Alternatives
Buy Me a Coffee alternative.
For creators whose supporters pay to watch.
Buy Me a Coffee is a friendly way to take tips, memberships and small shop sales, and for many creators it is exactly right. When the thing your supporters pay for is video, a platform that hosts and sells the films themselves does more and takes nothing.
Video hosting for filmmakers · 5 GB free · Paid plans from USD 9/month
By uncompressed.io · Updated October 2026
Short answer
What is a Buy Me a Coffee alternative for selling video?
If your supporters pay to watch, use a video platform with memberships rather than a tip jar. uncompressed.io hosts your films, sells monthly and yearly memberships, rentals and purchases from a storefront under your name, and takes 0% commission, where Buy Me a Coffee's FAQ states a 5% transaction fee.
- Buy Me a Coffee: 5% transaction fee
- uncompressed.io: 0% commission at any volume
- Monthly and yearly tiers that open film collections
- Purchases, rentals and downloads for non-members
- Films stream as exported, with no re-encode
The fee
What 5% costs
as support grows
USD 50
on USD 1,000 a month
Buy Me a Coffee 5% transaction fee
USD 150
on USD 3,000 a month
Buy Me a Coffee 5% transaction fee
USD 400
on USD 8,000 a month
Buy Me a Coffee 5% transaction fee
Side by side
Buy Me a Coffee and uncompressed.io
for a video creator
Buy Me a Coffee features and fee from its own home page and FAQ, read 12 October 2026. The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month.
An honest fit
Who should switch
and who should stay
Switch if
Your supporters pay to watch: films, episodes, tutorials, behind-the-scenes cuts. You want them to browse a library, you want to sell a single film to someone who will never subscribe, and you care how the picture looks.
Stay if
Most support is one-off tips, your perks are posts and emails, and you sell a few digital items. Buy Me a Coffee does that simply and well, with mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Use both
What a video platform adds
Read from the live price list. Verified 2026-10.
| Commission on sales | 0 percent, at any volume. Buyers pay into your own payment account; your card processor's fee applies. |
|---|---|
| What you can sell | Purchases (stream forever), downloads, rentals with a viewing window, memberships with monthly or yearly tiers, bundles and series. |
| Member tools | Free trials per tier, coupon codes, gift memberships, refunds and free access from your earnings page. |
| Your storefront | A shop under your name at yourname.uncompressed.io/on-demand, or on your own domain. Buyers need no account. |
| Picture quality | Films stream as you exported them: no re-encode of video or audio, with an optional lighter copy for slow connections. |
| Viewing hours included | Lite 1,000, Pro 5,000, Max 15,000, Studio 25,000 hours a month, then USD 29 per extra 20,000-hour block. Playback never pauses. |
| Plans | Starter free (5 GB, one film at a time); Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month; yearly is one month free. |
| Leak Shield (optional) | Every buyer gets their own invisibly marked copy; the open web and torrent indexes are searched; a confirmed leak names and blocks the buyer and sends the takedown. USD 99 a month or USD 1,188 a year, any paid plan. |
| Inclusion window | The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month. |
Plans and add-ons: pricing. The whole cluster starts at the creator platform guide.
Moving supporters
How to switch
without losing them
Upload the work
Upload the films your supporters already value, as exported.
Match the tiers
Recreate each membership level with the same monthly or yearly price, now giving access to collections.
Offer a reason to move
A free trial or a first-month coupon, so moving costs supporters nothing.
Announce a date
Tell supporters when new films start appearing only in the library.
Questions
Frequently asked
What is a good Buy Me a Coffee alternative?
For tips and simple memberships, Ko-fi and Patreon are the usual alternatives. For creators whose supporters pay to watch films, series or tutorials, a video platform with memberships, such as uncompressed.io, hosts the video and sells access to it with 0% commission.
How much does Buy Me a Coffee take?
Buy Me a Coffee's FAQ states a 5% transaction fee, with creators keeping 95% of earnings. Card payments go through payment partners; the FAQ does not give a processing amount.
Can I sell videos on Buy Me a Coffee?
Buy Me a Coffee lets you sell items in a shop and post members-only content, and its home page mentions audio in posts. It does not describe itself as a video host, so creators with a film library usually host video elsewhere.
Is uncompressed.io a tip jar?
No. There is no tip button. uncompressed.io sells memberships, purchases, rentals and downloads of video. If one-off tips are the main way your fans support you, Buy Me a Coffee or Ko-fi fits better.
Can I keep Buy Me a Coffee and add a video platform?
Yes. Keep the tip button for casual support and link supporters who want the full library to a video membership.
Does uncompressed.io charge a transaction fee?
No platform fee at any volume. You pay a plan, and your own card processor charges its fee on each payment.
Sell the films, not just the coffee.
Memberships, rentals and purchases come with every paid plan (Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month), with 0% commission, paid into your own payment account.
Sources
- 1.Buy Me a Coffee FAQ (read 12 October 2026)
- 2.Buy Me a Coffee home page (read 12 October 2026)
- 3.Patreon pricing (read 12 October 2026)