Streaming is free. When someone buys your album for $10, you get $10.
The payment goes from their wallet to yours. We never hold it, so there is nothing for us to take a cut of.
On a ten dollar digital album, Bandcamp's published fees leave the artist roughly eight dollars: a 15 percent cut plus payment processing that typically runs 4 to 6 percent. On Lightning FM the artist receives the full ten dollars, because payment settles from the buyer's wallet directly to the artist's wallet.
Bandcamp's published fees are a 15% cut plus payment processing of roughly 4 to 6%. [1] Even bitcoin-native platforms keep 10%. [6] Sources checked 2026-08-17.
Zero is not our pricing. It is the architecture: we are not in the path the money takes. Full comparison, every number cited →
Artists keep 100% of their sales. This is because we're built using two open protocols: Nostr and Bitcoin's Lightning Network.
Your page, your catalog and your audience stay yours. Nobody can suspend the account, change the terms, or hold the payout, because there is no account and no payout.
Technically: your catalog is published as Nostr events signed by your own key, so it can be read by any client and moved anywhere. What that means →
Press play. No account, no signup, no meter running. When you want to own the file, one payment unlocks the download on the spot.
Your receipt is cryptographic, so you can re-download later without us remembering who you are.
Every purchase is one invoice, instant delivery and a verifiable receipt: a catalog a machine can buy from.
Stem licensing and agent APIs are next. The desktop app, artist node and MCP server are MIT. Read the spec →
One desktop app does the whole job. No distributor, no review queue, no monthly fee.
Don't want to run anything? Sell through our hosted gate instead. We store and serve the files; buyers still pay your wallet directly. We check the payment settled and unlock the download. That is all we touch.
Download for MacThere is no percentage anywhere, because buyers pay artists directly. We charge for what we host, never for what you sell, and even then there's a generous free tier to get you started.
Bring nothing but a payment address. Unlimited listings, a handful of lossless albums.
A serious catalog, stem packs, priority delivery, multiple formats. A flat fee, never a cut.
Run your own node and host your own files. We price the labor if you want help, never the revenue.
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