Crypto ad network payouts and minimums, compared and verified

Every crypto ad network publishes two numbers that matter more than any reach claim: what it costs to walk in as an advertiser, and what it takes to walk out as a publisher with your earnings. Both are usually scattered across pricing pages, FAQs and terms-of-service documents that do not always agree with each other — and sometimes, as we found while compiling this, the number has quietly left the building. Here is the whole field in two tables: advertiser minimums for eleven networks and publisher payout terms for eight, every figure re-verified at its primary source between 6 and 8 September 2026, most of them fetched fresh on the morning of publication.

How we verified these numbers

Every figure below comes from the network’s own pricing page, FAQ or terms of service, fetched by us on or within two days of 8 September 2026 — not from another comparison article, and not from a sales deck. Where a number exists only in the contract and not on the marketing site, we say so. Where a number we previously verified has since vanished from the primary source, we say that too, because a payout term that a network no longer commits to in writing is a different thing from one it does. The method is the same one behind our four-minute liveness check and our tour of the seven worst clauses in these networks’ contracts: read the primary source, quote it, date it.

Advertiser minimums, from $10 to $10,000

Sorted by the cost of getting in. “Refund posture” is what the network’s own terms say happens to money you deposit and do not spend.

Network	Minimum to start	Daily minimum	Refund posture
Mintfunnel	$10 per campaign, CPC from $0.25	—	Chargebacks forfeit balance and credits
A-ADS	$100 ($250 for ERC-20 USDT)	$100 on the calculator	Deposits below the minimum are forfeited
Coinzilla	€100, paid in advance	—	All deposits non-refundable
HypeLab	$100 per the terms ($500 per its own blog)	—	All deposits non-refundable
CoinAdMedia	$100	$50	Terms never contain the word “refund”
Bitmedia	$300 (BTC deposits exempt)	—	Sub-$300 payments “not processed” and non-refundable
Cointraffic	€3,000 managed (€1,500 PR-only tier delisted Sep 2026)	€50	First deposit “spent in full”; 15% exit fee
Slise	$5,000 — in the ToS, not on the site	—	Non-refundable; liability capped at $5
Coin.Network	$5,000 self-serve budget	—	“Deposited Funds may not be cashed out”
Blockchain-Ads	$10,000 per deposit; $30,000/month managed	—	35% spend gate, then a $2,500 processing fee
DOT Ads	None published	—	No refunds on unused credit; 6-month write-off

The first pattern is the one nobody prints on a pricing page: in this industry the deposit is the last moment the money is yours. Nine of the eleven networks above either declare deposits non-refundable outright or attach conditions that amount to the same thing, and the two that do not — Mintfunnel and DOT — simply route the forfeiture through chargeback penalties and inactivity write-offs instead. We catalogued the mechanics in seven red flags in crypto ad network terms; the short version is that the minimum deposit is better understood as the minimum loss you are prepared to accept while finding out whether the network works for you.

The second pattern is more entertaining. Coinzilla’s terms say: “In order to start using the Services, Advertisers have to pay to the Company, in advance, a minimum amount of EUR 100.” HypeLab’s terms say: “In order to start using the Services, Advertisers have to pay the Company, in advance, a minimum amount of 100 USD.” The same sentence, one word and one currency apart — followed in both documents by the identical all-caps declaration that everything advertisers pay is non-refundable. Two competing networks are running on the same contract template, which tells you something about how much bespoke legal attention these terms get. HypeLab’s version adds a clause worth knowing: accounts inactive for twelve consecutive months are deactivated.

Third: the minimum you can find is not always the minimum that exists. Slise’s $5,000 prepaid floor appears in its terms of service and nowhere on its marketing site — a first-time advertiser has no way of learning the entry price before reaching the contract. Coin.Network at least prints its $5,000 self-serve floor on the homepage. And DOT publishes no minimum anywhere — its site says “no minimum commitments” — which has not stopped half the listicles in this niche repeating a “$20/day” figure that appears in none of DOT’s own materials. When a network publishes no number, the honest answer is that there is no number, not whatever the last comparison site guessed.

Publisher payout terms, side by side

Sorted by payout floor. “The catch” is the term you find out about when you try to collect.

Network	Payout floor	Schedule	Paid in	The catch
A-ADS	0.001 BTC; any amount via Lightning	Automatic, daily	BTC only	BTC only — volatility is your problem
Bitmedia	$20 per the publisher terms, re-verified September 2026	Up to ~7 days	BTC; fiat requests converted, fees not covered	The FAQ no longer covers payouts; the floor lives in the publisher terms document
Cointraffic	€25 BTC / €300 bank	Three times a week	BTC or bank transfer, EUR-denominated	5,000 monthly visitors to get in
Coinzilla	€50	Weekly or monthly, automatic	BTC, ETH, USDT (ERC-20), bank wire	Conversion and bank fees deducted despite the “no costs” pitch
CoinAdMedia	€50	Monthly, first week	BTC, ETH, USDT, bank	€100 total liability cap in the terms
HypeLab	$50	Monthly, Net-30	USDC, USDT, bank wire	Revenue share undisclosed
Slise	Not specified	~15 days after month-end	USDT (ERC-20) only	Reinstating a suspended account costs 10% of earnings or $1,000
Coin.Network	None published	“Net-30” marketing vs ~60 days in the terms	—	The publisher signup page returns a 404

What good looks like, for reference: a stated floor, a stated schedule, and at least one payout rail that is not a volatile asset. Cointraffic remains the friendliest setup for publishers who think in fiat — earnings are EUR-denominated, the bank option means never touching crypto, and its publishers page confirms that combined earnings from multiple sites count toward the €25 Bitcoin or €300 bank minimums. At the other pole, A-ADS has the payout floor done right for small sites: its help center says “the minimum withdrawal to a Bitcoin wallet is BTC 0.001, and you can withdraw absolutely any sum through the Lightining network” — their spelling, our emphasis on any sum. Coinzilla sits in the middle: €50, automatic, four payout rails, but read the terms before believing the publisher page’s “no costs” line, because conversion and bank fees come out of your side.

The more instructive column is the one about disappearing terms. Bitmedia’s FAQ answered publisher payout questions in July — $20 minimum, Bitcoin only, no fees, seven-day clearing — and its restructured FAQ now contains forty-nine questions, every one of them advertiser-side. Coin.Network’s get-started page for publishers has returned a 404 since at least early September. DOT removed its publisher program from the site entirely in late 2025. A payout term that exists only in a Wayback snapshot is not a commitment; if the number matters to your revenue, screenshot the page that states it on the day you sign up, and re-run the liveness check before trusting a network with a quarter’s inventory. For how these floors fit into a full setup, our publisher monetization stack covers the layering.

How to read a thousand-fold spread

An honest taxonomy of why the same product costs $10 at one door and $10,000 at another. The sub-$300 tier — Mintfunnel, A-ADS, Coinzilla, HypeLab, CoinAdMedia, Bitmedia — is self-serve auction pricing: the minimum exists to keep spam out and card fees economical, and you are paying for machine time. The €3,000 tier at Cointraffic is a service retainer: the minimum is buying you an account manager, creative production and campaign strategy, and Cointraffic is refreshingly explicit that this is the trade. The $5,000–$10,000 tier — Slise, Coin.Network, Blockchain-Ads — is a gate. Blockchain-Ads’ own FAQ calls its $10,000 “a deposit floor for platform access,” which is the accurate phrase for all three: the minimum is not sized to what a test requires, it is sized to the customer they want.

Our standing advice follows from the taxonomy. Test in the tier where a failed test costs a dinner, not a quarter — $10 at Mintfunnel buys a real CPC experiment, €100 at Coinzilla buys a real premium-placement one, and our Coinzilla vs Bitmedia head-to-head shows how far a few hundred dollars of structured testing actually goes. Graduate to the retainer tier when you know your funnel converts and want hands taken off it. Treat the gate tier as what it is: a relationship you are entering with money that, per every contract quoted above, is not coming back. Where each network lands on quality once you are inside is what our 2026 ranking is for.

Numbers rot — check the date before trusting any table

Three things moved just while we compiled this page. Coinzilla’s terms now live at a new URL — the old terms-and-conditions path silently redirects to a not-found page. Bitmedia rebuilt its FAQ and dropped the publisher payout answers. Mintfunnel’s terms carry a fresh 1 September 2026 revision date. None of these are scandals; all of them are reminders that a comparison table is a photograph, not a contract. Ours is dated 8 September 2026, every claim traceable to a primary source we fetched ourselves — and when one of these numbers drifts, this page gets corrected, because a table you cannot date is just a rumor with columns.