Is Sales Cookie or Tremendous cheaper?

Sales Cookie starts at $40 per user per month (Business) (14 days trial). Tremendous starts at $0 to use the platform; you pay only the face value of what you send (free plan available).

Sales Cookie vs Tremendous

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Tremendous compared with Sales Cookie

Sales Cookie is a low-cost commission engine that computes plans and produces rep statements; Tremendous is the delivery rail with no calculation at all. The pairing is natural for a small team: calculate in Sales Cookie, pay recurring commission through payroll, and use Tremendous for the SPIFFs and contest prizes that payroll handles badly.

Choose Sales Cookie if

Small and mid-sized businesses that want to stop running commissions in a spreadsheet this month rather than next quarter, especially teams on Pipedrive, Zoho, SugarCRM, Dynamics, QuickBooks Desktop, or Xero that most commission vendors do not natively support, and anyone who refuses to sign an annual contract before seeing the product work on their own data.

Choose Tremendous if

Any small business that pays out sales SPIFFs, contest prizes, referral fees, research incentives or one-off bonuses to people who are not on payroll, especially teams paying internationally or paying non-employees, and anyone who wants the payout rail to cost nothing until money actually moves.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Sales Cookie	Tremendous
Category	Commissions	Commissions
Starting price	$40 per user per month (Business) (14 days trial)	$0 to use the platform; you pay only the face value of what you send (free plan available)
Pricing model	Per-payee subscription billed monthly based on active payees, with no platform fee, no setup fee, and no minimum seat count. Cancel anytime.	Free platform with no subscription, seats or minimums. Revenue comes from reward margin, a surcharge on cash payout options, and a card funding fee.
Free plan	No	The entire platform is free: sending, bulk upload, API, integrations, fraud prevention, tax tools and reporting, with no subscription, no seat count and no minimum spend.
Free trial	14 days, all features included, with sample demo data and instant self-serve access	Not applicable; the platform is free to use and you fund it only when you want to send
Best for	Small and mid-sized businesses that want to stop running commissions in a spreadsheet this month rather than next quarter, especially teams on Pipedrive, Zoho, SugarCRM, Dynamics, QuickBooks Desktop, or Xero that most commission vendors do not natively support, and anyone who refuses to sign an annual contract before seeing the product work on their own data.	Any small business that pays out sales SPIFFs, contest prizes, referral fees, research incentives or one-off bonuses to people who are not on payroll, especially teams paying internationally or paying non-employees, and anyone who wants the payout rail to cost nothing until money actually moves.
Setup time	Days to a few weeks. Trial access is instant with sample data, connecting a native CRM is a self-serve step, and the vendor configures your first plan at no cost. A single-plan team can realistically be calculating live commissions inside two weeks.	Under an hour to send your first reward. Create an account, fund it by bank transfer, upload or enter recipients, send. API integration is a day or two of engineering depending on what triggers the payout.
Learning curve	Moderate for the admin, low for the payee. The designer exposes real power, which means real choices: overrides, crediting logic, and true-up behaviour all reward someone thinking carefully about what the written plan actually says.	Minimal. The product is a dashboard, a spreadsheet upload and an API, and the only genuine decision is which reward types you want to make available to recipients and whether you are willing to absorb the cash surcharge.
Platforms	Web application, Payee web dashboards, Power BI and Tableau connections	Web dashboard, REST API, Email and SMS delivery, Bulk link export
Compliance	SOC 2 (stated by the vendor), ISO 27018 (stated by the vendor), GDPR (stated by the vendor), HIPAA (stated by the vendor)	SOC 2 Type II, Automatic W-9 collection and verification, 1099 preparation for US tax reporting
Founded	2018	2010
Headquarters	Spokane, Washington, United States	United States, with employees across three continents
Ownership	Privately held, operated by Ninth Floor Technologies. No venture funding disclosed.	Founder and employee owned, profitable, and explicitly VC-free after buying out its original investors in 2013

Strengths and limitations

Sales Cookie

Strengths

Genuinely self-serve: a 14-day trial with sample data, instant access, monthly billing, no seat minimum, no setup fee, and cancel anytime, which is close to unique in a category built on demo gates.
The widest native integration list of any self-serve option here, including Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, SugarCRM, Dynamics, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, Zoho Books, Bullhorn, and JobAdder.
The engine handles the hard cases: true-ups that net out prior payments, recoverable advances, dynamic manager overrides, clawbacks, and multi-currency.
Liability tracking gives finance a continuous earned-versus-paid figure, which is exactly the accrual number spreadsheets fail to produce.

Limitations

The company is small, privately held, and publishes little about itself; there is no funding history, no headcount figure, and no public trust centre, which will slow an enterprise security review.
Compliance claims are asserted on the vendor's own security page rather than presented as independently published attestations, so ask for the current SOC 2 report directly.
No planning layer: no quota planning, territory design, or capacity modelling, so it solves calculation and payment rather than compensation strategy.
The payee dashboard is functional rather than delightful; teams buying commission software mainly to energise a sales floor will find competitors more persuasive.

Tremendous

Strengths

Free to use with no subscription, no seats and no minimum, which removes every procurement obstacle for a small company.
Recipient choice across 2,500-plus gift cards, prepaid Visa, cash to five-plus rails and charity, which is what makes an incentive feel like a reward rather than an obligation.
200-plus countries with automatic currency conversion and translation, so paying an overseas rep or partner is the same workflow as paying a local one.
Automatic W-9 collection and 1099 preparation, which quietly fixes the compliance problem that informal prize programs create.

Limitations

It calculates nothing. No commission plan, no quota, no accelerator, no split, no clawback, no rep statement, no CRM integration and no audit trail tying a payout to the deal that earned it.
The 4 to 6 percent fee on cash options is the entire business model and becomes expensive at volume; it is not disclosed as loudly as the word free.
There is no approval workflow designed for finance, so controlling who can send how much rests on account access rather than on a multi-level sign-off chain.
Reward balances sit with Tremendous once funded, which is a cash management and counterparty consideration a careful CFO will want to size.

Pricing compared

Sales Cookie

Per-payee subscription billed monthly based on active payees, with no platform fee, no setup fee, and no minimum seat count. Cancel anytime.

Free Trial$0
Business$40
Business+$60

This is the best value in the category for a genuinely small business, and the reason is structural rather than a discount. Six payees at $40 is $240 a month with no floor, no annual commitment, and no implementation invoice, against a category where the standard offer is an annual contract plus a five-figure setup fee. What you get for that is an engine that handles true-ups, advances, dynamic overrides, and liability tracking, features that are usually sold as mid-market functionality. What you give up is polish, planning modules, and the comfort of a large vendor. If your problem is that commissions are calculated wrong and paid late, this is the cheapest correct answer available. If your problem is that reps are not motivated, you are buying the wrong thing.

Tremendous

Free platform with no subscription, seats or minimums. Revenue comes from reward margin, a surcharge on cash payout options, and a card funding fee.

Standard$0
High volume (200,000 dollars-plus annually)$0 platform fee

For its actual job, this is close to unbeatable value: a global payout rail with tax handling, fraud controls, an API and SOC 2 Type II, at no platform cost. The comparison is not against commission software, which does something else entirely, but against buying gift cards manually or setting up international wires, both of which cost more in time and neither of which produces a record. The only place the economics turn against you is high-volume cash payouts, where 4 to 6 percent on every dollar eventually exceeds what a dedicated payout provider like Trolley charges on a subscription plus flat per-transaction basis. Below roughly 50,000 dollars a year in cash sending, Tremendous is cheaper and simpler; above it, run the arithmetic.

Editorial verdict on each

Sales Cookie

Best Value

Sales Cookie is the answer to the question this category usually refuses to answer: what does a small business actually do about commissions this month. It is the only product here you can trial with sample data, connect to Pipedrive or Zoho or QuickBooks Desktop, configure with real splits and true-ups and advances, and pay for monthly without signing a year or an implementation invoice. The engine is deeper than the packaging suggests, and liability tracking plus a real audit log put it ahead of tools that cost more. What you are trading away is polish, a planning layer, and the reassurance of a big vendor with a public trust centre. For a team of five to fifty payees whose problem is that the numbers are wrong and the reps have noticed, this is the first thing to try and quite often the last.

Read the full Sales Cookie profile

Tremendous

Innovation

Tremendous is the right answer to a question most commission software does not ask: how do you actually get a 250 dollar SPIFF into a rep's hands, in the country they live in, with a record your accountant will accept, without paying for the privilege. It costs nothing to adopt, works at five people and at five thousand, and the recipient choosing their own reward is the detail that makes an incentive feel like one. Be equally clear about what it is not. It calculates nothing, connects to no CRM, has no plan logic and no audit trail linking payment to performance, so a buyer shopping for commission software should treat it as a companion purchase rather than a candidate. Watch the 4 to 6 percent cash fee if your program is large and cash-heavy. Otherwise, there is very little reason for any small business paying out incentives not to have an account.

Read the full Tremendous profile

Sales Cookie profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Tremendous last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.