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Flippa vs Vetrix
Flippa charges a listing fee to list a website, online business, app, or domain, and a success fee when a sale is completed. Vetrix pays you to license a de-identified copy of operational records, and you keep the company. Use Flippa when you want a buyer. Use a license when you want cash for the records without selling.
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| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| What they do | Flippa takes a listing package fee to list a website, online business, Amazon FBA, KDP, or Audible account, an Android or iOS app, or a domain name. A success fee is due when a sale is completed. |
| Who it is for | For a brokered sale, Flippa looks for a business, digital asset, or YouTube channel with 12 months of consistent monthly net profit, or 6 months for YouTube. It also looks for at least 12 months of trading history, or six months of monetization history for YouTube, and 12 months of financials. A business that is not yet profitable can still be reviewed if the growth profile or customer base would interest a strategic acquirer. |
| Fee | Self-service packages include a $29 flat fee for a 60-day term, a $49 flat fee for a three-month term, and six-month packages at $199, $399, $599, and $699, with no monthly billing on the six-month packages. NDA and confidentiality is $199 on some of those packages and free on others. Brokered offers are a 10% success fee with $499 upfront, 9% with $899, 8% with $1,299, 6% with $1,499, and 5% with $1,499. Flippa also lists a 7% success fee. Brokered terms are a single upfront payment, a 6-month term, and a success fee paid when the business sells. |
| Cost to the company | Listing package fees are paid to Flippa to list. Success fees are paid when a sale is completed. They are disbursed from the payment held in escrow, or paid by debit or credit card, or by PayPal. |
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What Flippa does and how it works
Flippa takes a listing package fee to list a website, online business, Amazon FBA, KDP, or Audible account, an Android or iOS app, or a domain name. A success fee is due when a sale is completed.
Flippa describes deals done in 193 countries, with 67% of them cross-border.
Vetrix's path is six steps. Vetrix runs steps 1 to 3 and stays with you through the rest.
- Tell us what you have.
- We confirm fit.
- We check your systems.
- You sign an NDA.
- You receive an offer.
- You sign, and get paid.
Read how company data licensing works for the step detail. Nothing is uploaded in the first step.
Flippa finishes the job in its own description. A license is finished when you sign with the data partner and the copy is prepared. You can still be operating, winding down, or already closed, if you meet the staff and records rules.
Bring the question you actually have. If the question is the job Flippa describes, stay with that service and read the fee. If the question is whether the records can be licensed while you still own them, that service does not answer it by itself. You want cash for a de-identified copy of operational records and you want to keep the company.
Fees, cost, and where the money goes
Read Flippa's fee as they state it, then read what a license costs the company. The two numbers are not the same kind of money.
| Question | Flippa | Vetrix |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | Self-service packages include a $29 flat fee for a 60-day term, a $49 flat fee for a three-month term, and six-month packages at $199, $399, $599, and $699, with no monthly billing on the six-month packages. NDA and confidentiality is $199 on some of those packages and free on others. Brokered offers are a 10% success fee with $499 upfront, 9% with $899, 8% with $1,299, 6% with $1,499, and 5% with $1,499. Flippa also lists a 7% success fee. Brokered terms are a single upfront payment, a 6-month term, and a success fee paid when the business sells. | $0 to the company |
| Cost if nothing closes | Listing package fees are paid to Flippa to list. Success fees are paid when a sale is completed. They are disbursed from the payment held in escrow, or paid by debit or credit card, or by PayPal. | $0 |
| Who is paid | Flippa is paid its fee. A purchase price, if a buyer pays one, is paid to you. | You, up to $150,000 (US pricing, 250+ staff at peak). |
| What you give up | Self-service packages support a full sale or a partial sale. A brokered listing is a 6-month term with a single upfront payment, and the success fee is paid when the business sells. If Flippa cannot match the business with a buyer at the price, it says it will tell you up front and refund any fees paid. | You give the data partner the right to use your records, with personal details removed, for AI research. The license is worldwide, permanent, and only for them. |
Use the fee Flippa states on its own site, in the fee table. Read it as the cost of that service. It is not a payout for a license, and it is not what you pay Vetrix. A listing ad, a broker's commission, a shutdown invoice, and a license payout are different kinds of money. Match the bill to the job before you treat one number as the winner.
What Vetrix pays is not a success fee. The data partner pays Vetrix's fee, not you. If no agreement is signed, nobody pays anything. The amount depends on staff at peak and on the US pricing band. It is not a percent of a sale price, because there is no sale of the company.
Timing
Flippa's clock is how long its own process can take. Vetrix's clock is a yes or no within 3 days, which is a fit decision, not a closing date.
Self-service terms are 60 days, three months, or 6 months. A brokered listing is a 6-month brokerage term.
A fit decision in 3 days does not mean the records are licensed that week. After a yes, there is a read-only check, an NDA with the data partner, an offer, and a signature. Those later steps take as long as the check and your lawyer need. They are not a promise that a buyer will appear.
Do not put the two clocks on one calendar and call the shorter one faster. A sale can be the right outcome and still take months. A license can be the wrong product even when the first answer is quick. Decide which clock you need: a buyer, or a decision on the records.
What you keep
Under a license you keep ownership of your data and full use of it in your business. You sign an NDA and the licensing agreement directly with the data partner, not with Vetrix.
Read what the company keeps under a data license before you treat the two offers as the same promise.
Read what is shared and never shared. Personal details are removed before a copy leaves.
Where Flippa is a better fit
- You want to sell a website, online business, app, or domain, and you can pay a listing package fee plus a success fee if a sale completes.
- A brokered Flippa listing is a 6-month term, and the firm says it looks for consistent monthly net profit or a strategic reason to review a business that is not yet profitable.
Use Flippa when the job those points describe is the job you have. Do not force a license into a contract that does a different job.
Where licensing records fits
- You want cash for a de-identified copy of operational records and you want to keep the company.
- A listing fee for an online business is the wrong bill for the job in front of you.
The license fits when those conditions are true and the company meets the staff and records rules. It is not a substitute buyer, and it does not file a dissolution. You can estimate the payout before you start the check.
If you are weighing a broker, a shutdown, or a license, compare exit options for a company. If no buyer is in sight, read exit options when a company cannot be sold. If the listing did not sell, read What to do when a listing did not sell. For other ways to sell or to license the records, read Flippa alternatives.
Using both
Flippa lists an online business for sale and charges a success fee when a sale is completed. A license of the records is a separate contract from that listing.
You agree not to license the same records to anyone else. A later buyer of the company has to be told. You can pursue a sale and a license when the license does not hand the same records to someone else, and when the sale documents can live with that promise.
If the buyer will want those records exclusively, say so before you sign the license. If you only want the records licensed and you do not want a buyer, do not pay a listing fee while you wait for a sale you are not seeking.
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Questions about Flippa vs Vetrix
What does Flippa charge to list an online business?
Flippa's pricing page lists self-service packages: a $29 flat fee for 60 days, a $49 flat fee for three months, and six-month packages at $199, $399, $599, and $699, with no monthly billing on those six-month packages. NDA and confidentiality is $199 on some packages and free on others. Brokered offers add an upfront amount and a success fee. You pay the listing fee to be listed. A success fee is due when a sale is completed.
What success fee does Flippa charge if the business sells?
Flippa's pricing page lists brokered success fees of 10% with $499 upfront, 9% with $899, 8% with $1,299, 6% with $1,499, and 5% with $1,499. It also lists a 7% success fee. A brokered listing is a 6-month term, paid as one upfront amount, and the success fee is paid when the business sells. That fee comes out of the sale. It is not a payout for licensing a de-identified copy of the records.
How long does a Flippa listing stay up?
Self-service terms on Flippa's pricing page are 60 days, three months, or 6 months. A brokered listing is a 6-month brokerage term. Those clocks are how long the listing or the engagement runs. They are not a yes or no on whether records can be licensed. If you want a buyer for the online business, use the term that matches the package. If you want to keep the company, the term does not do that job.
Does a Flippa listing license the company's records?
No. Flippa's pages describe a sale of a website, online business, app, domain, or similar asset, including a full sale or a partial sale on self-service packages. A license leaves ownership of the records with the company and pays for a de-identified copy. You can pursue a sale and a license only when the license does not promise those same records to someone else. Read the fee before you treat the listing as the whole exit.
Sources
- Flippa. Payment options.
- Flippa. Flippa pricing.