Software · head to head
Cohley vs Insense
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Cohley cohley's Starter plan starts from $18,000 and its Professional plan ("Most popular") starts from $24,000, both annual influencer/UGC content packages, per the vendor's own pricing page (archived, 2022).; Insense the entry Trial plan costs $650 for one month, is limited to 1 campaign and up to 10 creators, and auto-upgrades to the $500 per month Brand plan unless cancelled 48 hours in advance
- They diverge on capability: Cohley covers Photo content, Insense covers UGC creation.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Cohley and Insense actually diverge.
Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Unknown), founded (2016).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Cohley
- Photo content
- Video content
- Product reviews
- Creator network
- Rights management
- Content library
- A/B testing
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Only in Insense
- UGC creation
- Creator matching
- Content licensing
- Spark ads whitelisting
- Brief templates
- Content moderation
- Payment processing
- TikTok
Both cover
- Performance analytics
- Shopify
- Google Ads
- GDPR
- Data encryption
- Cloud deployment
- Web support
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Cohley
- Product photographynot Insense
- Video contentnot Insense
- Customer reviewsnot Insense
- Social contentnot Insense
- Ad creativenot Insense
Insense
- Sourcing UGC video creators for paid social adsnot Cohley
- Running Meta Partnership Ads with creator handlesnot Cohley
- Managing creator briefs, contracts and payments for ecommerce brandsnot Cohley
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Cohley
- Cohley's Starter plan starts from $18,000 and its Professional plan ("Most popular") starts from $24,000, both annual influencer/UGC content packages, per the vendor's own pricing page (archived, 2022).
Insense
- The entry Trial plan costs $650 for one month, is limited to 1 campaign and up to 10 creators, and auto-upgrades to the $500 per month Brand plan unless cancelled 48 hours in advance
- A marketplace fee is charged on top of the subscription: 20% on Trial, 10% on Brand and 7% on Agency
- Brand plan includes only 2 user seats and 1 brand; extra seats cost $30 per month and extra brands $100 per month
- Creator payments are not included in the subscription and are billed separately
- Brand plan caps Meta Partnership Ads connections at 10
Pricing, plan by plan
Cohley
On request- Starter$undefined/month
- Photo content
- Basic creators
- Content library
- Growth$undefined/month
- Photo + video
- Premium creators
- Performance tracking
- Enterprise$undefined/month
- Custom content
- Dedicated team
- API access
Insense
$400/month- UGC$400/month
- Access to creators
- Brief creation
- Content delivery
- UGC + Ads$1500/month
- Creator whitelisting
- Spark ads
- Performance tracking
- Enterprise$undefined/month
- Custom solutions
- Managed service
- API access
Which should you pick?
Choose Cohley if
- You need photo content.
- You work on Web, Api.
- You also want video content.
Questions people ask
- Is Cohley or Insense better?
- Neither clearly leads. Cohley starts at On request and Insense at $400/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Cohley or Insense?
- Cohley starts at On request and Insense at $400/month.
- Does Cohley or Insense run on more platforms?
- Cohley runs on Web, Api. Insense runs on Web.
- What is Cohley best used for?
- Cohley is most often used for product photography, video content, customer reviews, social content. Of those, product photography and video content are not what Insense is typically brought in for.
- What can Cohley do that Insense cannot?
- Cohley covers Photo content, Video content, Product reviews, Creator network. Insense covers UGC creation, Creator matching, Content licensing, Spark ads whitelisting. Both handle Performance analytics, Shopify, Instagram, Google Ads.