Pricing

Pay what you can. It follows your listening.

Name your own price, starting at five dollars a month. Eighty percent reaches the rights holders of the music you actually played.

There has been no public first use of the app; Campfire's nonprofit services are already public. Campfire is name-your-price, starting at $5 a month. Whatever you choose to pay, the same rule applies: 80 percent goes to the rights holders of the music you actually streamed, split in proportion to your own listening, and 20 percent covers hosting, development, and the cost of running Campfire as a nonprofit. Enter your own number in the Royalty Calculator to see exactly what it means for the artists you play.

Name your price

You choose what to pay, starting at five dollars a month

There is no premium tier, no annual lock-in, and no feature held back from people who pay less. Everyone gets the same platform. The only thing your amount changes is how much money reaches the artists you listen to, because your subscription is divided among them rather than pooled with everyone else's.

Paying more is not a donation to Campfire. It is a larger payment to the specific artists whose music you played that month.

Where it goes

The same split at every amount

Whatever you choose to pay, the division is identical. This is a structural commitment rather than an introductory rate, and it does not change based on how large the platform grows.

80 percent to rights holders

Paid to the rights holders of the music you actually streamed that period, split in proportion to your own listening. Not a pooled catalogue, and not weighted toward whoever has the biggest audience.

20 percent to running the platform

Covers hosting, development, and the cost of operating Campfire as a nonprofit. There are no shareholders receiving any part of it.

Why this way

Access should not depend on what you can afford

A single fixed price does two things badly at once. It puts music out of reach for people who cannot afford it, and it caps what the people who can afford more are able to send to artists they care about. Naming your own price solves both without splitting the catalogue into tiers.

Campfire is a nonprofit, so there is no growth target that would eventually require revisiting this. The model is the mission, not a strategy for acquiring users cheaply.

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