3 categories · RankedViral Loops
Viral Loops is a referral platform for businesses that run referral programs, waitlists, giveaways and product launch campaigns · viral-loops.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Referral Rock is first at 24%.
PartnerStack is first at 35%.
Ambassador is first at 16%.
Why models recommend it
“The best referral program software for a company with a limited budget is Viral Loops, which is designed for startups on a budget and has a starting price of $49/mo.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best affiliate marketing platform for a company with a limited budget is Viral Loops”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Viral Loops and InviteBox offer the lowest entry prices for testing a referral program”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“the best choice is usually Viral Loops if you want the lowest entry price”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Multiple reports of billing issues and deceptive practices in user reviews.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Multiple reports of billing issues and deceptive pricing practices.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“including ReferralCandy or Viral Loops: scrutinize them if deals involve sales teams, organizations, long consideration periods”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“some consumer-first tools like ReferralCandy and Viral Loops may not be suitable for B2B programs”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Viral Loops, over the 90 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 1 | View → | |
| 30 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 1 | View → | |
| 29 | 1 | View → | |
| 27 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 22 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Viral Loops →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Viral Loops's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- Start-up — annual billing $35.00; Plus — annual billing $99.00; Growing — annual billing $159.00; Power — annual billing $279.00; Start-up — monthly billing $49.00; Plus — monthly billing $139.00; Growing — monthly billing $229.00; Power — monthly billing $399.00
- Starting price
- 35
- Free plan or trial
- Try for free
- Integrations
- 500
- Customers named
- The GIST, Exness, The Know, VeryGoodCopy, Revolut, Harry's, Airbnb, Robinhood
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 84 of the 90 answers that named Viral Loops and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
273 of the 309 domain citations in answers naming Viral Loops came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 219 | undated | SEO, Landing pages | ||
| Comparison | 25 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 12 | undated | |||
| Case study | 8 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 7 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page viral-loops.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.