Sell a paid add-on

Keep your app free and sell an add-on, such as better model weights, as a paid folder of the same repository. Everyone keeps the free app. Only people who buy the folder can download it.

5 min read, updated Oct 28, 2026

Before you start

  • You have accepted the seller agreement and set up a payout account.
  • The free app lives in a public repository, for example thumper-ai/studio-suite.
  • The add-on sits in its own folder that holds only what you are selling.

Selling as an organization: sales are paid to your organization's own payout account, never to a person's. Payouts are set up by an Owner of your organization, and only an Owner can set prices, pause sales or change payouts.

Set it up

  1. 1Put the add-on in its own folderFor example /studio-weights-pro, next to the free folders /studio-app and /studio-core.
  2. 2Choose Sell on the folder in the Publish tabSet a price in whole dollars and one sentence about what buyers get, up to 280 characters.
  3. 3Wait for reviewThe folder shows In review with the time you submitted it, then On sale. The price is locked while it's in review.
  4. 4Buyers install itFrom their Purchases page, or with the install command in the terminal.

What buyers get

FolderWho can download itPrice
/studio-appEveryoneFree
/studio-coreEveryoneFree
/studio-weights-proBuyers only$29.00

Buyers get the files in that folder. A paid folder doesn't give them your other private folders, your issues or write access. A refund ends their access; it doesn't remove files they already downloaded.

What you receive

Price$29.00
Thumper fee (15%)−$4.35
You receive per sale$24.65

Each sale is held for 30 days, the length of the refund window, and then paid out on the next Monday. Payouts have a $25 minimum; a smaller amount carries over to the next Monday. Tax the buyer pays is not part of your earnings.

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