Question 1

How much can I actually earn?

Accepted Answer

Not a salary. With the daily caps, a heavy user tops out around $18 a month when every ad slot sells, and most months will be lower. Early on, while few advertisers are buying, expect a few dollars. The calculator on /earn shows the low, middle and high cases.

Question 2

How do I get paid?

Accepted Answer

In USDC on the Base network, sent to a wallet address you control. Tokenbreak keeps a ledger of what you're owed but never holds your keys. Payouts go out weekly once you pass $10 and each earning has cleared a 30-day hold.

Question 3

Can I turn it off?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Type /ads pause to hide everything for an hour or the rest of the day, or uninstall the plugin. You can also turn the Theater pane off in the plugin settings and keep just the one-line banner.

Question 4

Does it slow Claude Code down or cost me tokens?

Accepted Answer

No tokens, ever: ads are drawn next to the prompt and never sent to the model. The mod fetches a small batch of ads every 15 minutes and reports impressions in batches, so there's no network call per turn.

Question 5

Is this made by Anthropic?

Accepted Answer

No. Tokenbreak is an independent, unofficial mod for Claude Code. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Question 6

Why do I need a GitHub account older than 90 days to earn?

Accepted Answer

Because paying people to view ads attracts bots. Account age, one payout wallet per account, daily caps and a 30-day hold keep fake traffic from draining advertisers, which is what keeps real users getting paid.

Question 7

What data leaves my machine?

Accepted Answer

Which ad was shown, when, which format, an opaque turn id (so one Claude turn counts once), and a random device id. Never your code, prompts, Claude's replies, file names or repo names. The mod is open source and never hooks the prompt, the conversation or tool calls, so you can check.

Question 8

How is targeting done without reading my code?

Accepted Answer

Developers will pick interest tags in their own settings (say, Rust or databases) once accounts launch, and advertisers can target those tags. Until then everyone sees untargeted ads. Nothing is ever inferred from your work.

Question 9

Who sees my ad?

Accepted Answer

Developers using Claude Code who installed Tokenbreak, while they wait for Claude to finish a task. Status Sponsor and Prompt Banner work in every terminal; Theater only shows on wide fullscreen terminals.

Question 10

How is an impression counted?

Accepted Answer

A banner impression is counted once per Claude turn while your ad is the one showing, so idle terminals don't count. Theater impressions are counted when the pane opens during a turn.

Question 11

How long does review take?

Accepted Answer

A human reads every ad and its landing page, usually within two business days. If it's rejected you get a full refund, or credit toward a new ad if you prefer.

Question 12

What can't I advertise?

Accepted Answer

Malware, crypto giveaways and airdrops, gambling, adult content, impersonation of anyone (Anthropic included), misleading claims, and links that start a download. The full list is in the ad policy.

Question 13

Can I pay with crypto?

Accepted Answer

Not yet. Advertisers pay by card through Stripe for now. Developer payouts are in USDC.

Questions, answered plainly.