The AI-era monetization platform for developers. Ask your users to opt-in to support you by sharing idle compute and bandwidth. Earn 55% of revenue with no ads, data collection or paywalls. It's also open-source
The biggest bottlenecks in AI are compute and bandwidth. AI search, deep research, and workflow automation all need access to the live web. Mellowtel connects this demand to compute and bandwidth voluntarily shared by opted-in users who want to support their favorite products, and splits 55% of the revenue with developers.
alienate the users who actually use your tool. CTRs are collapsing, ad-blocker adoption keeps climbing, and the product feels worse.
kill distribution for single-purpose utilities. Most users won't pay $4.99 for a feature they use for 30 seconds.
are how most browser extensions die. Sold to the highest bidder, then quietly converted into spyware. Your reputation goes with them.
Drop the package into your desktop app, browser extension, mobile app, or website. The integration code is around 7 lines. Use the AI agent for faster setup
import Mellowtel from "mellowtel";
let mellowtel = new Mellowtel("<YOUR_KEY>");
(async function() {
await mellowtel.initBackground();
})();Mellowtel only activates after user consent. Use the hosted opt-in page or your own UI with optIn(), optOut(), and getOptInStatus().
await mellowtel.generateAndOpenOptInLink();
// Or if you want to manage the UI...
await mellowtel.optIn();
await mellowtel.start();For opted-in users, Mellowtel routes public web requests through a sandboxed window. You earn revenue from every request.
Start earning as soon as users opt in to support your app. Revenue is calculated based on the number of requests handled through users that decide to support you. Cash out your earnings whenever you want. There is no minimum threshold
No minimum threshold
Withdraw funds anytime
Revenue from requests
PayPal, Stripe & Crypto
| What Mellowtel does not access |
| No personal data or cookies |
| No local storage data |
| No browsing history |
| No app-stored data |
| What Mellowtel does see |
| A random device identifier |
| The requested public URL |
| The HTTP response |
| Anonymized IP range |
Public pages are fetched in an isolated, sessionless window — without user cookies or user data - with the bandwidth impact of opening a tab for a few seconds.
The AI era runs on real-time access to the open web.
Mellowtel helps developers participate in that economy through consented bandwidth and compute sharing that respects both users and products.
Developers
I'm a developer from Brazil and have been using Mellowtel across multiple products. The integration was straightforward, the support team responsive, and I've already received multiple payouts. Mellowtel provides an additional revenue stream while maintaining a transparent, user-consented experience - Siege App
Users worldwide
This is the best monetization I've found. I earn more from Mellowtel than ads and affiliate combined. I can finally pay my bills by doing what I love most: building products - Nabil
of dollars in earnings
Mellowtel helps us plant trees worldwide. Thanks to users sharing idle internet bandwidth, we can fund verified reforestation projects and offset carbon emissions while keeping IdleForest free for everyone. - Daniel, Founder @IdleForest
Workloads handled
Anyone can view the code on GitHub. Inspect it and contribute to keep a safe and trusted ecosystem
Users are opted out by default and need to explicitly opt in, if they want to. Consent can be revoked at any time.
Mellowtel activates only when resources allow. End users performance stays the same.
No browsing history, cookies, or personal data is collected. Every claim is verifiable in the source code.
Full SDK with consent flow and request handling. 10–15 minutes per framework.
// 1. importing necessary dependencies
import { app, BrowserWindow } from 'electron';
import Mellowtel from 'mellowtel-electron';
app.whenReady().then(async () => {
// 2. Initialize Mellowtel. Replace here with your configuration key
const mellowtel = new Mellowtel('<configuration_key>');
// 3. Request consent with custom reward message
const consent = await mellowtel.requestConsent(
window,
"Get Premium Free"
);
if (consent) {
// Handle successful opt-in (e.g., activate premium features)
}
// Initialize Mellowtel
await mellowtel.init();
});NPM package, 7 lines of code, optional pre-built consent UI. Live in 5–7 minutes.
import Mellowtel from "mellowtel";
let mellowtel = new Mellowtel("<PUBLIC_KEY>");
(async function() {
await mellowtel.initBackground();
})();
// Show a disclaimer/message to the end-user, asking them to opt-in
await mellowtel.generateAndOpenOptInLink();
// After the user has agreed to join, Mellowtel will
// automatically start at every browser session unless
// you explicitly decide not to (or the user opts out)mellowtel_flutter on pub.dev, with native bindings for iOS and Android. Same opt-in model. ~10 minutes.
// 1. importing necessary dependencies
import { app, BrowserWindow } from 'electron';
import Mellowtel from 'mellowtel-electron';
app.whenReady().then(async () => {
// 2. Initialize Mellowtel. Replace here with your configuration key
const mellowtel = new Mellowtel('<configuration_key>');
// 3. Request consent with custom reward message
const consent = await mellowtel.requestConsent(
window,
"Get Premium Free"
);
if (consent) {
// Handle successful opt-in (e.g., activate premium features)
}
// Initialize Mellowtel
await mellowtel.init();
});Acts as a direct website-to-extension monetization bridge for your existing audience. Copy-paste, ship.
<!-- Add this script to your website -->
<!--
Replace INVITE_ID with the one you get when you create
a support link from the dashboard
-->
<script
src="https://cdn.mellow.tel/widget.js?invite_id=INVITE_ID">
</script>
<!--
This will ask users to add the Support with Mellowtel
extension with your invite ID so we know that user
wants to support you.
-->
<!--
You can preview different widget designs at:
https://cdn.mellow.tel/preview?invite_id=ijxf49s9h2f
-->Mellowtel turn pockets of unutilized, decentralized compute and bandwidth into an economically useful resource for society.
Mellowtel is an open-source monetization platform for developers and creators to monetize their work in the AI era and keep software and the internet free and available for everyone. It allows users that want to support their favorite developers and products to opt-in to share a small portion of their compute and internet bandwidth.This is used by companies to get access to the web, for web scraping and data collection from public web pages, generating revenue that in part goes to the developers whose users opted-in
The exact amount varies based mainly on three factors: (1) the amount of active users you have, (2) how many of those opt-in, and (3) their geolocation (US, France, Italy, Spain and China have higher payouts). But as a rough approximation, 1000 active extension users who opt in should bring around $250 per month. Mellowtel is scaling quickly and so also the revenue it can share it's growing. The revenue split is 55% for the developer and 45% for Mellowtel.
No. Honeygain and EarnFM are consumer apps that end users install directly. Mellowtel is a developer SDK — you build it into your own product, you own the user relationship, and you take the developer revenue share.
For Electron, Flutter, and native apps: no special permissions. For browser extensions: storage and declarativeNetRequest. If you don't already request these in your manifest, add them under optional_permissions.
No. Rate limiting, system-resource checks, and request batching keep the impact minimal — comparable to opening an incognito tab for a few seconds.
You must inform existing users before requesting consent. The consent surface on the qualifying update should be non-dismissible, default to opted out, and remain accessible in settings afterward.
Users can choose to opt in to support their favorite developers and creators and so help them continue building great products. In return, developers can thank supporters with premium or exclusive content and services.
Generate a hosted settings link from your dashboard and place it in your options page. Users can also manage their opt-in state globally at mellow.tel/user-control.
No. The hosted page is recommended for compliance, but you can build your own UI and call optIn(), optOut(), and getOptInStatus() directly.
Because keeping it open source allows anyone to see how it works and help make it more secure and reliable by contributing or giving feedback
It powers public-web access for AI companies — ChatGPT-style search and deep research, Cursor-style documentation lookup, lead enrichment, price tracking, SEO analysis. Companies pay for this access, and Mellowtel splits the revenue with you.
Most free products (apps or browser plugins) eventually get sold to data brokers because nothing else pays. Mellowtel breaks that cycle: developers monetize through consented, anonymous bandwidth — not by exfiltrating personal data or browsing history. Users get free software, developers get sustainable income, and no personal data ever leaves the device.
