My GitHub Sponsors Revenue @ 2023
Tags: github, sponsors, opensource
Published: 2023-12-26 11:05:48

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title: My GitHub Sponsors Revenue @ 2023
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description: This article summarized the income from GitHub Sponsors in 202
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I summarized the income from [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors) in 2023.
For the results of last year (2022), see the following article.

- [My GitHub Sponsors Revenue @ 2022 - DEV Community](https://dev.to/azu/my-github-sponsors-revenue-2022-38ab)

GitHub Sponsors is a system that mainly supports open source activities financially.

GitHub Sponsors supports individuals and organizations, but here I summarize GitHub Sponsors for individuals.
My GitHub Sponsors is published on the following page.

- [Sponsor @azu on GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/azu)

The reason for publishing this article is to get people who are doing open source activities and people who support open source activities interested in financial support systems such as GitHub Sponsors.
Personally, I think it is important that people who use open source can choose to pay for it.

If you are interested in supporting open source, please consider using GitHub Sponsors.

- [Sponsoring open source contributors - GitHub Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-contributors)

## Types of open source activities

My open source activities are mainly as follows.

- Software development: [textlint](https://github.com/textlint/textlint), [Secretlint](https://github.com/secretlint/secretlint), [HonKit](https https://github.com/HonKit/HonKit) and other development and maintenance.
- Web service development: [philan.net](https://philan.net/), [Komesan](https://komesan.pages.dev/), [Irodr](https://irodr.netlify.app/), etc.
- Blogs: Posting on [JSer.info](https://jser.info/) and [ECMAScript Daily](https://ecmascript-daily.github.io/) blogs
- Books: Writing for [JavaScript Primer](https://jsprimer.net/) and [JavaScript Promise book](https://azu.github.io/promises-book/) in Japanese

Basically, I do it as a hobby.

## Amount of income

There are also two types of support options for GitHub Sponsors: Monthly and One-time.
The amounts listed here include both amounts.
The total amount of GitHub Sponsors received in 2023 is as follows:

| Year | Total Amount (USD) |
| -----  |  ------|
| 2023 |  $14,600 |

The monthly amount of GitHub Sponsors received in 2023 is as follows:

| Date | Amount (USD) |
| -----  |  ------|
|2023/01 |	$1,200 |
|2023/02 |	$1,200 |
|2023/03 |	$1,200 |
|2023/04 |	$1,200 |
|2023/05 |	$1,200 |
|2023/06 |	$1,200 |
|2023/07 |	$1,200 |
|2023/08 |	$1,200 |
|2023/09 |	$1,200 |
|2023/10 |	$1,200 |
|2023/11 |	$1,300 |
|2023/12 |	$1,300 |

I received about $1,200 to $1,300 per month in 2023.

📝 I live in Japan, so I actually receive it in Japanese yen.

## Current ongoing sponsors

A following graph summarizes information only for ongoing sponsors (CURRENT SPONSORS) as of December 2023.
This graph does not include past sponsors (past sponsors), so basically it does not include information on One-Time sponsors.
This graph is generated by the following tool.

- [azu/github-sponsor-report: GitHub Sponsors report generator](https://github.com/azu/github-sponsor-report)

The following graph shows the number of people who continue to support us with GitHub Sponsors.


![GitHub Sponsors count](https://efcl.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sponsors_count.svg)

> Number of GitHub Sponsors by month (Past sponsors are not included)

The following graph shows the estimated revenue per month (in US$) for GitHub Sponsors.

![Monthly Estimated Income(Dollar)](https://efcl.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/estimated_income_dollar.svg)

> Estimated income from GitHub Sponsors per month (in US$)

## Conclusion

This article summarized the income from GitHub Sponsors in 2023.

I think it is important that there is a system that allows not only code contributions but also financial contributions.
Compared to last year, I feel that more people are using GitHub Sponsors.

For example, Sentry uses a service called [thanks.dev](https://thanks.dev/home) to automatically distribute money to maintainers of libraries that depend on it.

- [We Just Gave $500,000 to Open Source Maintainers | Product Blog • Sentry](https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-500-000-dollars-to-open-source-maintainers/)

I think that systems like [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors)/[Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/) will continue to be discussed and new methods will be developed.

## Acknowledgements

Thanks to those who support me with GitHub Sponsors!

[![List of GitHub Sponsors](https://efcl.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sponsors.png)](https://efcl.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sponsors.svg)

> This List of GitHub Sponsors generated using [SponsorKit](https://github.com/antfu/sponsorkit)

My sponsor page is following:

- [Sponsor @azu on GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/azu)