Modash is a creator search engine: 380 million-plus profiles by its own claim, audience demographics, fake-follower detection, and revealed contact info, built to help you find creators you don't know yet. Seed is a gifting form for creators you already have a relationship with. If you need to build a creator list from zero, pick Modash. If you already have names and just need product to reach their door with a real Shopify order behind it, pick Seed. Most brands eventually need both, at different points in the funnel.
Price, verified 2026-08-19
| Seed | Modash | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry tier | Free, $0/mo, 5 orders, 1 campaign | Essentials, $199/mo |
| Mid tier | Starter, $19/mo, 50 orders, 5 campaigns | Performance, $499/mo |
| Top tier | Scale Gifts, $49/mo or $499/yr, unlimited orders | Enterprise, from $14,700/yr |
| Managed / done-for-you | Concierge, $299/mo | Not published as a self-serve tier |
Modash's own pricing page confirms the exact caps: Essentials allows 300 profile opens and 150 email unlocks a month across 100 tracked creators, Performance allows 800 profile opens and 400 email unlocks across 250 tracked creators, with no rollover if you don't use them. That's a different unit of value than Seed sells. Open too many profiles or reveal too many emails in a month on Essentials and you're pushed toward Performance, regardless of how many gifts you actually shipped that same month, since gifting activity isn't what the meter tracks at all. To Modash's credit, its own FAQ confirms no forced annual commitment at either tier: "you can choose between monthly or yearly plans and upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time."
Seed's meter is the opposite: it counts orders, not searches. A merchant who runs one big Modash search session to build a list of 200 candidates, then gifts to 15 of them, pays Modash for the 200 profiles opened and pays Seed for the 15 orders shipped. The two bills measure completely different activity.
What each is actually built for
Seed assumes you already know who you're gifting to. A merchant shares one link, the creator picks a product and variant and types an address, and a real $0 Shopify draft order lands in the admin, gated behind a human approval before it's ever created as a live order. Post-delivery, Seed reads fulfillment webhooks and tracks who posted on a Kanban board.
Modash is a discovery database. You search by niche, audience location, engagement rate, and follower count, screen for fake followers, and pull verified contact details for creators you'd otherwise have to find manually on Instagram or TikTok search. It has no fulfillment layer at all; once you've found a creator through Modash, you still need something else, a DM, an email, a spreadsheet, or a tool like Seed, to actually get product to them.
The two halves of the same funnel
Think of a gifting program as two steps: find the creator, then ship to them. Modash is built entirely for step one and stops there. It'll tell you a creator's audience is 62% US, engagement rate is 4.1%, and roughly 8% of their followers look fake, but it has no concept of "product," "variant," "draft order," or "shipping address." Once you've decided a creator is worth gifting to, you're back to manually DMing them, or exporting a list into a spreadsheet and chasing addresses one by one.
Seed picks up exactly where that leaves off and stops there too. We don't know anything about a creator's audience quality before they click our link; we trust that the merchant already vetted them, through Modash, through a personal DM, or because the creator reached out first. Once they're on our form, the product picker, variant selection, address collection, and Shopify draft order creation all happen without either side touching a spreadsheet.
Worth knowing before you buy: Modash does run a separate Shopify App Store listing (apps.shopify.com/modash) at 5.0 stars from 14 reviews, a smaller review count than most of the dedicated gifting apps in this category but a perfect rating on what exists. 300 profile opens and 150 email unlocks a month sounds like a lot until you're actively sourcing for a campaign, and G2 reviews compiled separately (not independently re-verified by us against the original threads) describe teams getting pushed from Essentials to Performance mid-cycle just from normal browsing. Because Modash's data comes from scraping social profiles at scale rather than creators submitting their own information, users also report that revealed email addresses bounce more often than you'd expect, and that audience-quality metrics like fake-follower percentages can be stale by the time you act on them.
Where Modash genuinely wins
If your gifting program is stuck because you don't have enough creators lined up, Modash solves a problem Seed can't touch. We have zero discovery functionality. Seed assumes a creator link already exists in your outreach process; we don't search Instagram or TikTok for you, we don't screen for fake followers, and we don't hand you verified email addresses. Modash's 380-million-plus-profile database, per its own site, and audience analytics are a real, specific capability we don't have and aren't planning to build, because it's a different product.
Modash also runs a blog post targeting Shopify Collabs alternatives and its own dedicated gifting-category page, so it's already thinking about brands adjacent to Seed's audience, even though its own gifting content is pitched at teams already running 100 to 500-plus creators, a scale most Seed merchants haven't reached yet.
That scale claim matters practically. If you're trying to seed 300 creators in a niche this quarter, cold-DMing each one after finding them on Instagram search is a full-time job. Modash's bulk search, filtering, and audience overlap tools compress that into an afternoon. Seed has no equivalent; we assume the list already exists by the time a creator reaches our link.
Who should not pick Seed
If your bottleneck is finding creators, not shipping to them, Seed will not help. We're the second half of the workflow: once you have a name and a reason to reach out, we make the fulfillment fast. If you're starting from zero with no creator list and no inbound DMs to work from, spend your budget on a discovery tool like Modash first.
Who should not pick Modash
If you already have a working list of creators, whether from inbound DMs, past customers, or a prior campaign, and your actual bottleneck is turning "yes, I'll post" into a shipped product without re-keying addresses into Shopify by hand, Modash's $199-plus/mo buys you a database you won't use. Seed's Free tier costs nothing and handles the fulfillment step Modash doesn't touch at all. Paying $199/mo for a discovery tool you'll open once a quarter, because you already have more inbound creator DMs than you can fulfill, is money spent on the wrong half of the problem.
What to do next
If you're choosing between the two, ask which step in your funnel is actually broken: not enough creators, or too much manual work getting product to the ones you have. A lot of brands end up running both, Modash for the quarterly push to find new faces, Seed for the weekly grind of shipping to whoever said yes, the way hiccpet runs 19 gifts a week. Seed's plans are at /pricing, and the app installs from apps.shopify.com/influencer-form. We're new, 5.0 stars from 2 reviews as of this writing, so factor that into how much you're willing to trust us on day one.
Frequently asked questions
Does Modash's price scale with gifting volume?
No. Modash meters profile opens and email unlocks, not gifts shipped. A merchant who searches 200 candidates and gifts to 15 pays Modash for the 200 profiles opened and pays Seed for the 15 orders, two completely different meters.
Does Modash require a long-term contract?
No. Modash's own FAQ confirms no forced annual commitment at either tier: you can choose monthly or yearly plans and upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time.
Does Modash create Shopify orders?
No. Modash has no fulfillment layer at all. Once you've found a creator through Modash, you still need something else, a DM, an email, or a tool like Seed, to actually get product to them.
Do Modash's usage caps get consumed quickly?
Often faster than expected. G2 reviews describe teams getting pushed from Essentials (300 profile opens, 150 email unlocks) to Performance mid-cycle just from normal browsing, with no rollover for unused allowance.
Who should not pick Modash?
A brand that already has a working creator list whose actual bottleneck is turning a yes into a shipped product without re-keying addresses. Modash's $199+/mo buys a database you won't use if discovery isn't the problem.