Nudge vs Topmate
On Nudge a coach keeps 90% of the price they set and has 7 days to reply, after which the asker is not charged. On Topmate, the commission is 10% of earnings, plus transaction fees their pricing page lists at 2% to 6%.
Topmate figures read from their own page on 2026-10-16. Check it before relying on a number here.
What Topmate is
An all-in-one creator monetization platform: 1:1 meetings, webinars, cohorts, courses, digital products, and a paid-DM product called Priority DM.
Side by side
| Nudge | Topmate | |
|---|---|---|
| Coach's share | Coach keeps 90%, Nudge keeps 10% | The commission is 10% of earnings, plus transaction fees their pricing page lists at 2% to 6% |
| Reply window | 7 days, then the asker is not charged | Not stated on the pricing page |
| How the money reaches you | Straight to the coach's own Stripe account, on Stripe's payout schedule | Instant payouts listed as a plan feature |
| Monthly fee | None, and no setup fee | A free tier plus paid plans listed at $10 to $20 a month |
| Formats | Written reply, voice note, video reply, optional live call tier | See Topmate's own page |
The real difference
Topmate is a suite. Paid questions are one of about a dozen things it does, alongside courses, cohorts and webinars. Nudge does one thing: a paid question gets a private answer. If you want a storefront with a course builder attached, Topmate has more of it. If you want the question-and-answer part to be good and nothing else to configure, that is the whole of Nudge.
Pick Topmate instead if
- You want to run cohorts, webinars or a course library from the same account
- You want an Instagram auto-DM tool bundled in
- You are selling mostly scheduled 1:1 calls rather than written answers
Pick Nudge if
- You want to keep 90% rather than that minus a transaction fee of up to 6%
- You do not want to set up a storefront to sell one answer
- You want the asker protected by a reply window, so an unanswered question costs them nothing