Anedot vs Liberapay Comparison 2026
Anedot charges no monthly fee and takes a percentage of each transaction instead, 3.3 percent plus 30 cents for a registered charity or 4.0 percent for anybody else, across unlimited donation, event and lead pages. Liberapay is a non-profit that takes nothing at all, passing through only the payment processor's own fee, averaging 3 percent through Stripe, but it only handles recurring weekly donations and has no tiers, rewards or shop. The choice is between a full donation-page platform that keeps a cut, and a stripped-down recurring gift with no cut but a much narrower job.
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Anedot | Liberapay | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | Free |
| Pricing model | Free | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
Anedot
Donation pages with no monthly fee at all
Anedot charges nothing to run donation pages, event pages and lead forms, and takes its cut from the processing rate instead, which makes it one of the few options where a quiet month costs nothing. Team members, pages and transactions are all uncapped. Registered charities pay a lower rate than everybody else, and both rates are published rather than quoted. Nothing here is a donor database, so an organisation wanting segmentation and reporting will end up paying for that separately.
Our note
Push donors towards ACH if your average gift is large, because 0.3 percent against 3.3 percent is the biggest saving available here and most platforms do not offer the choice. Compare the standard 4.0 percent rate carefully if you are not a registered charity, since that is above what several subscription platforms charge once their monthly fee is spread over real volume.
Liberapay
Recurring donations with no platform cut
Liberapay is a non-profit that collects recurring donations and keeps none of them, funding itself from donations to its own page. Money moves weekly rather than monthly, and a donor pays several weeks ahead so the processing fee is charged once. There are no tiers, no rewards and no shop, which is the point for people who wanted a way to be paid rather than a platform to run.
Why people weigh these two
- Liberapay instead of Anedot
- Liberapay takes recurring donations with no platform cut at all, free, for a creator who wants nothing between the giver and the money.
- Anedot instead of Liberapay
- Anedot is free with no monthly fee either, built around donation pages rather than the profile-and-recurring-gift model Liberapay runs.
Which one should you pick
Pick Anedot if you are running a registered charity or a campaign with real pages to build: events, leads and donation forms with no cap on any of them, and paying a percentage only when money actually arrives suits an organization that raises unevenly. The charity rate is 3.3 percent plus 30 cents on cards, against 4.0 percent for everyone else, and ACH at 0.3 percent plus 30 cents is the cheapest way through it.
Pick Liberapay if you are an individual, an open source maintainer or a writer who wants recurring support without running tiers, rewards or a shop, and a zero percent platform cut matters more than features. It only moves money weekly, capped at $100 a week from any one patron, and it has no event pages or lead forms at all, so an organization running a campaign needs Anedot instead.
Common questions
- Which one actually costs less?
- Liberapay takes nothing itself, only the processor's fee, which its own FAQ puts at an average of 3 percent through Stripe over the past year. Anedot takes 3.3 percent plus 30 cents from a registered charity, or 4.0 percent from everyone else, on top of running the actual pages. Liberapay is cheaper per dollar moved; Anedot does far more with its pages.
- Can Liberapay run a one-time donation page or an event?
- No. It only handles recurring weekly donations, from $0.01 to $100 a week per patron, with no tiers, rewards or shop. Anedot covers donation pages, event pages and lead forms, all uncapped, which is the wider job.
- Is Anedot really free to sign up for?
- Yes, there is no subscription, no setup fee and no monthly fee stated anywhere on its pricing page. The cost only shows up as a percentage of what is actually collected, 3.3 to 4.0 percent depending on charity status, plus 30 cents a transaction.
- Why would a non-profit take literally nothing, like Liberapay does?
- Liberapay funds itself from donations made to its own page rather than a cut of what passes through it, and it states it is run in the open with eleven years behind it. The trade for that zero percent is a narrower product: weekly-only donations and none of the campaign or event pages Anedot provides.
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