LinkJolt vs Tolt in 2026: An Honest Comparison

LinkJolt and Tolt are both affiliate platforms built for SaaS, and both charge 0% on the revenue your affiliates bring in. The real differences are price at each revenue level, which billing systems each one tracks, and how commissions travel from you to your affiliates: on its Growth plan and above, Tolt invoices you and pays your affiliates itself, while LinkJolt charges your card and Stripe transfers each connected affiliate's share straight to their account.

We build LinkJolt, so read this as an interested party's comparison and check anything that matters against Tolt's own pages. Every Tolt figure below was read from tolt.com and Tolt's help centre on 9 October 2026, and where Tolt is the better answer, this page says so.

The honest summary

	LinkJolt	Tolt
Entry price	$19.99/mo, or $13.99/mo billed annually	$69/mo, monthly prices only
Revenue allowance by plan	$5,000 / $25,000 / $50,000 of tracked sales a month, unlimited on Scale ($249/mo)	$10,000 / $20,000 / $50,000 earned from affiliates a month, then Enterprise by quote
Fee on affiliate revenue	0%	0%
Affiliates	10 active on Starter, unlimited from Professional	Unlimited on every plan
Automated payouts	Professional ($39.99/mo) and above; Stripe payouts you start yourself on every plan	Growth ($99/mo) and above; manual payouts on Basic
Payout fees	2.9% plus 30 cents (30 pence in sterling) per card charge, one charge per affiliate per currency, passed through at cost	2% processing fee, plus $8 per bank transfer or 4% by card to fund the invoice
Where automated payouts reach	US, UK, EEA, Canada and Switzerland, in GBP, USD or EUR; CSV export for PayPal or Wise for other affiliates	PayPal, Wise, local bank, wire and Payoneer
Tax forms	Not collected; 1099s are not filed for you	W-9 and W-8 collection and 1099 filing from Growth
Built-in billing integrations	Stripe, Paddle Billing, Polar, Creem, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, GoPay, WooCommerce, Apple In-App Purchases	Stripe, Paddle (Billing and Classic), Chargebee
Portal on your own domain	Ultimate ($99/mo) and Scale; yourcompany.linkjolt.io from Professional	Every plan, including Basic
Removing the "powered by" badge	Ultimate and Scale	Pro ($199/mo) and Enterprise
Team members	Owner only on Starter; owner plus 2 staff seats on Professional, owner plus 20 on Ultimate and Scale	3 on Basic, 5 on Growth, unlimited on Pro
Free trial	7 days, card required	14 days, no card, plus a 30-day refund policy

Price at the revenue level you will actually reach

Both products meter the same thing, the revenue your affiliates bring in, which is the right meter for a SaaS program: the bill rises only when the channel is paying you. The ladders just step at different places.

Tolt is $69 for Basic up to $10,000 a month earned from affiliates, $99 for Growth up to $20,000, $199 for Pro up to $50,000, and Enterprise by quote above that. Its pricing page lists monthly prices only. LinkJolt is $19.99 for Starter up to $5,000 of tracked sales, $39.99 for Professional up to $25,000, $99 for Ultimate up to $50,000, and $249 for Scale with no cap. Annual billing brings those down to $13.99, $27.99, $69 and $199.20 a month.

What that means at a few monthly revenue levels, monthly prices on both sides:

Affiliate revenue a month	LinkJolt	Tolt
Up to $5,000	$19.99 (Starter) or $39.99 (Professional)	$69 (Basic)
$5,001 to $10,000	$39.99 (Professional)	$69 (Basic)
$10,001 to $20,000	$39.99 (Professional)	$99 (Growth)
$20,001 to $25,000	$39.99 (Professional)	$199 (Pro)
$25,001 to $50,000	$99 (Ultimate)	$199 (Pro)
Above $50,000	$249 (Scale)	Enterprise, by quote

Two things keep that first row honest. Tolt's $69 buys twice our Starter allowance and unlimited affiliates, where Starter stops at 10 active affiliates and 5 campaigns. And Starter does not include recurring commissions or automated payouts, so a SaaS program paying on renewals really starts on Professional at $39.99. The caps are also not measured identically, so check how each one counts before you lean on the allowance.

The exercise that matters is to find the tier you expect to be on a year from now and compare those two numbers. Our Tolt pricing breakdown goes through their plans in detail, and the pricing comparison lays out ours.

How each one pays your affiliates

This is the biggest practical difference, and neither route is wrong. They move the money differently and charge for different things.

Tolt offers manual payouts on every plan: you export what is owed, grouped by each affiliate's payout method (local bank, wire, PayPal, Wise or crypto), and pay it yourself. From Growth, auto payouts take the job over. Before each payout date Tolt sends you a draft invoice, you fund it by bank transfer or card, and Tolt pays your affiliates by PayPal, Wise, local bank, wire or Payoneer. The pricing page lists a 2% processing fee on auto payouts, and Tolt's help centre adds a fixed $8 fee per bank transfer or a 4% fee on card payments to fund the invoice. Affiliates must complete their tax information and add a payout method before they are included, and on Growth and above Tolt collects W-9 and W-8 forms and files 1099s.

LinkJolt pays through Stripe. When you pay approved commissions, your saved card is charged once per affiliate (per currency) for that affiliate's payout plus 2.9% and 30 cents, and Stripe transfers the payout from that charge to the affiliate's own connected Stripe account. There is no balance to pre-fund and no percentage on top of the processing cost. You can start these Stripe payouts yourself on every plan; automatic, scheduled payouts are on Professional and above, as an opt-in.

Take a $2,000 payout run split across 10 affiliates. On Tolt Growth, the fees come to $48 if you fund the invoice by bank transfer ($40 plus $8), or $40 plus 4% of the invoice by card, which is at least $80 more. On LinkJolt, the card charges cost $61 ($58 plus 30 cents for each of the 10 charges). So funding Tolt by bank transfer costs less per run than LinkJolt's card charges, and LinkJolt's card charges cost less than funding Tolt by card.

Our honest limits: automated payouts reach affiliates in the US, UK, EEA, Canada and Switzerland, and only in GBP, USD or EUR. An affiliate outside those countries, or one owed in another currency, is paid through a CSV export for PayPal or Wise, which you send yourself. And LinkJolt does not collect tax forms or file 1099s for you. If you run a US program with many US affiliates, Tolt's tax handling is real work taken off your plate.

Billing systems and tracking

Tolt has built-in integrations with Stripe (including Checkout, Payment Links, pricing tables and buy buttons), Paddle Billing, Paddle Classic and Chargebee, and an API that can record sales from other billing systems if you write the code.

LinkJolt has built-in integrations with Stripe, Paddle Billing (not Paddle Classic), Polar, Creem, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, GoPay, WooCommerce and Apple In-App Purchases. Connecting Stripe takes one approval and that connection is the whole webhook setup. Sales are attributed by tracking link first, with discount codes as a second route on Stripe, Paddle, Polar and Creem, plus Apple offer codes. App Store subscriptions are tracked through Apple's server notifications and offer codes, with no SDK to install.

If you bill through Chargebee or Paddle Classic, Tolt is the choice between these two. If you bill through Polar, Creem, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad or WooCommerce, or you sell an iOS subscription app, LinkJolt connects without custom code, where Tolt would need its API. GoPay is supported too, with two fields added to each payment your code creates: LinkJolt's notification URL and the affiliate's tracking values. On Stripe or Paddle Billing, both work, and the other sections decide it. Our Stripe and Paddle setup pages show what connecting involves.

Where Tolt is the better choice

Being specific rather than gracious:

• You want payouts and tax paperwork handled for you, worldwide. Tolt pays by PayPal, Wise, local bank, wire and Payoneer, and from Growth it collects W-9 and W-8 forms and files 1099s. We do neither of the tax steps, and our automated payouts cover fewer countries.
• You want your portal on your own domain from day one. Tolt includes a custom domain (affiliates.yourdomain.com) and a branded portal on every plan, including Basic. Ours is on Ultimate and Scale.
• You bill through Chargebee or Paddle Classic. We support neither.
• You want a longer, card-free trial. Tolt gives 14 days with no card and publishes a 30-day refund policy. Ours is 7 days with a card required.
• You need more seats or affiliates at entry. Tolt's Basic includes 3 team members and unlimited affiliates; our Starter is a single user with up to 10 active affiliates.

Where LinkJolt is the better choice

• Price at every published tier, especially from $10,001 to $50,000 a month in affiliate revenue, where our Professional and Ultimate plans sit at $39.99 and $99 against Tolt's $99 to $199. Annual billing lowers ours further; Tolt's pricing page lists no annual option.
• Built-in integrations beyond Stripe, Paddle and Chargebee, and especially an iOS app.
• Payouts that go straight from your charge to your affiliates through Stripe, without an invoice to fund in between.
• Recruitment, through the Discovery marketplace, where affiliates browse and join programs, on Professional and above.
• Moving over from Tolt. You can import your roster with your Tolt API key, which is used once and never stored. Approved affiliates arrive approved, pending ones pending, with their PayPal or Wise payout email, and links your affiliates already shared keep working: once our tracking script is installed, a visitor arriving on a Tolt ?ref= link is matched to the right affiliate. Click and sale history, past commissions and discount codes stay behind, and the import is self-serve. The switching guide walks through it.

Which should you pick?

If you want payouts, global rails and US tax forms taken off your hands, bill through Chargebee, or want your own domain on the cheapest plan, pick Tolt. It is a well-built product for SaaS teams, and its 14-day no-card trial makes it cheap to find out.

If price matters, you bill through something other than Stripe, Paddle or Chargebee, or your affiliates are mostly in the US, UK, EEA, Canada or Switzerland and you would rather pay them through Stripe without funding an invoice, try our affiliate program software. Either way, use the trial to send a real test purchase through an affiliate link, then refund it and check that the commission reverses. That test tells you more about either platform than any comparison page, including this one.

For the wider field, the Tolt alternatives page compares the closest options, and we have run the same head-to-head against Rewardful and FirstPromoter. Before you set a commission rate on either platform, the SaaS affiliate benchmarks show what 121 real campaigns pay: a median of 20%, with 26% of campaigns paying recurring commissions.