AdPlugg vs Infolinks Comparison 2026
AdPlugg serves ads you sold yourself, free to 100,000 impressions a month and metered above that. Infolinks is a network instead, one that sets no traffic minimum at all, so a brand-new small site can join and start earning from six ad formats including in-text and in-frame units that run alongside a normal banner. Its revenue split is not published anywhere before you apply, unlike AdPlugg's rate card, which sits openly on the page. The choice is really whether you have advertisers to serve yourself or need a network to supply them.
Ad serving that starts free and bills by impression
Display ads with no traffic minimum to join
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
AdPlugg | Infolinks | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $10 | Free |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Monthly or annual | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
AdPlugg
Ad serving that starts free and bills by impression
AdPlugg serves and reports on ads you sold yourself, with a WordPress plugin for sites that live there and tags for everything else. The free tier runs a hundred thousand impressions a month, which covers a small site outright. Above that the monthly fee is small and the real cost is metered per thousand impressions, published as a table rather than quoted. Nobody here is finding you advertisers.
Our note
Work out your monthly impressions before comparing this against AdButler or Broadstreet, because the flat-fee servers cost more at the bottom and stop surprising you at the top. AdPlugg wins for a site under a hundred thousand impressions by a distance, and the arithmetic reverses somewhere in the millions.
Infolinks
Display ads with no traffic minimum to join
Infolinks places in-text, in-frame and interstitial ads on sites that the managed networks will not take, because it sets no pageview floor at all. That is its whole reason to exist and it is a real one for a site that is growing. The formats are more intrusive than a standard banner, and the rate it pays is not published anywhere before you apply.
Why people weigh these two
- Infolinks instead of AdPlugg
- Infolinks has no traffic minimum to join and no fee to pay, since it sells the ads itself instead of serving ones you sold.
- AdPlugg instead of Infolinks
- AdPlugg starts free and bills by impression, for selling your own inventory rather than joining a network's demand.
Which one should you pick
Take AdPlugg if you have sold the placements yourself and just need something to serve and report on them. The free tier covers up to 100,000 impressions a month, and every rate above that is printed in a CPM table rather than negotiated after signup. It will not find you an advertiser.
Take Infolinks if your site is too small for the networks that ask for 10,000 or 25,000 pageviews first, since it states no traffic minimum at all and is free to join. Look at the six ad formats before installing, in-text and in-frame units in particular use space a standard banner does not, and the revenue split itself is never published before you apply. Running it for a month against AdSense, checking both revenue and bounce rate, is the only way to know if the formats cost more in readers than they pay.
Common questions
- Which has a lower bar to join?
- Infolinks does, with no traffic minimum stated at all, free to join with a code paste and no application to be approved through. AdPlugg has no traffic floor either for its free tier, but that tier is a self-serve ad server rather than a network, so the comparison is really about what each one does, not who can join.
- Does either publish its revenue split?
- AdPlugg does, in a sense: it is not revenue share, but its CPM rate table is printed openly on the page, starting at $0.0000 for the first 100,000 monthly impressions. Infolinks does not publish its split anywhere before you apply, despite stating it has paid publishers more than $100 million to date.
- Do I need my own advertisers for either one?
- For AdPlugg, yes: it serves and reports on ads you already sold. Infolinks is a network that supplies the advertisers itself, through six formats including in-text, in-fold, in-article, in-frame, in-screen and a mobile-only unit.
- Are Infolinks ads more intrusive than a standard banner?
- Yes, more so by design. Infolinks' in-text and in-frame units use space a standard banner does not, which is worth checking before installing on a site that cares how ads feel to a reader. AdPlugg serves whatever ad creative you choose to supply, so how intrusive it feels depends entirely on what you run through it.
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