The short answer: one cent per user per month, flat. Nothing is deducted from what your community earns.
What that price includes: the platform itself, its features, hosting of the network, and updates. It scales linearly and predictably — 10,000 members costs $100 a month on the platform fee, and you can work out any other number in your head.
What you also pay, and to whom:
Cost | Paid to | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Platform fee | ATRIUM | $0.01 per user per month |
File and media storage | Your storage provider | S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi or FTP |
Outgoing email | Your SMTP provider | Configured by you |
Payment processing | Your payment gateway | Standard gateway fees apply |
Video, audio, SMS | The relevant provider | Only if you enable them |
What you never pay: a commission. You keep 100% of subscription revenue, 100% of paywalled content revenue, and 100% of what your own ad network earns. Most platforms take between 10% and 45% of creator revenue; here the number is zero.
Why this matters at scale. A community of 5,000 members earning $10,000 a month keeps $10,000, minus a $50 platform fee. On a revenue-share platform the same community might hand over $1,000 to $3,000 every month.
The honest part: your storage bill grows with how media-heavy your community is. A photo- and video-driven network costs meaningfully more to store than a text-driven one, and that cost sits with your chosen provider, not with us.