How to make money with your Roblox scripts. Creator-direct, no middleman.

The common way to earn from a free script is to put a monetized step in front of the key. A player completes a short ad-link or content-locker step from a provider like work.ink, LootLabs or Linkvertise, the provider pays you for that completion, and then the player gets their key. The script stays free to the player and the provider is the one that pays.

On vodka that relationship is yours, not ours. You connect your own provider account as a key-claim step. The provider pays you directly, and vodka verifies completion on the server so the step cannot be click-skipped. vodka takes no cut and holds none of your money. Read how creator earnings work for the mechanics, or confirm it is free either way.

Monetization is a task in your key flow, not a separate product. You configure it the same place you set key lifetimes and HWID rules:

• Create an account with an ad-link provider and get your link or integration details from their dashboard.
• Add it as a free-key task in your script's key flow, so claiming a key runs through your monetized step.
• Let vodka verify completion server-side, which is what stops a player skipping straight to the key.
• Keep your payout settings and analytics in the provider's dashboard, since that is who pays you.

If you are weighing providers, read work.ink vs LootLabs vs Linkvertise before you commit, because the fit with your audience matters more than any single feature.

Every step between a player and their key costs you some of them. A short, honest claim converts far better than a wall of offers, and a reputation for a clean key flow is worth more over time than squeezing one more step in. Pick a key lifetime that fits the script rather than forcing constant re-claims, and tell players plainly what the step is.

Be honest in your own metrics too. A link visit is not verified membership and a delivery is not an execution. vodka distinguishes authorized deliveries from client-reported starts rather than dressing one up as the other, so the numbers you optimize against are real.

If your script is copied and re-hosted for free, your monetized step is cut out of the loop. You cannot make copying impossible, but you can make it costly and traceable:

• Protect the code so a casual copy is harder to read and reuse. See how to protect a Luau script.
• Lock keys to devices with HWID locking so one claimed key is not shared across a whole server.
• Trace leaks. Each keyed delivery carries a per-key fingerprint, so a casually leaked copy maps back to the key that received it.
• Revoke the key behind a leak, which turns a permanent loss into a one-time one.