Affilimate vs Simple Kuma

Affilimate is a paid web and API platform for publishers managing affiliate commerce analytics and sponsorship campaigns. It brings transactions, rates, and payouts together from more than 100 affiliate networks and platforms. Optimize provides article- and link-level revenue reporting, conversion heatmaps, content segmentation, traffic-source and UTM reports, and customizable attributes. Reports can be enriched with price, category, and availability data matched to links from more than 70 million tracked products. Amplify manages sponsorship campaigns from pitching through renewal, including CPA, CPC, and flat-spend campaigns with in-flight delivery tracking. Revenue tracking can include mobile apps, syndication partners such as Apple News and MSN, and social channels including Instagram and YouTube. Publisher API endpoints support commission data, custom events, advertiser searches, and link generation. Integrations include BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Power BI, Looker, Tableau, Databricks, and Metabase. Pricing is on request and depends on volume and required products or features.

Simple Kuma is a self-hosted affiliate tracker for monitoring clicks, costs, and conversions on infrastructure the user controls. Campaigns can include traffic sources, offers, landing pages, and tracking links, with real-time campaign statistics. Server-side JavaScript and PHP capture provide redirectless tracking intended to preserve tracking tokens. Its mobile-friendly dashboard shows clicks, conversions, revenue, ROI, visitor logs, and campaign data. REST API v1 supports campaign, offer, and statistics management using Bearer API keys, with a documented limit of 120 requests per minute per key. The project repository describes Meta/Facebook ad cost sync, Google Ads cost sync, and Google conversion delivery. A guided installer covers requirements, database connection, and administrator setup. Hosting requires PHP 8.2 or later, MySQL 8 or later or MariaDB 10.3 or later, and Apache or Nginx. The maker says data stays on the user's server, and the code is published under AGPL-3.0. The Free forever plan costs nothing and lists unlimited campaigns, clicks, domains, offers, and traffic sources.