Platforms change pricing and features — verify on the provider’s official pages.
Choose Brillay if you want followers to pay for questions, Personalized Videos, services, tips, or Goals, with payouts routed to your bank through Stripe. Choose Throne if you want a private wishlist for physical gifts or Cash Gifts tied to specific items. Creators who need both paid interactions and gifts can use both. Paid Questions let a follower pay upfront to ask one private question, and you send one written reply on your own time — no live call or scheduling.
Which platform should I pick?
Pick Brillay if people keep coming to you with questions, custom-video requests, portfolio feedback, tips, or help funding a project: sell them through Paid Questions, Personalized Videos, Custom Work, Tips, or Goals. Brillay has no follower minimum, followers can pay by card without creating an account, and payouts go to the creator’s bank through Stripe (brillay.com/how-it-works).
Pick Throne if you want followers to send physical gifts from a curated wishlist without seeing your shipping address. Throne also supports Cash Gifts, but each Cash Gift must fund a specific physical item rather than operate as an unrestricted tip jar (How do Cash Gifts work?).
You can also use both: a Throne wishlist covers tangible gifts, while a Brillay link covers paid replies, Personalized Videos, tips, and goals — the two address different follower actions. Creators also weighing a paid-subscription content platform may want the Brillay vs. Passes comparison as a separate reference point. Unlike a paid-subscription content platform, one private question on Brillay ends with one written answer — there is no next month of content to owe.
How do Brillay and Throne compare?
| Dimension | Brillay | Throne |
|---|---|---|
| Core model | Paid requests from your followers: followers can pay for a private reply, personalized video, small deliverable, tip, or contribution toward a goal. Brillay offers one-time purchases rather than memberships, and the creator explicitly sets a fixed price for each paid offer. | A wishlist and gift registry where creators list products from online stores and followers purchase them; Cash Gifts can fund a specific physical item. |
| What the follower gets | A private answer, custom video, deliverable, or the opportunity to support the creator directly. For request-based offers, each payment covers one request and one delivery. | A way to choose and fund an item from the creator’s list without receiving the creator’s private shipping address. |
| What the creator gets | Followers pay upfront; you can decline a request. | The gifted item or, for a Cash Gift, money in their Throne Balance to purchase the specified item themselves (How do Cash Gifts work?). |
| Paid Questions format | Paid Questions are one typed question and one written reply. Personalized video is a separate Personalized Videos format. | Not applicable; Throne is not designed around answering Paid Questions. |
| Platform fee | No monthly fee; 8% on work, 5% on tips and goals (brillay.com/pricing). Stripe processing is separate; Stripe’s typical US online card rate is 2.9% + $0.30 (Stripe pricing). | As of September 9, 2026, Throne’s official fee page lists a 0% service fee on Partner Store products, 7% on other physical gifts it ships, and 9.75% on Cash Gifts and payout items; processing added at checkout is 2.9% + $0.30 on physical items and 3.9% + $0.30 on payout items (Why do you charge service fees?). |
| Payment and payout rails | Creators connect Stripe, payouts settle to their local bank, and Brillay supports creator payouts in 41 countries. | Cash Gifts first enter the creator’s Throne Balance rather than going directly to a bank account, and regular (non-Instant) Throne payouts take 1–3 business days to reach a bank once requested (How long do payouts take to reach my bank?). Standard payouts are free except a $2 fee on payouts under $30, refunded if the payout fails or is returned (Is there a payout fee?). Instant Payout of a non-follower-funded balance costs $1.99 under $100 or 1.9% at $100 and up, while a follower-funded balance can be withdrawn instantly for free (What is an Instant Payout and how much does it cost?). |
| Follower minimum | Brillay has no follower minimum. | Throne states that anyone can create an account and followers can gift with no account needed; its official pages do not state a follower minimum (What is Throne?). |
| Primary audience | Creators fielding repeat DM requests for advice, videos, feedback, or paid services — matching Brillay's Paid Questions, Personalized Videos, and Custom Work formats. | Streamers and creators whose followers want to send tangible gifts; Throne's own walkthrough describes creators sharing their wishlist link "on stream" or in social bios. |
On a $50 payment, Brillay’s platform fee is $4 for work or $2.50 for a tip or goal contribution before Stripe processing. Using Throne’s officially listed 9.75% Cash Gift rate as accessed September 9, 2026, its service fee would be $4.88, with its listed checkout processing charged to the follower.
Who is Brillay best for?
Brillay is best when followers already ask for your advice, feedback, or custom videos: you are putting a price on demand you already see, not betting that strangers will suddenly pay. If your DMs already say “Can I ask you something?”, “Can you make a birthday video?”, or “Can you review my draft?”, turn each request into one paid delivery: one written reply, one custom video, or one small deliverable. Creators also considering a paid-content subscription model can see how Brillay differs from FanFix for that adjacent use case.
If asking for donations feels awkward, offer a clear choice: Tips are optional one-time thank-yous with nothing owed in return, while Goals show the named project followers can help fund without subscribing. Goals let supporters contribute cash toward a stated goal, with nothing to ship. See Paid Questions, Personalized Videos, Custom Work, Tips, and Goals for the individual formats.
Followers pay upfront, and you deliver on your own schedule. Brillay is for one-time purchases, not memberships: there is no follower minimum or monthly fee, and creator payouts are available in 41 countries.
Coaches, tutors, career mentors, niche experts, and creators who regularly receive requests for personalized videos, feedback, or small paid services are likely to get the most direct use from Brillay, though those focused specifically on paid calls may prefer comparing Brillay with Minnect. If brands are the request source, Brand Collaboration Inquiries can sit on the same creator page as a separate contact form, while the paid Brillay formats stay separate.
Who is Throne best for?
Throne is best for creators—especially streamers—whose followers already want to send tangible items such as streaming gear, games, books, or hobby supplies. It works like an ongoing creator wishlist while protecting the creator’s shipping information.
Throne’s central privacy benefit is that followers can purchase gifts from a creator’s curated list without receiving the creator’s home address (What is Throne?).
As of September 9, 2026, Throne’s official fee page lists a 0% service fee on Partner Store products, 7% on other physical gifts it ships, and 9.75% on Cash Gifts and payout items.
Throne’s Cash Gifts feature may appear similar to direct cash support, but it works differently: the money enters the creator’s Throne Balance and must be associated with a real physical product the creator intends to purchase. Throne explicitly states that Cash Gifts are not a tip jar (How do Cash Gifts work?).
Brillay’s Goals let supporters contribute one time toward a stated goal with a progress bar; you decide what the project needs when you spend the money, and there is nothing to ship.
When is each platform not the right fit?
Brillay is for paid requests and one-time support, while Throne's Gift Store and Partner Store handle tangible items such as merch, streaming gear, and books (What is Throne?).
Throne is not the right fit if you want an unrestricted tip jar or a paid-question format: Throne states Cash Gifts must be tied to a specific physical item rather than function as a general tip jar (How do Cash Gifts work?), and Throne's help center describes wishlist gifting only, with no paid-question or paid-shoutout format documented.
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between Brillay and Throne?
Brillay is built for paid requests and one-time support: Paid Questions with written replies, Personalized Videos, Custom Work, Tips, and Goals. Creator payouts go to their local bank through Stripe, and one Brillay link can hold multiple enabled offers at once.
Throne is a gift wishlist and registry. Followers can purchase physical gifts or fund Cash Gifts tied to specific products, while Throne helps keep the creator’s shipping address private (What is Throne?).
Can I use Brillay and Throne together?
Yes. A creator can place a Throne wishlist alongside a Brillay link because they serve different purposes: Throne handles tangible gifts, while Brillay handles paid questions, Personalized Videos, services, tips, and goals.
Is Brillay or Throne cheaper for creators?
Brillay has no monthly fee, so a month with no orders costs you nothing at all; Brillay's own platform fee (the fee row in the comparison table above gives the rate for paid work and the rate for tips and goals) only exists on payments that actually arrived, and card processing sits outside it as a separate charge — Stripe’s typical US online card rate is 2.9% + $0.30.
Throne says checkout fees are paid by the gifter rather than the creator. As of September 9, 2026, its official fee page lists service fees of 0% on Partner Store products, 7% on physical gifts it ships, and 9.75% on Cash Gifts and payout items, plus the stated checkout processing fees (Why do you charge service fees?).
The cheaper option depends on the transaction being compared: Brillay charges for direct paid interactions, while Throne’s checkout fees apply to gifts and Cash Gifts and are generally presented to the follower at checkout.
Which should I choose for cash support instead of physical gifts?
Choose Brillay if you want unrestricted one-time tips or cash contributions toward a stated project without requiring a store purchase or shipped item. Brillay sends creator payouts to their local bank through Stripe.
Throne Cash Gifts must be tied to a specific physical product, enter the creator’s Throne Balance, and are explicitly not intended as a general tip jar (How do Cash Gifts work?).
What is the honest bottom line?
Throne answers, “How can followers send me physical gifts without learning my address?” — solved through a wishlist that keeps the creator's shipping details private (What is Throne?). Brillay answers the same kind of question—how a creator gets paid for the questions, Personalized Videos, services, tips, and goals followers already request—with a page that has no follower minimum, where followers pay upfront by card with no account needed. No monthly fee, you only pay a small platform fee when you get paid. 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work, 5% platform fee on tips and goals. Card processing is separate.
A streamer who wants both a wishlist for gear and a way to charge for Personalized Videos could reasonably use both platforms. They solve sufficiently different problems that the decision does not have to be either-or.
If people already ask to pick your brain or review their work, start with a clear $5 Paid Question and a $25 custom request on one Brillay link, so the next person who asks pays before you answer: create your free Brillay link.