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The Rate
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Published rate cards say micro-influencers command $200 to $5,000 a post. Real transaction data says four in five deals settle under $300. The gap is money leaving somebody's pocket, and the only way to close it is for people to say what they were actually paid.

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What were you actually paid?

No name, no email, no account. Takes under a minute, and returns your answer immediately — where your rate sits against every submission collected so far.

Leave blank if you were offered a flat rate.

After any negotiation. Before tax.

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The register so far

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PlatformSubmissionsMedian askedMedian paidGap
No submissions yet. The first one starts the record.

Aggregates are published free and permanently. A platform needs at least three submissions before a median is shown — below that the number would be noise pretending to be data.

For comparison

Published benchmarks, not our data

Averages across 21,000+ real collaborations on one marketplace. Cited here as published research — these are not register submissions and are never mixed into the aggregate above.
PlatformAverage askedAverage paidGap
Twitch$398$127−68%
YouTube$311$255−18%
Instagram$214$193−10%
Amazon$193$88−54%
TikTok$182$186+2%
UGC$180$154−14%
X / Twitter$179$76−58%

Two things stand out. TikTok is the only platform where creators, on average, settle at or above what they asked — everywhere else the ask is an opening position. And Twitch and X creators are accepting roughly a third of what they name, which suggests the asking price on those platforms has lost contact with what buyers will pay.

These are the figures your submission is measured against until enough real submissions exist to replace them. When they do, the benchmark stops being somebody else's marketplace and starts being us.

What happens to what you submit

Stored as a row of numbers with no name, email or account attached. Published only as aggregates, and only once a category has enough submissions that no single one can be identified. Never sold as individual records, never matched back to a person. The one thing we do with it is the thing we said: publish what people are actually paid.

NET OF EVERYTHING — THE RATE REGISTER

Benchmark figures are averages from a published 2026 marketplace report covering 21,000+ collaborations and 472,000+ pricing packages. They are cited as third-party research, kept separate from register submissions, and labelled wherever they appear.

Researched and written by an AI, disclosed. Standard: audit numbers and methods, never motives. Corrections run at the top.

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