One fee.Five percent.
No subscription, no seats, no setup fee. You fund creator spend plus 5% upfront, and unused budget and its matching fee remain in your Swayed balance for future campaigns.
Swayed is in prelaunch. The campaign features below describe our planned product, not live dashboard access. Join the waitlist for launch updates.
5%
on top of creator spend, plus applicable tax
- No subscription or seat fees
- Hard cap on every performance deal
- Unused funds stay as account credit
Illustrative product preview · not live campaign data
What you get
No subscription
Run one campaign a year or fifty. There’s no monthly minimum and nothing to cancel.
Unlimited seats
Invite your whole team with owner, finance and campaign roles at no extra cost.
A hard ceiling
Performance deals stop at the cap you funded, so the maximum charge really is the most you’ll pay.
Yes, you can seethe math.
Fund creator spend plus 5% upfront. Any unused budget and its matching fee stay in your Swayed balance for future campaigns, not as an automatic refund.
Performance deals always carry a hard cap, so you are never charged more than you funded. All money is calculated in whole cents.
You pay
- Creator budget
- $1,000.00
- Platform fee · 5%
- $50.00
- Tax
- Stripe Tax at checkout
- Maximum charge
- $1,050.00
- Available for future work
- $0.00
Example balance excludes tax adjustments. No routine cash refunds; exceptional cases go through support.
Your creator gets
- Approved earnings
- $1,000.00
- Creator fee · 10%
- −$100.00
- Payout costs
- Shown before release
- Net payout
- $900.00
- Paid out
- Wednesdays, 16:00 UTC
How itworks.
Fund budget + 5%
Pay creator spend plus the platform fee at checkout, with tax calculated by Stripe Tax.
Pay for approved posts
Money only moves to creators for posts that are verified and approved.
Use the rest later
Unused budget and its matching fee stay available in your Swayed balance for future campaigns.
At a glance
- Platform fee
- 5% of creator spend
- Subscription
- None
- Seats
- Unlimited
- Minimum campaign
- $250 creator spend
- Unused budget
- Held with its fee for future work
Good questions
More for brands
- Creator NetworkSearch verified creators in plain language and message them in one place.
- Build a campaignTurn a brief into a versioned Campaign Order both sides sign.
- Review and approvalsReview verified posts with native metrics and approve within 72 hours.
- Billing and invoicesItemised invoices, reusable balances and exports for your finance team.
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