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Monetisation Tools

The monetisation tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Commerce & Payments.

Tools tracked
51
in Commerce & Payments
Sites
5,100
using at least one monetisation tool
Leader
33%
Piano, of these sites
Above 1%
8
tools on more than 1% of them

What we found

  1. Piano leads, on 33% of the sites using a monetisation tool, 1.9 times as many sites as Subscribe with Google.
  2. Only 8 of the 51 monetisation tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
  3. Among sites launched in September, AdLinkFly rose to #10 from #20 in August.
  4. Several leaders are regional: codoc (Japan), buycoffee.to (Poland) and SociaBuzz (Indonesia).

The leading monetisation tools

# Movement Tool Country Share Bar Sites 90 days
1 ▲5 Piano Subscription, paywall, and audience analytics platform (formerly TinyPass). 33% 1,684
2 ▲2 Subscribe with Google Google subscription and reader-revenue tool for publishers. 18% 903
3 ▼2 Polar Polar.sh: Creator monetization platform for developers (subscriptions, license keys, GitHub repo access, file downloads). Stripe-backed merchant of record. 14% 697
4 ▼2 Ko-fi Creator support platform (donations, memberships, shop). 11% 581
5 ▼3 Buy Me a Coffee Creator tipping platform. 10% 529
6 – Patreon Membership platform for creators to run subscriptions and paid memberships. 7.3% 373
7 ▼1 DSNextGen 1.7% 87
8 ▲1 Kickstarter Crowdfunding platform. Campaign widget cards embed as iframes from kickstarter.com/projects/. 1.5% 79
9 ▲2 MemberSpace Membership and paywall platform that gates website content behind paid or free member accounts. 0.5% 23
10 ▼1 codoc Japanese paid-content and membership platform letting creators sell articles and subscriptions. Japan 0.4% 20

Share is of the 5,100 sites using a monetisation tool; a site can use more than one. A flag means nearly all of a tool's sites are in that country. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 10 of 51.

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Recently launched products using monetisation tools

Product Launched
Branchway 19 Oct 2026
Xavel 19 Oct 2026
My French 19 Oct 2026
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Dextrous 17 Oct 2026
SML URL to Markdown API 17 Oct 2026

Often built with

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