# Pricing — Inkwharf

Canonical page: https://www.inkwharf.com/pricing
Currency: USD. Prices exclude any tax due in the author's own country.

## The platform fee

Inkwharf takes 0% of every sale on every plan, including the free one. This is architectural rather than promotional: card payments are charged with the author's own Stripe restricted API key on the author's own Stripe account, and bitcoin payments are collected at addresses derived from the author's own xpub. No money passes through Inkwharf on either rail, so there is no point at which a share could be taken. Authors pay Stripe's and their bitcoin provider's normal processing fees directly, and nothing to Inkwharf beyond the flat subscription.

The value metric is gross sales in a calendar month, summed across both
payment rails. Nothing is charged before an author has earned something,
and going over a cap never blocks a delivery to a reader who has already
paid.

## Free

- Price: $0/month
- Platform cut of each sale: 0%
- Sales cap: up to $500 of sales per calendar month
- Custom domain: yes, certificate included
- Storefront badge: yes, a small "runs on Inkwharf" line
- Buyer's copy: licence page and metadata credit "Inkwharf"
- Available to buy: yes

## Plus

- Price: $19/month, or $190/year (two months free)
- Platform cut of each sale: 0%
- Sales cap: up to $2,500 of sales per calendar month
- Custom domain: yes, certificate included
- Storefront badge: none
- Buyer's copy: white-labelled — licence page and metadata name only the author
- Available to buy: yes

## Pro

- Price: $49/month, or $490/year (two months free)
- Platform cut of each sale: 0%
- Sales cap: no limit on sales
- Custom domain: yes, certificate included
- Storefront badge: none
- Buyer's copy: white-labelled — licence page and metadata name only the author
- Available to buy: yes

## Included on every plan, the free one included

- A storefront, with a payment link per title
- EPUB validation before a book can be sold, and repair of the common
  faults that break readers
- A listing written from the file's own metadata
- Checkout with an email address and no reader account
- A permanent download page: the file, an in-browser reader, send-to-Kindle
- Per-buyer watermarking
- Card payments through the author's own Stripe account
- Bitcoin payments to the author's own wallet, if the author connects one
- The buyer's email address, which is the author's

## What Inkwharf never does

- Take a percentage of a sale, on any plan or either rail
- Hold or route an author's money
- Email an author's buyers, or market to them
- List author shops in a public catalogue, or compete with them in search
- Require exclusivity of any kind

## What the same sales cost elsewhere

Rates verified against each competitor's published pricing on the date
shown. Effective rates are computed on a $9.99 book,
which is the most favourable common price for a fixed per-sale fee rather
than the least.

| Platform | Headline | Effective on a $9.99 book | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inkwharf | $19/month flat | 0% | — |
| Leanpub | 20% | 20% | 2026-10-06 |
| BookFunnel | $17/month flat | 0% | 2026-08-28 |
| Books.by | $25/month flat | 0% | 2026-09-07 |
| Curios | $9/month flat | 0% | 2026-09-07 |
| Payhip | 5% | 5% | 2026-08-28 |
| Gumroad | 10% + 50¢ | 15% | 2026-08-26 |
| Shopify | $19/month flat | 0% | 2026-09-01 |
| WooCommerce | no fee for the software | 0% | 2026-09-01 |

Full workings, including the volume below which each percentage is
genuinely the cheaper deal: https://www.inkwharf.com/tools/take-rate