A Gumroad alternative where the product is a post
Gumroad sells a file from a checkout page for 10% and 50 cents plus processing. A sealed post sells the reveal from inside a feed, and the price you set is the price you receive.
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openmog is not affiliated with Gumroad; every Gumroad number below was checked in August 2026 against its published pricing. The two are the closest neighbors in this series: both sell one piece of work to one person for one price, and the comparison is about where the sale happens and which way the fee points. What openmog is covers the network around it.
What does a Gumroad sale look like?
A product page with a buy button. You upload the file, set the price, and share the link; a buyer pays, downloads, and leaves. Gumroad prices it plainly: 10% and 50 cents on every sale that came through your own link, profile or storefront, with card processing on top, and a flat 30% on any sale that came through Discover, its marketplace and recommendation engine. Since 2025 Gumroad has also been the merchant of record, collecting and remitting sales tax on every transaction.
What does a sealed post do instead?
It sells the locked half of a post. A creator writes the post, attaches the payload, and seals it: the tease stays public, the payoff hides behind money. Two modes open a sealed post. Crowdfund sets a goal of $20 to $1,000 and a deadline of one hour to five days; reach the goal and the payload opens for everyone. Pay to reveal sets one price, $5 to $1,000, paid per person, and the post never goes public. The sale happens in a feed, next to the replies and likes, instead of at the far end of a link to a checkout page. How sealed posts work walks the system; your first sealed post is the playbook.
How do the fees compare?
Gumroad takes 10% and 50 cents per direct sale before card costs, deducted from what the creator earns, and a flat 30% with processing included on a sale that came through Discover, as of August 2026. openmog’s fee is 10% of each payment with a 75 cent minimum, card processing included, and it sits inside the price the payer sees. Set $30 and the buyer pays $33.34; you receive $30.00. The price you set is the price you receive. On the same $30 from a buyer, Gumroad credits about $25.33 after its 10%, the 50 cents and card costs ($21.00 on a Discover sale), and openmog credits $27.00, its 10% covering card costs. What differs is the order: on openmog you set the amount you receive, the payer sees one all-in number before the card sheet, and nothing comes off afterwards. No monthly plan, no invite code, no follower or impression gate, and no second line for card costs. Credits land as pending, become withdrawable seven days later, and withdrawals start at $50. Gumroad pays out weekly. The FAQ has the rest.
Who pays for discovery?
On Gumroad, you do, at 30%. Discover is a real channel, and a sale it brings you costs three times the direct rate, with processing folded in. A sealed post is discovered by the network it lives in: it appears in the feeds, in a sealed feed of every running campaign, and in search, which indexes only the public tease and exposes nothing sealed. None of that costs anything beyond the same 10%, because there is no separate marketplace to pay for.
What can a sealed post do that a product cannot?
Be funded by a crowd. Backing places a hold, not a charge. A crowdfund that misses its goal releases every hold in full, and if the creator turned the bonus on and bonders filled the pool, the backers are credited a bonus out of it. Who pays when a post stays sealed walks the mechanism. A file on Gumroad is either bought or not; a sealed post can be bought, or opened for everyone by the people who wanted it most.
Where does Gumroad still win?
Everywhere a store beats a post. Gumroad delivers files, issues license keys, versions products, runs a catalog, handles sales tax as merchant of record, and sets no ceiling on price. The split is by shape: price the things that are products there, and price the moments, the ending, the full track, the answer, as sealed posts. Your first sealed post starts one, and the sealed feed shows the ones running now. The full platform landscape places both among their neighbors.