Pricing

You set the cost per conversion. We cap the spend.

No rate cards to decode and no budgets to guess. Tell us what a customer is worth to you and how many you want – the ceiling on your spend is those two numbers multiplied, and everything that doesn't convert comes back.

Three ways to pay

Per result, per placement, or always on.

Most brandsPer result

Floor + performance

Each matched community earns a small guaranteed fee for posting, then a per-conversion rate solved to hit your target CAC. You pay for confirmed conversions only.

Your CAC x your cap = the ceiling
  • Hard spend ceiling – never billed above it
  • Conversions confirmed by your own systems
  • Unallocated delivery funding becomes account credit
  • Campaign pauses automatically at your cap
Per placement

Flat placement fee

Buy the post itself at each community’s rate-card fee – no conversion tracking required. Built for long-cycle B2B and first pilots.

From $40 per community placement
  • Exact total confirmed before anything goes live
  • Admin approves the exact copy and price
  • Tracked link included – see clicks either way
  • Switch to per-result pricing any time
Presence

Monthly retainer

A standing presence in the rooms that matter, with committed campaign credits every month. Built for a corridor you intend to keep, not a one-off push.

From $299 per month
  • Scheduled placements across multiple communities
  • Admins recommend your brand in relevant conversations
  • Committed campaign credits every month
  • Continuous matching and first look at new rooms
Worked examples

What a campaign actually costs.

Three real room profiles from the network, priced under floor + performance. Premium rooms cost more per conversion because their conversions are worth more – the price emerges from value delivered, not from audience size.

Fintech founders room

3,800 members · Tier A

$300 placement + $30 per signup

~23 conversions expected

$43 expected CAC

International students group

20,000 members · Tier C

$60 placement + $4 per install

~104 conversions expected

$4.58 expected CAC

B2B product guild

1,900 members · Tier B

$180 placement + $200 per demo

~5 demos expected

$236 expected CAC

Placement floors run roughly $250–400 for founder and fintech rooms, $120–200 for developer and product rooms, and $40–80 for student and consumer rooms. A community whose floor alone exceeds your target CAC simply isn’t offered – pricing doubles as the matching filter.

The guarantee

Where your money sits, and when it moves.

01

You fund the campaign

We hold what your current matches are expected to use – not your whole ceiling. If delivery approaches the funded amount, we ask before anything pauses.

02

Admins earn as results land

The placement fee unlocks when the post is verified. Per-conversion payments accrue only on conversions your systems confirm.

03

The cap stops the campaign

At your conversion cap the tracked links pause automatically. You are billed for at most the cap – that’s what the ceiling means.

04

Keep the remainder

When the campaign closes, any unallocated delivery funding stays on your Torchly account as credit for your next campaign.

Estimate a campaign in the campaign calculator, or browse the community directory to see where your product fits.

Pricing FAQ

The fine print, without the fine print.

You name a target cost per conversion and a cap on how many conversions you want. Each matched community charges a small guaranteed placement fee, and the per-conversion rate is solved so your expected cost per conversion lands on your target. You approve the exact numbers before anything runs.

Your target cost per conversion multiplied by your conversion cap. That ceiling is hard – billing above it is not possible. We hold what current matches are expected to use (topping up only if delivery gets there), and whatever doesn't convert is refunded when the campaign closes.

Whatever your own systems confirm – an install, a signup, a funded account. Conversions are confirmed by server-side postback from you, not by clicks or pixels, so you only ever pay for outcomes you can see in your own dashboard.

You buy fewer conversions, not worse ones. Because placement fees stop spreading across results when delivery is weak, your realized cost per conversion can run roughly 1.4-1.65x your target in the weak case – we show you that number before you pay, and your total spend still never exceeds the ceiling.

Direct-placement tests start around $500. Managed Activation is scoped separately, with community delivery funding and a Campaign Activation Fee quoted before you commit.

Choose per-placement pricing: you buy the post itself at each community's rate-card fee, with no conversion tracking required. Many long-cycle B2B brands start here and switch to per-result pricing once their attribution is wired up.

Community admins keep 90% of community delivery spend – both placement payments and per-conversion payments. Torchly's 10% network share covers payment, settlement and delivery costs. A separate Campaign Activation Fee covers matching, approvals, scheduling, replacements and reporting.

Start

Name your CAC. Keep the ceiling.

See matched communities before you payExact pricing on every offerUnused delivery funding rolls into your account credit
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