Aflink vs TUNE

Aflink is an affiliate management platform for brands, startups, creator-economy companies, influencers, and affiliates. It provides a partner portal, automated payouts, last-click attribution, and API access through its web and API platforms. Brands can set commission rates, attribution windows, and payout rules for recurring, one-time, or tier-based commissions. Referral links use a first-party 30-day token, server-side logging, and a salted IP fallback. Listed cookie windows are 30, 60, and 90 days, with custom windows on the Custom plan. Shared real-time dashboards show clicks, orders, commissions, and pending balances, with notifications and CSV export. Listed payment integrations include Stripe Connect, Fungies, PayPal, Visa Direct card payouts, and card, ACH, and wire top-ups. Tax features include W-9/W-8BEN collection and 1099-NEC and DAC7 generation on both plans. Free access covers the first five creators; additional creators cost $3.99 a month each. The Custom plan supports 6–500+ creators, unlimited concurrent campaigns, and priority email support.

TUNE is a partner marketing platform for brands, agencies and networks managing performance partnerships. Advertisers can recruit partners, manage offers, track conversions, optimize campaigns and pay commissions. Cookieless postback tracking covers apps, mobile web and desktop, with real-time reporting and data streaming. Automation can streamline workflows, detect and reject click fraud, and apply payout rules using configurable approvals, pay periods, currencies and payment processors. TUNE Marketplace helps customers find affiliate partners and manage partnerships, reporting and aggregated commission payments. The service is available on the web and through an API; TUNE says its two-way API has over 650 endpoints. Listed integrations include Branch, Kochava, AppsFlyer, Adjust, Singular, Payoneer, Tipalti, Shopify, WooCommerce and Google Tag Manager. TUNE lists SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certifications and GDPR compliance with ePrivacy certification. The Enterprise plan is $899 a month, paid annually. Scale is $1,500 a month, paid annually, and includes 2,500 conversions per month. There is no free plan; partner payments and onboarding are fee-based on the listed Scale plan.