opencrater

sponsorship for terminal tooling

Your open-source tool finally pays you back.

OpenCrater renders tasteful sponsor cards inside Claude Code, Codex, and any CLI — and pays maintainers per click. Like AdSense, but for the terminal, with an opt-out users actually get to use.

start earning →read the docs

$ npm install @opencrater/sdk · 80% of every click goes to you

yourtool — claude code

➜ ~/projects/yourtool

for maintainers

Earn from the tools you already shipped

  • CPC, not CPM. You earn when a developer clicks — impressions are tracked for analytics, never billed.
  • Five-minute setup. Register the package, drop in the SDK or install the Claude Code hook. Done.
  • Never breaks your tool. Fail-silent SDK, ≤500ms hard timeout, zero dependencies, suppressed in CI.
  • Fallback that funds you. No campaign fills? Your GitHub Sponsors card renders instead.

for sponsors

Reach developers where they actually work

  • The terminal, not a feed. Your message renders inside real engineering sessions — Claude Code, Codex, CLIs.
  • Pay per click only. Signed single-use click tokens, fraud-gated before a cent moves.
  • Precise targeting. Package type, category, language, placement, country — down to US states.
  • Developer-grade taste. Plain-text cards. No tracking pixels, no popups, no autoplay anything.

How it works

From zero to earning in four steps. No build changes, no bundlers, no config files in your repo.

  1. 01

    Register your package

    Sign in with GitHub and add your CLI, MCP server, or agent framework.

    opencrater.to/dashboard

  2. 02

    Get your publisher key

    Issued once, stored hashed. Rotate or revoke any time.

    ock_live_4f2a…

  3. 03

    Install the SDK

    One dependency, or just the Claude Code hook — no code at all.

    npm i @opencrater/sdk

  4. 04

    Earn per click

    Cards render at natural pauses. Clicks settle to your balance after the 48h fraud window.

    + $0.22 · click settled

80% yours. Always.

Every confirmed click is split on a double-entry ledger the moment it settles: 80% to the maintainer, 20% to keep OpenCrater running. Regional rate cards are public, payouts are USD, and the minimum withdrawal is $25.

# per confirmed click

████████████████████████████████████████

■ maintainer — 80%■ opencrater — 20%

cpc (US, devtools) ........ $0.22

your share ................ $0.176

settles ................... T+48h

the deal with end users

Ads in a terminal only work if leaving is effortless. So we made opting out a one-liner.

OPENCRATER_DISABLE=1

One env var kills every card, everywhere, forever.

npx opencrater off

Persistent per-machine opt-out, no env management.

Auto-suppressed

Never renders in CI, non-TTY pipes, or scripts. Honors NO_COLOR.

We never collect prompts, code, or credentials — see the full policy.

The terminal is the last honest ad slot. Claim yours.

register a package →

free for maintainers · sponsors pay per click · 80/20 split