Freemius
👤 Vova Feldman (Built the top WP rating plugin, then lost a year to billing and tax instead of product — he sells the cure to a pain he lived.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
No monthly fee. Freemius earns a cut only when a dev makes a sale — so its SDK spread free across thousands of plugins.
Will it work? · our read
Embedded rev-share. A decade in and durable, but the rev-share means its biggest plugin shops always have a reason to graduate to self-hosted billing and keep the cut.
01How the money moves
Dev embeds the Freemius SDK in a free plugin
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Users buy Pro through Freemius's checkout
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Freemius keeps about 7% per sale, VAT handled
02The numbers
$2.3MEstimateARR (est., Latka 2025)
2025
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Freemius Revenue 2025: $2.3M Est. ARR, $6.9M Valuation Home SaaS Database Add Your Company Podcast Pricing Sections Company Revenue Valuation and Funding Foun
First two are disclosed partner earnings; the ARR is a third-party estimate, not first-party. Year in Review 2024
About $2.3M ARR (Latka est., 2025) — Freemius keeps about 7% of each partner sale.
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Freemius — Year in Review 2024 (maker earnings, team, history)Freemius — pricing & revenue-share modelKinsta — interview with founder Vova Feldman (origin story)Latka — Freemius revenue estimate ($2.3M ARR, bootstrapped)Freemius — customer case studies (Melapress, Blocksy, BuddyForms)
Revenue is EST, not independently confirmed. Freemius does not disclose its own ARR; Latka estimates about $2.3M ARR (2025), an unverified third-party figure. First-party disclosures are partner economics — $43k average and $700k+ top maker per year, plus 5.7 products per maker (Year in Review 2024) — and the roughly 7% revenue-share, not Freemius's own top line (partner sales/GMV are NOT Freemius revenue). Founding story (RatingWidget monetization pain) is founder-stated. Bootstrapped per Latka/Crunchbase. No drama invented — the 'top earners graduate' risk is [our read], not a reported event. We never score you.