from 30 reviews on 3 November 2026, mostly billing and cancellation complaints. Discover has no fraud score and no demographics; it has the sponsor history, posting pace and contact flag per channel, for free, and CSV on the $79 Agency plan. They answer different questions.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Upfluence or GRIN for a small agency?

Upfluence starts around $478 a month on a 12-month contract and GRIN's self-serve tiers start at $200 a month plus a 5 to 20 percent fee on creator payments. For discovery alone, ChannelCrawler, Heepsy and Modash sit at $59 to $199, and Discover is free with Agency plans at $79 and $249 a month, month to month. None of the cheap options manages campaigns or payments; that is what the expensive ones charge for.

Which influencer tools work for YouTube only?

ChannelCrawler, SponsorRadar, Sponsorship.so, SponsorBrew, Yoloco's YouTube search, Developer Educators for technical channels, and Discover. Social Blade and vidIQ are YouTube-only but creator-side: statistics and SEO, no niche search, no sponsor data, no contacts. The multi-network suites all cover YouTube, usually with thinner filters than on Instagram, which reviewers of Favikon and HypeAuditor mention.

Is Social Blade enough to find and vet YouTube influencers?

For vetting one channel's growth history, partly: it shows subscriber and view trends, 30 days free and longer on paid tiers from $5 a month billed yearly. It has no niche search, no sponsor data and no contact information, so it cannot find channels. A common stack is Discover to find and shortlist, Social Blade or the analyzer report to check the trend, then outreach.

Can vidIQ or TubeBuddy be used for influencer discovery?

They are creator tools for SEO and channel growth; vidIQ's free plan gives 150 AI credits a month and the paid tiers start at $19. Neither searches channels by niche with sponsor history or contact flags, and neither is built for a brand's workflow. Use them if you run a channel; use Discover or a discovery suite if you are buying placements.

Do I need an influencer platform or can I use a spreadsheet?

Modash's May 2025 survey found every respondent still used spreadsheets, about five hours a week, even with a platform. The platform's job is discovery, audience data and payments; the spreadsheet is the campaign. Discover fits that reality: it exports the shortlist as CSV, up to 500 rows, into the sheet you already keep, and does not try to be the CRM.

Why do most influencer platforms hide their prices?

Traackr, Klear, Kolsquare, CreatorIQ, Tagger and Aspire quote per customer, often on annual contracts, and review-site figures for the same vendor differ by hundreds of dollars a month. Modash, Heepsy, Favikon, ChannelCrawler and GRIN publish prices. ReplyDial's prices are on the pricing page, monthly or yearly, with no sales call.

Which tools lock you into a 12-month contract?

Reviewers report year-long commitments and auto-renewal at Upfluence, GRIN's legacy plans, Klear and Traackr, with 60-day cancellation notice at some. ChannelCrawler, Heepsy, Modash and Favikon offer monthly billing at a higher rate. ReplyDial's plans are monthly or yearly, cancel any time from Manage billing, and the plan runs to the end of the paid period, then drops to Free.

Does Discover have seat pricing?

No. A ReplyDial account is one sign-in; Agency is one account at $79 a month and Agency Team is three accounts for $249, with no seat fees. Competitors price seats separately: Favikon adds €69 a month per extra seat, Upfluence about $79, Kolsquare licenses per user. Shared client workspaces for Team are on the roadmap; until they ship, each teammate signs in with their own email.

Is CSV export included on Discover's cheapest plan?

Yes. Export CSV of the current search, up to 500 rows, is on the Agency plan at $79 a month and during the 7-day trial. HypeAuditor reserves search exports for its Pro tier at about $499, Heepsy exports results from Starter but contacts only from Plus at $149, and Upfluence's monthly export caps do not roll over. Discover's export never contains contact details, on any plan.

What do credits mean on other tools, and does Discover use them?

Credits are a metered allowance that profile views, email reveals, exports and lookalike searches all draw from; reviewers' recurring complaint is credits that run out mid-month or expire at renewal. Discover has no credits. Inventory search is unlimited; the only metered action is YouTube keyword search, 2 a day for visitors and 10 a day on Agency plans, because the YouTube API caps it.

Why does the paid report on some tools show little beyond free tools?

Because most of what any tool can know about a YouTube channel is public: size, uploads, views, descriptions, the paid-promotion flag. The paid extras are audience demographics (estimated from samples), fraud scores and contact enrichment. Discover shows the public part plainly and labels its two scores as its own reading; it does not sell estimates as measurements.

Does Discover cover Instagram or TikTok?

No, and it will not. ReplyDial is built on the YouTube Data API and the YouTube comment inbox; Discover is the agency side of the same data. If a client campaign runs across networks, pair Discover for the YouTube shortlist with a multi-network tool for the rest.

Does Discover show audience demographics or fake-follower scores?

No. Demographics are only in the creator's YouTube Studio; fraud scores from HypeAuditor and Modash are estimates from engagement patterns, and reviewers have reported both false positives and misses. Discover shows posting pace, last upload, the view counts on recent videos in the report, and an Audience score from real reply behaviour in comment threads. Ask the creator for a Studio screenshot for the rest.

Does Discover give me creator emails?

Not as a list. The row shows whether a business contact is listed; the report shows the contact as the creator published it in a description. Nothing is enriched, guessed or exported in bulk, which is also why nothing bounces. ChannelCrawler and Modash sell email reveals (50 to 150 a month on entry plans); Discover's answer is a filter that keeps your shortlist to channels you can actually reach.

Can I compare Discover with other tools in a free trial?

Discover needs no trial: the search is free without an account, and a free account shows every row. Every new account also gets the paid features (brand view, YouTube search on demand, bulk paste, CSV export) for 7 days without a card. Modash's 14-day trial is card-free with 20 profile views; GRIN's Starter trial takes a card and bills at the end; Upfluence has no self-serve trial.

Is there an API or an AI-assistant connector for Discover?

Not yet for Discover. The channel analyzer has JSON and CSV endpoints for one channel at a time. Favikon sells API access from €199 a month and Modash exposes an MCP connector on its plans; if you want either for Discover, write to contact@replydial.com with the use case.

Does Discover integrate with Shopify, HubSpot or a CRM?

No. Discover produces a shortlist and a CSV; your CRM imports the CSV. The suites that integrate with Shopify (GRIN, Aspire, Upfluence) do so to track affiliate orders and pay creators, which is a different product at a different price.

What does Discover do that the paid suites do not?

Three things, all free: sponsor history on every row at high and medium confidence, which ChannelCrawler gates at $117 and most suites do not show for YouTube; an Audience score built from how the channel actually answers its viewers; and a keyword search that falls back to YouTube and stores the result for everyone, so the inventory is built by its users rather than crawled. And no credits, seats or annual contract.

What does Discover not do that I might expect from a $300 tool?

No Instagram or TikTok, no audience demographics or watch time, no fraud score, no rate estimates, no email enrichment, no outreach inbox, no campaign management, no creator payments, no white-label reports, and an inventory of hundreds of channels rather than millions. If any of those is the job, Discover is a companion, not a replacement.

Which influencer platforms publish the most complaints about billing?

On Trustpilot on 3 November 2026: NinjaOutreach 1.5 of 5 (68 reviews, surprise annual charges), HypeAuditor 2.1 (30, charged after cancelling, credits expiring), Shoutcart 2.7 (182), Upfluence 3.0 (55, year-long contracts), Heepsy 3.2 (45, exports without emails). Read the one-star reviews of any tool before an annual commitment; the complaints repeat across vendors.

How does ReplyDial make money if Discover is free?

From the Agency plans: creators pay for the comment inbox limits, and agencies and brands pay for the brand view, YouTube search on demand, bulk paste and CSV export on the Agency plans. The free search is the front door, and every search that falls back to YouTube makes the inventory better for the next person.

Influencer and UGC platforms are so expensive. What do small brands use instead?

The forums' answer is manual search plus a spreadsheet, or a chat assistant's list, both of which cost time and accuracy. For YouTube, Discover's free search gives the filtered list with sponsors and the contact flag at no cost, and the $79 Agency plan adds CSV export, the brand view and YouTube search on demand. For Instagram and TikTok there is no equivalent free index; the cheapest paid search tiers start at $59 to $69 a month.

Are influencer marketing agencies worth it for small businesses, versus a cheaper platform?

An agency retainer of several thousand dollars a month plus creator fees buys relationships, negotiation and reporting; a platform at $59 to $299 buys a database and a workflow; a free index buys the shortlist. For a first YouTube test of $5,000 to $15,000 in creator fees, an in-house person with Discover and a spreadsheet is the cheapest route that still works; the agency earns its fee when the program is always on.

Any good AI tools that automate influencer discovery and vetting?

Automation is useful for the filtering and the first-pass reading, not for the facts. Discover's niche labels and scores are automated reads of public data, shown with their rules; a chat assistant is good at turning a brief into keywords and bad at knowing today's numbers. In Influencer Marketing Hub's 2026 survey 36.67 percent of marketers already use AI for discovery; the ones who keep using it pair it with a dated data source.

Does anyone use platforms like Heepsy or Modash, or just go manual through DMs?

Both, often in the same team: a seat on a suite for demographics and a sheet for everything else. Several practitioners say every suite pulls from similar data and the hard parts are vetting and replies. Discover sits before the suite: the YouTube shortlist with sponsors and contact flags for free, then whatever you already use for the rest.

Is there a tool that maps which brands pay which YouTube creators?

Yes: that is Discover's brand view (Agency plans and the first 7 days), every channel a brand has sponsored with the videos and dates, and on the free page the sponsor chips on every row. ChannelCrawler sells the same mapping from its $117 plan and SponsorRadar from $59 a month; both have bigger indexes, neither shows it free.

Which affiliate and influencer tools hold up at agency volume?

At 150 creators on retainer the pain is payments and scheduling, which forums describe as a Google Sheets nightmare; that is the job of GRIN, Aspire or Upfluence, priced accordingly. Discover is not that tool and does not try to be: it is sourcing and sponsor history, exported into whatever runs the campaign.

If you could automate one part of the influencer workflow, which should it be?

Sourcing, by the forums' own vote, followed by reporting. Sourcing is the part that is already a database query once the data exists; Discover makes it one. Negotiation and the relationship do not automate, and the tools that claim they do are selling templates.

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