CreatoRain vs Influee for restaurant chains: fees, caps and video costs compared

Influee in numbers

Influee is a marketplace where brands hire creators to make UGC videos and photos. The brand posts a campaign, creators apply, and the brand chooses who to hire. Its pricing page covers on-demand UGC creation. Each plan is billed monthly:

• Starter: $229 a month, for up to 10 collaborations a month.
• Basic: $529 a month, for up to 25 collaborations a month.
• Pro: $999 a month, for up to 50 collaborations a month.
• Enterprise: a custom number of collaborations, with no listed price.

If every slot is used, the plan fee per collaboration is $22.90 on Starter, $21.16 on Basic and $19.98 on Pro. Each collaboration allows unlimited content and unlimited revisions.

Creator pay is not part of the plan. Influee adds a 10% marketplace fee to each creator payment. In its own example, a payment of $100 costs the brand $110. The money is held in escrow until the brand approves the content.

The terms are short. There is no free trial. A plan can be cancelled at any time, and billing starts when the first campaign is published. If that first campaign starts no collaborations, Influee refunds the subscription in full. No annual plan is listed.

Influee also states its reach. It says more than 1,800 brands use it. It lists creators in 30+ countries and offers subtitles in 65 languages. It says creators apply to a new campaign within 24 hours, and that more than 90% of collaborations are completed on the first attempt. Its home page names 11 industries, with Food among them. None of the Influee pages we read on October 12, 2026 name restaurants.

What a restaurant chain pays on each

A year of Starter costs $2,748. Basic comes to $6,348 and Pro to $11,988. Those sums cover the plan alone.

Influee’s FAQ prices a US project: the Starter plan plus ten 30-second videos at an average of $57 each, for $799 in total. If the 10% fee is charged on that $570 of creator pay, it adds $57, for $856. Its price chart puts the average 30-second UGC video in the US at $91.

CreatoRain prices a finished video instead. It charges $300 a video, the creator’s pay included, with no monthly fee or minimum. At that price, ten videos cost $3,000.

On price per video alone, Influee costs less. The two buy different work, though. Influee says creators deliver within 7 to 10 days of receiving the product. A restaurant’s product is a meal served on site.

Where CreatoRain fits a chain better

The first difference is who does the work. On Influee, the brand writes the brief and sets criteria such as niche, audience size and engagement rate. It reviews the proposals, can chat with creators on the platform, and approves the content. A chain with many sites would repeat those steps.

With CreatoRain, the restaurant sends its locations and does not send a single email. CreatoRain’s in-house team finds, invites and pays the creators and follows up until each video is posted.

The second difference is the visit. CreatoRain books food creators from its network. Creators book their own visit, and the restaurant hosts it. A location can join a running campaign any day.

Reporting is the third. Influee tracks promo codes and UTM links, with traffic and conversion analytics. CreatoRain reports replies, visits booked by location and status, and videos submitted and approved. It does not report views or sales.

Where Influee wins

Influee is cheaper per video for product content, going by its own FAQ. The content is the brand’s to use on all digital mediums, paid and organic. Influee also offers raw footage for hooks and b-roll, plus its own video editor.

The plan has clear limits and a way out. Each tier caps collaborations, not videos. A plan can be cancelled at any time, and a first campaign with no collaborations is refunded in full.