ko-fi.com
ko-fi.com
Who runs ko-fi.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest creator monetization alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Patreon
Measured from ko-fi.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ko-fi.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ko-fi.com
ko-fi.com
Wikidata: web patronage service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What ko-fi.com tracks
We couldn’t read ko-fi.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ko-fi.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ko-fi.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read ko-fi.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
Very close - 02
Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.
Very close - 03
Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad
Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.
Very close - 04
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Very close - 05
Stan - Your Creator Store
We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business
Very close - 06
Memberful | Build a membership that’s truly yours
Sell subscriptions, share content, and connect with your audience, all on your own website or app.
Very close - 07
Online Store Builder: Create a Free Online Store | Sellfy
Create your own online store with a clean checkout and zero transaction fees. Sell anything you make directly to your audience. No coding required.
Very close - 08
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 09
American crowdfunding website
Very close - 10
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Very close - 11
BOOTH - The International Indie Art Marketplace
BOOTH（ブース）とは、pixivと連携した、創作物の総合マーケットです。無料で簡単にショップを作成でき、商品の保管・発送代行サービスも提供しています！
Very close - 12
US-based crowdfunding platform
Very close - 13 Beacons beacons.ai
social media landing page service
Very close - 14 Kajabi kajabi.com
California-based SaaS technology company that develops a platform for creators and entrepreneurs to create, market and sell digital content
Very close - 15
Fanvue
The creator subscription platform for the future. Take home 80% of your earnings from day 1. Earn from your fanbase faster with the No1 AI monetisation platform for creators.
Very close - 16
Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.
Very close - 17 MyMiniFactory myminifactory.com
website
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Eduzz — Tudo para criar, vender e crescer no digital
Uma comunidade que ajuda você a transformar conhecimento em impacto.
Very close - 19
Free, Success-Driven Online Fundraising Platform | FundRazr
Best-in-class free online fundraising platform that is laser-focused on your fundraising success. FundRazr platform makes crowdfunding and online fundraising easy, fast and effective. Free forever and equipped with online fundraising platform tools like crowdfunding pages, social superpowers and secure money withdrawal.
Very close - 20
Launch, monetize, and scale with Xsolla tools and services
Find out how you can launch, monetize and scale your video games worldwide, with no upfront costs, using Xsolla's comprehensive suite of tools and services.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ko-fi.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ko-fi.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ko-fi.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ko-fi.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630cbb889703be-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms60097880
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS eve.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=KNxtsmSiYuRVT4tKrmzt9BOuQBq-Dp0Hz6TjKRuMzRo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Cloudflare 15/20
- Cloudflare DNS 12/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ko-fi.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Atlassian · not on ko-fi.com 8/20
- Zendesk · not on ko-fi.com 8/20
- Slack · not on ko-fi.com 7/20
- Stripe · not on ko-fi.com 7/20
- SendGrid · not on ko-fi.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on ko-fi.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on ko-fi.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on ko-fi.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ko-fi.com 6/20
- Notion · not on ko-fi.com 5/20