One plan, Pro: $399/month plus 1.25% of ad spend, after a 7-day free trial. Every campaign model is included.

Can I move a campaign from Sideshift?

Create it here with the same brief and the same way of paying. Creators apply from the feed; there is nothing to import.

Is the price the same across solutions?

The Pro plan is the same across every solution: $399/month plus 1.25% of ad spend.

Can I mix ways to pay on one campaign?

Yes. A campaign has one base, per video, hourly or commission-based, and one creator share on top, of ad spend or of sales. Views and samples are settings of the same campaign.

HourlyUGC vs Sideshift

What each one charges, every way each one pays creators, and what is in the box. Read on the dates shown.

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Every way to pay, side by side

One row per campaign model. Ours is the create form. Sideshift’s column is their plans page and their ads, read on 2026-11-04; where those say nothing, the cell is empty.

What	HourlyUGC	Sideshift
Platform price	Pro: $399/month plus 1.25% of ad spend, after a 7-day free trial.	Starter $299, Growth $499, Scale $999 a month. Annual $210, $349 and $699 a month, billed for the year.
Trial	7 days, cancel any time before it ends.	14 days, on monthly plans. Annual plans are charged for the year.
Per video	Yes. Pay per approved video. Slots you fund when you want.	Yes: you pay for the content you approve.
Hourly	Yes. Book a session; every video from it is yours.
Commission-based, no base pay	Yes. No base pay: the creator’s cut is a share of the ad spend or of the sales their video brings.	An affiliate-marketing use case is on their site.
Share of ad spend	Yes. 1–30% of what you spend running their video as an ad, capped per video.	Paid-ads tools and ROAS per creator are included.
Share of sales	Yes. 1–50% of every order their video brings, or a fixed amount per order. Counted on the network or on your store, through Shopify or the Hourly Pixel.	Revenue per creator is reported.
Per 1,000 views	Yes. A rate per 1,000 counted views of the creator’s own post. On top of any base.	Creators post on their own accounts; you pay for the content you approve.
Samples	Yes. Ship the product; they film it. On top of any base.
Any combination, one campaign	Yes. One base, one creator share of ad spend or of sales, plus views or samples: settings of the same campaign.	The plans differ by creators, listings and invites.

Platform price

HourlyUGC: Pro: $399/month plus 1.25% of ad spend, after a 7-day free trial.
Sideshift: Starter $299, Growth $499, Scale $999 a month. Annual $210, $349 and $699 a month, billed for the year.

Trial

HourlyUGC: 7 days, cancel any time before it ends.
Sideshift: 14 days, on monthly plans. Annual plans are charged for the year.

Per video

HourlyUGC: Yes. Pay per approved video. Slots you fund when you want.
Sideshift: Yes: you pay for the content you approve.

Hourly

HourlyUGC: Yes. Book a session; every video from it is yours.

Commission-based, no base pay

HourlyUGC: Yes. No base pay: the creator’s cut is a share of the ad spend or of the sales their video brings.
Sideshift: An affiliate-marketing use case is on their site.

Share of ad spend

HourlyUGC: Yes. 1–30% of what you spend running their video as an ad, capped per video.
Sideshift: Paid-ads tools and ROAS per creator are included.

Share of sales

HourlyUGC: Yes. 1–50% of every order their video brings, or a fixed amount per order. Counted on the network or on your store, through Shopify or the Hourly Pixel.
Sideshift: Revenue per creator is reported.

Per 1,000 views

HourlyUGC: Yes. A rate per 1,000 counted views of the creator’s own post. On top of any base.
Sideshift: Creators post on their own accounts; you pay for the content you approve.

Samples

HourlyUGC: Yes. Ship the product; they film it. On top of any base.

Any combination, one campaign

HourlyUGC: Yes. One base, one creator share of ad spend or of sales, plus views or samples: settings of the same campaign.
Sideshift: The plans differ by creators, listings and invites.

Sideshift’s column: sideshift.app/plans/brands, read 2026-11-04; Sideshift’s ads in the Meta Ad Library, read 2026-11-04. Ours is the product as it runs today.

Where the two differ most

Sideshift is built around volume: many creators posting on their own accounts, paid for the content you approve. HourlyUGC is built around the ways you pay: one campaign can pay per video, book hours, pay a commission, share ad spend or sales, pay per view, ship samples.

By the hour

A session instead of a rate per asset. One booking, several hooks, every video yours.

Price

Pro: $399/month plus 1.25% of ad spend, after a 7-day free trial.

Money in escrow

Nothing moves until you approve the work. No approval, no payout.

Around the campaign

The rest of the box, from the same pages.

What	HourlyUGC	Sideshift
Where the videos run	Your ads on Meta, from your ad account, or the creator’s own post, paid per 1,000 views.	Creators post on their own accounts. Paid-ads tools are included.
Creators at a time	No cap by plan. Invites are a daily allowance that grows with what you pay creators.	15, 50 or unlimited at a time, by plan.
Contracts and rights	Yours the moment payment clears, paid and organic. The contract sits with the video in your Library.	Contracts and usage rights included.
Payouts	Escrow from accept to approval. Creators withdraw by card, PayPal or wire.	1-click payouts; 1099 and W-9 handled.
Agencies	A seat in each client’s workspace, switched from the top bar.	A multi-client dashboard and white-label, on separate agency plans.
Managed service	A 15-minute call reads your store and maps the first campaign.	From a $20,000 monthly budget, on request.

Where the videos run

HourlyUGC: Your ads on Meta, from your ad account, or the creator’s own post, paid per 1,000 views.
Sideshift: Creators post on their own accounts. Paid-ads tools are included.

Creators at a time

HourlyUGC: No cap by plan. Invites are a daily allowance that grows with what you pay creators.
Sideshift: 15, 50 or unlimited at a time, by plan.

Contracts and rights

HourlyUGC: Yours the moment payment clears, paid and organic. The contract sits with the video in your Library.
Sideshift: Contracts and usage rights included.

Payouts

HourlyUGC: Escrow from accept to approval. Creators withdraw by card, PayPal or wire.
Sideshift: 1-click payouts; 1099 and W-9 handled.

Agencies

HourlyUGC: A seat in each client’s workspace, switched from the top bar.
Sideshift: A multi-client dashboard and white-label, on separate agency plans.

Managed service

HourlyUGC: A 15-minute call reads your store and maps the first campaign.
Sideshift: From a $20,000 monthly budget, on request.