ClickMagick alternative for SaaS: what each tool tracks and costs

ClickMagick vs TrackRev comes down to where your revenue is counted. ClickMagick tracks paid clicks, pulls ad costs from 7 ad platforms and feeds conversions back to them, from $79 a month for 10,000 tracked visitors.

TrackRev, SaaS affiliate software for indie hackers and small teams with revenue attribution built in, reads charges from Stripe, Paddle Billing, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments and credits every renewal to the channel behind the first click, from $29 a month.

A team that buys Meta Ads or Google Ads and optimizes inside those platforms fits ClickMagick. A SaaS whose best customers arrive from content and partner links fits TrackRev.

We built TrackRev for exactly this: affiliate software for indie hackers and small SaaS teams, with revenue attribution built in, so renewals land on the channel that earned them. Every figure is as of October 2026.

ClickMagick vs TrackRev at a glance

What does ClickMagick cost and what does it count?

ClickMagick is paid-traffic tracking software that meters tracked visitors.

We looked at ClickMagick's pricing page in October 2026: the page offers a 14-day trial and no free plan, and yearly billing lists 2 months free, so Starter comes to $790 a year.

The 3 plans step up at 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 tracked visitors. Data is kept for 6 months on Starter and 1 year on Standard, and the Pro retention is not listed.

Click fraud protection and advanced attribution models begin on Standard.

Sources: clickmagick.com/pricing

What is ClickMagick built to do?

ClickMagick is a two-way ad tracking loop: ad costs flow in and conversions flow back out. ClickMagick launched in 2014 as a link tracker and says more than 122,000 accounts have been created.

The FAQ lists ChatGPT Ads, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Microsoft Ads, TikTok Ads and X Ads as integrations, with ad costs retrieved every hour.

Its tracking page adds that sales flow back in real time through Facebook's Conversions API and Google's WBRAID parameter, and by webhook to networks such as Taboola, Outbrain and RevContent.

It says ad platforms miss or misattribute 25 to 50 percent of conversions, a vendor figure I can't check, and the loop matters most when ads are your largest cost.

Sources: clickmagick.com/faqs · clickmagick.com/product

What else does ClickMagick include?

Standard adds bot and click fraud protection, and the tracking page describes Click Shield, which blocks clicks that break rules you set. ClickMagick says its filtering blocks 99% of bots, another claim I can't verify.

On the reporting side it lists a UTM Performance Report, a Conversion Velocity Report, a cohort Lifetime Value Report and a Funnel Steps Report.

Around those sit split testing, Smart Links with custom domains and geotargeting, server-to-server postbacks to 100+ affiliate networks, a mobile app and a support desk that answers Starter tickets in 8 hours or less, by its own account.

A daily Morning Magick email from AI Insights says which ads to scale or pause, covering 10 active ads on Starter, 25 on Standard and 50 on Pro.

ClickMagick also reports subscription metrics: its stats list recurring revenue, refunds, net profit and lifetime value, and its FAQ says Starter suits businesses with no paid ads.

Its pricing, tracking and FAQ pages name no payment processor, only tracking code, webhooks, Zapier and the REST API, so check its knowledge base for Stripe, Paddle or Lemon Squeezy before counting on renewals.

How do subscription renewals reach a tracking tool?

A renewal is a repeat charge on an existing subscription, and a tracking code on a thank-you page fires once, when the buyer lands on it. Renewals load no page.

Stripe's subscription documentation says some events fire at creation while others recur each billing period, and a paid renewal arrives as an invoice.paid event.

A tool fed by page code sees month 1 only unless a webhook, Zapier step or API call carries each renewal in. ClickMagick's public pages don't say how renewals are recorded, so ask support before paying.

For example, take 10 customers from each of two channels, all on a $49 plan.

On first payments the channels tie at $490, but on what customers paid the newsletter brings 5 times as much, $4,900 against $980.

Anyone deciding where the next marketing dollar goes needs the last column, and the column needs every renewal tied back to the original click.

How does TrackRev track revenue by channel?

TrackRev records each click on the server at your tracking link, ties later pageviews to a first-party visitor ID through one pixel, and reads each Stripe, Paddle Billing, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem or Dodo Payments charge with a read-only key.

A charge joins to the visitor ID when checkout carries it and falls back to the customer's email. Sync runs every hour, with an optional webhook for sales within seconds.

Renewals credit the original click, refunds and chargebacks come out of the channel's revenue, and the window takes 1 to 365 days, 30 by default.

The pixel's cookie is script-written, so the 7-day cap in WebKit's tracking prevention policy applies to Safari visitors.

The 3 credit rules are compared in last-touch vs first-touch vs linear: last touch is the default, and switching to first touch or linear recalculates the stored clicks without re-tagging. Stripe wiring is in attributing Stripe revenue to marketing channels.

What does TrackRev cost and what does it count?

TrackRev is affiliate software with 3 plans, and no plan caps the commission or revenue tracked.

Partners earn commission on the same orders that feed the channel table, with a hold you set from 0 to 180 days per program and payouts by PayPal or Wise CSV export.

Indie at $29 includes the affiliate program, and the affiliate program page covers the partner side.

Growth's $299 a year works out to about $24.92 a month, and 12 payments of Indie come to $348, so Growth costs $49 less over a year while covering up to 10 workspaces and 10 tracked domains.

Growth has no monthly option. ClickMagick's yearly billing saves $158 on Starter ($948 against $790), $398 on Standard and $698 on Pro.

What does TrackRev leave to your ad platforms?

TrackRev leaves 5 jobs to Meta Ads, Google Ads and other ad platforms by design, because we built it to follow revenue instead of ad spend.

• It imports no ad costs from Facebook Ads or Google Ads, so it reports no return on ad spend or cost per acquisition from platform data.
• It sends no purchases back to Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads or TikTok, so their bidding keeps learning from each platform's own pixel.
• Click filtering checks the user agent against the open-source isbot list, plus empty agents and prefetch headers such as Apple Mail's. There is no IP reputation, data-center blocking or rules like Click Shield.
• There is no A/B split between destinations and no view-through credit: an ad someone viewed and never clicked earns nothing.
• Revenue figures stay hidden on the free plan. Attribution against real charges needs a paid plan from $29 a month.

What does a year cost at the same traffic?

ClickMagick steps up a plan each time tracked visitors pass 10,000 or 100,000 a month. TrackRev has no traffic meter, and no plan caps tracked commission, so one Indie plan covers every row in our table.

At 25,000 visitors the gap is $1,642 a year against ClickMagick's yearly billing.

Set against the spend it watches, though, ClickMagick is cheap: Standard's $199 is 4% of a $5,000 monthly ad budget, and if 5% of that budget goes to clicks that can never convert, that is $250 a month, more than the plan costs.

Month to month, Indie costs 37% of ClickMagick Starter ($29 against $79), 15% of Standard and 8% of Pro.

The table assumes revenue by channel is the whole job, so a team that also needs ad cost import or click fraud rules is comparing different products.

Which ClickMagick alternatives sit in the same lane?

RedTrack and Voluum are 2 ad trackers in the same lane as ClickMagick. Both count events where ClickMagick counts visitors, so price each at your own traffic, such as the 8,000 or 25,000 visitors above.

For SaaS-side options, the link tracking roundup prices 6 tools at 40,000 clicks a month, ClickMagick, Dub, Short.io and TrackRev among them, and Northbeam vs TrackRev covers an ecommerce ad-attribution suite.

Which one fits, and can you run both?

A SaaS with a real ad budget and subscription revenue can run both tools, each with its own links and 1 pixel.

We would let ClickMagick steer bids inside Meta Ads and Google Ads, and let TrackRev's billing-backed channel table set each channel's budget, since the two will report different conversion counts.

TrackRev is affiliate software first, so revenue attribution and the affiliate program come with Indie at $29 a month, with no limit on tracked revenue.

The pricing page lists both paid plans, the revenue attribution page shows the channel table, and subscription LTV attribution by channel explains how lifetime value is credited.