Gleam is a marketing platform. We are a raffle.
Gleam is built to grow an audience — social actions, referrals, email capture, viral loops. If that is the job, it is very good at it. If the job is running a drawing and proving it was fair, you are paying a monthly subscription for a lot of machinery you will not use.
Free for up to 100 entrants. No subscriptions.
What Gleam is
Gleam sells four apps — Competitions, Rewards, Captures and Galleries. Competitions is the one that runs giveaways, and it is aimed at brands building email lists and social followings. Entries are earned through actions like following an account or watching a video, which is a different shape from selling raffle entries for a fundraiser.
Gleam pricing
- Free Free Unlimited campaigns, up to 10 winners, entry data restricted, Gleam branding
- Hobby $29/mo Up to 15 winners, 4 prizes, unlocked entry data
- Pro $59/mo Up to 50 winners, 10 prizes, your branding, 25+ languages
- Business $179/mo Up to 250 winners, removes “Powered by Gleam”, 3 team members
- Premium $499/mo Up to 500 winners, webhooks, API
When Gleam is the better choice
We would rather you picked the right tool than picked ours.
- You want entries earned through social actions — follows, shares, referrals, video views.
- Growing an email list or a social following is the actual goal, not the drawing.
- You need deep integrations with marketing tools like ActiveCampaign or Mailchimp.
- You run campaigns continuously, so a monthly subscription is genuinely amortised.
When Rafflebase is the better choice
- You run a handful of drawings a year and a monthly subscription makes no sense.
- People are paying to enter, and they will want to know the draw was not rigged.
- You need a public results page and a full audit trail rather than a marketing report.
- You want a flat one-time $25 rather than a plan tier that caps how many winners you may draw.
Gleam details taken from their own pricing page, last checked 30 August 2026. If anything here is out of date, let us know.
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Free for up to 100 entrants. If it does not fit, nothing has been spent.