Post Affiliate Pro vs Simple Kuma

Post Affiliate Pro helps companies run affiliate, referral, and influencer programs from one dashboard. It tracks clicks and conversions, supports direct-link tracking and different affiliate link styles, and includes partner management, multi-tier commissions, performance reporting, and automated workflows. Partners can receive banners, smart links, and discount coupons. A plugin and integration catalog covers e-commerce, payment, and marketing services. Free Android and iOS apps let users review traffic, finances, affiliates, links, and transactions. The product is available on Android, iOS, web, and API. Its 30-day free trial requires no credit card, and customer service is available 24/7 by email, live chat, phone, or customer portal. The product has no free plan. Annual Starter billing is $79 per month; monthly Starter billing is $89 per month. The maker says hosted accounts use HTTPS and API access is limited to accredited users using credentials or tokens. It also states that the product is GDPR compliant and offers US-only or Europe-only data location options.

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.