Both handle the complicated plan.
The question is who
owns it afterwards
Performio has been selling commission software to large, plan-heavy organizations for a long time, and its marketing leads with exactly the industries where comp gets ugly: insurance, medical devices, financial services. Commish takes on the same class of arithmetic under a different arrangement. The plan lives in configuration your own admin can read, change and run, and every payout carries the rule that produced it.
Two honest answers
The plans on both sides of this page are complicated. What differs is the company doing the buying.
Buy Performio if…
- You are an enterprise with thousands of payees across business units, and a comp team that already exists.
- Your plan structures are the kind their site is built around: insurance hierarchies, medical device territories, financial services books.
- You want a vendor with a long track record and enterprise references your procurement team can actually call.
- You would rather a vendor implementation team stand the plan up for you, and you have the timeline and budget for that to be the right trade.
Buy Commish if…
- You have enterprise-shaped comp inside a mid-market company, which usually means one person owning it part-time.
- Residuals, clawback windows, multi-level splits and margin-based pay are your complexity. The engine treats each as a first-class shape.
- You want to change a rule and re-run a cycle the same afternoon, without a statement of work in between.
- You want to start without a procurement cycle. The price is $50 per rep per month with admins and managers free, published on the site.
Side by side
Published pricing
Commish
$50/rep/month, listed on the website
Performio
No price list published; quoted through their sales team
How you buy it
Commish
Self-serve. Start on your own data
Performio
An enterprise sales cycle, which suits an enterprise buyer
Complex plan structures
Commish
Residuals, clawbacks, splits and margin pay are engine primitives
Performio
Complex plan handling sits at the center of their pitch
Industries led with publicly
Commish
Payments, telecom, lending, insurance, home services
Performio
Insurance, medical devices, financial services
Changing a comp rule
Commish
Your admin does it in the app, in minutes, with a version history
Performio
Ask exactly which changes your own team can make unaided
Time to first live run
Commish
Hours to days
Performio
Ask for a dated go-live commitment in writing
Track record
Commish
A young product, running real payroll every week
Performio
Long established, with years of enterprise deployments behind it
Deal-level audit trail
Commish
Every dollar traces to the source deal, the rate and the rule
Performio
Reporting, approvals and history inside the platform
Built for
Commish
Mid-market teams carrying enterprise-shaped comp
Performio
Large organizations with dedicated comp operations, per their own positioning
Based on publicly available information as of September 2026, including performio.co and the industries its own site leads with. Pricing rows describe whether a price list is public and are never a quote. Specifics vary by engagement and contract. Spot an error? ricki@getcommish.com and it gets fixed.
Where Performio is genuinely strong
Hard plans, at scale, for years. Insurance hierarchies with overrides three levels deep, medical device territories that get re-cut every year, financial services books where one transaction pays four people: their site leads with those cases because that is the work the company has been doing since long before most of this category existed. Tenure counts for something real when your plan is genuinely unusual, and an enterprise buyer gets things a young vendor cannot offer yet: a long reference list, a services practice that has probably met your edge case already, and people whose job is getting the first cycle right rather than fast. If that is the buyer you are, they belong on the list and you should take the call.
Where Commish wins
Proportionality. A mid-market company with a genuinely complicated plan gets stuck between a spreadsheet nobody trusts and a platform that assumes you have a comp department. Commish is built for that middle. The same structural power for residuals, clawback windows, multi-level splits and margin-based pay, in a product one person can run without help. Rules are written in plain language and stored as configuration you can read back, so changing a tier is a five-minute job that leaves a version history behind it. Statements carry their own workings, which is what stops a rep quietly rebuilding your math in a spreadsheet of their own. And it all starts on your data, today, with nothing to sign first.
Your plan is complicated.
Starting doesn't have to be
Upload a month of real data, describe the plan the way you would explain it to a new hire, and read the first run this afternoon. Price on the website.
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