Infolinks vs Revive Adserver Comparison 2026
Infolinks finds the advertiser for you, with no traffic minimum at all, in exchange for in-text and in-frame formats that are more intrusive than a standard banner. Revive Adserver does not sell anything: it is free open source software you install on your own hosting to count and deliver ads for advertisers you already sold yourself. The axis is the same as any ad network against ad software: Infolinks fills empty inventory automatically, while Revive Adserver only serves inventory that is already sold.
Display ads with no traffic minimum to join
Ad server you download and run yourself
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Infolinks | Revive Adserver | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | Free |
| Pricing model | Free | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Usage-based | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
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.
Our note
The lack of a traffic floor is the reason to list it and the reason to be careful: intrusive formats on a small site can cost more in readers than they pay. Run it against AdSense for a month and compare both the revenue and the bounce rate before keeping either.
Only on this side
- Covers monetization & payments
Revive Adserver
Ad server you download and run yourself
Revive Adserver is software you install on your own hosting, so it does the counting rather than the selling. Campaigns, zones, targeting and delivery reports all live on a server you control, which means nothing sits between you and the advertiser and nothing takes a share of what you invoice. Setting it up is a PHP application and a database, and that is a real afternoon of work. Publishers who have already sold the slot are who this is for.
Why people weigh these two
- Revive Adserver instead of Infolinks
- Revive Adserver is free to run yourself, so a site with its own advertisers keeps the whole sale instead of joining a display network.
- Infolinks instead of Revive Adserver
- Infolinks sells the placements through its own network with no traffic minimum, rather than counting impressions on inventory a publisher has already sold themselves.
Which one should you pick
Choose Infolinks if a site has no traffic floor to clear and needs revenue starting today, since it is free to join with no application and stacks alongside other networks already running. Check the formats before installing: in-text and in-frame units use space a standard banner does not, and that can cost more in readers than it pays.
Choose Revive Adserver only if selling ad space is already your job and advertisers are already lined up, since the software itself takes no cut but supplies no buyers either. Running it means maintaining a PHP application and a database, or paying the project's own hosted edition from $10 a month, in exchange for keeping the entire invoice.
Common questions
- Does Revive Adserver find advertisers the way Infolinks does?
- No. Revive Adserver only serves and counts ads for advertisers you have already sold directly. Infolinks fills inventory automatically with no traffic floor, which is the entire reason it exists.
- Which one is more intrusive to readers?
- Infolinks, by design: its in-text and in-frame formats use space a standard banner does not, and that is worth testing against the revenue it brings in. Revive Adserver's ad formats depend entirely on what you configure, since you control both the software and the advertisers.
- Does either one take a cut of ad revenue?
- Infolinks does not publish its revenue split before you apply. Revive Adserver takes no cut at all, since nothing sits between the advertiser and your invoice, though the hosted edition costs from $10 a month if you would rather not run a server.
- Can a brand-new site with no advertisers use either one?
- Infolinks is built for exactly that: no traffic floor and no advertisers required, since it supplies both. Revive Adserver has nothing to deliver without advertisers already sold, so a new site with no buyers gets no value from it yet.
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