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title: "Build or Bye pricing"
description: "Build or Bye costs no money until you earn. At the batch stage it is paid for with shares, not cash."
canonical: https://www.buildorbye.com/pricing
last-updated: 2026-10-15
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# Build or Bye pricing

Build or Bye costs no money until you earn. At the batch stage it is paid for with shares, not cash.

## Stage 1: the clock

- **Price:** free.
- **What you get:** a 30-day clock, one task a day, a starter pack of templates and skills, and a place on the public board.
- **Limit:** 30 free days to earn your first $100 from strangers. Reaching $100 adds 30 more free days to reach $1,000.

## When the free days run out

- **Planned price:** $20 a month keeps your clock running until you pass a floor. Passing a floor makes it free again.
- **Today:** the paid plan is not switched on yet. Ask the bot for more time and a human decides.

## Stage 2: the batch

- **Who:** builders with $1,000 in total revenue, a registered company outside sanctioned countries, and an approved application.
- **Price:** no cash. You give 1% to Build or Bye and 1% to each of your four batchmates, and you receive 1% of each of their companies.
- **If you never raise:** after three years with no funding round, Build or Bye's share grows by 2%.
- **Right to invest:** Build or Bye may buy up to 5% in total, at the price of your funding round.
- **If you go silent:** 60 days with no check-in and no revenue in your first year undoes the swap both ways.

These batch terms are a draft. The final papers come from a lawyer before anyone signs, and applying commits you to nothing.

## Stage 3: $10,000 in one month

- **Price:** none. We look at investing and can introduce you to investors if you want to raise.

## Payments to you

Build or Bye never takes a cut of your revenue and never handles your customers' payments. You report payments to the bot with a receipt.