Setup101 vs Youfiliate
Choose Youfiliate
Youfiliate if your problem is the individual links themselves: you want each Amazon or network link to route by country, be monitored, and be swapped in bulk across your YouTube descriptions.
Choose Setup101
Setup101 if you want a page your viewers browse: the whole kit from a video, each product with a photo, note and buy link, and one link for the lot that you never have to change in the description.
At a glance
Feature comparison
| Capability | Setup101 | Youfiliate |
|---|---|---|
| Monitor links and flag broken onesOn Setup101, broken-link alerts are part of Pro. | ✓Pro | ✓ |
| Route links by the shopper's country | — | ✓ |
| Bulk-update links in YouTube descriptions | — | ✓ |
| Show the products inside a setupYoufiliate manages links; it doesn't give you a page for a whole setup. | ✓ | — |
| One link that survives product swapsYoufiliate keeps each product link stable. Setup101 keeps one link for the whole setup. | ✓ | ◐ |
| Link-in-bio microsite | ✓ | — |
| Product click analytics | ✓Pro | ✓ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ |
◐ means partly, or only in some circumstances. "Pro" means it's on Setup101's Pro plan.
Also in Setup101
- iOS and Android apps
- Promo codes on products, tracked separatelyPro
- Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee and Shopify buttonsPro
- Apps and software alongside physical products
- Setup total price, worked out for you
- Private setups for drafts
- Follow, like, comment and save
Pricing, plainly
Pricing side by side
Setup101
- Free: a setup in each category, your products and a link-in-bio profile.
- Pro $15/month ($150/year): buy and affiliate links on every product, promo codes, product analytics and broken-link alerts.
- Pro Plus $30/month ($300/year): three setups per category, full link-in-bio customization and priority in discovery.
- Setup101 never takes a share of your affiliate commission.
Youfiliate
- Free: 3 smart links. Starter $7/month ($86/year) for 25 links, Growth $15/month ($182/year) for 200, Pro $39/month ($470/year) unlimited.
- Every plan includes unlimited clicks, geo-targeting, click analytics, deep linking and link health monitoring.
- Can bulk-convert the affiliate links in your YouTube descriptions, with a preview and rollback.
From Youfiliate's site, checked 2 October 2026. Prices change, so check before you decide.
Honest limits
Where Youfiliate is better
No tool wins on everything, and a comparison that pretends otherwise is not worth reading. Here is where Youfiliate genuinely has the advantage.
- Country routing and link health monitoring on every plan, including the free one.
- Bulk conversion of the links already in your YouTube descriptions, with a preview and rollback.
- Flat pricing by number of links rather than by clicks.
Switching
Moving from Youfiliate to Setup101
- 01You can use both. On Pro, a Setup101 product's buy link can be any web address, including a Youfiliate smart link.
- 02Group the products from each video into a setup, and put the setup link in the description instead of a long list of product links.
- 03Keep Youfiliate for single-product links where country routing matters most.
Links you've already put in old videos and posts will keep pointing at Youfiliate until you change them. Update your most-viewed content first, using our free link checker to find any that are already broken. Then use one permanent setup link per video, so this is the last time you edit them.
Comparing ways to fix links in old videos? How to update affiliate links in old YouTube descriptions →
Questions, answered