What is Ko-fi?
Whether you’re just starting out or have tons of fans, Ko-fi gives you everything you need to earn money from your creative work.
Introducing Ko-fi
Ko-fi lets creators like you set up a page, where your biggest fans can support your work. Supporters can make a donation (roughly the price of a coffee) and leave you an encouraging message. You can use Ko-fi to build a membership, sell physical and digital products, offer commissions and make money while you stream on Twitch or YouTube.
Who uses Ko-fi?
Over a million creators have chosen Ko-fi as their digital home. From painters to podcasters, streamers to software developers. Create a free page and start making an income doing what you love! Check out some of these amazing creators, making money on Ko-fi:
🎨 Artists: Mochi Buddies, Tofu, Chris Sale
🦸♀️ Cosplayers: Chrissy Plays Dressup, Black Bettie, Vicious Frockery
✍️ Writers: Lou Yardley, Latoya Shauntay Snell, Shannon Ashley
🎙️ Podcasters: Long Cat Media, Squawking Dead, On Second Watch
💻 Developers: Cyber Barbie, Balmut, Wonderful Elephant
📺 Streamers: Eric Campbell, Shenanjegans, BobDuckNWeave
▶️ Video Creators: The Girl With The Pilates Mat, Tara, Frank James
🎵 Musicians: Victoria Banks, Kutski, Open Collab
Why choose Ko-fi?
Ko-fi is free, flexible and super easy to get started. You can set up a page and be earning money in just a few minutes.
It’s free!
Unlike almost every other service, Ko-fi charges a creator-friendly 0-5% platform fee so you keep more of what you earn!
Everything you need in one place
Your journey is unique, and the way you choose to receive support today might change over time. From one place you can offer:
- One-time or recurring donations
- Membership with different levels, benefits and price points
- Physical and digital items from your Ko-fi Shop
- Requests, services or commissions
- Stream Alerts and overlays with integrations with Twitch and YouTube
Easy and low pressure
We often hear from creators that ‘Ko-fi is so easy to use’. Setting up donations, membership tiers and your own Ko-fi shop takes just a few minutes. Post content when it suits you, turn on and off different ways of receiving support and we don’t mess with your money, it goes straight to you!
Claim your free Ko-fi page and start making an income doing what you love!
FAQ
Simply connect your own PayPal or Stripe account and you’re good to go. When you receive a payment it goes directly to your own payment account, no waiting for payouts or minimum balances. Find out more here.
Buying a ‘coffee’ is just a friendly metaphor. You can change the coffee metaphor to something else like pizza or ‘unicorns’, whatever suits you! Or even switch to donation mode in settings if you prefer it that way.
For premium features, there's a creator-friendly 5% platform fee. PayPal and Stripe’s normal card processing fees also apply. Find out more about fees here.
No, they can support you as a guest or create an account to unlock supporter-only benefits like content or Discord roles.
Absolutely, you can download your supporter email list anytime you like.
There’s no limit to what you can earn. Loads of creators are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Ko-fi.
We don’t store payment information, we run on the Microsoft Azure cloud and have features like Two Factor Authentication to keep your account secure.