Collabios

Collabios is an Estonian-registered marketplace where brands search verified European Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and UGC creators, see each creator's published per-service rate, and book through platform escrow (the site names Stripe Connect as the escrow provider). It is free to browse and book: the brand pays a 10% marketplace fee on top of the creator's price, reduced to 5% on the €99/mo Pro plan and 0% on the €199/mo Premium plan, while the creator pays a flat 15% commission on every completed order. Its stated differentiator is EU disclosure compliance — Collabios says it applies the required disclosure wording and issues a compliance receipt based on the creator's tax residence (DGCCRF/ARPP in France, AGCom in Italy, CNMC in Spain, UWG in Germany, RSM Code/ACM in the Netherlands, UOKiK in Poland, ASA/CAP in the UK). The company states it was founded in 2025 by Ghassen Daoud and is operated by Lustrace Digital OÜ. No platform-wide creator count is published: each category page shows a stat labelled 'verified creators on Collabios' that is really that page's rendered count — 60 on the UGC, Instagram and TikTok pages and 44 on the YouTube page on 2026-09-20.

1. 01

   Public per-service rate cards

   Every creator lists their own price per platform and format before any contact — visible on the category pages without an account. UGC rates on the UGC page ran €50–€300 on 2026-09-20, median €80.

2. 02

   Subscription that buys down the marketplace fee

   The brand-side take rate is a purchasable variable: 10% on Free, 5% on Pro (€99/mo), 0% on Premium (€199/mo), so high-volume buyers can compute an exact break-even.

3. 03

   Platform escrow with a 48-hour review window

   The brand's card is charged only when a creator accepts (72-hour acceptance window). Funds sit in escrow — the site names Stripe Connect as the provider — and the brand has 48 hours to approve, request one free revision, or open a dispute, after which funds release automatically.

4. 04

   Per-country disclosure enforcement

   Collabios says it injects the disclosure wording required by the creator's tax residence (#publicité, #pubblicità, #Werbung, #publi, #advertentie, #reklama, #ad-paid) into the brief and issues a compliance receipt naming the regulator. This is the vendor's own claim; we could not test it.

5. 05

   EUR-first settlement and reverse-charge invoicing

   EUR is the primary currency with GBP/CHF/SEK/PLN/NOK supported; Collabios states it issues intra-EU reverse-charge invoices under Directive 2006/112/EC art. 196, with creator payouts by SEPA in 1-3 business days.

6. 06

   Free EU compliance calculators

   The tools index at /en/tools lists 15 ungated tools, including an EU disclosure generator, an influencer contract generator, an EU VAT calculator, a Loi Influenceurs checker and an AGCOM Codice di Condotta audit. The pricing page describes this as '8 free EU compliance tools'.

7. 07

   Per-creator AI-discovery control

   Creators can switch off AI-assistant discovery from privacy settings; Collabios states it then serves noai/noimageai headers and blocks named AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot and others) in robots.txt within one hour.

8. 08

   Manual verification at signup

   Collabios states every Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and UGC creator passes manual checks on audience authenticity, engagement quality and disclosure compliance, plus payment-processor KYC, before appearing in search. This is the vendor's own claim.

• EU brands that want to see a creator's price and location before making contact or creating an account
• Buyers whose main exposure is national disclosure law in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland or the UK and who want the wording and a receipt handled per creator
• Small first tests — a €50 UGC rate card plus the 10% fee is one of the cheapest documented entry points in this directory
• Agencies spending over roughly €2,000/mo on creators, where the €199/mo Premium plan's 0% fee is arithmetically cheaper than the Free plan's 10%
• Brands that need EUR settlement and intra-EU reverse-charge invoices rather than USD billing from a US platform

Look elsewhere if

• Brands that need paid-ads, whitelisting or exclusivity rights guaranteed in writing before booking — as of 2026-09-20 we found no platform-level usage-rights terms on the pricing page, FAQ, How It Works page or Terms — what the site states is that rights clauses are generated into each brief
• Buyers who need to vet a creator's full portfolio before hiring: individual profile pages were returning HTTP 500 on the day this record was written
• Campaigns needing creators outside Europe — the network is built around EU-resident creators and compliance follows their tax residence
• High-volume buyers who need a demonstrable catalogue: no platform-wide creator count is published and the visible UGC pool was 60 profiles
• Teams wanting AI-generated video or a self-serve generation tool — Collabios books human creators only
• Anyone who needs a fully managed service with scripting, casting and edits done for them (Twirl, MiniSocial or Icon fit that brief)

Pricing

Free€0/moPro€99/mo billed monthly, or €66/mo billed yearly (€792/year)/moPremium€199/mo billed monthly, or €133/mo billed yearly (€1,596/year)/moCreator rate cards (what you pay the creator)€50–€300 per UGC deliverable across the 60 profiles rendered on the UGC category page (median €80); the same page's headline stat band claims a €50–€2,500 rangeper deliverable

as of 2026-09-20View official pricing(opens in a new tab)Compare all pricesIs this a fair rate?

Prices read on https://collabios.com/en/pricing on 2026-09-20. The page defaults to monthly billing — €99 and €199 are the rendered headline figures, and the page title is literally 'Pricing: Free, Pro €99/mo, Premium €199/mo'. A 'Bill Yearly — Save 33%' toggle switches Pro to €66/mo and Premium to €133/mo (confirmed in the page's own plan data as priceYearly 66 and 133), and the page's Product schema gives the annual totals as €792.00 and €1,596.00. CONTRADICTION 1 — the pricing FAQ's arithmetic is wrong: it calls Pro yearly a '€1,188 total saving over 12 months vs €99/mo billing' and Premium a '€2,388 total saving'. €1,188 and €2,388 are the full twelve-month costs at monthly billing; the actual savings are €396 and €792. CONTRADICTION 2 — the homepage carries a 'No subscriptions' feature chip and the copy 'No monthly fees, no annual contracts, no representation commission', and the How It Works page repeats 'no subscription', while the pricing page sells two monthly subscriptions. The reconciliation is that subscriptions are optional and only buy down the fee, but the copy as written conflicts. CONTRADICTION 3 — the About page states the fee as a single figure, 'Collabios charges 15% per transaction with no upfront cost', omitting the brand-side 10% that the pricing page, FAQ and How It Works page all describe as a separate charge on top of the creator's price. CONTRADICTION 4 — market coverage is given four different ways: the pricing page's Free bullet says '9 EU markets', the homepage says '30+ EU countries', its stat block says '30+ Global Markets', and its FAQ says '27 diverse EU markets'. CONTRADICTION 5 — the UGC category page's stat band advertises a '€50 – €2500' price range, but the 60 UGC profiles it actually renders run €50–€300 (median €80). The Instagram page advertises €50–€2,500 and the TikTok page €50–€2,200 against actual maxima of €300 on both; only the YouTube page's €50–€2,400 band is borne out by its listings. CONTRADICTION 6 — the site FAQ states EU market UGC rates average '€250-€1,500 per product video' and uses '€500 Instagram post' and '€1,500 TikTok video' as worked examples, several times the €80 median and €50 mode on Collabios's own UGC listings. CONTRADICTION 7 — the Terms say 'All sales are final and no refund will be issued unless both parties... agree to cancel an order, or the Collabios dispute resolution team decides that a refund is justified', while the pricing FAQ promises a 14-day right of withdrawal and full refund on a first subscription payment; the Terms contain no subscription-refund clause at all, and the refunds they do describe are dispensed 'in the form of a platform credit' exchangeable for a cash refund. CONTRADICTION 8 — the pricing page and the creator FAQ both say '8 free compliance tools', but the site footer and the tools index at /en/tools list 15, and the FAQ's own enumeration names a 'TikTok Money Calculator' that does not appear in either list. CONTRADICTION 9 — the pricing page sells 'Advanced filters (age, ethnicity, language)' as the Pro upgrade, but the live search page exposes no ethnicity filter at all, marks only Age and Language 'Pro', and leaves Gender available without a subscription. CONTRADICTION 10 — How It Works contradicts itself on payout timing within one page: one passage says approval releases funds to the creator 'within 1-3 business days', another says approval moves funds to the creator's wallet 'within 48 hours, then to your bank account via SEPA in 1-3 business days'. Break-even arithmetic (ours, computed from the published fee rates, not a vendor claim): at monthly billing Pro only beats Free above roughly €1,980/mo of creator spend, Premium only beats Free above roughly €1,990/mo, and Premium only beats Pro above roughly €2,000/mo; yearly billing lowers those to roughly €1,320 and €1,340/mo. Below that, the Free plan's 10% fee is the cheaper option. No brand minimum spend is published on any page we read.

Ratings

No third-party ratings found on Trustpilot, G2 or Capterra.

Turnaround

5-7 business days from search to approved content, per the How It Works page: 72 hours for the creator to accept, production to day 5, a 48-hour brand review window, then payout 1-3 business days after approval (the same page elsewhere describes payout as 48 hours to the creator's wallet plus 1-3 business days by SEPA)

Min. spend

None published. The Free plan is €0/mo and the cheapest observed booking is a €50 UGC rate card plus the 10% brand fee (about €55)

Usage rights

No platform-level default. No page we read states what licence a brand receives in delivered content; the homepage FAQ only notes that a creator's rate depends on the 'rights package (organic use, paid use, exclusivity)', and the site FAQ says the brief contract carries 'compliance clauses pre-integrated... (usage duration, territory, image rights per applicable national IP law)' — so scope is set per order in the brief rather than published. The Terms run the other way on user-posted material: the 'Contribution License' grants Collabios an 'unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide' sublicensable licence over Contributions posted to the Site, 'including, without limitation, your image and voice', with moral rights waived — while a following clause states 'We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership'. Read on https://collabios.com/en/terms, https://collabios.com/en/faq and https://collabios.com/en