Comparison
LinkProfit vs Dub
Two products that both talk about partners and mean completely different things by it. The table below separates them.
When to look for an alternative
Dub is the design and API benchmark for everyone building in this space, and the open-source core is a genuine advantage: you can read how the product works rather than inferring it from documentation. Developers who have used it tend to like it, and that reputation is earned.
The confusion between the two products comes from one word. Dub Partners is affiliate-program infrastructure that a Dub customer runs for their own affiliates, starting on Business at $90 a month, with white-labeling of those partner programs on Advanced at $300. LinkProfit's partner is the reseller: the agency or operator who sells link management to clients under their own brand and gets paid by them. Same word, opposite direction.
Read the table with that distinction in hand. Dub's white-labeling applies to the affiliate program a customer runs on top of Dub; the Dub product itself is not sold onward under somebody else's brand, and their own affiliate scheme — 30% of a sale for one year — is a referral arrangement rather than a reseller one. Both platforms can run an affiliate program; what differs is what the program hangs off. On Dub it is the customer's own product. Here it is the link service the reseller sells, and the affiliates are the people who bring that service its subscribers.
Side by side
Dub data collected August 12, 2026 from public pricing and documentation pages; verify current terms with the vendor before deciding.
| Capability | Dub | LinkProfit |
|---|---|---|
| What the product sells | Link management with affiliate-program infrastructure for the customer's own affiliates. | A link platform you resell: your brand, your plans, your clients, your revenue. |
| Price of the partner layer | Dub Partners from $90 a month on Business; white-labeling those programs on Advanced at $300. Enterprise is custom. | $49 Starter, $149 Growth, $399 Scale. White-label dashboard domain from Growth. |
| Meaning of "white label" | White-labeling applies to Dub Partners, the affiliate program a customer runs on top of Dub. The Dub product itself is not sold onward under someone else's brand. | The dashboard your clients log into is yours: name, logo, colours, favicon, login page, email sender, reports and hostname. |
| Reselling subscriptions | None. Dub's own affiliate program pays 30% of a sale for one year, which is a referral arrangement rather than a reseller one. | Your plans from $5 a month, cards via Stripe Connect, payouts to your bank, platform fee 15% / 12% / 10%. |
| Developer experience | API-first with an open-source core — the reference point of the category. | REST API from Growth with scoped keys, cursor pagination, signed webhooks and a published OpenAPI document. Closed source. |
| Client workspaces | Workspaces exist, but they belong to one paying customer. | 50 / 250 / 1,000 isolated client workspaces, each with its own users, domains and subscription. |
| Custom domains | On paid plans; per-plan counts were not part of our August 2026 data set. | 3 / 10 / 30 by plan, unlimited on Enterprise, with automatic certificates on every plan. |
| Analytics retention | Not part of our August 2026 data set. | At least 12 months on every plan, 24 months on Scale, set per workspace. |
| Conversion tracking | Click analytics with conversion and payout reporting for affiliate programs. | Signed click identifier, first-party cookie on your own domain, server API and browser script, revenue in whole cents inside every breakdown. |
| Affiliate program for your own service | Dub Partners is the reference implementation of this job, and it hangs off the customer's own product: from $90 a month on Business, white-labeled on Advanced at $300. | From Growth: referral links and promo codes for the people who bring you subscribers, commission accrued on payment and reversed on refunds, a holding period before it matures, then an exported payout register. |
| Payouts | Payouts to the customer's affiliates, as part of running an affiliate program. | Two flows. Your clients' subscriptions settle to your bank account through Stripe Connect with the platform fee deducted at the source. Commission owed to your affiliates is calculated, held and listed in a register — you make that transfer yourself; the platform does not pay your affiliates. |
| Traffic quality controls | Not part of our August 2026 data set. | Up to 20 ordered rules per link plus a workspace set: network type, verified-crawler check, quality score, geography, autonomous system, address list, local hour and first-versus-repeat visit. |
| Geography detail | Click analytics; city and network level breakdowns were not part of our August 2026 data set. | Region and city with GeoNames identifiers, coordinates with an accuracy radius, network and provider, and activity by the visitor's own local hour. |
| Source availability | Open-source core — you can read and self-host it. | Closed source. Nothing here is self-hostable. |
Quotes and figures in the Dub column are reproduced in the vendor's original English, exactly as published when the data was collected on August 12, 2026: translating a vendor's own wording would change what it claims.
Two meanings of "partner"
On Dub, a partner is an affiliate of one of Dub's customers. The customer runs a program, recruits affiliates, tracks their referrals and pays them commission, and Dub provides the plumbing for that program starting at $90 a month. White-labeling on the $300 Advanced plan applies to the program those affiliates see, not to Dub itself.
On LinkProfit, a partner is the business that resells the platform. You sign up, connect your brand and your Stripe account, create plans, and sell link management to clients who log into something that carries your name from the login page to the invoice. Your clients never learn that LinkProfit exists.
The practical test is simple: ask who is paying whom. In Dub's model the customer pays Dub and pays their affiliates. In ours the client pays you, and the platform takes a percentage of that payment on the way through. If you also open a program of your own, a third arrow appears — you pay your affiliates out of that revenue, from a register the platform prepares and you settle.
Developer experience, honestly assessed
Dub is better here and it is not particularly close. An open-source core means the behaviour is readable rather than described, the API surface has been shaped by developers using it in public, and the documentation reflects a product built API-first rather than API-eventually.
What we publish is a REST API from the Growth plan with scoped keys, cursor pagination and signed webhooks, described by an OpenAPI document that our interactive reference is generated from — so the reference cannot drift away from the running service. It covers operations Dub has no equivalent for, because they belong to the reseller model: creating a client workspace, provisioning its domain, reading its subscription and its usage.
If your requirement is "the nicest API in the category to build a link feature on", that is Dub. If it is "an API that can provision and bill client accounts under my brand", that is not something Dub models at all.
Where the money comes from
Both products cost money and one of them can also produce it. On Dub the fee is a running cost of operating your own affiliate program: $90 a month for the infrastructure, $300 if you want that program to carry your branding rather than theirs.
On LinkProfit the subscription is a floor under a revenue line. Fifty client workspaces are included at $49, two hundred and fifty at $149 and a thousand at $399; each of those clients subscribes to a plan you priced, and the platform fee comes out of their payment rather than your bank account. At 15% on Starter, ten clients at $25 a month return $212.50 to you.
Neither model is better in the abstract. They answer different questions, and the mistake is assuming the shared vocabulary means they answer the same one.
Migrating is a CSV, not a project
Dub is not one of the three importer presets — Bitly, Short.io and Rebrandly — so a CSV export needs its columns mapped to the slug, destination, title and tags shape our importer expects. After that it behaves identically: 1,000 rows per batch, slugs preserved character for character, and links landing in whichever client workspace you choose.
Affiliate program data does not transfer either, and the reason is no longer that there is nowhere to put it. There is a program here; what there is no importer for is somebody else's. The two also hang off different things: a program on Dub Partners promotes your product, a program here recruits affiliates for the link service you resell. If you run the first, it stays on Dub; what moves is link management. Domains you control move with a DNS change and keep their slugs, so printed and published URLs continue to resolve throughout.
Frequently asked questions
Is Dub a white-label platform?
Only in one narrow sense. White-labeling on the $300 Advanced plan applies to Dub Partners — the affiliate program a Dub customer runs for their own affiliates. The Dub product itself is not sold onward under somebody else's brand, so a client of yours logging into Dub sees Dub.
Which has the better API?
Dub. It is API-first with an open-source core and is the developer-experience benchmark for the category. Ours starts at the Growth plan and is documented by a published OpenAPI file, but it is closed source and we would not claim it is nicer to build on. It does cover reseller operations Dub does not model.
Can I resell Dub to my clients?
No. There is no reseller program: Dub's own affiliate scheme pays 30% of a sale for one year, which is a referral arrangement. Your clients would each hold their own Dub account, billed by Dub, using Dub's brand.
Can I self-host LinkProfit the way I can self-host Dub?
No. Dub's open-source core makes self-hosting a real option and that is a genuine advantage if you want the code on your own infrastructure. LinkProfit is closed source and runs as a hosted platform; what you get instead is the billing, branding and client isolation layer already built.
Do you do affiliate payouts?
We calculate them; we do not send them. From the Growth plan you can run an affiliate program for your own link service: the platform attributes the referral, accrues commission on each payment, reverses it when money is refunded, holds it until it matures and produces the payout register. The transfer to the affiliate is executed by you from that register, not by us. Your own money is a different flow and does move automatically: your clients' subscriptions settle to your bank account through Stripe Connect with the platform fee deducted at the source. A program around a product that is not a link service is still not something we host, and Dub Partners is built for exactly that.
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