quietmoneyBuymeacoffee
Creator payments platform: fans can tip one-time or pay a monthly membership, and creators can also sell digital products and publish posts.
Three founders One-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout visits over time
| Checkout | 4–6 months ago avg | 3 months ago | 2 months ago | Last month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pay.stripe.com | 80,782 | 26,139 | 37,302 | 26,194 |
| invoice.stripe.com | 1,255 | 530 | 264 | 748 |
| gumroad.com | 17 | 1,246 | 1,213 | 0 |
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Creator payments platform: fans can tip one-time or pay a monthly membership, and creators can also sell digital products and publish posts.
- Users
- Individual creators with an audience: YouTubers, podcasters, artists, indie developers, writers
- Positioning
- A simpler tipping page than Patreon: set up a free page in a minute, spreads through creators' public pages
- Pricing
- Free for creators to open a page; fan tips default to $3 each; membership tiers set by the creator (example $5/$15/$25 per month); platform fee percentage not in existing data Billing: donation Free tier: yes Source: existing
- Prices on site
- $3 one-time default tip; $5/mo, $15/mo, $25/mo example membership tiers (creato
- Acquisition entry points on site
- app store
- Sharing mechanics
- public profiles / leaderboards Creator pages show public 'Recent Supporters' feed; 'It's free and takes less than a minute!'; 'Loved by 2,000,000+ creators'
- Rough new MRR
- $16,165 – $32,330 Checkout visits last month × 20–30% conversion × listed price. New revenue only; renewals skip checkout, so real MRR is usually higher.
“Creator pages show public 'Recent Supporters' feed; 'It's free and takes less than a minute!'; 'Loved by 2,000,000+ creators'”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Social media (Organic social). Direct 65.1%, social 23.4% (YouTube, X, Instagram), search 8.6% (brand keywords 73.8%). Creators put their page link in social bios and on their websites and fans click through; referrals include eelslap.com 3.29%, bsky.app 3.26%, link.me 2.55%.
Last month's traffic sources
Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| 23% | |
| Other | 77% |
Direct + brand search 74%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 25.71% |
| India | 6.53% |
| United Kingdom | 5.76% |
| Germany | 3.88% |
| France | 3.72% |
Countries (Semrush): Bangladesh 21.6%, United States 18.4%, United Kingdom 6.5%, India 5.5%, Germany 2.6%
Language
English
Social sources
YouTube, X (Twitter), Instagram
AI assistants
| Source | Share |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 0.16 |
| Gemini | 0.06 |
| beacons.ai | 0.04 |
AI referrals (Semrush): ChatGPT 12,499 (0.16%), Gemini 4,728 (0.06%), beacons.ai 2,824 (0.04%)
Keywords
7K keywords · brand ~74% · organic 99.97% / paid 0.03%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| buy me a coffee |
| buymeacoffee |
| buyme a coffee |
| buyme coffee |
| buy me coffee |
Referring sites
650 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| eelslap.com | 3.29% |
| bsky.app | 3.26% |
| link.me | 2.55% |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Programming and Developer Software | 19.89% |
| Visual Arts and Design | 12% |
| Video Games Consoles and Accessories | 10.83% |
| News & Media Publishers | 6.74% |
| Computers Electronics and Technology - Other | 5.65% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 5.2M (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- -7.46%
- Country rank
- United States #8137
- Category rank
- Computers Electronics and Technology - Other #230
- Bounce rate
- 63.06%
- Pages / visit
- 2.50
- Visit duration
- 00:01:16
- Industry
- Computers Electronics and Technology
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Social › Referrals (top channel 49.43%)
- Semrush monthly visits
- 3 months ago 6,921,739 · 2 months ago 7,411,616 · Last month 8,095,499 Semrush scale, ~3–4× Similarweb
- Semrush organic / paid search visits
- 188,239 / 39
- Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
- Direct 50.1%, youtube.com 16.7%, google.com · Google organic 6.7%, github.com 2.2%, l.facebook.com 1.3%
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Launch platform”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Social media
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Buymeacoffee get per month?
About 26,942 last month (Similarweb estimate), #97 of 606; the month before was 38,779. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Buymeacoffee's new users come from?
New-user source: Social media (Organic social). New users mostly come from YouTube, X, Reddit, TikTok and the like Direct 65.1%, social 23.4% (YouTube, X, Instagram), search 8.6% (brand keywords 73.8%). Creators put their page link in social bios and on their websites and fans click through; referrals include eelslap.com 3.29%, bsky.app 3.26%, link.me 2.55%.
How much does Buymeacoffee cost?
Free for creators to open a page; fan tips default to $3 each; membership tiers set by the creator (example $5/$15/$25 per month); platform fee percentage not in existing data
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.