Albacross vs Trackdesk

Albacross logovsTrackdesk logo
Albacross finds the companies visiting your website for your sales team. Trackdesk runs affiliate and partner programmes, from commissions to payouts. They solve different problems, so pick by what you want to grow.

The verdict

Start from the question you are trying to answer. If it is which companies are looking at us, I'd pick Albacross. If it is how do we run and pay a partner programme that already brings in revenue, I'd pick Trackdesk.

For a small B2B team that has a target account list and steady traffic, Albacross is the more likely fit. Trackdesk only makes sense once partners already bring meaningful revenue. For a first affiliate test, it is too much, and something lighter is a better start.

If you honestly need both, they do not overlap, so you can add the second later.

What the data says
  • Only Trackdesk has an MCP server, so an AI employee can work in it directly.
  • In our Tracking ranking, Trackdesk places 10 and Albacross 12 of 14.

Side by side

Albacross and Trackdesk compared
At a glance
Starts at€59/mo$299/mo
Free planNoNo
APIYesYes
MCP serverNoYes
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Plans and pricing

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Albacross

  • StarterUp to 100 identified companies per month plus 10 verified email and 5 phone credits; 84 monthly or 59 per month billed annually.€84/mo
  • ProfessionalUp to 500 identified companies per month plus 25 email and 10 phone credits; 213 monthly or 149 per month billed annually.€213/mo
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Trackdesk

  • Business5 seats and 10 active offers, pre-built reporting dashboards, chat and email support.$299/mo
  • EnterpriseUnlimited seats and offers, white-label, custom domain and full API, includes MCP access for AI tools.$499/mo

Prices as the vendors list them. They change often; the final price is on their sites.

Who each is for

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Choose Albacross if…

Pick Trackdesk if you are a SaaS company or online shop with an affiliate or partner programme that already brings in revenue. It suits you when a spreadsheet and a referral link have stopped working and you spend days on payouts.

It supports many commission models, fraud detection and payouts in several currencies, and one account can run several brands. It has an API, webhooks and an MCP server. Setup is technical, so budget time or developer help. Skip it if you are only testing whether partners will sell.

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Choose Trackdesk if…

Pick Albacross if you sell to a defined set of companies and your site has enough traffic to reveal them. It suits sales and marketing teams that want to know which accounts visited even when nobody filled in a form.

It adds company data and intent scores, and sends alerts to Slack or Microsoft Teams. It names companies, not people. It also has no free plan, but the trial needs no card. Skip it if your traffic is small, or if your buyers are mostly consumers.

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