Awin vs LeadDyno Comparison 2026
Awin is a network: publishers already using it apply to your programme, and Awin takes $49 a month plus 3.5 percent of every tracked sale for the introduction, dropping to 2.5 percent at $99. LeadDyno charges no percentage at all. It is software for running a programme with affiliates you find yourself, priced at a flat $49 to $749 a month by how many commission structures you need, not by how much they sell. The more a programme earns, the more that difference is worth.
The affiliate network ShareASale merged into
Run an affiliate programme without a platform fee
At a glance
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Awin | LeadDyno | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $49 | From $49 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
| Data export |
Awin
The affiliate network ShareASale merged into
Awin is a global affiliate network on both sides: publishers join to find programmes to promote, and brands pay to run one. ShareASale is now part of it, so a creator who had an account there arrives here. What separates it from affiliate software is that the network handles recruiting, tracking and payment across thousands of merchants at once, rather than running one brand's programme. Advertisers pay a monthly fee plus a percentage of each tracked transaction.
Our note
Read this page as a brand and the publisher page as a creator, because the two sides of a network are priced nothing alike and only one of them is quoted here. If you arrived looking for ShareASale, this is where it went.
Only on this side
- Covers brand deals & sponsorships
LeadDyno
Run an affiliate programme without a platform fee
LeadDyno is affiliate tracking for a business that wants its own programme rather than a listing on somebody's network: affiliates get a link and a dashboard, commissions are calculated on your rules, and payouts run from the same place. Pricing is a flat monthly fee by feature tier rather than a share of the sales it tracks, which matters once the programme works. Recruiting affiliates is still entirely your problem.
Why people weigh these two
- LeadDyno instead of Awin
- Affiliate software from $49 whose pitch is no platform fee on top, against Awin's monthly fee plus a percentage of each tracked transaction.
- Awin instead of LeadDyno
- Awin starts at the same $49 as LeadDyno, but it is a network, plugging the program into affiliates already signed up rather than leaving recruiting entirely to you.
Which one should you pick
Take Awin when you have no affiliates yet and want access to publishers who are already promoting other brands. The fee is $49 a month plus 3.5 percent of each tracked sale at the entry tier, or $99 plus 2.5 percent above it, and that percentage is the cost of not having to recruit from nothing.
Take LeadDyno once you already have people who would promote the product and just need the tracking, dashboards and payouts built around them. The fee is flat: $49 a month for one commission plan, rising to $129, $349 and $749 as you need more reward structures, never a cut of what affiliates sell. Recruiting stays entirely manual, so this only pays off if finding partners is not the hard part.
Common questions
- Does LeadDyno take a percentage of affiliate sales?
- No. It charges a flat monthly fee, from $49 to $749 depending on how many commission structures the programme needs. Awin charges $49 or $99 a month plus 3.5 percent or 2.5 percent of every tracked sale.
- Which one helps find affiliates to promote a product?
- Awin does. Publishers already on the network apply to a listed programme, so recruiting is partly done for you. LeadDyno has no marketplace of affiliates; finding people to promote the product stays entirely manual.
- At what point does a flat fee beat a percentage?
- Once tracked sales through affiliates pass a few thousand dollars a month, a flat LeadDyno tier tends to cost less than Awin's percentage. Below that, the percentage on Awin's smaller base can be the cheaper option.
- What forces an upgrade from LeadDyno's cheapest tier?
- The number of commission structures, not the number of affiliates or how much they sell. The entry tier at $49 a month allows one reward structure and one commission plan; the second tier at $129 allows three.
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