ShortStack vs SweepWidget Comparison 2026
ShortStack builds the whole contest, landing page, entry form, rules and a defensible random draw, free forever with view limits, then $24 a month billed annually. SweepWidget covers more entry actions than anything else at the price, including Twitch follows, Discord joins and crypto airdrops that most competitors skip entirely, from $29 a month, or about $24 once its own annual saving applies, which lands the two tools at almost the same price. ShortStack's free plan is usable for a small campaign. SweepWidget's free plan caps at ten entries, a preview rather than something to run.
Contests and giveaways with entry rules
Giveaways with entry methods on 30 platforms
At a glance
- ShortStack starts cheaper, at $24.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
ShortStack | SweepWidget | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $24 | From $29 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
ShortStack
Contests and giveaways with entry rules
ShortStack builds the contest itself, not only the widget: a landing page, the entry form, the rules that decide what counts as an entry, and the random draw at the end. Emails to entrants go out from the same place. Pricing is by page views rather than by entries, and overage is charged per thousand once a campaign catches on.
Only on this side
- Covers landing pages & funnels
- Works with Facebook
SweepWidget
Giveaways with entry methods on 30 platforms
SweepWidget covers more entry actions than anything else at the price, including the ones nobody else bothers with: Twitch follows, Discord joins, crypto airdrops. The widget embeds anywhere or runs on a hosted page. Its design editor is dated, and the styling controls that fix that sit two tiers up.
Only on this side
- Covers social media management
- Works with TikTok
- Works with Twitch
Why people weigh these two
- SweepWidget instead of ShortStack
- SweepWidget spans entry methods across 30 platforms at once, with a free tier and a $29 plan, wider platform coverage than ShortStack's Facebook-and-Instagram focus.
- ShortStack instead of SweepWidget
- ShortStack builds the whole landing page and entry form itself rather than an embeddable widget, from $24 with a free tier, priced by page views instead of by how many platforms the entries span.
Which one should you pick
Choose ShortStack if the rules need to hold up and the entries have to be defensible: the whole campaign, landing page, entry form and random draw, runs inside the tool, and pricing is by page views rather than entries. Launch is $24 a month billed annually, and nonprofits get 50 percent off every tier, which SweepWidget does not offer.
Choose SweepWidget if the giveaway lives on Twitch or Discord, or needs entry actions most competitors do not support at all, over a hundred of them including crypto airdrops. Pro is $29 a month, or about $24 once annual billing's 17 percent saving applies, which puts it almost exactly level with ShortStack. Do not judge it on the free plan, which caps at ten entries and functions as a preview rather than a usable tier, and expect the design editor to feel dated until the styling controls two tiers up.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, ShortStack or SweepWidget?
- They land close once both are billed annually: ShortStack's Launch tier is $24 a month billed annually, and SweepWidget's Pro tier works out to about the same, roughly $24, once its 17 percent annual saving is applied to the $29 monthly rate.
- Which one supports Twitch and Discord as entry methods?
- SweepWidget does, along with crypto airdrops and over a hundred other entry actions most competitors skip. ShortStack's entry rules are more general-purpose and are not built around gaming-platform-specific actions the way SweepWidget's are.
- Is either free plan actually usable for a real campaign?
- ShortStack's is: free forever with view limits, but a real, running campaign rather than a demo. SweepWidget's free plan caps at ten entries total, which functions as a preview rather than something to run a giveaway on.
- Which one is priced by views and which by entries?
- ShortStack prices by page views, with overage charged per thousand once a campaign catches on. SweepWidget's tiers are flat monthly fees separated by features, leaderboards, white labelling, API access, rather than metered by views or entries the way ShortStack's are.
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