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For reviewers

Reviewing PRs on open-source projects is real work. TaskBounty pays you for it: a share of every bounty on a PR you approve and merge.

How the bounty splits

Every bounty splits 80/20: contributor 80%, platform 20%. When the funder opts in to a separate reviewer, the contributor's 80% is carved between the contributor and you:

  • Up to 75% to the contributor (whose PR was merged)
  • Up to 20% to the reviewer (you, if you approved the merged PR)
  • 20% to TaskBounty

Contributor + reviewer always sum to 80%. The platform's 20% is fixed.

How you earn

  1. No signup required. You don't need a TaskBounty account to start earning. If you're a maintainer on a repo with an open bounty, you already qualify.
  2. Approve and merge a bounty PR. When a PR addressing a bountied issue gets your approval and is merged, you're credited as the reviewer.
  3. We email you. Once you've earned, we'll send you an onboarding email at the address on your GitHub account with a link to claim.
  4. Connect a payout method. Bank transfer for USD-funded bounties, or a wallet address for USDC (Solana), ETH, or BTC if the bounty was crypto-funded.
  5. Get paid. Payout settles the same time the contributor's does.

Edge cases

  • No one reviewed, just a direct merge? The reviewer cut rolls into the contributor cut.
  • Did you both write and merge the PR? You get the combined 90%. You did both jobs.
  • Multiple approvers? The reviewer cut goes to the last approver before merge.
  • Don't want the money? You'll be able to auto-donate your cut to the project's GitHub Sponsors (v2).

Onboarding payout

After your first earned review, we send an email with a one-time link. The link takes you to a short form: GitHub login to verify identity, then payout method. Takes about two minutes. Earnings are held for you until you complete it. There's no deadline.

Maintaining a repo? See also For maintainers.