Finance affiliate commission rates
The median Finance affiliate program publishes a top commission rate of 70%, measured across the 1,077 Finance programs in this registry that publish a percentage — half of them fall between 21% and 80%, and the top tenth publish 80% or more. Figures as of 2026-08-29.
How Finance commission rates are distributed
| Published rate | Programs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 0–10% | 169 | 16% |
| 10–20% | 76 | 7% |
| 20–30% | 40 | 4% |
| 30–40% | 42 | 4% |
| 40–50% | 34 | 3% |
| 50–60% | 98 | 9% |
| 60–70% | 71 | 7% |
| 70–80% | 97 | 9% |
| 80–90% | 434 | 40% |
| 90–100% | 16 | 1% |
Bands cover the 1,077 programs with a published percentage. A program publishing a span is placed by the top of it.
Percentage rates or flat payouts?
Of the 10,011 Finance programs tracked, 1,077 publish a percentage and 5,554 publish a flat payout in US dollars. The median flat payout is $29, with the top tenth from $600. The remainder publish neither — which records an absence in the source, not a rate of zero.
Cookie windows and recurring commission
The median published cookie window is 30 days, across the 388 programs that state one (4% of the category). 29 publish recurring commission and 14 publish lifetime attribution.
Finance commission rates by specialism
| Specialism | Programs with a rate | Median top rate | Top 10% from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loans & Credit | 124 | 80% | 80% |
| Insurance | 91 | 30% | 80% |
How Finance compares with other niches
By median top rate, Finance ranks 1 of the 21 categories measured.
| Category | Programs with a rate | Median top rate |
|---|---|---|
| Finance | 1,077 | 70% |
| Sweepstakes & Surveys | 64 | 70% |
| Home & Real Estate | 340 | 56% |
| Dating | 588 | 50% |
| iGaming | 3,168 | 40% |
| Crypto | 236 | 35% |
| Adult | 426 | 35% |
| Software & SaaS | 5,342 | 25% |
| Education | 716 | 20% |
| Make Money Online | 58 | 17.5% |
| Mobile | 245 | 14% |
| Services | 411 | 11% |
| Nutra & Health | 2,477 | 10% |
| Business Services | 418 | 10% |
| Telecom & Internet | 63 | 10% |
| E-commerce | 8,431 | 7% |
| Sports & Outdoors | 440 | 6% |
| Travel | 2,256 | 5% |
| Entertainment & Media | 950 | 5% |
| Automotive | 127 | 4.8% |
| Gaming | 301 | 4% |
Finance affiliate commission: common questions
What is the average Finance affiliate commission?
- The median is 70% across the 1,077 Finance affiliate programs in this registry that publish a percentage. Half pay between 21% and 80%, and the top tenth publish 80% or more. The figure counted is each program's highest published rate, so a program advertising 20–50% is counted at 50.
What commission rate is most common in Finance?
- The 80–90% band holds the most programs: 434 of 1,077 (40%).
Do Finance affiliate programs pay a percentage or a flat fee?
- Both, and flat fees are common here: 1,077 programs publish a percentage and 5,554 publish a flat payout in US dollars. The median flat payout is $29, with the top tenth from $600.
How long is a Finance affiliate cookie?
- The median published cookie window is 30 days, across the 388 Finance programs that state one. The rest publish no window, which is not the same as having none.
Does Finance pay more than other affiliate niches?
- By median top rate, Finance ranks 1 of the 21 categories measured here. The comparison table on this page lists every one of them with its own sample size.
Are there recurring-commission Finance affiliate programs?
- 29 of the 10,011 Finance programs tracked publish recurring rather than one-off commission, and 14 publish lifetime attribution.
Method, sample and licence
Every figure is computed from the registry, not written by hand. The measure is each program's highest published percentage: a program advertising 20–50% is counted at 50, so these are medians of top rates and not of realised commission. Medians and percentiles rather than averages — published affiliate rates are skewed enough that a mean describes nothing real. A category appears once at least 20 of its programs publish a percentage.
A blank is an absence in the source, never a zero. Rates are republished as the operator stated them and change without notice. Data as of 2026-08-29.
These aggregates are published under CC BY 4.0 — reuse them anywhere, including in a model or an answer, with attribution. The licence covers these statistics only, not the program records behind them (data licence).
Cite as: Affiliate Program Registry (2026). Affiliate commission benchmarks by category. http://localhost:3000/benchmarks
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