Free to use. You pay when a deal clears.
Listing and browsing are free on both sides. A flat success fee applies to the rights holder only when a clearance is approved, and it is always the fixed fee for the deal-size bracket, never a percentage of the deal.
For labels, publishers and administrators listing catalog for clearance.
Effective rate: 0%. Listing costs nothing at any catalog size.
- Unlimited listings
- Team seats
- Deal memos & exports
- Standard KYB
A flat fee for the deal-size bracket, charged to the rights holder only when a clearance is approved. It is deducted automatically from your payout at release, so there is nothing to invoice or chase.
Effective rate: $199 on a $5,000 deal is about 4.0%, and it falls as the deal grows.
- Free to browse & request
- Nothing charged until a deal clears
- You pay the fixed bracket amount, not a share of the deal
- Deducted at payout, not invoiced
For rights networks, majors, and international administrators.
Effective rate: Enterprise terms are agreed individually.
- Volume fee terms
- Assisted onboarding
- Direct contact
How the money moves
Clearhly collects the licensee's payment for the license and holds it before releasing it to the rights holder. Payments are processed by Stripe, a licensed payment provider, and Stripe, not Clearhly, is the regulated custodian of the funds during the hold.
Once a clearance is approved and the upfront amount is agreed, the licensee pays it on the platform through Stripe, our payment processor. No bank details are swapped between the two parties.
The license fee is collected through Clearhly's Stripe account and held for 14 days after payment is confirmed. If either side raises a dispute in that window, the release pauses until it's resolved.
On day 14 the funds are released to the rights holder's connected Stripe account. Our success fee comes out of that release automatically, so there is no separate invoice to chase.
Stripe's own processing and payout fees are separate from, and in addition to, the flat success fee, and are netted from the released amount on the rights holder's side. Revenue-share income is not collected by Clearhly and stays between the two parties; on those deals the success fee is invoiced instead.
The full fee schedule
One flat fee per approved clearance, set by the disclosed deal size. The effective rate column is illustrative only: it shows what the flat fee works out to at real points inside each bracket. What comes off your payout is always the fixed bracket fee itself, not a share of the deal.
The bracket is always decided by the upfront cash portion of the deal, and nothing else. On a flat fee deal that is simply the agreed price. On a flat + share deal it is only the upfront piece, the revenue-share percentage sitting on top never moves you into a higher bracket, no matter how large that ongoing share eventually becomes. A pure revenue share deal with no upfront has no cash amount to bracket against, so it always lands in the flat $49 tier.
A $3,000 upfront + 10% of net revenue deal is billed at $199, the $2,500 to $10,000 bracket, based on the $3,000 upfront amount alone.
The 10% share does not change the fee. If that share later pays out another $40,000, the success fee on this clearance is still $199. It is not recalculated against the higher total.
Rights holders price each listing in euro or dollar. The brackets and flat fees below are the same numbers in either currency, and the fee is charged in the currency of the deal itself.
Effective rate (illustrative)
No upfront cash to measure against, so the flat fee applies whatever the agreed share is.
Effective rate (illustrative)
4.9% on $1,000 · 2.0% on $2,500
Effective rate (illustrative)
4.0% on $5,000 · 2.0% on $10,000
Effective rate (illustrative)
2.0% on $25,000 · 1.0% on $50,000
Effective rate (illustrative)
1.5% on $100,000 · 0.6% on $250,000
Percentages shown are arithmetic illustrations of the flat fee at specific deal values, not a billing method. The amount deducted at release is always the flat amount for the bracket.
Fee questions
Free for licensees, and free for rights holders to list. Listing, browsing, and submitting requests cost nothing on either side; the only fee is the rights holder's flat success fee on an approved clearance.
A flat success fee, charged only to the rights holder, only when a request is actually approved. What you are billed is the fixed fee for your deal-size bracket, not a share deducted from the deal itself, and nothing is charged on requests that don't close. On cash deals the fee is deducted automatically from the payout at release, rather than invoiced separately.
Yes. Payments are processed by Stripe. The license fee is collected through Clearhly's Stripe account, held for 14 days after payment is confirmed, then transferred to the rights holder's Stripe account minus Clearhly's success fee. Ongoing revenue-share income is not processed by us; it stays between the rights holder and the licensee.
14 days after the licensee's payment is confirmed. You can see the exact release date for every cleared deal on your Payouts page. Before your first listing goes live, you set up payouts with Stripe once. It takes about 5 minutes.
The release pauses. Funds stay held until the parties resolve it, we determine the dispute is unfounded, or a binding decision is made. Before release a payment can be refunded to the licensee; after release, recovery is between the two parties.
Yes. Stripe's own processing and payout fees are separate from our flat success fee, and are netted from the released amount on the rights holder's side. That keeps the number the licensee is quoted the number the licensee pays.
Licensees pay the license price, which we collect and pass through to the rights holder. They never pay a Clearhly fee: browsing, previewing, saving listings, and submitting clearance requests are free, and the success fee applies to the rights holder side only.
Everything else, verification, listings, deals and disputes, lives in the help center.