Buymeacoffee Plans Pricing
Buy Me a Coffee has no monthly subscription fee for creators. The platform monetizes with a flat 5% platform fee applied to transactions (tips / coffees, memberships, and shop / Extras sales); creators keep 95% before payment processing. Standard payment processing (Stripe) is charged separately - roughly 2.9% plus 0.30 USD per successful transaction, plus a small Stripe payout-processing fee. Payouts are transferred to the creator's connected Stripe account (typically weekly, once a balance threshold is met) and then deposited to the creator's bank. The developer API itself is free to use with a personal access Bearer token; there is no separate API charge.
Buymeacoffee Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Buy Me a Coffee on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering usage tiers, with named plans including Creator (No Monthly Fee), Payment Processing (Stripe).
Tagged areas include Creator Economy, Memberships, Subscriptions, Tips, and Payments.
Plans
The single creator plan. No monthly or setup fee. Accept one-time tips, recurring memberships, and shop / Extras purchases. Buy Me a Coffee takes a flat 5% platform fee per transaction; the creator keeps 95% before payment processing.
- One-Time Tips (Coffees)
- Memberships / Subscriptions
- Extras / Shop
- Developer API (personal access token)
- Webhooks
Standard third-party payment processing charged in addition to the 5% platform fee. Collected by Stripe, not retained by Buy Me a Coffee as platform revenue. Rates vary by country.
- Stripe Processing
- Weekly Payouts
Sources
- https://buymeacoffee.com/
- https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/8105744-how-to-calculate-charges-on-your-payment
- https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/4539170-frequently-asked-questions
- https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/
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