What a minute costs right now
Live market price · recalculated from the connected feed
$6.00CPM top bid
Current top bid · recalculated when you connect a feed. Sourced from your connected advertiser feed right now — highest CPM wins the minute.
The rule competitors bury: their market price moves hourly with a floor and a per-hour cap — ours is simpler to verify because the auction is the price. Highest bid wins the minute, every minute, and the winning bid is printed on your ledger row.
The levers
| What you get | Parameters & caps | Why it's built this way |
|---|---|---|
| Base share — 65% of auction revenue, always on | 65% of every winning bid. Publicly committed to 70% once platform revenue passes $50k/month. | A share that can change silently is a share you can't plan around. The number is fixed, the upgrade trigger is public, and both live on this page — not in a changelog. |
| Click bonus — $0.05 per verified click | Verified = ≥10s after the impression, ≥2s dwell. Caps: max 5 per day, and clicks ≤25% of your verified monthly impressions. | Clicks are the fraud magnet, so verification is strict and the ceiling is hard. Honest users rarely notice the caps; click farms can't survive them. |
| Tiered earnings floor on user earnings | $4.00 CPM-equivalent Tier 1 (US, CA, UK, CH, EEA) · $2.50 Tier 2 (AU, NZ, JP, KR, SG, AE) · $1.25 Tier 3 (rest of world). | Geo-payout walls ("US-only") are the laziest fraud control in this industry. Tiered floors keep earning open to more countries while matching regional auction economics. |
| Referrals — 10% of referee base earnings for 12 months | 10% for a full year. Gated: the referee must log ≥60 verified minutes in their first 30 days, or nothing pays out. | Referral spam dies when the reward is gated on genuine use. Real users hit 60 minutes in their first day; farmed accounts never do. |
| Streak bonus — up to +10% | +1% per 5 consecutive active days (≥30 verified min/day each day). Caps at +10%. | Predictability for advertisers means predictable presence, and the streak bonus rewards exactly that — capped so it stays a garnish, never the meal. |
| Transparency — winning bid + your exact cut, every row | Every ledger row carries the auction's winning bid, your cut, the type, and the country tier. Your 65% is recomputable from your own data at any time. | "Trust us" is not an audit trail. If the share is real, showing the bid costs nothing and proves everything. |
How we stay honest
Claims we'll make
- 65% base share, publicly committed to 70% at $50k/mo platform revenue — vs their published 70% base (their FAQ, Sep 2026): an honest tie on paper, and our edge is the written ratchet.
- Double the referral rate: 10% for 12 months (gated on 60 verified minutes) vs their 5% + 5% newcomer boost for 30 days.
- $2 payout in 24 hours instead of $10 after a 5-day pending review.
- Earn in more countries via tiered floors instead of payout-provider coverage walls.
- See the winning bid and your cut on every impression.
Claims we won't make
- We won't claim "we pay more than anyone" on base share — the claim is the written ratchet (65% today, 70% at $50k/mo platform revenue), not a bigger number.
- We won't quote competitor numbers we can't verify ourselves, or imply they've changed since we last checked.
- We won't promise payout rails we don't have — "rails subject to provider availability" is printed right on the payout table below.
Sustainability: can this math hold?
A payout model is only honest if the platform survives long enough to honor it. Here's the same math we run internally, displayed as-is.
≈27%
platform margin at $6 CPM
≈20%
platform margin at $2 CPM
≈$0.70
break-even CPM
Worked example — 1,000 impressions
- 1,000 impressions @ $6 CPM= $6.00
- Your base (65%)→ $3.90
- Bounded bonuses (clicks + streak, caps applied)≤ $0.55
- Platform keeps≥ ~$1.55
The same shape holds at $2 CPM (≈20% margin) and stays positive down to ≈$0.70 CPM. Tier floors and referral costs come out of the platform side — they're the reason the margin is ≈27%, not ≈35%.
Anti-fraud: why the caps exist
Every dollar of fraud is a dollar taken from honest users and honest advertisers. The controls below are the entire list — no mystery heuristics.
Impression verification
An impression counts only while the Mac is awake and unlocked, with a coarse recent-activity signal. Minutes you spend asleep or logged out never bill an advertiser — so they never inflate a balance that then has to be clawed back.
Click verification + caps
≥10s after the impression, ≥2s dwell, max 5/day, ≤25% of verified monthly impressions. Accidental clicks fail verification automatically; deliberate click-farming hits the caps long before it becomes profitable.
Referral gating
Referrals pay only after the referee logs ≥60 verified minutes in their first 30 days. Signup-and-abandon farming produces nothing — there is no payout at zero activity.
90-day clawback
Confirmed fraud (emulators, click scripting, gate-gaming) voids the affected earnings for up to 90 days after they were paid. Honest users never see this; it exists so the honest pool doesn't fund the dishonest one.
Device limits
One earning device per account. A second Mac can run FreeCoffee for convenience, but only the designated earning device accrues impressions — so one person can't be 24 impressions a minute.
What we don't do
No screen capture, no keystroke logging, no file scanning, no window-title hashing — see the data boundary. Fraud controls work on coarse signals and math, not surveillance.
Payout rails
| Rail | Minimum | Speed | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (24-hour rail) | $2 | within 24 hours | $0 |
| Instant stablecoin | $2 | seconds | $0 |
Rails subject to provider availability — if a provider can't serve your region, the other rail still applies at the same $2 minimum and $0 fees.
Try the model
The dashboard seeds a deterministic demo ledger and simulates instant payouts, caps and all.
Open the demo dashboard