Minnect is great if you're a marketplace-famous expert who wants an app full of advice-seekers scrolling past your face. It's less great if your buyers come from your own bio link and hit a wall of "download the app, create an account" before they can pay you.
Credit where due: Minnect — Patrick Bet-David's expert Q&A app — mainstreamed the idea that advice is billable by the minute, and its split is clean: experts keep 80%, the platform takes 20%. Per-minute video calls, paid text and video questions, big-name experts. If you're leaving, it's usually for one of three reasons: the buying experience centers on the app rather than the open web, marketplace discovery concentrates attention on celebrity experts, or you want more ways to sell than calls and Q&A. Here's the honest field.
1. Cheddify — best for per-minute calls from your own link
Cheddify keeps what Minnect got right — per-minute billing, your own rate, live calls — and rebuilds the buyer side for the open web. Your Cheddify link goes in your bio; a buyer taps it, pays as a guest in the browser (no account, no app install), and connects with you live right then, books a session, or sends a paid DM. You take calls on the Cheddify iOS/Android app with a live meter running; billing, overage, and Stripe payouts are one system.
- Guest checkout in the browser — the single biggest funnel difference. Every step between "I want to talk to this person" and payment costs you buyers; Cheddify's answer is a link, a card field, and a call.
- Three products, one link: live per-minute calls (with your minimum duration), booked-ahead sessions, and paid DMs — see how paid DMs work.
- Your audience, your funnel: Cheddify is a seller tool, not a marketplace. Nobody outranks you on your own link.
Fees, honestly compared: Cheddify takes 20% + $2 per paid call, with the ~3% processing fee billed to the buyer on top. At $2.50/minute, a 20-minute call bills $50; Cheddify takes $10 + $2 = $12 and you keep $38 (76%). The same call on Minnect's flat 20% would leave $40 — Minnect's cut is $2 gentler per call, and we'd rather tell you that than have you find it later. Cheddify's case isn't the fee; it's the buyers who actually make it to checkout, and the booked sessions and paid DMs Minnect's call-and-question format doesn't cover. Start at Cheddify for creators or read how it works.
2. Intro.co — best for premium, vetted-expert positioning
Intro.co is the upscale booked-session marketplace: applications, curation, and expert sessions from design icons to investors. Published commission as of 2026 is 30% on marketplace-driven bookings and 10% on bookings you bring yourself, with sessions from 15 minutes to 3 hours. Choose it for brand halo and high-ticket sessions; think twice if most of your demand is traffic you generate, where 30% buys you little. Deeper dive: Intro.co alternatives.
3. Clarity.fm — best for startup-advice credibility
Clarity.fm is the original per-minute advice marketplace, focused on startup and business expertise. Its published fee is 15% per completed call — the lowest per-minute commission here — with experts setting rates from a couple dollars a minute up, and payouts via PayPal on a 15-day cycle. The product has aged (calls are phone-style, the marketplace is quieter than it was), but for business advisors it remains a credible, cheap channel. See Clarity.fm alternatives for the full picture.
4. Superpeer — best if you also sell streams and subscriptions
Superpeer covers paid 1:1 video calls plus livestreams, series, and subscriptions, with video built in. Published fees as of 2026: a 10% platform fee (applied on 1:1 calls only to your first $2,000/month, per its help docs) plus Stripe processing, with paid plans from $29/month. It's scheduled and flat-rate rather than per-minute, so the Minnect-style "meter running" model isn't there — but if your roadmap includes group content, it's the strongest bundle on this list. More: Superpeer alternatives.
5. Calendly + Stripe — best DIY stack
The assemble-it-yourself route: Calendly Standard ($10/seat/month, published 2026 pricing) with Stripe attached charges a flat price at booking, and Calendly takes no per-sale cut. You give up everything Minnect-shaped — no per-minute billing, no call-now, no paid questions, video on Zoom or Meet — but for a small number of fixed-price consulting slots it's the cheapest credible setup. Full comparison: Cheddify vs Calendly and our ranked Calendly alternatives for paid calls.
6. Talkspresso — best flat-rate consultation bundle
Talkspresso bundles scheduling, built-in video, and Stripe payments into one booking link, with published pricing as of 2026 of a free plan at a 10% platform fee or Pro at $29/month with 0% platform fee (processing applies on both). It's flat-rate sessions rather than per-minute, and there's no live call-now or paid inbox — but for consultants who think in 30- and 60-minute blocks, it's a tidy single-fee package.
Side by side
| Platform | Published fee (2026) | Per-minute | Live call-now | Paid DMs / Q&A | Buyer needs app/account | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheddify | 20% + $2 per call (buyer pays ~3% processing) | Yes | Yes | Paid DMs | No — browser guest checkout | Stripe |
| Minnect | 20% (experts keep 80%) | Yes | Yes (in-app) | Paid text/video Q&A | Yes — app-centric | Platform |
| Intro.co | 30% marketplace / 10% own-traffic | No | No | No | Account required | Platform |
| Clarity.fm | 15% per call | Yes | No — requested calls | Paid questions | Account required | PayPal |
| Superpeer | 10% + processing; plans from $29/mo | No | No | No | Account for most flows | Stripe |
| Calendly + Stripe | $10/seat/mo; no per-sale cut | No | No | No | No (guest booking) | Your Stripe |
| Talkspresso | 10% free plan / $29/mo for 0% | No | No | No | No (guest booking) | Stripe |
The real question: where do your buyers come from?
If the answer is "the marketplace finds them for me," stay on a marketplace and treat the commission as a customer-acquisition cost — Minnect at 20% or Clarity at 15% is a fair trade for demand you didn't generate. If the answer is "my own followers, from my own bio," then you're paying marketplace rates for distribution you already own, and every app-install and signup wall between your link and your money is pure leakage. That second group is exactly who Cheddify was built for: one link, guest checkout, live per-minute calls, booked sessions, and paid DMs — with everything you need to charge for video calls in one place. Claiming your link is free.