Influencer Budget Calculator: Bracket a Creator Budget From the Published 2026 Rates
Free calculator: the published 2026 per-post brackets from gigapay.com for your follower tier and deliverables, with collabstr.com averages as context.
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Two numbers decide most influencer budgets before any negotiation starts: what the market charges for the deliverable, and how many deliverables the campaign needs. This calculator does the first part instantly: pick the platform, enter the follower count, choose what you want produced, and it finds the account’s follower tier and applies the published 2026 per-post bracket for that tier from gigapay.com, with collabstr.com marketplace averages shown alongside as context. The math runs in your browser and nothing is submitted. One boundary up front: this calculator is a standalone method page, not a Superdirector budget-recommendation feature — it computes the arithmetic the published brackets support and stops there.
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What does the market charge for this deliverable?
Enter the platform, the follower count, and what you want produced. The calculator finds the follower tier and applies the published 2026 per-post bracket from the gigapay.com pay guide, with collabstr.com marketplace averages as context — instantly, in your browser.
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Enter a follower count above zero and the bracket appears instantly — the math runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere.
| Tier | Instagram Reel | Instagram static post | Instagram story set | TikTok video | YouTube dedicated video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano (1K-10K) | $50 – $300 | $25 – $150 | $8 – $75 | $50 – $500 | $300 – $1,500 |
| Micro (10K-100K) | $500 – $5,000 | $150 – $2,500 | $45 – $1,250 | $200 – $2,000 | $1,000 – $10,000 |
| Mid-tier (100K-500K) | $3,000 – $12,000 | $1,500 – $8,000 | $450 – $4,000 | $1,200 – $5,000 | $10,000 – $100,000 |
| Macro (500K-1M) | $8,000 – $25,000 | $5,000 – $15,000 | $1,500 – $7,500 | $5,000 – $15,000 | $10,000 – $100,000 |
| Mega (1M+) | $25,000 – $100,000+ | $15,000 – $50,000+ | $4,500 – $25,000+ | $20,000 – $200,000+ | $100,000 – $500,000+ |
Brackets: gigapay.com 2026 pay guide (published 2026-07-30). Story sets apply its three-frame rule, 30-50% of the static feed-post rate, at every tier. YouTube mid-tier and macro share one published 100K-1M row. Below 1,000 followers the guide publishes no bracket. Market context: collabstr.com 2026 influencer marketing report.
How the brackets are built
The arithmetic is deliberately simple: find the follower tier, read the published per-post bracket for the platform and format, and multiply by the deliverables. The tiers and brackets come from the gigapay.com 2026 pay guide (published 2026-07-30, verified 2026-09-23). The tiers are nano (1K-10K followers), micro (10K-100K), mid-tier (100K-500K), macro (500K-1M), and mega (1M+). For a micro account, for example, the guide brackets an Instagram Reel at $500-$5,000, a TikTok video at $200-$2,000, and a dedicated YouTube video at $1,000-$10,000. Those brackets are the only rates the calculator applies, and the table under the calculator shows every one of them.
The story-set option adds the guide’s story pricing: $15-$75 for nano accounts and $200-$1,000 for micro, and above micro — where the guide publishes no story range — 30-50% of the tier’s static feed-post bracket, the guide’s stated rule for stories. Below 1,000 followers the guide publishes no bracket, and the calculator says so instead of inventing one.
Two marketplace figures sit beside the result as context and never enter the arithmetic. Collabstr’s price calculators (verified 2026-09-23) put the average charge per sponsorship at $340 on Instagram, $345 on TikTok, and $395 on YouTube, across more than 1.3 million marketplace rates. Collabstr’s 2026 influencer marketing report (verified 2026-09-23) puts the average paid collaboration at $193 on Instagram, $186 on TikTok, and $255 on YouTube, against average asks of $214, $182, and $311, with nearly 80% of more than 21,000 collaborations costing under $300. Those averages span every collaboration on one marketplace, whatever the account size, so a tier bracket that runs above them is not a contradiction.
What changes the price inside the bracket
A bracket is a starting point, and the brackets are wide because follower count alone does not price an account. The levers that move a real quote toward the top are deal structure: usage rights beyond organic posting, category exclusivity that blocks competing work, whitelisting for paid amplification, and rush turnaround. Each is priced as its own line in a real negotiation, not folded silently into the headline rate.
Engagement is deliberately qualitative in this calculator. Per the collabstr.com 2026 influencer marketing report (verified 2026-09-23), Instagram Reels average 5% engagement, TikTok videos 2%, and YouTube videos 6%. The calculator reports where an entered rate sits against that average — above, near, or below — and changes no arithmetic, because the account’s own median views, not a percentage in a bio, are what decide whether a deal lands at the bottom of its bracket or the top.
A worked example: 25,000 followers, one Reel
Enter 25,000 Instagram followers with one Reel selected and the calculator returns $500-$5,000: the account sits in the micro tier (10K-100K followers), and that is the guide’s micro Reel bracket. The deliverables count is one, so the total budget bracket equals the per-deliverable bracket. Enter 3% engagement and the readout flags it below the 5% Reels average — a qualitative flag toward the bottom of the bracket, not a change to the numbers.
Change the deliverable and the same bracket multiplies: a 3-video package returns $1,500-$15,000, a 4-post monthly retainer returns $2,000-$20,000, and a Reel plus a story set returns $700-$6,000 once the micro story range of $200-$1,000 is added. Switch the platform to TikTok and one video returns $200-$2,000; switch to YouTube and one dedicated video returns $1,000-$10,000.
Read the output against the market context: the average paid Instagram collaboration in the Collabstr 2026 report was $193, below the micro Reel bracket’s floor. That gap is information, not an error — the report averages every collaboration on one marketplace, whatever the account size, and the bracket is where the pay guide places a micro Reel specifically. The account’s own delivery decides where inside the bracket a real deal belongs.
What the calculator does not do
It does not price a specific account. Two 25,000-follower accounts can differ by several times in the median views they deliver, and a follower-tier bracket cannot see that — only the account’s own last-ten-posts median and its audience report can. The rates pages linked below carry the full method: median views per format, in-market audience share, and reading an actual ask against them.
It is also not a Superdirector budget feature. The calculator is a standalone method page that runs published-bracket arithmetic in your browser; Superdirector does not recommend budgets through it. What Superdirector plans is the campaign the budget funds — hooks, scripts, shot plans, and creator-ready briefs from reference content — and the free tier covers that planning work.
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