Monetize on Roblox

Roblox's goal is to enable the creation of anything, anywhere, by anyone, and we are constantly investing in new tools and services to empower our creator community. We're one of the world's largest immersive platforms and virtual economies, and our GDP has grown to become as large as some countries.

Daily active users

85.3M

13+ DAUs

60%

17+ DAUs

44%

Hours played

18.7B

Experiences visited

14M

Creator earnings

923M

Platform size is based on readily available public data for daily active users of virtual worlds.
GDP is based on Roblox's annual bookings, which measures total economic activity on our platform.
DAUs and hours played are as of the quarter ended December 31, 2024.
Experiences visited and creator earnings are for the year ended December 31, 2024.

How you earn

Robux is the virtual currency that users purchase and spend on the platform. You earn Robux in various ways, such as when users play or buy inside your experiences, purchase your avatar items, through ads, and more.

How you exchange

You can spend Robux to buy developer assets, plugins, advertising, in-experience items, or virtual items. In addition, when you have at least 30,000 earned Robux in your account, you may be eligible to exchange your earned Robux for real currency using the Developer Exchange program.

A vast virtual economy, powered by creators

We're one of the world's largest immersive platforms and virtual economies, and our GDP has grown to become as large as some countries. We earn money by selling Robux which users spend in‑experience and on items and assets in our marketplaces, all created by you.

Top 10 creators

$33.9M

5.5x growth

Top 100 creators

$6M

6.1x growth

Top 1000 creators

$820K

6.8x growth

Of the millions of creators monetizing on Roblox, over 24,500 were part of our DevEx program, with the median creator participating in DevEx receiving $1,575 USD during the twelve months ended December 31, 2024.
Earnings numbers are 2024 LTM averages for the specified amount of top creators.
Growth numbers are based on 2019 - 2024 LTM.

We exist to serve our community

Our goal is to enable the creation of anything, anywhere, by anyone, and we are constantly investing in new tools and services to empower our creator community.

So you can focus on creating

We give our creators, from individuals to large studios, diverse ways and all the tools needed to earn on Roblox by creating experiences, avatar items, Studio plugins, or joining our Creator Affiliate program.

Earn in experiences

Building successful content takes time and effort, but there is low risk and low upfront cost to building experiences on Roblox. You pay after earning on Roblox, and we provide the tools, services, and support to help you build the most immersive experiences. Roblox has a robust community and developer forum to guide and support you along the way.

Engagement-based payouts

Earn Robux for simply building an engaging experience. Roblox calculates an engagement-based payout (EBP) based on the share of time a Roblox Premium subscriber spends in your experience, and these payouts happen automatically.

Engagement-based payouts

In-experience purchases

Further monetize with features like subscriptions, items or abilities unique to your experience, passes that enable special privileges, private servers to lets users play with just their friends, and much more.

Subscriptions
Developer products
Passes
Private servers
Paid access
Price optimization

Ads

Allow creators to place high-quality, native ad units in their experiences that programmatically serve ads. Creators are paid through a revenue share for the video views, impressions, and teleports generated.

Create ads
Serve ads
Create, sell, and resell avatar items

Create and sell accessories, clothing, and avatar bodies and heads in the Marketplace or in experiences. We have a breadth of ways users can discover and buy your creations, whether through searching the Marketplace or enabling other creators to promote and sell your items.

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Marketplace selling

Users can discover and buy your creations in the Marketplace in the Roblox app or on the web.

Marketplace

In-experience selling

Users can purchase your item within an experience using the Avatar Inspect Menu or in templates such as UGC Homestore.

In-experience
UGC Homestore template

Sponsored item ads

Sponsor items to increase the discoverability of your items. You can choose your audience, schedule the duration of your ad, and specify budgets.

Sponsored items
Create and sell Studio plugins

You can create and sell Studio plugins to the creator community through the Creator Store.

How it works

A plugin is an extension that adds additional features or functionality to Studio. You can install community-made plugins from the Creator Store, or you can create and publish your own to the Toolbox to use across your experiences.

How you earn

You can either offer plugins for free or sell them for a minimum of $4.99 USD. Roblox offers a market-leading revenue share for these sales, as only taxes and payment processing fees are deducted.

Join the Creator Affiliate Program

The Creator Affiliate Program is a pilot program that lets you earn Robux using affiliate links. To join the Creator Affiliate Program, you must be 13+ and reside in a country supported by the Developer Exchange program.

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How it works

Generate affiliate share links for any Roblox experience, including other developers' experiences. Promote your affiliate links off-platform and earn revenue in Robux.

How you earn

When a user creates a Roblox account using your affiliate link and then buys Robux, you can receive up to 50% of the value of their Robux purchases during their first six months on the platform.