Modash is a creator search engine first: 380 million-plus profiles by its own claim, audience demographics, fake-follower detection, and revealed contact info. It also ships a gifting checkout, included on its paid plans, that creates a real, live Shopify order the moment a creator completes it — discovery is why brands buy Modash, and order creation comes bundled once you do. Seed is the opposite shape: a gifting form and nothing else, priced as the entry product rather than a feature layered onto a $199-plus/mo discovery platform. If you need to build a creator list from zero and gifting is a feature you'd use occasionally, Modash's bundle is worth a look. If gifting is the whole job, Seed is built and priced for exactly that.
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 first. 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. Once you've found someone worth gifting to, Modash's own gifting checkout can take it from there: a Modash-generated link creates a real, live Shopify order on the brand's own store the moment a creator completes it, no separate spreadsheet or DM required if you're already inside Modash's discovery flow.
What actually differs: a bundled feature vs. the entry product
Modash's gifting checkout is real: a creator who completes a Modash-generated gift link gets a live Shopify order created on the brand's store immediately, no separate step required. That's not a workaround or a discount code, it's a genuine order-creation mechanic that ships with Modash's paid plans. The mechanical difference from Seed is approval: Modash's order exists the moment checkout completes; Seed's order sits as a $0 draft, unapproved, until a human on the brand side clicks approve. For a brand that wants a person to see every gift before it becomes a real order, that gate is the actual product difference, not whether an order gets created at all.
The other real difference is price and scope. Modash's cheapest tier is $199/mo, and gifting is one feature on top of a platform sold for its 380-million-plus-profile database, audience analytics, and fake-follower detection, order creation is bundled in, not the reason you're paying. Seed has no database, no audience analytics, and no follower-fraud screening; gifting fulfillment is the entire product, and the entry price reflects that: $0/mo free, $19/mo Starter. If discovery is genuinely a feature you need, Modash's bundle is good value for what it includes. If gifting is the only feature you'll use, you're paying $199/mo for a database sitting mostly idle.
Seed picks up where discovery leaves off, whether that discovery happened on Modash, through a personal DM, or because the creator reached out first. We don't know anything about a creator's audience quality before they click our link; we trust the merchant already vetted them. Once they're on our form, the product picker, variant selection, address collection, and draft-order creation all happen without either side touching a spreadsheet, gated behind approval before anything goes live.
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's gifting checkout also bundles discount-code generation, affiliate-link tracking, and creator commission payouts into the same product, features Seed's flat, fee-free model doesn't offer at all. If part of your program pays ongoing commission on sales rather than a one-time gift, that's a real reason to prefer Modash's bundle over stitching a separate affiliate tool onto a gifting-only form.
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, and a gifting checkout bundled with it, you're paying ten times Seed's entry price to reach. 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. 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.
What Modash doesn't do
- Gift orders are created immediately at checkout, with no brand-approval step before the Shopify order exists.
- No free tier is published; only a 14-day trial capped at 20 profile views, 6 email unlocks, and 10 tracked creators.
- Essentials ($199/mo) caps monthly usage at 300 profile opens, 150 email unlocks, and 100 tracked creators, unrelated to gifts sent.
- Enterprise tier starts at $14,700/yr and requires a custom quote beyond the two published self-serve tiers.
- No done-for-you tier — Modash positions itself as a self-serve discovery and gifting tool; no managed outreach service is advertised.
What Seed doesn't do
- No creator discovery database — Seed doesn't search by niche, audience location, or follower count.
- No audience analytics or fake-follower screening — Seed trusts that a creator relationship already exists before the link is shared.
- No affiliate-link tracking or commission payouts — Seed creates the $0 gift order and stops there.