Best Black Friday SaaS Affiliate Programs to Promote in 2026: What Is Live and What It Pays
We checked 45 SaaS affiliate programs on 9 November 2026: which have a Black Friday deal live or dated, and whether your commission survives the discount.
Alston Antony10 min readOn 9 November 2026 we checked the official Black Friday pages and affiliate terms of 45 SaaS affiliate programs in this directory. Eight have a 2026 deal live or dated on the vendor’s own site, and two more have announced one without terms. Most of the rest have published nothing yet, and a few ran a deal in 2025 that has not been announced again.
The size of the discount is the wrong thing to rank them by. What decides whether a Black Friday deal is worth your traffic is whether your commission survives the discount. On a fixed bounty it does. On a percentage of the first payment it shrinks by the size of the discount. On recurring commission it shrinks only for the discounted months. The programs below are grouped with that in mind.
Black Friday falls on 27 November 2026 and Cyber Monday on 30 November.
How this list was built
We started from the active programs in the directory and checked each one against official sources only: the vendor’s Black Friday page, pricing page, blog or press release, and its affiliate program page and terms. Coupon sites and deal roundups were used as leads, never as evidence. Where a 2026 page was not live, we looked for an official 2025 page, including archived copies on the Wayback Machine.
Commission figures come from each program’s record in this directory, which shows the date it was last verified against its sources. Black Friday deals change faster than affiliate terms, so treat every deal below as correct on 9 November 2026 and check the linked page before you publish.
Nobody paid to be on this list, and the order is not a ranking. Programs are grouped by what their Black Friday deal does to your commission.
Black Friday 2026 deals that are live or dated
| Program | Black Friday 2026 deal (official) | Dates | What it pays affiliates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger | Up to 85% off web hosting, .com domains at $0.01 for the first year | 19 October to 14 December | Up to 40% of the initial purchase, capped at $300 per sale |
| Cloudways | 80% off the first 2 months, capped at $200 a month, code BFCM802, new customers | 5 November to 4 December | Up to $125 per sale, or $30 plus 7% lifetime recurring |
| Bluehost | 15%, 20% or 25% off one, two or three eligible products on 12-month terms | Ends 30 November | $65 per qualified sale |
| SiteGround | “Early Black Friday deal”, 88% off hosting | Not stated | $50 to $100 per sale by monthly volume |
| NordVPN | Up to 78% off 2-year plans, plus 3 extra months | Not stated | 40% of a 1-year or 2-year plan, then 30% of renewals |
| NordPass | Up to 58% off annual Personal plans plus 3 months; 20% off Business with code BF20OFF | Until 9 December | 30% of a new B2C sign-up, then 10% of renewals |
| Coursera | 40% off Coursera Plus Annual ($239, regularly $399), new subscribers, not available in India, Great Britain or Australia | Claim by 30 November | 15% to 45% on eligible purchases |
| MailerLite | 26% off any annual plan for 12 months | 17 November to 18 December | 30% lifetime recurring |
| Kinsta | Announced with a countdown; terms not published yet | Not stated | $50 to $500 one-time bonus plus 10% lifetime recurring |
| SE Ranking | Announced as “Coming soon”; terms not published yet | Not stated | 30% of every sale |
Sources: Hostinger, Cloudways, Bluehost, SiteGround, NordVPN, NordPass, Coursera, MailerLite, Kinsta and SE Ranking, all read on 9 November 2026.
Coursera presents its offer as a November promotion rather than under the Black Friday name. It runs through Black Friday weekend, so it is included.
Where your commission is safe: fixed bounties
A fixed bounty pays the same amount whether the customer paid full price or 85% less. During Black Friday that is the strongest position an affiliate can be in, because the discount lifts your conversion rate and costs you nothing per sale.
Bluehost pays $65 per qualified shared hosting sale on its record, and its 2026 sale is a modest 15% to 25% off on 12-month terms, ending 30 November. The discount is small enough that it will not change who buys, which makes it the least interesting deal and the most predictable payout on this list.
SiteGround pays $50 for one to five sales a month, $75 for six to 10 and up to $100 for 11 to 20, with no percentage involved. Its homepage was running an “Early Black Friday deal” of 88% off hosting on 9 November, without an end date. SiteGround’s terms say you may advertise only the offer your affiliate link points to, so do not quote the Black Friday price unless your link lands on it.
Kinsta is half in this group. For its 2025 sale, Kinsta told affiliates in an official post that they would earn “the full one-time bonus, unaffected by the discount”, while the 10% recurring commission is calculated on the discounted plan. The 2026 page was counting down on 9 November with no terms published, so the 2025 rule is the best guide until Kinsta says otherwise.
Semrush pays a fixed amount per sale and WP Engine a fixed minimum of $200 on most plans, but neither had a 2026 Black Friday offer on its official site when we checked.
Where the discount comes out of your commission: first-payment percentages
When a program pays a percentage of the first payment and nothing after it, the customer’s discount is your discount.
Hostinger is the clearest case. It pays up to 40% of the initial purchase on 12-month-or-longer plans, capped at $300 per sale, and nothing on renewals. Its Black Friday sale, which runs from 19 October to 14 December 2026, takes up to 85% off web hosting. The worked example in Hostinger’s affiliate agreement calculates commission on the amount the customer paid, so a deeper discount means a smaller commission per sale. Hostinger’s deal is still worth promoting if your audience is price-led, but the case for it rests on volume, not on the rate.
Hostinger’s agreement also prohibits promoting “coupon(s), voucher(s), discount codes” without its prior approval. Linking to the public sale page is not the same as publishing a code, but read the clause before you write a “Hostinger coupon” headline.
The same arithmetic applies to Elementor, whose affiliate terms define the commission base as the amount actually paid after discounts and coupons, and to Surfer, which pays a percentage of the first payment. Neither had a 2026 Black Friday deal live on 9 November.
Where the discount only touches the first months: recurring commission
On recurring commission, a Black Friday discount reduces what you earn only for as long as the discount lasts. After that you are paid on the full price for as long as the program pays.
MailerLite is the best-documented example. Its affiliate terms say commission “is calculated on the Net Amount, meaning the price paid by the referred customer before taxes”. Its 2026 offer is 26% off any annual plan for 12 months, from 17 November to 18 December. On a 30% lifetime rate that works out to 22.2% of the undiscounted price in year one and the full 30% from the first renewal onwards, assuming the customer renews. Retention is the variable that decides how much that renewal is worth, and MailerLite does not publish it.
Cloudways discounts only the first two months: 80% off, capped at $200 off per month, for new customers using code BFCM802 between 5 November and 4 December 2026. On the hybrid plan of $30 upfront plus 7% lifetime recurring, the discount affects two months of a commission that has no end date. Cloudways’s affiliate page was carrying the Black Friday campaign on 9 November, with links that apply the code.
SE Ranking pays 30% of every sale and had a “Coming soon” page with a countdown on 9 November. In 2025 its sale was an extra 20% off all annual plans and add-ons. Its affiliate terms allow you to promote only coupons and discounts generated by SE Ranking.
NordVPN and NordPass sit between the two models. Both pay a larger share of the first plan (40% and 30%) and a smaller share of renewals (30% and 10%). Neither program states whether that first share is calculated on the Black Friday price, so treat the headline rate as an upper bound on a discounted 2-year plan.
Programs that ran a deal in 2025 but have not announced 2026
These vendors ran an official Black Friday promotion last year and had nothing for 2026 on their sites on 9 November. They are worth watching, not worth writing about yet.
- Namecheap ran up to 99% off domains and up to 80% off shared hosting from 21 November 2025. Its 2026 Black Friday page still says “The deals are over”.
- Elementor discounted its editor, hosting and add-ons from 25 November to 3 December 2025. On 9 November 2026 it was running a birthday sale instead.
- GetResponse offered up to 30% off all paid plans for the first year in 2025. Its affiliate terms calculate commission on the amount the customer paid.
- Moz ran a Cyber Sale of up to 36% off Moz Pro that ended on 7 December 2025.
- Moosend offered 50% off the first year of annual Pro plans with code SCORE50 in 2025.
Surfer is worth a note for a different reason. Its 2025 promotion was not a discount but 20 extra AI Tracker prompts on the Scale plan, which leaves a first-payment commission untouched. If more vendors moved to bonus-based Black Friday offers, affiliates on percentage commission would be better off.
Rules that matter more during Black Friday
Black Friday is when affiliates reach for coupon headlines, and it is when coupon clauses get enforced. These are the restrictions we found in official terms on 9 November 2026:
| Program | What the terms say |
|---|---|
| Hostinger | Coupons, vouchers and discount codes need Hostinger’s prior approval |
| Bluehost | Unapproved coupon codes are prohibited |
| MailerLite | Only coupons issued through the affiliate program or approved in writing |
| SE Ranking | Only coupons and discounts generated by SE Ranking |
| SiteGround | Advertise only the offer your affiliate link points to |
| Rank Math | No promotion on coupon websites |
| Podia | No special discounts or coupons, no coupon-site partnerships |
| Webflow | No financial or similar incentives offered by the affiliate |
| AWeber | No bidding on terms such as “AWeber discount” or “AWeber promo code” |
HeyGen is a special case: its affiliate page rules out “SEO or blog-only promotion” altogether, so it is not a Black Friday candidate for a site that publishes articles, whatever its deal turns out to be.
The other rule that matters is timing. Most of these programs track the last click, and Black Friday is when coupon and deal sites collect the most of them. Cookie duration helps only if nothing overwrites your click. A reader who clicks your link on 15 November is covered through Cyber Monday by every program in the table above, since the shortest cookie duration among them is 30 days (Hostinger, Bluehost, NordVPN, NordPass and Coursera). Whether your click is still the last one by then is something no program publishes.
What we would promote, by audience
These are judgements from the terms above, not rankings.
- For a hosting audience, promote Bluehost or SiteGround if you want a payout the discount cannot touch, and Cloudways if you want recurring commission that the discount barely dents. Promote Hostinger when your readers are price-led and you expect volume to make up for a smaller commission per sale.
- For an email marketing audience, MailerLite is the strongest documented case: a dated deal, a lifetime rate, and commission terms that say exactly what the discount does.
- For an SEO audience, wait for SE Ranking to publish its terms; a 120-day cookie duration means content published now can still earn from it.
- For a learning or career audience, Coursera has the only dated 2026 offer in its category, but it excludes readers in India, Great Britain and Australia.
- For a privacy audience, NordVPN and NordPass both have deals live, with renewal commission after the first plan.
What to check before you publish a Black Friday post
- Open the vendor’s Black Friday page and confirm the deal, the dates and the eligible plans on the day you publish. Several pages here had no end date.
- Read the commission clause for the words “amount paid”, “net amount” or “after discounts”. If they are there, the discount comes out of your commission.
- Read the coupon clause before you put “coupon” or “promo code” in a headline.
- Check that your affiliate link lands on the Black Friday offer, not on standard pricing.
- Model the recurring programs over 12 to 24 months, not on the first payment. The affiliate earnings calculator takes the commission window and retention into account.
The full terms behind each figure are on the program records linked above, and programs that pay recurring commission lists the programs where renewals keep paying after a discounted first payment. We will update this page as the announced deals go live.