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Cost & commitment
💰 Starting price	$99	$550
🆓 Free Trial	✅ Yes - 7 days	🚫 No - Trials are paid
⏱️ Minimum commitment	One month	Three months
👋 Cancel-anytime policy	✅ Yes	🗓️ After three months
Types of collaborations
🎁 Gifted collaborations	✅ Yes	🚫 No - Product seeding
💵 Paid collaborations	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
🧲 Affiliate collaborations	✅ Yes	Not as a feature - depends on influencers 🔎
How it works
🙋 Influencer apply to work with brands (marketplace)	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
🔎 Brands can search for influencers (search)	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
💌 Brands can invite influencers	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Features
📱 Audience insights	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
💌 Direct communication	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
🎞️ Content library	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
📝 Licensed content	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
🔎 Influencer vetting	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
📄 Influencer contracts	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
👀 Influencer reviews	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
🗂️ Influencer portfolios	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
💰 Influencer payment ranges	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
📄 Message templates	✅ Yes	🚫 Not available
🔀 Replace collaborations	✅ Yes	🚫 Not available
⌛ Expected delivery time	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
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Social Cat has features Insense does not

Here are just a few things our simple software has that Insense doesn't offer:

🥳 Free Trials
👋 Cancel-anytime policy
🎁 Gifted collaborations
📝 Licensed content for all UGC

📄 Message templates
🔀 Replace collaborations

And much more. Start a FREE trial to learn more about every feature on our platform. You don't need to commit, cancel anytime if it's not for you.

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Social Cat vs Insense

Starting Price

Social Cat

Social Cat pricing offers an affordable starting price of $99 per month, making it accessible for small businesses and startups looking to leverage influencer marketing without a huge upfront cost.

Insense

Insense pricing is significantly more expensive, starting at ~$550 per month, which can be a barrier for smaller brands looking to test influencer collaborations.

Free Trial

Social Cat

Social Cat provides a 7-day free trial, allowing brands to explore the platform and test influencer collaborations before committing.

Insense

Insense does not offer a free trial—brands must pay upfront, making it harder to assess its value before purchasing.

Gifted Collaborations

Social Cat

Social Cat fully supports gifted collaborations, allowing brands to send products to influencers in exchange for content, making it cost-effective.

Insense

Insense does not offer gifted collaborations as a core feature, only providing product seeding, which does not guarantee content creation.

Licensed content

Social Cat

Social Cat grants brands a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, modify, and repurpose influencer content for paid and organic marketing while creators retain ownership.

Insense

Insense grants brands a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, modify, and repurpose influencer content, while creators retain ownership.

Is Insense worth it?

Social Cat and Insense cater to different audiences—Insense is tailored for enterprises with a higher price point, a three-month minimum commitment, and a focus on product seeding instead of direct gifted collaborations. On the other hand, Social Cat is built for small to medium-sized brands, offering an affordable monthly plan, a free trial, and the flexibility to cancel anytime. With features like gifted collaborations, influencer search or applications, and collaboration replacements, Social Cat provides a more structured and easier approach for brands looking to scale influencer marketing without long-term commitments.

Beyond affordability, Social Cat offers greater control over influencer partnerships. Features like influencer reviews, payment ranges, and licensed content with editing rights ensure brands get high-quality, repurposable content without restrictions. While Insense focuses on larger-scale campaigns, Social Cat's advanced influencer search through 500k+ influencers and direct communication tools make it an equally powerful choice, even for bigger brands seeking a streamlined, cost-effective solution.

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Just some of our success stories

"What was more important for us is building the library of content and putting a lot of eyes on all of our new products rather than the focus being so much on the influencers themselves posting on their socials."

+464k

reach

+696k

impressions

$3.81

CPM

100+

UGC pieces

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FAQ

Are Insense influencers opted in?

Yes, influencers on Insense sign up on their platform and get through a verification process before working with brands. However, we're unsure of the criteria used for approval.

Are Social Cat influencers opted in?

Yes, similar to Insense influencers, the influencers available to work with on our platform sign up and go through a vetting process; the criteria include no. of followers, engagement quality, quality of the content, and more. Contact our team at hello@thesocialcat.com if you have any questions about our vetting process.

Which is the best UGC platform out of these two?

For UGC, Social Cat is a better alternative to Insense UGC primarily because of the licensed content brands can get from our influencers and its affordability. Being more affordable doesn't mean compromising on quality. Check our content showcase to see what kind of UGC you get from us.

What is the difference between gifted collaborations and product seeding?

Gifted collaborations mean influencers receive a free product in exchange for content, ensuring they promote your brand. Product seeding is sending free products with no obligation for influencers to post, making results less predictable.

What does licensed content mean?

Licensed content allows you to use influencer-generated content across any marketing channel, paid or organic. You also have the right to edit, modify, and repurpose it. However, the influencer retains copyright ownership, meaning that while you can freely use and edit the content, the influencer still legally owns it. They can reuse it for their own purposes or even license it to other brands, unless you have a separate contract granting you exclusive rights. Essentially, you control how you use the content, but the creator still holds legal ownership.

How does the replace collaboration feature work?

On Social Cat, you get several monthly collaborations (matches) according to your subscription plan. But if, for some reason, some of them don't work out, you can replace them at no extra cost so you don't lose any of your allocated collaborations each month. This acts like a safety net, allowing you to spend more efficiently.

How much should I spend on an influencer marketing platform?

In general, influencer marketing platform pricing varies from tool to tool, depending on their features and the size of their databases. How much you should spend will depend on your budget and goals; for smaller to medium-sized brands without prior experience in Influencer Marketing, we advise starting with affordable tools, offering flexible commitments, and affordable influencers, either gifted or paid. Bigger brands with more experience working with influencers and a bigger budget can opt for more expensive tools, so they should decide based on the features they need and what platform meets their needs.

Are influencer product reviews trustworthy?

Yes, influencer product reviews are trustworthy if they come from verified sources. This means that these reviews must come from real customers or users of a specific product. Most review platforms like TrustPilot or Reviews.io have business integrations and get genuine, verified reviews.

If we refer to product reviews online, we must know that most reviews are paid and put products in a good light. As with any online product, we would like to ask for trials to see if this fits your requirements.

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