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BuyMeATea
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-11-04 — deterministic & reproducible
UPI-native creator support platform for Indian creators to accept chai tips and memberships.
BuyMeATea at a glance
BuyMeATea is a UPI-based tipping and membership platform that lets Indian creators, streamers and artists receive one-time tips and recurring support directly to an Indian bank account.
Good for
- Letting fans send a one-time tip via UPI without creating an account
- Running monthly membership tiers with recurring payments through UPI Autopay
- Showing on-stream alerts in OBS when a viewer tips or joins a membership tier
Pricing
Cutting: free (5% fee). Masala: ₹499/mo or ₹4,999/yr. Kadak: ₹999/mo or ₹9,999/yr. All plans charge 5% + transaction fees per payment.
Questions people ask
How is BuyMeATea different from Buy Me a Coffee in India?
Buy Me a Coffee uses Stripe Express payouts and card/Apple Pay/Google Pay payments, while BuyMeATea is built around UPI, INR pricing, and recurring memberships through UPI Autopay.
What do supporters need to pay with?
Supporters only need a UPI app, with no account or sign-up required; they can also pay by debit/credit card, netbanking, or wallet.
What does BuyMeATea cost?
Every plan charges a 5% platform fee plus transaction fees per payment. Cutting is free, Masala is ₹499/month (₹4,999/year), and Kadak is ₹999/month (₹9,999/year), with higher plans adding membership and analytics features but no fee reduction.
What happens to my members if I cancel Kadak?
Existing members keep their UPI Autopay mandates and payments keep arriving; only creating new tiers, adding new members, publishing new members-only posts, and CSV exports pause.
When do creators get paid?
Settlements run on a T+2 banking cycle to a verified Indian bank account, and each payout shows a UTR reference in the dashboard.
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Legit.Show scored BuyMeATea 99/100 on 2026-11-04, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/buymeatea-online/2026-11-04
Is BuyMeATea production-ready?
Legit.Show scores BuyMeATea 99 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on BuyMeATea (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Accessibility. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 100/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 100/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 100/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 97/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 1103 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
Jash Ambaliya
Who it's for
Indian creators · content creators · streamers · indie developers · digital artists
Pricing
Cutting: Free forever with 5% platform fee per payment. Kadak: ₹299/month (GST included) with 4% fee, membership tiers, members-only posts, and advanced analytics
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from buymeatea.online's own website on 2026-08-03.
- Operator
- BuyMeATea, as named in buymeatea.online's terms, privacy page or footer.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-11-04.
Put together from public information, without BuyMeATea's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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