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Pricing

Free to find. Paid when it works.

No subscription, no bidding credits, no listing fees, and nothing to pay to see your shortlist. One commission, taken from work that has actually been approved and paid.

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Three seats, one number between them

The platform takes its commission once, from the specialist, as a milestone releases. There is no second fee on the client side — enterprise volume negotiates the rate, not extra fees.

Businesses

Free

to brief, match and hire

You pay the milestone amount you agreed in the contract — no platform surcharge on top of it.

  • Free AI marketing audit
  • Unlimited briefs and re-matching
  • Shortlists with reasons and concerns
  • Contracts generated from your brief
  • Milestone escrow and dispute cover
  • Full project workspace and analytics
How it works

Specialists

The one number

12%1

of each milestone, on release

Free to join and free to propose. Commission is deducted as a milestone pays out — never up front, and never on work you did not win.

  • Free profile, verification and proposals
  • No bidding credits or connects, ever
  • Matched briefs with real budget bands
  • Escrow funded before you start work
  • Publishable verified results and share cards
  • Talent bench for multi-role projects
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Enterprise & agencies

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volume, teams and custom terms

Multi-brand accounts, managed benches, procurement paperwork and negotiated commission on committed volume.

  • Multi-entity and multi-brand accounts
  • Managed talent bench with per-role verification
  • AI Team Builder plans across disciplines
  • Consolidated billing and invoicing
  • Procurement, MSA and security review support
  • Negotiated commission on committed volume
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No asterisk maths

What a €2,000 milestone actually does

The same numbers both sides see in the app before anyone commits — drawn to scale.

Client funds into escrow

€2,000

Platform commission 12%−€240
Specialist receives€1,760Released on your approval, commission already deducted.
Drawn to scale: the slice is 12% of the block. Illustrative currency — payment processing charged by our provider may apply and is shown before you confirm.

The commission comes out of the release

Not off the top of your budget. You fund the amount written into the contract, and the specialist is paid that amount minus the platform's 12%.

  • No platform surcharge is added to the client side
  • No commission at all on a cancelled or refunded milestone
  • Deducted at the moment of release, never invoiced up front
  • Payment processing is the provider’s, shown before you confirm
Every fee that could ever appear

Ways to buy

Projects, packages or a retainer

All three run on the same escrow and dispute mechanics. The difference is how the scope is cut.

Milestone project

The default. A brief becomes a proposal with milestones; you fund and approve them one at a time.

Best for a defined outcome with a clear end.

Fixed package

A specialist lists a scoped deliverable at a set price — an audit, a tracking rebuild, a landing page. You buy it as-is.

Best when you know exactly what you want.

Retainer

Recurring milestones on a fixed cycle, each funded and approved like any other, so ongoing work keeps the same protection.

Best for continuous channel management.

Fees, in full

Everything that could ever appear on a statement

If it is not on this list, we do not charge it.

Creating an account

Both sides.

Free

AI marketing audit

No limit, no card required.

Free

Briefs and re-matching

Edit and re-run as often as you like.

Free

Submitting a proposal

No credits, connects or per-bid charge.

Free

Verification

Identity, skills and results review.

Free

Publishing a profile or article

Moderated before it appears.

Free

Platform commission

Deducted from the specialist as the milestone releases from escrow.

12% of the milestone1

Payment processing

Charged by our payment provider on the funding method used; shown before you confirm.

At provider cost2

Refunds on cancelled milestones

Returned under the escrow terms.

Free

Raising a dispute

For both sides, at any milestone.

Free

Enterprise & agencies

Tell us the shape of it

Multi-brand accounts, a managed bench, procurement paperwork, a security review, or negotiated commission on committed volume — the more you can say about what you need, the more useful our first reply is.

A person replies from info@adstars.app, usually within a couple of working days. No card, no sales sequence.

Enterprise enquiry

Start the conversation

A person replies — usually within a couple of working days — with next steps, not a sales sequence. Tell us the shape of what you need and we take it from there.

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Pricing FAQs

So the client pays nothing extra at all?
Correct — you fund the milestone amount written into the contract, and that is what leaves your account. The commission comes out of the specialist’s release, not off the top of your budget. Stripe may charge processing on the funding method itself, and that is shown before you confirm.
Why 12%?
It has to cover escrow handling, verification review, dispute adjudication and the matching itself — and it has to be low enough that a good specialist is not tempted to take the relationship off-platform and lose the protection. 12% is where those two pressures meet.
Is the commission negotiable?
On committed enterprise and agency volume, yes — talk to us. For individual specialists and projects it is a flat rate, deliberately, so nobody is quietly paying more than the person next to them.
What if a milestone is cancelled after funding?
The funds return to the client under the escrow terms and no commission is taken, because nothing released. Commission only ever exists against money that actually reached a specialist.
Who invoices whom, and what about VAT?
The contract for the work is between you and the specialist — the platform introduces and administers, it does not resell their work to you — so the specialist is the supplier on the paperwork. Whether VAT applies to a milestone, on the work or on the commission, depends on where the two of you are and on the specialist’s own registration; confirm it in the proposal before you fund. What the platform gives both sides is the record: every funded and released milestone sits in the workspace with its contract, amounts and dates.
Do you charge for the AI features?
No. The audit, brief builder, matching, Team Builder and copilots are part of the platform, and their cost is covered by the commission on released work. There is no AI credit system.
How escrow handles the moneyWhat specialists actually charge

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Worked examples are shown in euros. Escrow funding and payouts are available wherever Stripe supports both the client and the specialist involved, and the currency of a milestone is confirmed before it is funded. Fees, escrow terms and the verification policy apply.

  1. 1The platform commission is currently 12% of the milestone amount, deducted from the specialist as the milestone releases from escrow. The client funds and pays the agreed milestone amount with no additional platform fee. The rate is set at platform level and may change; any change is notified in advance under the terms and does not alter milestones already funded.
  2. 2Payment processing costs are charged by Stripe, our regulated payment provider, and depend on the funding method used. They are displayed before a payment is confirmed and are not retained by AdSTARS.
  3. 3Enterprise and agency terms, including negotiated commission on committed volume, are agreed in writing and may differ from the published rate.