Help us run Derpibooru!
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Derpibooru is paid for by a small group of volunteers who cover the majority of the site's operating costs each month. None of the staff who run the site are paid - we're all volunteers.
The cost of running a site like Derpibooru is significant, and we rely on donations to help cover the site's monthly operating costs, which are well over 400 USD per month. We have never made profit from Derpibooru, and have no desire to profit from running the site.
Pixiv Fanbox
You can support Derpibooru on a monthly basis via Pixiv Fanbox. Supporting the site in this way with a reliable monthly income allows us to invest more in the site's infrastructure, which is an ongoing monthly cost. Note that the site's display currency is Yen, but a conversion is given and can be processed in your preferred currency.
Click here to visit our Fanbox page and become a supporter.
To say thank you for supporting us, you'll get a badge by your name on forums and image comments/uploads. There are different badges for donations in the last month and total donations. Badges for supporters are assigned on a regular basis, but may take a few days to appear.
SubscribeStar
You can support Derpibooru on a monthly basis via SubscribeStar. Supporting the site in this way is the most useful to us, as a reliable monthly income allows us to invest more in the site's infrastructure, which is an ongoing monthly cost.
Click here to visit our SubscribeStar page and become a supporter.
To say thank you for supporting us, you'll get a badge by your name on forums and image comments/uploads. There are different badges for donations in the last month and total donations. Badges for supporters are assigned on a regular basis, but may take a few days to appear.
Ko-fi
You can support Derpibooru by "buying us a coffee".
Click here to visit our Ko-fi page and buy us a coffee, or setting up a subscription.
To say thank you for supporting us, you'll get a badge by your name on forums and image comments/uploads. There are different badges for donations in the last month and total donations. Badges for supporters are assigned on a regular basis, but may take a few days to appear. Please include your username in the donation message so we can contact you on site.
Crypto Currency Donations
If you want to support the site with crypto currency donations, you can send to the addresses below. Note that by default there are no badge rewards for this method, though it's possible we can sort them out if you contact us about the donation.
- Bitcoin - 3GVyLEH3MMhS1J68wp2QRw2ytL6UYDY84Q
- Bitcoin Cash - bitcoincash:ppjphmy6cfmpqqnnacl2fnj2tt8jmukezuplscm9rn
- Ripple - rLHzPsX6oXkzU2qL12kHCH8G8cnZv1rBJh / Tag= 560760125
- Ethereum - 0xf5e1009c65911C7b2a55b6fE24e1032e8C8b8f6c
- Monero -89SvWGaySmm2q4a9Ltt1cJBqcS3AqsGEE54H3UR6RgjoDDWpmVjU8ua1jmFHTB6tWYZ8KXDh3SLfCDKYXURe41GK4uKpPTu
Liberapay
You can support Derpibooru on a weekly or monthly basis via Liberapay. Supporting the site in this way with a reliable monthly income allows us to invest more in the site's infrastructure, which is an ongoing monthly cost. Note that the site's display currency is Yen, but a conversion is given and can be processed in your preferred currency.
Click here to visit our Liberapay page and become a supporter. Please note that donating through Liberapay will not grant any badges or other rewards.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I support the site by advertising instead?
You can find out about advertising on the site over at this page.
Why does Derpibooru cost so much to run?
We host over nine terabytes of artwork and transfer over one hundred fifty terabytes of images and data every month. Additionally, we run quite a complex website, with significant computational requirements - handling over two thousand requests per minute on average.
On top of that, because we let you personalize the site completely through filters, we can't easily cache all the complicated work we do server-side. These factors combined mean we need a lot of transit (which is expensive) and a lot of server power (also expensive).
We don't have any costs on top of the servers and bandwidth that are covered by these donations; some minor incidental costs are covered out of pocket each month by members of the administration team. We all work for free; nobody is paid to run, write, moderate or maintain the site. What we ask for help with is the big cost of the servers and their upkeep and connectivity.
Why can't Derpibooru support itself through commercial ads?
We host a lot of content that most advertising networks will refuse to have their adverts featured alongside for legal reasons (payment companies get jumpy around graphic adult material). The networks that support being shown alongside this content are typically rather dodgy and we'd rather not deal with them and risk our users' privacy and safety.
We run adverts which feature primarily community artists who run commissions and wish to gain exposure via the site. These adverts do not bring a huge amount of money in towards the site's upkeep, but they do help.
We do not run Derpibooru to profit.