Compared on public facts

Billo vs Cohley

Updated Nov 7, 2026

HourlyUGC is our product. Every fact links to its source. Methodology.

Billo and Cohley both list pay per video, product seeding and ads launched from the platform.

8 facts known on both sides. "Not listed publicly" means we did not find it on their public pages on Nov 7, 2026; it does not mean they lack it.

Why brands pick HourlyUGC over Billo and Cohley

HourlyUGC lists 7 ways to pay creators on its public pages: hourly sessions, pay per video, commission on sales, flat amount per order, share of ad spend, pay per 1,000 views and product seeding. A brand can combine them in one campaign. 1 2 3
Billo lists pay per video and product seeding publicly. HourlyUGC also lists hourly sessions, commission on sales, flat amount per order, share of ad spend and pay per 1,000 views, which Billo does not list publicly (checked Nov 7, 2026; not listing is not the same as not offering). 1
Cohley lists pay per video and product seeding publicly. HourlyUGC also lists hourly sessions, commission on sales, flat amount per order, share of ad spend and pay per 1,000 views, which Cohley does not list publicly (checked Nov 7, 2026; not listing is not the same as not offering). 1 2
Meta Partnership Ads with the creators' videos, launched from inside HourlyUGC: the ad goes out from the creator's handle with the brand's budget. 1 2
Who counts the sale: Counted either by the ad platform (Meta) or by HourlyUGC: a connected Shopify store or the Hourly Pixel, last touch within 7 days, with creator links and codes. 1 2 3

Start a campaign on HourlyUGCFacts checked Nov 7, 2026. HourlyUGC is held to the same sourcing rule as every other platform here.

Which pay models each one lists

Side by side

Pay model	Billo	Cohley
Hourly sessions	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Pay per video	Videos start at $99 for a 15-second video from a regular creator with basic editing; longer videos, Premium creators and extras cost more. The price covers the creator's fee, basic editing, the platform and transaction fees. 1	Creator compensation per asset is set by the brand in each brief; their FAQ guidance is UGC videos from around $250 and UGC photos from around $50. Cohley says it never takes a cut of creator compensation. 1
Commission on sales	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Flat amount per order	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Share of ad spend	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Pay per 1,000 views	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Retainers	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Bonuses	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Product seeding	The brand ships its product to the creator; the product and its shipping are not covered by the video price. Creators receive products at no cost. 1 2	Product seeding at $35 per completed creator, pay-as-you-go; the product cost is separate; shipping is automated for Shopify brands. Creators receive product rather than cash on seeding briefs. 1 2
Ads launched from the platform	Meta Partnership Ads and TikTok Spark Ads as an add-on to a video order: the creator shares the partnership code (or approves a Meta account-level connection) through Billo, and the brand runs the ad from its own ad account. 1 2	Instagram Partnership Ad authorization codes are collected during the creator upload flow, so the brand can run ads through the creator's handle from its own ad account. 1
Money and tracking	Billo	Cohley
How sales are attributed	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Platform fee	Included in the video price: the price covers the creator's fee, basic editing, the Billo platform and transaction fees. No subscription is needed to order videos. 1	Custom pricing based on the amount of content generated; creator compensation is billed separately and never marked up, they say. Product seeding is $35 per completed creator on top of the product cost. 1 2
Brand pricing	Prepaid packs valid for 12 months, no auto-renewal: $1,000 (covers up to 10 videos), $2,500 with a $300 bonus (up to 28 videos), $5,000 with a $700 bonus (up to 57 videos), larger packs on request. Videos from $99. Optional subscriptions: CreativeOps from $149 a month, Managed Service from $2,000 a month plus video costs. 1	Custom. A 3-month paid Pilot or a 12-month Annual package; they say the Annual includes a $6,000 creator compensation bonus. Their FAQ says most brands budget $2,500 to $3,000 per brief in creator compensation, yielding 10 to 20 pieces of content. 1 2
Creator payout	Earnings are credited to the creator's Billo account when the video is approved and paid twice a month via PayPal. Billo pays the creator on the brand's behalf and creators receive the full compensation shown for the job. 1 2	Creators are paid after the brand approves the content (their FAQ). Their creator terms say payment comes not earlier than 30 days after the campaign's end date and that creators bear PayPal fees of 2.9 % of compensation. 1
Regions	Creators must live in the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom. Videos can be ordered in English, Spanish, Portuguese or French, or silent. 1 2	Built for mid-market and enterprise brands selling physical products in the US and Canada, they say. 1
Scale they publish	They say: They say 5,000+ vetted creators, 37,000+ brands, and performance data from 1.41M Meta ads with $1.24B in spend. 1 2	They say: They say a network of 200,000+ vetted creators and a 90 %+ completion rate on product seeding. 1 2

What the facts say

Where they overlap

Pay per video
Product seeding
Ads launched from the platform

Billo lists, Cohley does not

Nothing in the models we track.

Checked Nov 7, 2026

Cohley lists, Billo does not

Nothing in the models we track.

Checked Nov 7, 2026

Which brand each one fits

From the models each lists, nothing else.

Billo

brands that budget per approved video
brands that ship product to creators

Cohley

brands that budget per approved video
brands that ship product to creators

Questions people ask

What do Billo and Cohley have in common?

Both list pay per video, product seeding and ads launched from the platform on their public pages (checked Nov 7, 2026).

What does Billo list that Cohley does not?

Nothing in the pay models we track. Every model Billo lists, Cohley lists too.

What does Cohley list that Billo does not?

Nothing in the pay models we track.

Where do these facts come from?

From each platform's public pages, linked next to every fact with the date we checked. A fact without a public source is not shown.

Sources

Each fact above links to one of these. Checked Nov 7, 2026.

Billo: billo.app: Pricing, read 2026-11-07 · billo.app, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “Videos start at $99, which covers a 15-second video from a regular creator”
Cohley: cohley.com: FAQ (read through search-engine snippets on 2026-11-07; the site returned 403 to direct fetches) · cohley.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “UGC videos start at around $250 and UGC photos start at around $50”
Billo: billo.app: For creators, read 2026-11-07 · billo.app, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “Products will be shipped to your address at no cost.”
Cohley: cohley.com: Product Seeding (read through search-engine snippets on 2026-11-07; the site returned 403 to direct fetches) · cohley.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “$35 per completed creator”
Cohley: Cohley blog: Introducing Product Seeding (read through search-engine snippets on 2026-11-07) · cohley.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “Pricing is $35 per completed post.”
Billo: billo.app: Partnership ads, read 2026-11-07 · billo.app, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “Partnership ads change whose handle appears on the ad, not who runs the media.”
Billo: billo.app: Find and hire UGC creators, read 2026-11-07 · billo.app, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “Use Meta Partnership Ads or TikTok Spark Ads to leverage creator credibility”
Cohley: Cohley blog: What Meta actually requires for creator ads in 2026 (read through search-engine snippets on 2026-11-07) · cohley.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “collects Instagram Partnership Ad authorization codes during the creator upload flow”
Cohley: cohley.com: Pricing and Plans (read through search-engine snippets on 2026-11-07; the site returned 403 to direct fetches) · cohley.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “all plans have custom pricing based on the amount of content you generate”
Billo: Billo blog: How Billo pricing works, 6 Nov 2026 · billo.app, checked Nov 6, 2026 · “creators receive the full compensation shown for the job”
Cohley: cohley.com: Creator Terms and Conditions (read through search-engine snippets on 2026-11-07) · cohley.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “not earlier than thirty (30) days after the end date for any campaign”
Cohley: cohley.com, home (read through search-engine snippets on 2026-11-07; the site returned 403 to direct fetches) · cohley.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “selling physical products in the US and Canada”
Billo: billo.app, home, read 2026-11-07 · billo.app, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “based on 1.41M Meta ads, $1.24B in spend”