What “free” actually costs you
Distributors publish a price. They do not publish what it costs to get your own money out, or what the percentage takes over five years. Put your numbers in and see the whole bill. Every figure was read from the company's own page on 8 September 2026 and carries its source.
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Nobody publishes this comparison, so we did
Distributors publish a headline price. What they do not put side by side is the rest of it: the percentage taken from your royalties, the fee charged to move your own money to your own bank, the currency spread on the way out, and the floor you have to reach before you can withdraw at all. Add those together over five years and the ranking changes completely.
Every figure in the table was read from the company's own pricing page or help centre on 8 September 2026, and each row carries its source. Where a company does not publish a number, the table says “not published” and the total is marked as a floor. We would rather show you a gap than fill it with a guess.
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The part that depends on where you live
Change the bank-account setting and watch the totals move. That single switch is worth more than most of the price differences on this page, and it is the one thing no pricing page shows you.
Too Lost publishes its own numbers plainly: an American pays up to $2.00 on a PayPal withdrawal, everyone else up to $22.00, and an international bank transfer costs $25.00 against $5.32 domestically, with a $100 minimum. DistroKid's own fee page lists $1.12 for a US ACH transfer and $29.21 for an international wire in dollars, plus currency fees of up to 3%.
The withdrawal floor runs the same way. DistroKid asks $6 — in the United States. RouteNote asks $50. SongMoney in Russia asks €50. Madverse asks ₹2,000 domestically and $50 internationally. Indiefy asks $100 on its free tier, which is twice its paid one. The floor is lowest where the money already is.
What “free” means in this industry
We looked at around forty distributors across five continents and could not verify a single one that is free, takes 0%, and does not run on a revenue share. Every free tier we checked is a revenue share: RouteNote 15%, ONErpm 15% on audio, FreshTunes 20%, Indiefy 15%, Grootin 20%. “Free” in this market has one consistent meaning — we take a share of your royalties, permanently. Paying converts that share into a subscription; it does not remove it.
Mazufa charges nothing and takes nothing. That is the whole claim, and this page exists so you can check it against everyone else rather than take our word for it.
Bank and payment-provider fees still exist for us as they do for everyone — those belong to a third party and we will never describe them as our deduction. What we take is zero.