Boosty

Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.

Overview

Boosty is a paid-subscription platform for creator content: a creator runs a blog, opens part of the material to everyone, locks the rest behind subscription tiers or sells it piece by piece, and subscribers pay monthly or one-off. The rights holder, judging by the credit line in the site footer, is Zaya Solutions Limited (home page).

The platform is built not as a social network but as a storefront plus a checkout. It has no recommendation feed of its own and no working creator search on the web: according to the official F.A.Q., "creator search is available only in the Boosty mobile app", and to find a blog you are told to follow a link from the creator's social profiles. That is the key difference from Dzen or RUTUBE: Boosty gives you no traffic, you bring the audience yourself.

The second difference is that money here is the main product, not a bonus for reach. The platform advertises daily payouts, subscription tiers, paid messages, donations, post sets (bundles), promotions and bulk mailing as the creator's basic toolkit.

Who's here

The only figure the platform names on its home page is "More than 500,000 creators are here", that is, more than 500 000 creators. This is the platform's own claim about itself, with no period and no counting method given. Lower on the same page there are three counters — subscribers on the platform, active creators and payouts for the year — and all three showed zeros when we checked: the values are apparently injected by a script and do not render in static copies of the page.

On languages the platform is explicit in its F.A.Q.: "the Boosty site is available in English — the interface adapts automatically to the user's browser language", but the posts themselves, the blog description, the goals and the subscription tiers stay in the creator's language, and there is no automatic translation. The home page we opened was served in English.

Geography can be read off the payments side. According to the same F.A.Q., top-ups and withdrawals work through bank cards in rubles, dollars and euros, while YooMoney is available only to residents of Russia and only for withdrawal. Non-residents (the platform's examples are Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the USA) are asked to supply a card in USD or EUR. Prices, however, are set by the creator in rubles: "subscribers abroad may see the price of subscriptions and posts in dollars... Funds reach your account exclusively in rubles".

Getting started

Registration and the blog

According to the platform's step-by-step guide the order is this: sign up via social networks, YouTube or e-mail, then click "Become a creator" in the top bar — that activates the creator blog. After that you set the name and an address of the form boosty.to/your_login.

A separate warning from the same guide: Boosty creates a separate account for each sign-in method, so "e-mail" and "via a social network" are two different accounts, and a duplicate is easy to end up with. Registration by phone number is temporarily unavailable; the sign-in code for a previously linked number arrives down a chain: the Boosty app → a Telegram bot → SMS.

The platform names specific sizes for the design (guide): avatar — PNG or JPG, 225 × 280 pixels, up to 10 MB; blog banner — 1920 × 240 pixels; subscription tier cover — 240 × 150 pixels recommended.

Verification

It is mandatory: "Verification is mandatory for all creators on Boosty". The platform explains this by its financial partners' requirements and calls the procedure KYC: there are 3 levels, the level depends on the creator's income, and each one requires a different amount of information.

A practical tip from the guide: list your social networks under "Account settings → My social networks" and put a link to your Boosty blog publicly in those profiles — the platform checks that the creator is real and active, and this speeds up review.

What you can publish

Formats and limits

A post can carry images, video (as a file in the built-in player or as a link to an external resource — YouTube, Vimeo and others), files in any format (pdf, zip, mp3), links and formatted text (guide). The numeric limits are given by the platform in its F.A.Q. and in the guide:

video attached to a post — up to 20 GB; the larger the file, the longer the processing;
blog cover — 1920 × 240 pixels;
post teaser — the first lines or a short description of up to 140 characters;
teaser image — .png or .jpg, up to 30 MB, preferably square.

There is a checkbox "Publish the post automatically once the video is uploaded" — the post goes out when processing finishes. Scheduled publishing with a chosen date and time is available, as is pinning posts in the feed and changing the access level after publication.

Navigation is built not on sections but on tags: "Boosty does not use categories — all search and navigation is built on tags". A tag is added by typing a word and pressing Enter — without Enter it will not be saved.

Content rules

18+ content is allowed on the platform, but only with the corresponding label and subject to the rules; for the detailed requirements the platform points to section 5 ("Content; Promotional events") of the terms of service at boosty.to/app/offer/user. The same place states that breaking the rules can lead to the account being blocked.

How to grow

The platform promises no organic distribution. In its own F.A.Q. on the home page, the answer to the question about promoting your profile is this: the key factor is regular announcements on your own social networks, a link to the blog in your profile bio, stories with previews of the content. The same in the guide: share the link on social networks, on YouTube and in Telegram, and leave some posts open so that a person can judge the content before paying.

The in-house tools the platform offers instead of an algorithm:

Storefront and bundles. A bundle is a themed set of posts sold at a single price. Per the platform's description, any posts can go into a set (paid, subscription-only, free), its contents can be edited at any time, new material automatically opens up to those who have already bought it, and access does not expire. There is no automatic filling by hashtag — the contents are set manually; creating and editing are available only in the web version.

Discounts and promotions. Since May 2026 a discount can be set not only on the monthly subscription but also on 3, 6 and 12 month periods, with a range from 5% to 95%; only one active promotion can run on a given tier, and it cannot be edited — only recreated. Since July 2026 discounts have been extended to individual posts and bundles with the same 5–95% range and the option to cap the number of uses or the duration; a promotion once created cannot be changed, and purchases made earlier are not recalculated.

Hidden and limited tiers. A tier can be hidden — it stays available to current subscribers, but new ones cannot subscribe. The subscriber cap is set anywhere from 1 to 1 000 000 people and can be changed at any time; limited tiers are visible to everyone, and users can see how many places are left. Promotions, per the same source, are available only for limited tiers with free places, and hidden tiers do not take part in promotions.

Analytics. The "My income" section shows subscriber statistics (new sign-ups, cancellations, tier), income from post sales, donations and one-off payments, reasons for cancellation and the conversion of visitors into subscribers; reports can be exported for any period (guide).

Path to monetization

Fees and payouts

The platform names the size of its fee in the official F.A.Q.: "Boosty's fee is 11.7%, including payment system fees and the service's own fee. The withdrawal fee is paid separately and depends on the chosen payment method." This is a unified rate: in a post dated 20 February 2026 the platform announced that from that date it was "unifying the size of the fee", explaining the decision by the changing economic environment, a growing tax burden and the cost of infrastructure, security and support; the percentage itself is not named in that post and is moved out into the "Updated payment terms" document.

The English version of the question block on the home page adds a minimum withdrawal amount to the same 11,7%: "Payouts are processed daily. The minimum amount is $10. The service fee is 11.7%, plus payment system fees. Payouts are made in USD/EUR to Visa or Mastercard cards".

The payout procedure per the F.A.Q.: withdrawal is daily, weekends included; the platform stresses that it "is not a financial service and does not hold users' money"; if a payout has not gone through for more than 5 business days, you should write to support. You cannot set a withdrawal period that suits you — there is no such feature. Since 15 June 2026 there is one exception: on Mondays, withdrawals in rubles and in foreign currency arrive after 16:00 Moscow time, on other days the schedule is unchanged.

With no withdrawal method specified, the money stays on the balance: "without filling in this section all your income will stay on the balance, but will not be withdrawn".

Taxes and risks

Here the platform takes the position of an intermediary, and that is worth understanding in advance. Per the F.A.Q., "Boosty is not a tax agent, so every creator is responsible for filing a return and paying taxes themselves"; donations are named by the platform as an exception, while paid subscriptions and sales of content and goods are counted as taxable income. Whether this applies to your own country and status is something you have to check yourself.

The second risk from the same place is chargebacks. If a subscriber has requested a refund through their payment system after the creator has already withdrawn the money, the funds are frozen for the length of the dispute: "usually takes from 75 to 90 days". The platform has no refund mechanism of its own — it does not hold creators' money.

Ways to earn

The platform lists them on the home page: subscription tiers, one-off donations, paid messages, bundles, promotions with trial periods and discounts, bulk mailing to the audience. Fundraising goals can be set up in two formats — an amount of money or a number of paying subscribers — with a deadline and a description (guide). Since June 2026, purchases — subscriptions, individual posts, donations, bundles — are also available inside the Android app through Google Play.

Tools and automation

Official integrations

Cross-posting from Telegram. The platform has launched a bot, @boosty_posting_bot: you send the bot a text or forward a post, the bot asks which access level applies (paid or free), and the post is published on the blog. Telegram is connected under "Settings — Connected apps". Text, links, photos, video and audio are supported; polls, stickers, GIFs and paid emoji are not published if there are too many of them. On the home page this same feature is given its own banner: "Transfer content from Telegram in one click".

Telegram and Discord bots for access. Per the guide, the official Telegram bot regularly checks whether a member of a closed chat has an active subscription and automatically removes those whose subscription has run out; it also sends notifications to the creator (new subscribers, comments, donations, messages) and to subscribers (new posts, renewal reminders). An equivalent is described for Discord: roles on the server are granted only with an active subscription and are removed automatically when it ends.

Mobile apps. Apps exist for iOS and Android, including the Google Play and RuStore stores. Even so, part of the creator's work is not covered by the apps: subscription tiers and goals are configured only in the browser version, creating posts is not supported in the mobile app (it can be done through the mobile version of the site in a browser), and bundles are created and edited in the web version.

Programmatic access

The site has no developer section and no official public API documentation. At the same time the site runs on top of addresses of the form api.boosty.to/v1/..., and third-party libraries in Python, Rust and Go have grown up around them. All of them are unofficial and say so themselves: the Rust client boosty_api_rs, for example, warns that it is under active development with possible breaking changes, and explicitly limits its use — "this crate is intended for research and personal use only", with a requirement to comply with Boosty's terms of use. Building a working integration on that is a risk: nobody guarantees compatibility.

Neither SmmBox nor Onlypult names the platform in its lists; Popsters does not include it in its list of networks for analytics. The practical substitute for scheduling here is the official Telegram cross-posting bot.

Limits and rules

The platform's main limitation is not in the rules but in the design: Boosty will not bring you an audience. Creator search works only in the mobile app, the platform promises no organic recommendation feed, and its own promotion advice comes down to announcements on your own social networks (F.A.Q. on the home page).

Financial limits: an 11,7% fee plus a separate withdrawal fee; a minimum withdrawal amount of 10 $ per the English-language F.A.Q. on the home page; conversion into the final currency goes at your bank's rate; the currency for donations cannot be changed. Subscriber chargebacks can freeze funds for 75–90 days. The creator has no refund functionality — the platform suggests settling it personally after withdrawal.

Organizational ones: KYC is mandatory for everyone, registration by phone number is temporarily closed, and the blacklist limits comments only — cutting a subscriber off from the blog entirely is possible only through a request to support. To delete a blog you first have to delete all subscription tiers and withdraw the remaining funds. All of the above comes from the official F.A.Q..

The legal frame: the rights holder is Zaya Solutions Limited, and a set of documents is published in the site footer — terms of use, payment terms (including separate ones for the CIS), privacy policy, cookie policy, referral programme and a transparency report under the DSA regulation (documents page). The presence of a DSA report means the platform positions itself as operating in the European legal space as well.

Who it's for

Boosty makes sense if you already have an audience somewhere else — Telegram, YouTube, social networks — and need a checkout: gated content, subscriptions, donations, selling sets. It is especially convenient for anyone running a Telegram channel: the official cross-posting bot takes care of the routine of duplicating everything. Daily payouts and a low withdrawal threshold make the platform workable for small projects too.

It is a poor fit as a source of new audience: there is nowhere here for people to find you, and you will have to bring all the traffic yourself. It also will not suit anyone who wants to run everything from a phone: the key settings — tiers, goals, bundles, creating posts — live in the browser version. And the tax side is worth weighing separately: the platform explicitly disclaims the role of tax agent, and reporting stays with the creator.

Verified data

The checked data this deep dive rests on.

About the platform

The legal entity is not Russian — this matters for assessing the legal frame

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Who's here

the platform claims more than 500 000 creators; the counters for subscribers, active creators and payouts on the page show zeros — they are probably injected by a script

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Account and access

A new account cannot be registered by phone number: «Можно ли зарегистрировать новый аккаунт по номеру телефона? Нет, временно регистрация по номеру недоступна» (verbatim; our translation: can a new account be registered by phone number? No, registration by number is temporarily unavailable) — sign-in is only through a social network, Google or email. Identity verification is compulsory for every author: «Прохождение верификации обязательно для всех авторов на Boosty» (verbatim; our translation: passing verification is compulsory for all authors on Boosty), with KYC needed to process payments. Search by author works only in the mobile app, so a new blog cannot be found through search on the web

The official F.A.Q. in the platform's own blog boosty.to/boosty, updated in December 2025

source, checked 2026-08-07

A blog is switched on by hand: after signing in through a social network you must give a working email, confirm registration by letter and press «Стать автором» (Become an author), then set the blog's name and link. Then comes KYC: «Уровень KYC зависит от вашего дохода на платформе: всего предусмотрено 3 уровня, и для каждого требуется разный объём информации» (verbatim; our translation: the KYC level depends on your income on the platform; there are 3 levels in all, and each requires a different amount of information). Those who want only to receive transfers and not to run a blog «нужно быть готовым пройти процедуру идентификации (для этого с вами свяжутся агенты поддержки)» (verbatim; our translation: must be ready to go through an identification procedure, for which support agents will contact you)

Author registration is described in a separate official post, and KYC in the official F.A.Q.

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"Verification is mandatory for all creators on Boosty"; there are 3 KYC levels, and the level depends on the creator's income

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What you can publish

articles, photos, video and live streams

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avatar — PNG or JPG, 225 × 280 pixels, up to 10 MB; blog banner 1920 × 240; subscription tier cover 240 × 150 recommended; post teaser up to 140 characters, teaser image .png/.jpg up to 30 MB

source, checked 2026-07-28

a post can carry images, video as a file in the built-in player or as a link (YouTube, Vimeo and others), files in any format (pdf, zip, mp3), links and formatted text; scheduled publishing, pinning in the feed and changing the access level after publication are available

source, checked 2026-07-28

Content

"Boosty does not use categories — all search and navigation is built on tags"; a tag is saved only after Enter is pressed

source, checked 2026-07-28

18+ content is allowed if published with an 18+ label; for the detailed rules the platform points to section 5 "Content; Promotional events" of the terms of service; a breach can lead to the account being blocked

We were unable to read the text of the agreement itself — the page is rendered by script

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Promotion

creator search is available only in the Boosty mobile app; on the web you are told to find a creator through a link from their social networks

KEY POINT: the platform gives no organic traffic, the creator brings the audience

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discounts are configured in the "Promotions" section, range 5–95%; since May 2026 periods of 3, 6 and 12 months are available; only one active promotion can run on a tier, and it cannot be edited — only recreated

source, checked 2026-07-28

since 15 July 2026 discounts have been extended to individual posts and bundles, size 5–95%, with the option to cap the number of uses or the duration; a promotion once created cannot be changed, and earlier purchases are not recalculated

source, checked 2026-07-28

Analytics

the "My income" section shows subscriber statistics (new sign-ups, cancellations, tier), income from post sales, donations and one-off payments, reasons for cancellation and the conversion of visitors into subscribers; reports can be exported for any period

source, checked 2026-07-28

How the money works here

Ways to earn. subscriptions with tiers, one-off donations, paid messages, bundles of posts, trial periods and subscription discounts, bulk mailing to the audience

source, checked 2026-07-28

payouts are stated to be DAILY: "Receive payouts every day"; the size of the fee is not given on the home page

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When they pay. "Withdrawal of funds on Boosty is carried out daily", including weekends; the funds are withdrawn within 5 business days

daily withdrawal at the creator's initiative, crediting within up to 5 business days

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How they pay. Bank cards (RUB, USD, EUR) and YooMoney (only for residents of the Russian Federation)

for non-residents of the Russian Federation, bank cards remain

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"Boosty's fee is 11.7%, including payment system fees and the service's own fee. The withdrawal fee is paid separately and depends on the chosen payment method"

The platform's official F.A.Q., updated in December 2025. Specific withdrawal fees by method are not named

source, checked 2026-07-28

on 20 February 2026 the platform announced that it was unifying the size of its fee, citing the changing economic environment, a growing tax burden and the cost of infrastructure; the percentage itself is not given in the announcement and is moved out into the "Updated payment terms"

source, checked 2026-07-28

in the question block on the home page: "Payouts are processed daily. The minimum amount is $10. The service fee is 11.7%, plus payment system fees. Payouts are made in USD/EUR to Visa or Mastercard cards"

The English-language version of the home page. The minimum withdrawal amount is 10 $

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When they pay. withdrawal is daily, weekends included; the platform "is not a financial service and does not hold users' money"; if the delay exceeds 5 business days you should write to support; you cannot set your own withdrawal period

source, checked 2026-07-28

since 15 June 2026, on Mondays withdrawals of funds in rubles and in foreign currency arrive after 16:00 Moscow time; on other days the schedule is unchanged

More recent data than the general "daily payouts" on the home page

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"Boosty is not a tax agent, so every creator is responsible for filing a return and paying taxes themselves"; donations are named as an exception, while paid subscriptions and sales of content and goods count as taxable income

source, checked 2026-07-28

if a donation is refunded through the payment system, funds already withdrawn are frozen for the length of the dispute — "usually takes from 75 to 90 days"; the platform has no refund mechanism of its own

A significant financial risk for the creator

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bundles are sets of posts sold at a single price; paid, subscription and free posts can go into a set, the contents can be edited at any time, new material automatically opens up to those who have bought it, access does not expire; there is no automatic filling by hashtag; creating and editing only in the web version

source, checked 2026-07-28

since 3 June 2026 subscriptions, individual posts, donations and bundles can be paid for in the Android app through Google Play

source, checked 2026-07-28

Who is admitted. Boosty's help materials set no numeric thresholds (subscribers, views); the mandatory condition for receiving money is KYC verification, "3 levels depending on income"

the official F.A.Q. in the platform's own blog boosty.to/boosty was read; the page boosty.to/app/help returns only an advertising slogan and shows no content

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Where it is available. There is no list of countries; the withdrawal methods imply a division into residents of the Russian Federation (YooMoney) and the rest (bank cards); the interface is available in English

the platform does not publish a list of countries by name

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Paid subscriptions to a blog, donations and paid content; a separate "Creator support program" has been announced — https://boosty.to/boosty/posts/d3909876-6f8c-4e3b-b5e6-1784713efb4c

the list was assembled from the platform's official blog; no summary page describing all the earning tools could be read

source, checked 2026-08-04

Pricing

the creator sets prices in rubles; subscribers abroad see the price in dollars, conversion is automatic by the subscriber's region; funds reach the creator's account exclusively in rubles; the currency for donations cannot be changed

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Limits and restrictions

video attached to a post — up to 20 GB; blog cover 1920 × 240 pixels

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a tier's subscriber cap is set from 1 to 1 000 000 people and can be changed at any time; a tier can be hidden — current subscribers keep access, new ones cannot subscribe; promotions are available only for limited tiers with free places

source, checked 2026-07-28

subscription tiers and goals are configured only in the browser version, creating posts is not supported in the mobile app (the mobile version of the site is available), bundles are created and edited in the web version

source, checked 2026-07-28

Restrictions

registering a new account by phone number is temporarily unavailable; the sign-in code for a previously linked number arrives down a chain: the Boosty app, a Telegram bot, SMS

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Legal

published in the site footer: terms of use, payment terms (including separate ones for the CIS), privacy policy, cookie policy, referral programme and a transparency report under the DSA regulation

source, checked 2026-07-28

top-ups and withdrawals: bank cards in rubles, dollars and euros; YooMoney — only for residents of Russia and only for withdrawal; non-residents are offered a card in USD or EUR, with conversion at the local bank's rate

source, checked 2026-07-28

API access

transfer of content from Telegram "in one click" is advertised: forwarding from a channel is set up, and posts appear on the platform automatically

source, checked 2026-07-28

the official cross-posting bot @boosty_posting_bot publishes posts to the blog straight from Telegram; it is connected under "Settings — Connected apps"; text, links, photos, video and audio are supported; polls, stickers, GIFs and paid emoji in large quantities are not published

Launched on 20 April 2026

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the official Telegram bot checks whether members of a closed chat have an active subscription and removes those whose subscription has run out, and sends notifications to the creator and to subscribers; an equivalent is described for Discord, with roles granted and removed automatically

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no official public API documentation was found on the site; third-party libraries work with api.boosty.to addresses and describe themselves as unofficial — the Rust client boosty_api_rs warns that it is under active development and limits its use to research and personal purposes

Building a working integration on unofficial clients is risky

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Languages

the interface language of the home page: en

The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang

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"the Boosty site is available in English — the interface adapts automatically to the user's browser language"; posts, the blog description, goals and subscription tiers stay in the creator's language, and there is no automatic translation

source, checked 2026-07-28

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