WHAT IT COSTS YOU
What it costs to keep alive, every platform side by side
Per year, once the introductory pricing is over.
33 PLATFORMS ANSWERED · SORTED BY NAME, NOT BY BETTER
Amazon KDPCharged per sale, not per year: on the 70% royalty option delivery costs average $0.06 per unit sold and vary by file size.$0.06 per unit sold · source · checked 2026-09-07
Anthropic APINo renewal fee, only per-token spend. Sonnet 5 holds at $2/MTok input and $10/MTok output after the scheduled rise to $3/$15 was cancelled.Developer docs pricing page, Sonnet 5 pricing note · source · checked 2026-09-07
beehiivScale renews at $517 billed annually and Max at $1,151 billed annually, at the entry subscriber tier.$517/year Scale, $1,151/year Max · source · checked 2026-09-07
CloudflarePro is billed per domain at $25/month month-to-month, so the bill scales with the number of sites, not traffic.$25/month per domain on Pro · source · checked 2026-09-07
ElevenLabsStarter $6 per month, Creator $22 per month (first month 50% off at $11) with professional voice cloning and 121k credits, Pro $99 per month for 600k credits, Scale $299 per monthPricing · source · checked 2026-09-11
EzoicEzoic keeps up to 18% of Net Revenue; the publisher receives no less than 82%, less deductions for invalid traffic, traffic quality and chargebacks.82% of Net Revenue to publisher · source · checked 2026-09-07
fal.aiPer output, varying by model: video models such as Wan 2.5 at $0.05 per second of output, image models per image or per megapixel, and your own deployments on GPUs from $1.89/hr for an H100Pricing · source · checked 2026-09-12
FlippaFlippa Premium buyer membership renews at $49 per month, or $490 per year.Recurring membership · source · checked 2026-09-07
Gemini APIPer 1M tokens in USD on the Paid tier: Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75 input and $3.75 output through December 31, 2026, rising to $1.50 and $7.50 from January 1, 2027; Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.30 input, Flash-Lite $0.10, Gemini 2.5 Pro $1.25 input; Batch cuts the cost 50%Paid Tier, per 1M tokens in USD · source · checked 2026-09-12
GhostThe bundled .link domain is free for the first year only, then renews at standard registrar rates.Free domain year one only · source · checked 2026-09-07
Google AdSenseNo recurring fee. The ongoing cost is the revenue share: publishers receive 80% of AdSense for Content revenue after the advertiser platform takes its fee, about 68% when advertisers buy through Google Ads.Revenue share, not a fee · source · checked 2026-09-07
GumroadNo monthly or annual fee to keep a store open; the only recurring cost is the percentage deducted from each sale.No monthly fee · source · checked 2026-09-07
HetznerEvery listed price is net: German customers pay 19% VAT on top of the monthly figure.VAT on top · source · checked 2026-09-07
Hugging FacePRO $9 /month, Team $20 /month per user; on-demand hardware by the hour, from $0.03 for a CPU Upgrade and $0.40 for a small Nvidia T4 up to $20.00 for 8x A100; dedicated Inference Endpoints from $0.033/hourPricing · source · checked 2026-09-12
Lemon SqueezyNo monthly fee. Running cost is the 5% + 50c platform fee per sale, plus +1.5% international, +1.5% PayPal and +0.5% subscription surcharges.Ongoing platform fee · source · checked 2026-09-07
MailchimpEssentials starts at $13 /month and Standard at $20 /month, both rising with the number of contacts and with overages beyond the contact or email send limit; businesses with 10,000+ contacts get 15% off for 12 monthsPricing · source · checked 2026-09-12
MailerLiteComfort at $10.80 /month or $129.60 /year for up to 500 subscribers, Power at $22.50/month or $270.00 /year for up to 500 subscribers with unlimited emails and seats; both climb with the list sizeCompare plans · source · checked 2026-09-12
MediavineNo platform fee to stay on. The recurring cost is the payout fee: $15 per U.S. wire transfer, $20 per international wire in local currency, $26 in U.S. dollars, all charged to the publisher.Payout fees only · source · checked 2026-09-07
Mistral AIPer million tokens, input and output counted separately: Mistral Large costs $0.5 /M tokens in and $1.5 /M tokens out, batch processing halves the price and cached input tokens cut input cost by up to 90%; Mistral Pro for chat is $14.99 a monthHow are models priced? · source · checked 2026-09-11
MonumetricOngoing cost is a revenue share: Monumetric keeps between 15% and 30% of ad revenue, depending on the ad technology running on the site.15%-30% commission · source · checked 2026-09-07
NetlifyNo intro discount: $9/month Personal and $20/month Pro renew at the same rate. Overage credits are sold at $5 per 500 or $10 per 1,500.Netlify pricing page, add-on credits · source · checked 2026-09-07
PayhipPlus tier is $29 a month and cuts the fee to 2%; Pro is $99 a month with no Payhip transaction fee at all.Tra $29 hoac $99/thang de ha phi ve 2% hoac 0% · source · checked 2026-09-07
PodiaMover $42 /mo or $504 billed annually with 5% fees; Shaker $84 /mo or $1,008 billed annually with no fees; Earthquaker $150 /mo or $1,800 billed annually; no partial refunds on annual plansPricing · source · checked 2026-09-11
PorkbunRenewal is the same $11.08 a year as year one: $10.26 registry wholesale + $0.20 ICANN fee + $0.62 card fees, no first-year-only promo.Yearly renewal · source · checked 2026-09-07
RaptiveRaptive keeps up to 25% of ad revenue; the creator is paid at least 75% of ad revenue each calendar month.Revenue share · source · checked 2026-09-07
ReplicatePer use, with no monthly plan: $0.04 per output image on flux-1.1-pro, $0.025 on flux-dev, $3.00 per thousand images on flux-schnell, $3.75 per million input tokens on deepseek-r1, $0.09 per second of output video on wan-2.1-i2v-480pPublic models · source · checked 2026-09-11
SellfyStarter $29 /mo up to $10k in yearly sales, Business $79 /mo up to $50k, Premium $159 /mo up to $200k, each 25% less paid yearly; exceed your cap without upgrading and a 2% overage fee may applyCompare our plans · source · checked 2026-09-12
ShopifyBasic 19 US$/mo with 2% on 3rd-party payment providers, Grow 49 US$/mo with 1%, Advanced 299 US$/mo with 0.6%, Plus from 2,300 US$/mo with 0.2%; POS Pro is an extra 89 US$/mo per locationPricing · source · checked 2026-09-12
SubstackNo monthly fee to keep a publication running. Substack keeps 10% of subscription revenue, and card processing fees come out on top of that.10% of revenue · source · checked 2026-09-07
TeachableStarter $39 /mo monthly or $29 /mo billed annually; Builder $89 /mo for 10 products and a 0% transaction fee; Growth $189 /mo for 50 productsPlans and pricing · source · checked 2026-09-11
Together AIPer 1M tokens: DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.14 in and $0.28 out, MiniMax M3 $0.30 in and $1.20 out, Kimi K3 $3.00 in and $15.00 out; GPUs per hour on demand, NVIDIA HGX H100 $3.99 or $1.99 preemptible, H200 $5.99, B200 $8.99Pricing · source · checked 2026-09-12
VercelPro costs a $20/month platform fee that carries one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit; usage past that credit is billed on demand.$20/month Pro platform fee · source · checked 2026-09-07
WordPress.comFirst-year domain registration is free with any annual or multi-year plan; the discount does not repeat at renewal.First year free, then list price · source · checked 2026-09-07
The other questions
Ten questions get asked of every platform here. This page answers one of them.
Where you can sign up35 platforms
Where you can be paid50 platforms
Minimum age40 platforms
What you are paid in59 platforms
Ways to get paid56 platforms
Minimum payout53 platforms
Fee taken out of the payout47 platforms
Time from earning to money in hand53 platforms
How a balance can be lost50 platforms
Who is legally on the hook35 platforms
What it really costs to start35 platforms
The gate before it pays anything22 platforms
How long before the first payment19 platforms
Who owns what you build30 platforms
Can you take it with you30 platforms
Can it be sold24 platforms
What takes it all away33 platforms
Why this page is sorted by name
Putting these in an order would mean deciding that one answer beats another, and on most of these questions that depends entirely on who is reading. A lower cash-out bar is better if you want the money soon and worse if it arrives as a gift card. A single payout method is fine until it is the one that does not work in your country.
So the rows sit in alphabetical order and the differences are left where you can see them. Every figure carries the page it came from and the day it was read. Found one that has moved? Tell us.