GitHub Sponsors

Overview

GitHub Sponsors lets the developer community financially support the open source projects they depend on, directly on GitHub. Anyone who contributes to an open source project and lives in a supported region can become a sponsored developer — contributions include code, documentation, bug reports, issue triage, leadership, mentorship and more. You set up sponsorship tiers, supporters choose one-time or monthly amounts, and 100% of sponsorships from personal accounts go to you with no GitHub fee. Sponsorships from organization accounts carry a fee of up to 6% (3% credit card processing + 3% GitHub service fee). To get paid you complete your sponsored developer profile, create tiers, submit bank and tax information, and enable two-factor authentication. Success depends less on raw traffic and more on having work that people and companies already rely on enough to fund directly.

Earnings Breakdown

Payout Model

GitHub Sponsors does not charge any fees for sponsorships from personal accounts, so 100% of these sponsorships go to the sponsored developer or organization. Sponsorships from organization accounts carry a fee of up to 6% (3% credit card processing fee + 3% GitHub service processing fee); organizations can save the 3% credit card processing fee by switching to invoiced billing. Sponsors choose one-time or monthly payment amounts across tiers you define.

Requirements

Common reasons for rejection