Own Your Ad Stack. On Your Terms.

Own your exchange contracts, your revenue, and your decisions. We provide the tooling to make it fast, transparent, and easy to manage.

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Built Into Every Layer

Principles that don't change with your deployment model

Performance

Your ad stack runs on a global distribution network, not a single datacenter. Configs load in milliseconds from the closest location to your readers, so your pages stay fast.

Transparency

You see what you earn. Gross revenue from exchanges, flat infrastructure costs, and no hidden optimization fees. We publish our pricing and you can audit every auction.

Publisher-First

Built by ad professionals and engineers who started as publishers ourselves. We know what it's like to fight for transparency because we've been on your side of the table.

Why We're Different

No salesmen. No marketing fluff.

We're a lean team of ad tech professionals and engineers with over a decade of experience. We keep our overhead low so we can pass the savings directly on to you through transparent pricing.

Zero Sales Overhead

No account executives. No upsell calls. No 'let me loop in my manager.' You evaluate the product on its merits, sign up when you're ready, and talk directly to the people who built it.

No Marketing Fluff

We don't spend on flashy campaigns or industry conference booths. Our growth comes from word-of-mouth and publishers who see real results. That means lower overhead and lower prices for you.

Engineers, Not Middlemen

A small, senior team that ships fast and keeps the stack tight. We bring over a decade of experience in programmatic advertising, building exchanges, debugging bid logic, and optimizing auctions at scale.

What You Get

Infrastructure that operates the bid stack

Real-Time Config

Manage your entire ad stack from the dashboard. Configuration changes go live globally in seconds, no code needed.

Adaptive SDK

Prebid adapters are lazy-loaded based on your configuration and cached independently. No build pipelines, no bloat.

Multi-Tenant

Manage multiple publisher properties from one dashboard. Each property gets its own isolated configuration.

Supply Chain

Ads.txt and sellers.json generated, verified, and globally deployed. Always compliant, always current.

Transparent Pricing

Standard pricing. Free in closed beta.

Usage-based pricing with every rate published. While in closed beta, all platform tiers and infrastructure access are provided completely free of charge. Review our standard tiers below to see what it will cost when we launch.

Starter

$49 /mo
  • 1M requests
  • 1 custom domain
  • 50 GB data
  • 30-day analytics history
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Growth

$199 /mo
  • 10M requests
  • 3 custom domains
  • 250 GB data
  • 90-day analytics history

Scale

$499 /mo
  • 50M requests
  • 10 custom domains
  • 1 TB data
  • 365-day analytics history

Enterprise

$1,499 /mo
  • 250M requests
  • 50 custom domains
  • 10 TB data
  • Unlimited analytics history

7-day free trial on the Growth tier · No credit card required

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Estimate Your Savings

See how much you could save by switching from a managed rev-share platform to bidkernel's flat-fee infrastructure. All calculations happen entirely in your browser.

1M 500M+
10% 100%
$1,000 $1.5M+
5% 40%

Cost Breakdown (Monthly)

Gross Exchanges Revenue
Managed Provider Fee
Your Net Revenue
Standard bidkernel Cost
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Potential Monthly Savings

By switching to a fixed-infrastructure model, you reclaim the margin lost to revenue sharing. That's annually back in your pocket.

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers. No sales pitch.

Do I need my own SSP contracts to use Bidkernel?
Yes. You bring your own seat IDs from exchanges like Magnite, PubMatic, or Index Exchange. This is what gives you full revenue transparency. Payments flow directly from the exchange to you, not through a middleman.
What if I don't have ad ops experience?
Bidkernel is designed to lower the barrier. The UI abstracts the complexity of raw Prebid.js configuration so yield ops teams can manage everything without touching code. That said, understanding the basics of header bidding and bidder selection will help you get the most out of the platform.
How is this different from a managed ad network?
Managed networks take a percentage of your revenue in exchange for handling everything. Bidkernel charges a flat infrastructure fee and gives you the controls. You keep 100% of what your inventory earns at the exchange level.
Can I use my own custom domain?
Absolutely. Bidkernel is a white-label platform. Just point your custom domain (like tags.yourbrand.com) to our infrastructure with a simple DNS record. Your publishers see your branding, your endpoints, and your SDK. Never ours.
What does globally-deployed config mean?
When you update an ad slot or enable a bidder in the dashboard, that change goes live globally within seconds. No build pipelines, no deployments, no waiting on engineering.
Do I still need my own Prebid.js build process?
No. Bidkernel's SDK lazy-loads only the Prebid adapters your configuration requires. Modules are fetched on demand and cached independently by the browser, so there's no build step, no custom bundles, and no wasted bytes.

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