Monetag vs Adsterra: Formats, Payouts and Rules

Monetag vs Adsterra: which is better?

Neither is better for every site: Monetag and Adsterra sell nearly the same formats, both say they have no traffic minimum, and both pay from $5 on some methods. The practical differences are payout timing (Adsterra pays twice a month from the start, new Monetag accounts default to monthly Net30), what traffic they accept (Adsterra takes adult Smartlink traffic and free-hosted blogs, Monetag does not), and extras (Monetag has browser push and a Telegram Mini App SDK, Adsterra has Native Banners and classic banners). The honest test is to run each on the same pages and compare page RPM.

Every fact below comes from the two companies’ own sites and help centers, checked on November 11, 2026. Terms change, so confirm them in your dashboard before you plan cash flow around them.

Monetag vs Adsterra at a glance

Ad formats compared

Both networks sell the same family of formats: a full-page popunder, a notification-style ad inside the page, and a link that rotates offers. The differences are at the edges.

• Only Monetag: Push Notifications, which need the visitor to accept a browser prompt, and the Vignette Banner, shown in the middle of the page. Its MultiTag bundles Onclick, Push, In-Page Push and Vignette Banner in one tag. For Telegram Mini Apps, the Monetag SDK docs list Rewarded Interstitial, Rewarded Popup and In-App Interstitial.
• Only Adsterra: Native Banners that blend with your content and classic display banners. Its help article on choosing an ad unit says Popunder, Social Bar and Native Banners usually bring the best results.
• Both: popunder, in-page push (Adsterra calls its version Social Bar) and a direct link (SmartLink at Monetag, Smartlink at Adsterra) for social traffic and APKs.

Monetag’s help center adds two placement rules worth following on either network: OnClick earns most when it is the only popunder network on the page, because two popunder scripts compete for the same click, and more copies of a tag do not mean more income. If you test both networks, split them by page or by traffic source, not on the same page.

Payout schedule, minimums and methods

Monetag

Monetag’s help article on payout schedules says new accounts start on a monthly Net30 schedule: if you reach the minimum in January, the funds are held through February and paid between March 1 and 10. You can switch to twice-monthly payouts on the 4th and 19th with a 4-day hold in your Payment Settings, and weekly Thursday payouts are open to Priority Program levels Silver and above. Your first payout becomes available two weeks after you start sending traffic. The homepage advertises weekly payouts, and the publisher terms (last updated August 14, 2026) mention Net 35 for some payouts, so check what your account shows.

Minimums are $5 for PayPal, Skrill and WebMoney, $20 or $30 for Payoneer depending on country, $100 for crypto, and $500 for wire, online banking and Revolut, with a $50 charge on wires under $1,000. Monetag says it charges no fees of its own.

Adsterra

Adsterra’s help article on receiving and tracking payouts says it pays twice a month, on the 1st to 2nd and the 16th to 17th, after a 2-week hold once you reach the minimum.

Wire and local bank transfer need identity verification, and receiving payouts as a company needs a business check.

The method you can actually receive matters more than the headline $5. If PayPal is your only option, Monetag’s $5 beats Adsterra’s $25. If you need a bank wire, Monetag’s $500 beats Adsterra’s $1,000.

Approval rules and traffic types

Both say they have no traffic minimum. The rules that decide whether you are accepted are about content and traffic source:

• Monetag’s homepage FAQ says sites need real organic traffic and original content, adult and illegal content is not approved, and free hosted platforms such as blogspot.com, wordpress.com, wix.com and weebly.com are not supported. Its content rules also ban torrent sites and pirated software.
• Adsterra’s help article on traffic quality and content restrictions rejects sites under construction or with extremely limited audiences, sites that infringe third-party rights, and sites promoting illegal goods. Its guide to using Adsterra without a website lets social media groups, YouTube channels and mobile apps use a Smartlink, in an Adult or Mainstream category.

Both reject artificial traffic. Monetag lists bot traffic, click fraud and incentivized clicks as reasons for suspension. Adsterra rejects bot, proxy and incentive (motivated) traffic and traffic generated within iframes. So neither suits a rewards site that pays users to view ads.

Ad quality and the costs of these formats

Both networks describe ad screening, and neither promises that no bad ad will ever appear:

• Monetag’s help center says it manually selects the kind of ads you display, never accepts suggestive or malicious content, and can block specific ads on request through support.
• Adsterra’s help center says malware is strictly prohibited, it uses 3-level security software to scan and block malicious ads, and you should report a bad ad with a screenshot, device, operating system, country and browser.

The larger cost is the format itself. Google’s AdSense ad placement policies say Google ads may not run on sites that contain or trigger pop-unders, which rules out the popunder on both networks if you plan to apply for AdSense. Push prompts and full-page ads can also annoy visitors and draw browser warnings; PropellerAds alternatives covers those trade-offs in depth.

When each one fits

• Choose Monetag if you run a self-hosted mainstream site and want push notifications or the Vignette Banner, if you monetize a Telegram Mini App with ads, or if PayPal at $5 or a $500 wire suits you. Switch to the twice-monthly schedule as soon as you add a payment method.
• Choose Adsterra if you have adult Smartlink traffic, run a blog on a free host, want Native Banners or classic banners, or want twice-monthly payouts from the first month.
• Try both on different pages for two weeks each and compare page RPM with the eCPM calculator. eCPM vs RPM explains the difference.
• Consider neither if you want search traffic and a cleaner page: AdSense alternatives and best ad networks for publishers list display networks.

For more options in each direction, see Monetag alternatives and Adsterra alternatives.

How to add Moonetix to your site or app

Monetag and Adsterra earn from every visitor. If part of your audience logs in, such as players of a web game, members of a community or users of a Telegram bot, an offerwall can earn from them in a way they choose: they complete an offer, get your points or currency, and you earn per completed offer. Moonetix is an affiliate network that works this way.

1. Apply as a publisher at moonetix.com. Every application is reviewed by hand, and once you are approved, every app you add is live right away.
2. Add your site, bot or app and set the currency name, icon, conversion rate, user split and wall design.
3. Integrate with a signed offerwall link or iframe built on your server (website integration), a floating Earn button, the Offers API, or the Android, iOS, Unity, Flutter or React Native SDK.
4. Credit users only from the signed postback on your server, and test with “Open as a test user” and “Send a test postback” in the app’s Integration tab, as in Test your app before launch.

Where it does not fit: download, streaming or link pages with anonymous one-time visitors, since there is no account to credit. Users on VPNs, proxies, Tor or data center networks are blocked from the wall, and users must be at least 16.

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