Keitaro Comparison 2026

Stop running a server. Start running a program.

Keitaro is a fast, self-hosted tracker built for media buyers, and it is good at that. AffClix is managed, and it covers what comes after the campaign: affiliate onboarding, payouts, invoices, mobile attribution and fraud scoring in one place.

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Deep Dives

AffClix vs. Keitaro

Detailed head-to-head breakdowns covering strengths, weaknesses, pricing, and the bottom line verdict.

Our Platform
Affclix
Managed tracking plus partner management, MMP and DSP
9.4/10
★★★★★
Overall Rating
Competitor
Keitaro
Self-hosted tracker for media buyers
7.8/10
★★★★☆
Overall Rating
Where Affclix Wins
  • No server to run. Hosting, SSL, scaling, backups and updates are ours. With a self-hosted tracker, a crashed VPS at 3 a.m. is your outage.
  • A full affiliate portal. Partners sign up, pick up offers, generate links and see their own stats. A media-buyer tracker assumes you are the only person buying traffic.
  • Payouts and invoicing built in. Commission rules, approvals, payout methods and invoices run in the same platform as the tracking.
  • Mobile attribution included. Our own MMP plus inbound postbacks from AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch, Singular, Kochava and AppTrove, normalised into one report.
  • Fraud scoring you tune, with datacentre, VPN and proxy detection and per-campaign thresholds, from the $49 tier.
  • ClickHouse reporting. Multi-million-row date ranges and sub-ID breakdowns return in seconds without you sizing the database.
Where Keitaro Competes
  • Your data stays on your own server. For teams with strict data-location rules, self-hosting is a real advantage.
  • Built for media buying. Flows, landing-page rotation and traffic-source integrations are shaped around arbitrage workflows, and Keitaro has refined them for years.
  • Flat licence pricing. Cost does not grow with conversions, which suits high-volume buyers with the skills to run their own infrastructure.
  • A large, active user community, especially in CIS markets, with plenty of shared setups and guides.
Managed
Affclix Uptime
Self-hosted
Keitaro Complexity
Built in
Affclix Integrations
Not included
Keitaro MMP
Verdict: If you are a solo media buyer who is comfortable running servers, Keitaro is a strong tool. If you manage affiliates, pay partners or need mobile attribution, AffClix runs the whole program without the infrastructure.
Affclix Wins

Switching from Keitaro: common questions

What does AffClix do that Keitaro does not?

It runs the affiliate program around the tracking: a partner portal, approvals, payouts, invoices, mobile attribution with our own MMP, and fraud scoring. And it is managed, so there is no server for you to run.

Can I keep my existing campaign links?

Yes, if you bring your tracking domain across, which is what we recommend. Links already placed on traffic sources keep resolving.

Do traffic-source macros and postbacks carry over?

We map your traffic-source tokens and postback URLs to AffClix macros and hand them back for approval before anything goes live.

Where is my data stored?

In your own isolated workspace on our managed infrastructure. You can export partners, clicks, conversions and payouts whenever you need to.

What is the cheapest way to try it?

The live demo needs no signup. After that there is a free-forever plan, and the Launch plan is $49/month.

Switching is on us

Move from Keitaro in 48 hours — we do the work

Nobody stays on Keitaro because it is the best tool. They stay because moving offers, affiliates, postbacks and history sounds like a fortnight of pain. It is not, and you do not have to do it yourself.

  1. 1
    A 30-minute audit callWe look at your current setup together and tell you honestly whether switching is worth it for you.
  2. 2
    We import everythingOffers, affiliates, payout terms and historical stats — moved by us, not by you.
  3. 3
    Postbacks and macros mappedWe rebuild your postback URLs and traffic-source macros and hand them back for approval.
  4. 4
    A week running both in parallelBoth platforms live at once, numbers compared side by side. You switch only when they match.
  5. 5
    Cutover and 30 days of supportTracking domain moves across, and a named person stays with you for the first month.
Migration is free — no setup fee Three months of your plan, free Parallel run means zero risk: you switch only when the numbers match
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