Monetization

Rival lets you turn your tools into a source of income. When you publish a tool as paid, every time someone runs it they spend credits - and those credits flow back to you. You don’t need to manage billing, invoicing, or payment processing. The platform handles it automatically.

How It Works

The basic flow is straightforward: build a tool, set it to paid, publish it to the marketplace, and start earning. When a caller runs your tool, Rival deducts credits from their wallet and deposits your share into yours. There’s nothing to configure beyond choosing your pricing model.

Pricing Options

Every tool on Rival has one of three pricing modes:

• Free - callers can run your tool at no function cost. Useful for open-source tools, demos, or tools you want to promote widely. Note that “free” refers to your tool’s execution fee only - compute costs (server usage) are still deducted from the caller’s wallet regardless of pricing model.
• Paid per execution - callers spend credits each time they run your tool. You earn credits from every execution.
• Private - the tool is not listed on the marketplace and is only accessible within your organization. Private tools cannot be monetized through the marketplace.

You set the pricing model in Step 6 (Publish) of the tool builder. You can update it later from your tool’s settings.

Revenue Split

When someone runs your paid tool, the credits from that execution are split as follows:

• 85% goes to you, the tool creator
• 10% goes to Rival as a platform fee
• 5% goes to whoever referred you to Rival, if applicable - this comes out of Rival’s share, not yours

Your earnings are deposited into your organization’s wallet after each execution. You don’t need to wait for a payout cycle to see your balance update.

Note

The referral fee is drawn from Rival’s platform cut, not from your 85%. Your earnings are not affected by whether you were referred to the platform.

Earning From the Marketplace

Once your tool is published as paid, anyone on the marketplace can discover and run it - including developers who integrate it into their own tools or workflows via the API. You earn credits from every execution regardless of who initiated it or how.

Tools with broad utility or strong discoverability tend to accumulate executions quickly. Making your tool well-documented and reliable is the most effective way to grow usage and earnings.

What You Can Do With Earned Credits

Credits you earn from tool executions go directly into your wallet. From there, you have two options:

• Spend them on your own tool executions, testing, and development - earned credits work just like any other balance in the wallet
• Withdraw them via a payout to convert your earnings into real money

See the Payouts page for details on how to withdraw earned credits.

A Note on Private Tools

Private tools are excluded from the marketplace entirely. They won’t appear in search results or public listings, and callers outside your organization cannot access them. If monetization is a goal, publish your tool as free or paid rather than private.