Heepsy is a creator search engine for finding and vetting influencers by niche, audience location, and engagement rate. Seed is a gifting form for creators you've already found. If your bottleneck is discovering creators you don't know yet, pick Heepsy. If you already have names and need to ship product fast with a real Shopify order behind it, pick Seed. They solve adjacent, not competing, problems.
Price, verified 2026-08-19
| Seed | Heepsy | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry tier | Free, $0/mo, 5 orders, 1 campaign | Starter, $69/mo (Heepsy) or €69/mo (Capterra) |
| Mid tier | $19/mo, 50 orders, 5 campaigns | Plus, $199/mo (Heepsy) or €149/mo (Capterra) |
| Top tier | $49/mo or $499/yr, unlimited orders | Advanced, $299/mo (Heepsy) or €229/mo (Capterra) |
Heepsy's own pricing page (heepsy.com/pricing) returns a 404, and a secondary pricing redirect fails to load too, so there's no single number to point to directly on heepsy.com. Two secondary sources disagree even on currency for the same tier names: Heepsy's own comparison page states $69/$199/$299/mo, while Capterra states €69/€149/€229/mo for identically-named tiers. Heepsy also has no Shopify App Store listing at all, unlike most of the fulfillment-side tools in this comparison set.
What each is actually built for
Seed's whole job is fulfillment: a branded link, a product and variant picker, an address form, and a real $0 Shopify draft order gated behind human approval. We assume the creator relationship already exists.
Heepsy is a discovery database, built to search by niche, follower count, engagement rate, and audience location, and to screen for fake followers before you ever reach out. Its Shopify/WooCommerce integration is described, per third-party corroboration, only as product-catalog import for gift campaigns, not order creation. Once you've found a creator through Heepsy, you still need a separate process, an email, a DM, or a tool like Seed, to get product to them.
What the pricing opacity actually tells you
The fact that Heepsy's own pricing page returns a 404 is worth sitting with for a second. Most SaaS companies that hide pricing do it because the number changes depending on who's asking, enterprise deals, custom seat counts, negotiated discounts. Heepsy's problem looks more basic than that: its own comparison page states one set of numbers, $69/$199/$299/mo, while Capterra states a different set in a different currency, €69/€149/€229/mo, for the same tier names. Neither source is heepsy.com's own pricing page, because that page doesn't load. You'd have to go through the actual signup flow to find out which figure, if either, is current.
Seed doesn't have that layer at all. What's on our pricing page is what you pay: Free at $0/mo, Starter at $19/mo, Scale Gifts at $49/mo or $499/yr. No signup-flow discount changes the number after the fact.
Where Heepsy genuinely wins
If you don't have enough creators lined up, Seed can't fix that. We have zero discovery functionality; we don't search Instagram or TikTok, we don't screen for fake followers, and we don't hand you contact details. Heepsy's search and vetting tools are a real capability we don't have and aren't building, because it's a different layer of the funnel.
Heepsy also runs the largest programmatic content operation of any competitor in this research set: 34,083 URLs, including an 11,330-page ranking cluster that's confirmed refreshed monthly. Whatever you think of the pricing opacity, that's a real, sustained content investment, and it means Heepsy shows up for an enormous range of niche-plus-platform searches, "vegan skincare influencers Instagram," "fitness micro influencers TikTok," and thousands of variations like it, that a smaller competitor's content operation simply can't match.
The two tools solve different failure modes
If your gifting program is stalling because you can't find enough qualified creators to reach out to, more subscription money spent on fulfillment tools like Seed won't move the needle at all, that's a discovery problem, and Heepsy is built to solve it. If your gifting program is stalling because you have a growing list of interested creators and no fast way to collect addresses and generate real Shopify orders without a spreadsheet, more spend on a discovery database like Heepsy won't move that needle either, that's a fulfillment problem, and it's the one Seed exists to solve.
Who should not pick Seed
If your bottleneck is finding creators, not fulfilling gifts to ones you already have, spend your budget on discovery first. Seed does nothing to help you find a single new creator; we start the moment you already have a name and an address to collect.
Who should not pick Heepsy
If you already have a working creator list and your actual friction is manually re-keying addresses into Shopify or building spreadsheets to track who received what, Heepsy's $69 to $299/mo (or €69 to €229/mo, depending which source you check) buys you a database you won't touch. Seed's Free tier costs nothing and handles exactly that fulfillment step.
What to do next
Figure out which half of the funnel is actually broken before you pay for either tool: not enough creators, or too much manual work getting product to the ones you have. Seed's plans are at /pricing, and the app installs from apps.shopify.com/influencer-form. We're 5.0 stars from 2 reviews as of this writing, new relative to Heepsy's longer track record.
What Heepsy doesn't do
- Its own pricing page (heepsy.com/pricing) returns a 404, with no working alternative found as of this writing.
- No Shopify App Store listing exists for Heepsy.
- Its own comparison page and a third-party source disagree on both the number and currency for identically-named tiers, so no single current price can be confirmed.
- Its Shopify/WooCommerce integration is described only as product-catalog import for gift campaigns, not order creation, per third-party corroboration.
- No done-for-you tier — Heepsy positions itself as a discovery and vetting tool; no managed sourcing or outreach service is described.
What Seed doesn't do
- No creator discovery — Seed doesn't search Instagram or TikTok by niche, follower count, or engagement rate.
- No fake-follower or audience-quality screening — Seed doesn't vet a creator before they reach the gift link.
- No verified contact-detail database — Seed only starts once a creator already has your link.