AdSpeed vs EthicalAds Comparison 2026
Both cover ad networks. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Hosted ad serving from under ten dollars
Ads without tracking, for developer sites
At a glance
- Only EthicalAds has a free tier.
Side by side
AdSpeed | EthicalAds | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $9.95 | Free |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Monthly or annual | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | 30% of what you earn |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Ad Networks | Ad Networks, Monetization & Payments |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
AdSpeed
Hosted ad serving from under ten dollars
AdSpeed is a hosted ad server, so there is no software to install and no server of your own to keep patched. It rotates creatives, targets by geography and device, and reports impressions and clicks to whoever bought the slot. The price is the reason to look: this is the cheapest published entry point of any ad server in this directory. Support and reporting are what people say they stay for.
Our note
Ask what the entry tier's impression allowance is before committing, since that is the number the published floor does not carry and it is what decides whether $9.95 is the real price for your traffic. Against AdPlugg's free tier this only makes sense once you are past a hundred thousand impressions a month.
EthicalAds
Ads without tracking, for developer sites
EthicalAds targets on page content rather than on the reader, so a site running it needs no cookie banner and shows one ad instead of six. That is a smaller advertiser pool and a lower ceiling than a general network, and the trade is deliberate. Getting in is the hard part: the network is invite-only and aimed at sites a developer audience reads.
Our note
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.