Cointraffic pricing in 2026: a €3,000 managed desk, a €500 marketplace door, CPMs from €1 to €11, and a 15% fee on the way out

Cointraffic publishes more prices than any other crypto ad network, and disagrees with itself about several of them. The advertiser FAQ says €3,000 and adds, in case anyone asks, that there are no lower tiers; the marketplace page says €500; the display page says €1,500 a month is enough; the casino page says €3,000 again. Three pages give three different approval times, one page gives two different thresholds for free banner design, and the pop-under page quotes publisher payout terms that neither the FAQ nor the publisher agreement contains. We read every page that carries a figure on 12 October 2026, both agreements included, and put the numbers side by side. The short version: Cointraffic costs €3,000 to enter as a managed client and €500 as a marketplace buyer, impressions are sold per thousand from about €1 on pop-unders to about €11 on premium Tier-1 display, the first deposit is spent in full whatever happens, anything refunded above it loses 15%, and publishers are paid in euros from €25 three times a week. Our Cointraffic review scores the network 7.5/10; this page is the price list that review compressed into a paragraph.

The €3,000 desk and the €500 side door

Start with the number Cointraffic repeats most. The advertiser FAQ’s minimum-deposit page gives three figures and a sentence that forecloses the obvious follow-up: “€3,000 – minimum per managed advertising campaign (banner, native, pop-under)”, “€5,000+ – recommended for a meaningful test that delivers statistically useful results”, “€1,500 – minimum for press-release-only campaigns”, and “There are no lower deposit tiers.” The getting-started FAQ says the same thing in the voice of a sales desk: “to be competitive in the blockchain and crypto advertising space, the minimum deposit required is 3,000 EUR.” The banner page says “Your €3,000 minimum deposit funds your daily spend” and, lower down, “€3,000 gets you started.” The pop-under page: “Set up campaigns in minutes with a €3,000 minimum deposit.” The casino page: “The minimum deposit is €3,000. Below that, there isn’t enough volume to gather meaningful data and optimise a campaign.” The advertisers page explains what the money is for: €3,000 “for professionally managed campaigns”, an investment that “includes your three-person expert team (Account Manager, Creative Designer, Professional Copywriter)”. The native page phrases it differently again, “€3,000 minimum monthly budget with no platform fees”, which turns a one-off deposit into a monthly run rate without saying so.

Now the page that undercuts all of them. The marketplace FAQ, on the same domain and read the same morning, answers “What’s the minimum budget to start advertising?” with “€500 for CPM campaigns, making our cryptocurrency marketing platform accessible for projects at any stage”, adds “Fixed placements start from €670, depending on the publisher and placement duration”, and goes on: “Most advertisers start with €2,000-€5,000 campaigns”, “No monthly commitments required. No annual contracts.” Its registration answer is blunter still: “No payment required until you’re ready to launch. No contracts. No monthly minimums.” The display page then offers a third number, “€1,500 monthly (€50 daily) represents the minimum budget for delivering meaningful results from display advertising”, with a floor of its own below it: display “doesn’t work for projects with budgets under €1,000 monthly”.

Our reading, after three weeks of watching these pages, is that the three numbers describe three products rather than one changing price. €3,000 buys the desk: an account manager, a designer and a copywriter who build the campaign for you. €500 buys a seat at the self-serve marketplace, where you pick named placements yourself. €1,500 a month is the display page’s opinion of the least that produces a readable result. What the contract says is none of the above. The advertiser terms define “Minimum Deposit” only as “a minimum amount of payment that is allowed to be credited to the Account as prepayment for the Services. Such an amount is shown in the Account under ‘Add funds’ tab.” The number that binds you is therefore the one in your dashboard, not the one on any public page. Registration is free, so read that tab before you fund anything, because, as the refund section below explains, whatever it says becomes the amount you can never get back. The wider field, six networks that let an advertiser in for less, is ranked in our Cointraffic alternatives guide.

What a thousand impressions cost

Cointraffic is a CPM network and says so on every page that touches the question. The ad-formats FAQ: “Our Banner Ads are working on CPM (Cost per Mille) payment model.” Native: “The native format uses CPM.” The publisher FAQ, asked about CPC, referral or affiliate deals: “Unfortunately, not. Cointraffic works exclusively with CPM only.” Its CPM guide adds that you “track clicks and conversions separately via S2S postbacks”. There is no auction in the open-exchange sense; you set a bid and a daily budget, and the volume FAQ tells you what to do when traffic is thin: “firstly, increase your CPM price, as this opens up to more eyes per dollar spent”. The pacing FAQ gives the other half of the mechanism: a low bid “does not allow you to win bids in the required Geos”.

What the bid needs to be is published in ranges, and the ranges depend on which page you are on. The advertiser FAQ’s cost page, repeated word for word in the pricing guide and the casino FAQ, is the most specific: display “from ~€6 CPM, typically €8–€9, up to ~€11 on premium Tier-1 placements”; native “from ~€6 CPM, typically €6–€8”; pop-under “from €1 CPM, typically €1–€3 – the most cost-efficient format for large-scale reach”. The display product page says “Typical rates: €2-8 CPM depending on targeting precision and publisher quality.” The pop-under page says “€1-5 CPM pricing”. The casino page is the only one with campaign data rather than a range: “recent casino campaigns averaged €3.56 CPM on crypto-native mobile formats and €7.62 CPM on premium Tier-1 placements”, with the caveat that “these are past campaign averages, not guaranteed rates”. A 2025 blog post on gambling budgets widens everything again: “CPM rates on premium platforms typically range between €5 and €25”, banners “€5–10”, native “€10–15”, video “upwards of €15”. And the native page carries the site’s only click price, in a worked example: “A €3,000 campaign with €1.50 average CPC generates approximately 2,000 qualified clicks.” It is an illustration, not a rate, on a network that does not sell clicks.

Format	Advertiser FAQ and pricing guide	Product page	Elsewhere on the site
Display / banner	From ~€6, typically €8–€9, up to ~€11 on premium Tier-1	“€2-8 CPM”	Casino page: €7.62 average on premium Tier-1; gambling guide: €5–10
Native	From ~€6, typically €6–€8	“€3,000 minimum monthly budget”; €1.50 CPC worked example	Gambling guide: €10–15
Pop-under	From €1, typically €1–€3	“€1-5 CPM pricing”	Casino page: €3.56 average on crypto-native mobile
Press release	From €1,500, “typically 7-9 high-quality crypto websites”	No price on the press-release page	Casino page: “starting from €1,500”

Two things in that table matter more than any single cell. First, the gap between the FAQ’s “typically €8–€9” and the display page’s “€2-8” is not a rounding difference; at €3,000 it is the difference between about 350,000 impressions and anything up to 1.5 million. The display page’s own arithmetic sits at the cheap end: it says €1,500 a month “generates 200,000-750,000 impressions”, which works out at €2 to €7.50 per thousand. Second, the only figures that come from delivered campaigns rather than a range, €3.56 and €7.62, land inside the display page’s band and below the FAQ’s typical rate. If you are budgeting, use the casino averages for a mobile-heavy plan and the FAQ’s €8–€9 for a Tier-1 display plan, and treat anything cheaper as a pleasant surprise. The one format with no CPM at all is the press release, which is priced per campaign and covered below.

The marketplace rate card: named sites, “from” prices

This is the part of Cointraffic’s pricing nobody else in crypto advertising offers: a public page that names the site, states its monthly traffic and top countries, and attaches a starting price. The marketplace page shows a few dozen listings and a button for “all offers (300+)”. The listings below are the ones most buyers will ask about, copied as the page displayed them on 12 October 2026. Traffic figures are Cointraffic’s own.

Site	Monthly traffic (as listed)	Price type	From
CoinMarketCap	65M	Fixed, CPC, CPM	€20,000
Blockchair.com	1.2M	Fixed	€7,400
Cryptorank.io	1.4M	Fixed	€4,550
Etherscan.io	5.5M	CPM, Fixed	€2,625
CryptoCompare.com	1.1M	CPM, Fixed	€2,500
CNBC.com	107M	CPM	€2,000
Forbes.com	181M	CPM, Fixed	€2,000
Nasdaq.com	12M	CPM	€2,000
WSJ.com	82M	CPM	€2,000
Solscan.io	7M	CPM, Fixed	€1,875
Bscscan.com	2.5M	Fixed, CPM	€1,875
BeInCrypto.com	2.5M	Fixed	€1,500
Cointelegraph.com	7.1M	CPM, Fixed	€500
Investing.com	125M	CPM, Fixed	€450
Coingabbar.com	180K	Fixed	€100

Read the “from” literally. The page says fixed placements depend “on the publisher and placement duration”, and the button-ads post on Cointraffic’s blog describes the unit as “One week of placement. Set pricing.” So €500 at Cointelegraph is the smallest CPM buy the page will sell you on that site, not a week on its homepage, and €20,000 at CoinMarketCap is where a conversation starts. Three details are worth knowing before you build a plan around the table. The page’s own floor, “Fixed placements start from €670”, is contradicted by its own listings, which show fixed placements from €100 at Coingabbar and €150 at Parameter.io and Coincentral; the €670 line looks like an older figure nobody updated. CoinMarketCap is the only listing offering CPC, and it is also the only one priced in five figures. And the mainstream names, CNBC, Forbes, Nasdaq, the Wall Street Journal, TheStreet and Fortune, sit in the same €1,000–€2,000 band as mid-sized crypto outlets, which tells you those are small units on very large sites rather than takeovers. The premium crypto placements also carry conditions the price does not show: CoinMarketCap and the Etherscan suite require pre-approval, gambling advertisers need an active licence everywhere on the premium list, tokens must be listed on CoinGecko to advertise there, and pre-sales are refused on Coinphoton, Ethplorer, Binplorer, CoinGecko and GeckoTerminal. Full placement prices, the marketplace FAQ says, need a registration, which is free. How this rate card compares with the marketplaces at A-ADS and Bitmedia is in our marketplaces comparison.

Daily floors, free banners and three approval clocks

The daily minimum is €50 per campaign, and the FAQ is unusually candid about what that buys: “with a daily minimum budget, your campaign will be slower to roll out, because you’ll experience less traction given the limited cap”. It is charged per format. “If you want to test two (or more) advertising formats at the same time, they would be charged separately. In this case, for two formats, your daily consumption would be at least €100 (Euros) per day.” A banner-plus-native-plus-pop-under test therefore costs €150 a day before a single bid is raised, and the FAQ encourages exactly that kind of multi-format test on its ad-formats page (“this is not only possible but heavily encouraged”). Budget can be moved between campaigns freely: “All your marketing budget deposited to Cointraffic can be easily distributed between different ad campaigns.” How Cointraffic’s €50 compares with the floors at a dozen other networks, including the ones that have none, is in our minimum daily budgets comparison.

Free creative is the one bonus Cointraffic prices, and it prices it twice. The advertiser FAQ and the pricing guide both say campaigns “of €5,000 or more” include “a complimentary set of animated HTML5 banners”. The banner product page agrees near the top (“Campaigns €5,000+ get free professional HTML5 design”) and then, in its own FAQ further down, halves the threshold: “HTML5 animated banners are also available (free for campaigns €2,500+)” and “Campaigns with budgets of €2,500 or more receive a complimentary professional HTML5 animated banner design”. One page, two prices for the same service; ask your account manager which one applies, in writing, before you commission banners elsewhere. The file rules are split the same way: the banner page says “Maximum file size 300KB per banner”, the marketplace FAQ says “150KB for static banners and 500KB for HTML5”.

Approval has three clocks, and they do not tick at the same speed. The advertiser FAQ: “It usually takes a couple of minutes during the working hours to approve a campaign, however, it might take a bit longer during the weekends.” The marketplace page: “Most campaigns are approved within 24-48 hours”, with a “Rush approval” option for urgent launches. The homepage, advertisers page and casino page: live “within 24 hours of creative approval”, and the advertisers page frames the whole managed process as “2-4 business days from initial consultation to live ads”. None of these is a price, but all of them cost money if you have booked a launch date, so plan on the longest one. What you are not charged for is stated plainly on the display page, “No setup fees, no management fees, no hidden charges. You pay only for impressions served”, and on the native page, “no platform fees”. The three-person team is paid out of the CPM, not as a line item.

Fees, VAT, discounts and how you pay

Everything is billed in euros. The payment-methods FAQ lists three routes: bank wire (“usually take between 1-4 business days”), credit card (“Visa and Mastercard are instant”) and “Crypto via CoinGate” (“up to 1 day”); the marketplace FAQ widens the list to American Express, SEPA, and “Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, and major altcoins”, with bank transfers at “1-3 business days”. Pay in another currency and “your payment will be converted to EUR by our recipient bank”, at the bank’s rate, not yours. Clause 6.1 of the advertiser terms adds the fee you will not see on a product page: “Upon payment we may charge you with a processing fee or any other fee applicable by third party payment service provider”, and the network is “not responsible for any actions applied by the payment service provider including but not limited to any additional transaction fees”. Spend is deducted daily; banner creation and press releases are “deducted from your Wallet automatically after ordering”.

VAT follows the Estonian rulebook, because Cointraffic OÜ (registry code 14112292, Liivalaia 13, Tallinn) is the contracting company. The VAT FAQ: individuals or companies outside the EU are charged “VAT at the rate of 0%”; an individual inside the EU pays “the rate applicable in your country”; an EU company with a VAT number pays 0%, provided the number is in the profile, “Otherwise we will have to charge VAT at the rate applicable in your country.” An EU freelancer running a token launch from a personal account therefore pays roughly a fifth on top of every deposit that a registered company does not. Above a certain size the rules soften. The marketplace FAQ says “Enterprise accounts with monthly budgets exceeding €50,000 can use invoicing with NET 30 payment terms”, and its discount answer is the most detailed rate sheet on the site: “Advertisers spending €50,000-€100,000 monthly qualify for 10-15% discounts. Budgets exceeding €100,000 monthly receive 15-20% volume pricing. Enterprise accounts with €250,000+ monthly commitments negotiate custom discount structures up to 25%”, with “additional discount tiers” for quarterly and annual commitments. Bonuses of any kind, clause 6.2 says, “are not eligible for refund” and “are the last to be used”.

The penalties are the part of the price list most advertisers never read. Late payment on an invoice costs “zero point five percent (0,5%) of the outstanding amount per day”, which adds up to about 15% a month. Missing an agreed deadline for materials or approvals lets Cointraffic “demand from you a contractual penalty in the amount of 30% (thirty per cent) of price of the relevant Service”. Termination for breach converts your whole unused balance into a penalty, “set-off” against anything you are owed. Every one of these clauses sits in a document whose footer reads “This version was last updated on 07.06.2019”, which means the contract predates the marketplace, the casino product, the premium-site rules and the self-service relaunch the company calls Cointraffic 6.0. The terms and the public pages were written seven years apart, and where they differ, the terms govern. Our guide to red flags in ad network terms explains what to look for in clauses like these.

Refunds: what the first €3,000 buys back

Clause 6.3 allows a refund in three cases: an incorrect payment, prepayment consumed by a publisher’s proven fraud (you must send “a detailed report of sources/websites you consider to be fraudulent”, and Cointraffic may ask for more proof or refuse), and money left over when the agreement ends. The third is the one that matters, and it carries five conditions. You must ask “within 30 days after the termination of the Agreement”; the unused balance must be “at least EUR 50”; the refund is paid “minus an administrative fee of 15% (fifteen per cent)”; it arrives “within 30 working days”, to “the same payment method and same payment account that you used to make your last payment”; and identity documents may be requested first. Then the sentence that sets Cointraffic apart from every rival with a refund procedure: “the funds in the amount of the Minimum Deposit, which were paid for the first time to the account, are considered non-refundable and subject to being spent in full on the Platform.” Transaction fees on the refund itself are deducted too.

The refund FAQ tells the same story on a faster clock. It repeats the first-deposit rule and the 15% fee, asks for a reason, the payment method used last and the card, bank or wallet details, then sends a Refund Request Form by email: “Once you sign and return the form, we will process your refund within 1-7 business days.” The terms say 30 working days; the FAQ says one to seven. Meanwhile the display product page tells a prospective client that “Unused budget rolls forward or refunds on request”, with no mention of the non-refundable first deposit, the 15% or the €50 floor. All three pages were live on 12 October 2026. Worked through, the clause reads like this. Deposit €5,000 as a managed client, spend €1,000, and ask for your money: €4,000 is on the balance, but €2,000 of it is the unspent part of the first €3,000 and stays with Cointraffic; the other €2,000 is refundable, less 15%, so €1,700 comes back before transaction fees. Deposit exactly €3,000 and stop after a week, and the clause returns nothing. That is why the €500 marketplace door matters more than its size suggests: a first deposit of €500 is the whole of what you can lose by walking away.

Doing nothing has a price as well. Clause 3.2 deems an account inactive after “150 consecutive calendar days” with an unused balance, then charges “an inactive account fee in the amount of EUR 50” on the first day of the following month, and “a multiplier of 1.5 to the previous month’s inactive account fee amount” after each further three months: €50, then €75, then €112.50, then €168.75. Fees already deducted “will not be returned even if your Account status becomes active again”. Once the balance cannot cover the next fee, a 30-day deactivation warning follows and the account is deleted “without the option to restore it”. Clause 6.5 says the same thing from the other side: after 150 days unused, “we may process your Account balance to zero”. The clause applies to publishers too, word for word, in their agreement. Where Cointraffic sits among the fourteen networks whose unspent-balance rules we compared, one of the few with a written refund procedure and one of the few that charge for leaving money idle, is in our refund policies comparison.

Press releases: €1,500 for seven to nine sites

The press-release product page carries no price of its own; the only figure on it is a comparison, “Traditional services like PR Newswire or Business Wire charge €500-€2,000 to distribute your release to general business media”. The price is in the FAQ: “Flexible budgets starting from 1,500 EUR (typically 7-9 high-quality crypto websites)”, which puts the entry ticket at roughly €170 to €215 per placement, across a claimed “300+ Crypto & Bitcoin Media Outlets” and “up to 10 languages”. The outlets FAQ names Benzinga, Cryptonews, CoinMarketCap, Cointelegraph, Investing.com, Coinspeaker and Blockonomi, and says a PR manager “manually prepares each and every distribution campaign”. The casino page confirms the floor: PR distribution “starting from €1,500”.

Read the inclusions carefully, because the FAQ lists “Professional Copywriting Assistance” as a feature and, four lines later, says that if you have no release “our professional copywriters can create one for an additional fee”. The writing FAQ sets the terms of that fee: a first draft “within 1 business day”, and “only one-round of changes is included in the offer for Press Release copy creation”. The timeline is draft within 24 hours, distribution “typically takes 3 business days”, a report “within 1 day”, “up to 5 business days” in all; the marketplace route says a release goes live “within 1–3 days” once paid. What is guaranteed is publication: “We can guarantee to write and publish your Press Release copy on the agreed-upon number of crypto-related websites”, while views, clicks and conversions “may vary”. Sponsored articles are available “upon client request” with no published price. Clause 6.1 charges the whole press-release fee to your wallet “automatically after ordering”, so the €1,500 is committed before the draft exists. How that compares with Chainwire’s $1,399 eight-outlet package and the other wires is in our crypto PR distribution comparison.

What publishers are paid, and the three numbers for one threshold

The publisher side is priced in euros and paid on a schedule nobody else in the niche matches, with one page that disagrees. Clause 9 of the publisher agreement bases commission on “the CPM applicable to a specific geo, demand and the price that the Advertiser sets in the campaign, whereby the maximum CPM shall be agreed with you”; the FAQ lists the factors as format, traffic quality, geo and “website thematic”, and a rate review can be requested from the dashboard. It is CPM only; there is no click, referral or affiliate programme. The payment-terms FAQ sets the thresholds: “€25” to a bitcoin wallet, “€300” to a bank account, commissions “received in euros”, requests “at any time”, processed “during the next payout day”, and “Payments are sent out three times per week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.” The publishers page agrees: “Request a withdrawal anytime after reaching €25.” Clause 10 of the agreement says “EUR 25, before tax each month”.

Then there is the pop-under product page, which promises publishers “Net-7 payment terms and a low €100 minimum withdrawal threshold”. Neither figure appears in the FAQ or the agreement; the agreement, for its part, allows “up to 10 calendar days” to validate a request and “up to 5 calendar days” to pay it, which is the only schedule that binds. The costs that come off the top are in clause 10 as well: “You will bear the transaction, payment and currency exchange fees, if applicable”; a bitcoin payout is converted at the EUR/BTC rate “fixed by us as at the moment of making the payment” on the processor’s rate; disputes over a payment lapse after 60 days; account statistics are kept for six months. One line most publishers outside the EU will not expect: under the Estonian Income Tax Act, “an income tax at the rate of 20% shall be withheld” from any publisher that is a legal person “residing at low tax rate territory”, unless it proves that more than half its income comes from real economic activity. The KYC that unlocks the first payout is light, “the street name, house number, and postal code”, because the platform raises a self-billed invoice in your name. The door itself is not: “a minimum unique visitor per month rate of 5,000 and above”, no URL shorteners, no third-level domains, a review of “24–48 hours”. The counters on the publishers page read “Over 700 crypto publishers” and “€120K” paid out monthly; the agreement’s footer reads “last updated on 26.11.2018”. Where €25 three times a week sits against the field is in our payouts and minimums comparison, the 5,000-visitor bar against the other networks’ doors in our publisher requirements guide, and the address-only check against the passports and selfies elsewhere in our KYC comparison.

Cointraffic’s prices against the field

Every figure below was read on the network’s own pages on 12 October 2026, except where the cell says otherwise.

Network	Our rating	Minimum to start	Published rates	Daily floor	Unspent money	Publisher payout
Cointraffic	7.5/10	€3,000 managed; €1,500 PR-only; €500 marketplace	CPM from ~€6 display and native, from €1 pop-under; named placements from €100 to €20,000	€50 per campaign, per format	First deposit spent in full; rest refunded less 15%, €50 minimum, 150-day idle fee	€25 in bitcoin, €300 by bank, Mon/Wed/Fri
Coinzilla	9/10	EUR 100, paid in advance	Set per placement tier; from €0.20 CPM per our review	EUR 50 per campaign	Non-refundable	EUR 50 in BTC, ETH, USDC or bank wire
Bitmedia	6.5/10	$300 by card or crypto, waived for bitcoin	Bids from $0.25 CPC, $0.30 CPM; commission “commonly 10-20%”	None; $50 to $300 by feature	Non-refundable in capitals; 60% ad credit if revived in time	$20 in bitcoin, seven-day hold
A-ADS	7/10	100 USD per its help centre, read 10 October	Cost per day; $0.04 average CPM per its help centre	None; $200 a day recommended	Discretionary; 20% of spend kept	0.001 BTC, or any amount over Lightning, daily
HypeLab	7/10	100 USD in its terms	Not published	None	Non-refundable; forfeited after 12 idle months	50 USD, monthly
Mintfunnel	5.5/10	$10 per campaign	CPC from $0.25; PR from $99	None	Refunded on request, per its own page	Not applicable
Blockchain-Ads	4.5/10	$10,000 deposit; $30,000 a month managed	CPM “starting around $7”	Not published on the FAQ	Refund policy in the footer; $2,500 fee and a spend gate per our review	“Get in touch with the team”

Three positions fall out of that table. On the deposit, Cointraffic’s managed desk is the dearest door in the table after Blockchain-Ads, and its €500 marketplace door sits one step above Bitmedia’s $300, which is why the same network can look expensive or affordable in our ranking depending on which product you mean. On rates, it is the only network of the seven to publish both a CPM range by format and a rate card by site, which makes it the easiest to budget for and the easiest to catch contradicting itself. On refunds, it is one of two in the table with a written procedure and a number attached, and its number is the kinder one; it is also the only one of the seven that charges a monthly fee on an idle balance. The two networks it is most often weighed against are covered clause by clause in our Cointraffic vs Coinzilla and Cointraffic vs Bitmedia head-to-heads, and Bitmedia’s own price list, floor by floor, is in our Bitmedia pricing guide. For casino and betting advertisers, who are the audience the casino page and half the premium-site rules are written for, the networks that will take the account at all are compared in our iGaming ad networks guide.

What €3,000 actually buys

Put the numbers together and the managed minimum looks like this. At the FAQ’s typical €8–€9 display CPM, €3,000 buys between 333,000 and 375,000 impressions; at the €50 daily floor it lasts sixty days, and at the €100 a day that two formats require, thirty. Spent on pop-unders at the FAQ’s typical €1–€3, the same money buys one to three million impressions, which is the arithmetic behind the testimonial on the marketplace page from a casino that was steered from premium display to pop-unders. Spent on the marketplace instead, €3,000 is six CPM buys at Cointelegraph’s €500 starting price, or one fixed slot at Etherscan with €375 to spare, or one Solscan or Bscscan starting price with €1,125 to spare. Spent on press releases, it is two campaigns at €1,500, fourteen to eighteen placements in all. And if you stop after a week, the clause says the unspent part of the first €3,000 stays where it is.

Our advice follows from that last sentence. Treat the first deposit as a purchase, not a balance: size it to what you intend to spend in the first campaign and nothing more, because it is the one sum the refund clause will never return. If you are new to the network, the €500 marketplace door tests the inventory with a first deposit you can afford to write off; if the Cointelegraph or Etherscan placement performs, the managed desk is still there, and so are the €5,000 free banners. Budget €50 a day per format, not per campaign, and get the free-banner threshold and the approval time confirmed in writing before you book a launch date, since the site itself gives you a choice of answers. For publishers, the terms are the best in the niche once you are through the 5,000-visitor door: euros, three payout days a week, and €25 to a bitcoin wallet. Just ignore the pop-under page, and remember that leaving earnings on the balance for five months costs €50.

Cointraffic pricing FAQ

What is Cointraffic’s minimum deposit?

€3,000 per managed advertising campaign, €1,500 for press-release-only campaigns and €5,000 or more recommended for a test, per the advertiser FAQ read on 12 October 2026, which adds that “There are no lower deposit tiers.” The marketplace page on the same site puts the minimum at €500 for CPM campaigns. The advertiser terms give no number at all and define the minimum deposit as the amount “shown in the Account under ‘Add funds’ tab”.

How much does Cointraffic charge per thousand impressions?

Cointraffic prices every display format per thousand impressions and publishes ranges rather than a rate: display “from ~€6 CPM, typically €8–€9, up to ~€11 on premium Tier-1 placements”, native “from ~€6 CPM, typically €6–€8”, pop-under “from €1 CPM, typically €1–€3” in the advertiser FAQ; “€2-8 CPM” on the display product page. Its casino page reports past campaign averages of €3.56 on crypto-native mobile formats and €7.62 on premium Tier-1 placements.

Is there a cheaper way into Cointraffic than €3,000?

Yes, through the marketplace, where the FAQ says “The minimum budget to start advertising is €500 for CPM campaigns” and “Fixed placements start from €670”, with listings on the page itself from €100. The marketplace is self-serve; the €3,000 figure is the price of a managed campaign with an account manager, a designer and a copywriter attached.

Does Cointraffic refund unspent advertiser balances?

Partly. Clause 6.3 of the advertiser terms makes the first minimum deposit “non-refundable and subject to being spent in full on the Platform”. Any balance above it can be refunded within 30 days of ending the agreement, if at least €50 remains, less a 15% administrative fee and any transaction fees, to the payment method used last. The terms allow 30 working days; the refund FAQ says 1–7 business days after a signed form.

What is Cointraffic’s minimum payout for publishers?

€25 to a bitcoin wallet or €300 to a bank account, in euros, with payouts sent on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, per the publisher FAQ. The publisher agreement sets the threshold at EUR 25 “before tax each month” and allows up to 15 calendar days to validate and pay. The pop-under product page’s “€100 minimum withdrawal threshold” and “Net-7 payment terms” appear nowhere else on the site.

Does Cointraffic charge VAT or other fees on top of the deposit?

Customers outside the EU and EU companies with a VAT number in their profile pay 0% VAT; EU individuals pay their own country’s rate. The terms allow a processing fee from the payment provider, convert non-euro payments at the recipient bank’s rate, and charge an idle account €50 a month after 150 unused days, rising by half every three months. There are no setup, management or platform fees on the product pages; volume discounts of 10–25% start at €50,000 a month.

Disclosure: every figure above was read on cointraffic.com, its FAQ, its two agreements and its blog on 12 October 2026, and on Trustpilot the same day; rival figures were read on the rivals’ own pages on 12 October unless a cell says otherwise. Prices and terms change, and the dashboard shows figures the public pages do not. Confirm the current numbers with Cointraffic before you fund an account.

Reviewed in full

• Cointraffic 7.5/10

  Premium crypto inventory and the friendliest payouts in the niche — three doors in, from €500 marketplace to €3,000 managed.

• Bitmedia 6.5/10

  The Web3 ad veteran with deep targeting — and a thinning footprint on premium crypto media.

• Coinzilla 9/10

  The default choice in crypto advertising — quietly displacing older rivals.

• A-ADS 7/10

  The 2011 original — still anonymous, still cookie-less, still paying in BTC every day.

• Blockchain-Ads 4.5/10

  The biggest claims in crypto advertising — behind a $10,000 door and a 2.6-star record.