Heepsy's own dedicated pricing page (heepsy.com/pricing) 404s, so there's no single vendor-confirmed number to check. Its own comparison-vs-Modash page names $69/mo Starter, $199/mo Plus, and $299/mo Advanced, while Capterra lists €69/€149/€229/mo for the same three tier names, a different currency and a different figure, verified 2026-08-25. Six real alternatives below have prices you can check yourself, starting with Seed at $19/mo and Shopify Collabs at free.
What Heepsy actually costs, per two sources that don't agree
| Tier | Heepsy's own comparison page | Capterra |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $69/mo | €69/mo |
| Plus | $199/mo | €149/mo |
| Advanced | $299/mo | €229/mo |
A vendor whose own dedicated pricing page 404s is unusual even in a category where gated pricing behind a sales call is common. Heepsy does publish numbers on a page comparing itself to Modash, but Capterra shows different figures in a different currency for the same tier names, and the two don't reconcile. Layer a reported 30%-off "forever" signup discount on top and no single sticker price above can be treated as the final number you'd actually be billed.
The one thing Heepsy does at real scale
To be fair to Heepsy: it runs the largest programmatic content operation of any competitor in this category that we've studied, 34,083 URLs total, including an 11,330-page cluster that's confirmed refreshed monthly. That's a genuinely large content and SEO operation, and it likely reflects a real, large creator database sitting behind it. Scale of content isn't scale of value to you as a buyer on its own, but it's worth naming plainly rather than pretending Heepsy is a nobody in this space, because it clearly isn't.
Six alternatives with prices you can actually verify, dated 2026-08-19
| Tool | Price | Model |
|---|---|---|
| Seed | Free $0 (5 orders, 1 campaign), Starter $19/mo (50 orders, 5 campaigns), Scale Gifts $49/mo or $499/yr (unlimited) | Link-to-draft-order gifting |
| Shopify Collabs | Free to install, 2.9% fee on payouts | Native marketplace, not accepting new creators as of this writing |
| Stack Influence | $0/mo, ~$30 per completed post | Fully managed, guaranteed post |
| GRIN | $0-$1,500/mo, no sales call | Full creator relationship management |
| Social Cat | $99/$199/$299/mo, 7-day trial | Two-sided marketplace |
| Modash | $199/mo, $499/mo, Enterprise from $14,700/yr | Discovery database, built for 100-500+ creators |
| Influencer Gift Form | Free $0, $68/mo Growth (100 orders), $380/mo Business | Same link-to-order mechanic as Seed |
How the mechanism differs
Heepsy is a discovery and search tool: filter by follower count, engagement rate, location, and niche, then export a list of candidates. It does not create orders, ship product, or manage the gifting workflow after you've found someone worth reaching out to. You still need a separate tool, or more often a spreadsheet, to actually send product and track what came back from each creator.
Seed starts after discovery ends. You already know who you're gifting to, you send a branded link that can run on your own domain, the creator picks a product and variant and types their own address, and a real $0 Shopify draft order lands in your admin, held until a person on your team approves it by hand. Once it ships, Seed reads Shopify's delivery webhooks and tracks the resulting content on a Kanban board, so nothing depends on someone remembering to check a spreadsheet. Tiny Harlow and JNJ Apparel both run gifting this way: a known creator list, a link, an approval, an order. If you're using Heepsy purely to find names and then manually re-typing orders into Shopify by hand afterward, that manual step is exactly what Seed exists to remove.
A lot of brands run both kinds of tool at once without realizing it, a discovery tool to build the list, then a spreadsheet or a generic form to actually send product, because nothing bridges the two steps automatically. That gap is where most of the manual labor in a gifting program actually lives: re-typing a shipping address a creator sent over DM, manually creating a draft order in Shopify, forgetting to check whether a box arrived. None of that is a discovery problem, and no amount of better search filtering in a tool like Heepsy fixes it.
Who should not pick Seed
If your bottleneck is finding creators, not gifting to ones you already know, Seed won't help you at all. It has no search, no discovery, no database of any kind, and it was never built to have one. For that job, even with the pricing opacity, Heepsy's database is doing real work Seed was never designed to do. And if you're running gifting at Modash's scale, 100-plus creators simultaneously with usage-based discovery needs, that tool's pricing may fit better than either Heepsy or Seed.
It's also fair to note Seed is newer to the market than Heepsy. It launched on the Shopify App Store on 2026-05-13 and holds a 5.0-star rating from 2 reviews, verified 2026-08-19, a small sample compared to a discovery platform with years of paying customers behind it. If you weight vendor longevity heavily in a buying decision, that's a legitimate factor to hold against any newer app, including this one.
What to do next
If you already know your creator list and want the gifting mechanism, not discovery, check Seed's pricing or install it from the Shopify App Store. If you need to find creators first, get Heepsy's actual current price by contacting them directly, since their own dedicated pricing page 404s and the two sources that do show a number disagree with each other, so treat anything above as a starting point to verify, not a floor.
If you're evaluating Heepsy specifically because their own site made it hard to compare, that's a signal worth weighing on its own. A vendor whose pricing page can't be reached directly is asking you to invest time in a sales conversation before you know if the product is even in your budget range. That's not automatically a red flag, plenty of legitimate enterprise software works this way, but it is worth factoring the extra time cost of that process into your decision alongside the dollar figure itself. Tools like Seed, GRIN, and Social Cat let you see the real number and decide in minutes rather than after a call.
A reported 30%-off "forever" discount is the other detail worth asking about directly before you sign. A discount that's advertised as permanent but only shows up once you're already in a sales conversation, rather than on the page itself, usually means the real starting price is the discounted number, not whatever a comparison page or review site lists. Ask what the account renews at in year two, in writing, before committing a card. It costs nothing to ask, and the answer tells you whether the $69-$299/mo (or the €69-€229/mo Capterra shows) range above is the actual number or a negotiating anchor.
What Heepsy doesn't do
- Its own dedicated pricing page (heepsy.com/pricing) returns a 404; a secondary redirect (go.heepsy.com/pricing) also fails to load.
- No Shopify App Store listing exists for Heepsy.
- Its own comparison page and Capterra disagree on both the number and the currency for identically-named tiers, so no single current price can be confirmed.
- Its Shopify/WooCommerce integration is described only as product-catalog import for gift campaigns, not order creation, per third-party corroboration.
- No done-for-you tier — Heepsy positions itself as a discovery and vetting tool; sourcing and outreach stay with your team.
What Seed doesn't do
- No creator search or discovery database — Seed only handles gifting once you already have a name.
- No audience or engagement-rate filtering to vet creators before reaching out.
- No creator marketplace — Seed runs on one branded link, not a browsable directory.