ClickBank vs WarriorPlus
ClickBank's Fees Are Fine. Getting Paid Is the Hard Part.
On WarriorPlus, How Fast You Get Paid Is a Score You Cannot See
The short answer
- Entry price
- Neither ClickBank nor WarriorPlus publishes a single starting price we can rank, so we do not rank them. A zero in our data means one of two opposite things — a genuine free tier, or a product that is not sold at a fixed monthly rate at all — so calling either one "cheapest" would be wrong.
- Our rating
- 3.6/5 against 3.3/5. That gap is inside our own margin, so treat these as rated level and decide on the specifics below rather than on the score.
ClickBank
see siteJoining as an affiliate is free and the commission rates are genuinely high. What nobody mentions is the Customer Distribution Requirement: five sales across at least two different payment methods before ClickBank releases anything at all. Plenty of accounts sit on a balance they cannot withdraw.
What works
- ✓ Free to join as an affiliate — no application, no approval wait, no monthly fee
- ✓ Commission rates are high because most products are digital, frequently 50–75%
- ✓ Marketplace stats are public: gravity and average earnings per conversion are shown before you promote anything
- ✓ 60-day cookie window is longer than most networks offer
What does not
- ✗ Customer Distribution Requirement: 5 sales across at least 2 payment methods before any payout is released
- ✗ $5.00 processing fee on every payment issued — 5% of a payout at the default $100 threshold
- ✗ 10% of each pay period is held in reserve and released 12 weeks later
- ✗ Dormant accounts are charged $1 per pay period after 90 days with no earnings, rising to $50 after a year
WarriorPlus
see siteThe vendor fee is the lowest of the major networks and drops to 2% at volume. The affiliate side is the harder deal: every commission sits in a pending period set by an algorithm — 3 to 90 days, starting at 30 — that WarriorPlus staff explicitly cannot override, and nothing releases at all until five separate people have bought from you.
What works
- ✓ Vendor fee of 4.9% + $0.10 is the lowest headline rate of the major networks, and falls to 2.0% at volume
- ✓ Volume discounts are automatic and recalculated on trailing 30-day revenue, not lifetime sales
- ✓ Free to create an account, and no fee for listing a product — you pay only on a sale
- ✓ Vendors receive the gross purchase amount immediately, before commissions are redirected
What does not
- ✗ Affiliate commissions are held 3 to 90 days by an automated risk score staff cannot manually change
- ✗ Nothing can be withdrawn until five unique qualifying customers have bought — not five sales
- ✗ Every offer requires the vendor's approval before you can promote it
- ✗ Fail the five-customer test and funds are only released 180 days after your last sale
Who should pick which
Pick ClickBank if this is the thing that matters most to you:
Free to join as an affiliate — no application, no approval wait, no monthly fee.
What most often rules it out: Customer Distribution Requirement: 5 sales across at least 2 payment methods before any payout is released.
Pick WarriorPlus if this is the thing that matters most to you:
Vendor fee of 4.9% + $0.10 is the lowest headline rate of the major networks, and falls to 2.0% at volume.
What most often rules it out: Affiliate commissions are held 3 to 90 days by an automated risk score staff cannot manually change.
Figures come from our review of each product, checked against the vendor's own pricing page. We do not convert currencies or rank prices quoted on different billing periods — where that applies it is said above, not quietly resolved.
A third option, and what it is not
Bonfire Terminal is an AI agent that runs as a desktop app on your own machine — no cloud, nothing you type leaves your computer. It does not do what ClickBank or WarriorPlus do, and we will not pretend it does. If either is doing its job for you, keep it.
What the $27 actually gets you→The way in is the AI Marketers Club — $27 one-time, including 21 days of access. Keeping it after that is a separate purchase; the vendor's FAQ states Bonfire Terminal starts at $5,000. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you, which is why both tools' drawbacks are printed in full above and the $5,000 is here rather than left for you to find later.