Pricingthe whole business model, on one line
A flat 5% each side.
That's the page.
Creators keep 95% of the agreed price. Brands pay 5% on top of it. That's about 10% combined1 — disclosed to both sides, with no subscription before your first deal and no markup hidden in the middle.
No card to brief a campaign. Your card is charged when you accept a creator.
ViewStage
Deal receipt · shown to both sides
- Agreed deal price
- $1,000.00
- Brand service fee (5%)
- +$50.00
- Brand pays
- $1,050.00
- Platform fee (5%)
- −$50.00
- Creator receives
- $950.00
- ViewStage keeps
- $100.00
- Subscription
- $0.00
- Hidden markup
- $0.00
No middleman was paid
in the making of this deal
№ 02What the 5% covers
One fee, two halves.
Brand side
5% on top of the deal
The brand pays the agreed price plus a flat 5% service fee. That covers matching, the AI review on every submission, card processing, and payouts — there's no separate seat, retainer, or platform charge layered on after.1
Creator side
Keep 95% of what you agreed
A flat 5% comes out of the agreed price — and that's the only deduction. You see the brand's number, you see yours, and the difference between them is printed on the same receipt the brand gets.1
Stripe processes the brand's payment, and those processing costs come out of ViewStage's share — not added to either side's line.1 Nothing is metered, nothing is upsold: the 5%/5% is the entire price of using ViewStage.
№ 03No subscription
You pay when a deal happens.
Most influencer-marketing platforms bill a monthly subscription whether you run a campaign or not. ViewStage doesn't. There is no seat to buy and no plan to pick — the 5% on each side is the only money that ever moves to us, and only when a real deal clears.3
What ViewStage does not charge
- Monthly subscription
- $0.00
- Per-seat licence
- $0.00
- Retainer or minimum spend
- $0.00
- Listing or application fee
- $0.00
- Markup on the agreed price
- $0.00
The only fee → 5% each side
№ 04How a deal gets priced
The agreed number is the deal.
ViewStage doesn't set deal sizes — you do. The price is whatever a brand and a creator agree on, and that's the exact figure the 5%/5% is calculated against.2
The brand sets a per-creator budget
When a campaign goes live it carries a budget the brand is willing to pay each creator — the ceiling for the conversation, visible up front.
The creator proposes their rate
Creators see the budget and apply with the number they want for the work. No blind bidding, no agent relaying figures back and forth.
The brand pays the agreed amount
Once both sides accept a number, the brand's card is charged for it before filming starts. The creator is paid when the brand approves the work, or when the brand leaves a video the AI review cleared or flagged for 10 days.2
№ 05The comparison nobody prints
The same $1,000 deal, elsewhere.
On ViewStage, a $1,000 deal costs the brand $1,050 and leaves the creator with $950 — every figure on the receipt above. Here's where the same deal goes on the platforms creators usually compare against.3
- Through a talent agency
- 20–50% disappeared in the middle on our founder’s own deals — and he rarely learned the real number.
- On Fiverr
- Sellers keep ~$800 after the 20% commission; buyers pay another 5.5% service fee on top.
- On Collabstr
- 15% from the creator and 10% from the brand — about $250 gone from the middle of a $1,000 deal.
- On subscription influencer-marketing platforms
- $229–$999 a month on the published plans, billed whether or not a single creator gets paid.
“They don't have to tell you what the deal is actually worth — as long as you agree to your number, they keep the difference.”
№ 06Admission
Nothing to price out. Just start.
No plan to compare, no card to enter. Set up either side in a couple of minutes — the 5% only ever applies to a deal you've already agreed to.
The fine print (we mean it)
- 1.ViewStage's standard rate is 5% added on the brand's side and 5% deducted on the creator's side of the agreed price — about 10% of a deal combined, all of it disclosed to both parties. Stripe processes the brand's payment, and payment-processing costs come out of ViewStage's share, not yours.
- 2.Each campaign carries a per-creator budget the brand sets; creators see it and propose their own rate. The number both sides agree on is what the brand is charged when it accepts, plus the 5% service fee, and the 5%/5% is calculated against that agreed amount, so the receipt is the deal with nothing added later. The creator is paid when the brand approves the work, and also if the brand's review window closes with no decision: 10 days from the moment the AI review returns its verdict, after ViewStage has emailed the brand and sent a reminder. A video the review declined never settles that way, and across revision rounds the total is capped at 21 days from the first delivery. Before any payout, ViewStage checks the post's title, description and pinned comment for the required disclosure, the brand link and a call to action. If that check fails, the amount is under the payout provider's minimum, or the creator has no payout destination set up within 14 days of approval, the brand is refunded and the creator is not paid.
- 3.Sources, checked September 2026: Fiverr keeps a 20% commission from sellers and charges buyers a 5.5% service fee, plus $3.50 on orders under $200 (help.fiverr.com/hc/en-us/articles/9234443621137 and help.fiverr.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050216133). Collabstr charges creators 15% and brands a 10% hiring fee on its free plan (collabstr.com/pricing). Upfluence, Aspire, and #paid quote prices privately. Subscription influencer-marketing platforms that publish prices list $229–$999 a month (influee.co/pricing) and $400–$800 a month (insense.pro/pricing), plus a marketplace fee on creator payments. The agency range is Duke's lived experience across years of sponsored video, not a market survey — talent agencies are not required to disclose the value of the underlying deal to the creator.