Influencer Discovery Help
Looking for an influencer discovery tool under $80/mo, here's my exact use case and what I've already found
Not looking for brand deal tools or marketplace platforms. My use case is pretty specific so hopefully someone here has experience with this.
My exact criteria:
- Instagram or YouTube educational creators (fitness, cooking, parenting, finance, career etc)
- 20k to 100k followers
- 3.5% engagement rate or above
- No existing digital products, courses, or link in bio shops
- English speaking audience, US/UK/AUS
What I've already ruled out:
HypeAuditor starts at $299/mo and the engagement rate filters are locked behind a higher tier anyway. Modash is great but $299/mo minimum which is too much right now. ViralMango Discovery is $120/mo but only gives you 10 deep profile analyses per month which is useless when you need volume. Heepsy database is mostly Spain, critical filters locked behind 249 euros a month and they don't do refunds. Afluencer is the wrong model entirely, creators come to you not the other way around. Apollo and Sales Navigator are B2B tools, my ICP isn't on LinkedIn.
What I've found so far under $80:
Rytyty at $69/mo. It's a lookalike engine not a traditional filter based database. You feed it a seed creator and it finds similar profiles automatically. Tested it and the output quality depends entirely on the seed creator you use. If you put in a good ICP match the results are decent. Main limitation is you need to manually find 3 to 5 solid seed creators first before it's useful.
Is there anything with an actual searchable database with follower range and engagement rate filters that I'm missing under $80/mo? Or is Rytyty genuinely the best option at this price point and I just need to accept that solid seed creators are the prerequisite?
Appreciate any suggestions that aren't just "try Modash", already know about it just can't justify the price yet.