Zero to Hundred vs CodeCanyon and Envato
CodeCanyon is part of Envato Market. It sells scripts and components, and the buyer pays the author's item price plus a fixed buyer fee. Since 1 July 2026, Envato's author fee is 50% of the item price. Zero to Hundred sells non-exclusive licenses to working software and is free to list. A sale costs 8% plus $0.50 when the Builder brings the Buyer, or 25% when the Buyer finds the listing here.
Envato figures are quoted from Envato's author hub, author help, and the CodeCanyon getting-started and license pages, checked 27 October 2026. Those pages can change.
What does each marketplace sell?
CodeCanyon's getting-started page says people buy and sell scripts and components for languages and frameworks including JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, and Java. The item page price includes a buyer fee. Envato Market also includes ThemeForest, VideoHive, AudioJungle, GraphicRiver, PhotoDune, and 3DOcean. This page is about CodeCanyon and the Envato Market author fee that covers it.
Zero to Hundred is a license marketplace for working software. A Buyer pays once for a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use, modify, and deploy. Every listing needs a working demo or a walkthrough video.
What does a seller pay?
| Topic | CodeCanyon / Envato | Zero to Hundred |
|---|---|---|
| What is for sale | Scripts and components on CodeCanyon, one site inside Envato Market. | A license to working software, with a working demo or walkthrough video on every listing. |
| Cost to list | Envato's author help describes author-driven pricing. It does not show a monthly author fee on the pages checked. | $0. No listing fee and no monthly fee. |
| Fee when it sells | 50% of the item price, kept by Envato. The buyer also pays a fixed buyer fee that depends on the category. | 8% + $0.50 when the Builder brought the Buyer. 25% when the marketplace did. |
| Buyer license | The regular license grants one end product for the buyer or one client. Redistributing the item as stock, or with source files, is outside that license. Some items use a different Tools License. | A non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use, modify, and deploy, including in the Buyer's own commercial products. The Buyer may not resell the software as a product. |
| Selling the same item elsewhere | Allowed since 1 July 2026, according to Envato's author hub. | Allowed, here and anywhere else. |
| Review of the item | CodeCanyon's getting-started page says items are reviewed so they are in working order and easy to use. Further changes are up to the author. | A working demo or walkthrough is required. Zero to Hundred does not audit or certify the source code. |
Envato's pricing help splits a sale into a list price, a buyer fee, an item price, and an author fee. The author sets the item price. The list price shown to the buyer is the item price plus the buyer fee. The author fee is 50% of the item price. The author receives the rest of the item price, before taxes. Withholding tax can reduce that further. Envato's author terms say earnings are paid once unpaid earnings reach $50.
A worked example, using only those published rules and the PHP Scripts regular-license buyer fee of $5 from the fee table. If the author sets the item price at $20, the list price is $25, the author fee is $10, and the author receives $10 of the item price before taxes. A different category has a different buyer fee. It shows how the formula works and isn't a typical sale.
On Zero to Hundred, the Buyer pays the price on the listing with no buyer fee added. The commission comes out of the Builder's payout: 8% plus $0.50 when the Buyer arrived through the Builder's share link, or 25% when they found the listing on the marketplace. The first click on that link counts for 30 days. Processing fees and currency conversion costs may also be passed on under the Terms of Use, and they aren't part of the commission.
What license does the buyer get?
CodeCanyon's regular license grants an ongoing, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use the item to create one end product for the buyer or one client. It does not allow redistributing the item as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. Selling that end product to the public is described as needing the extended license. Some items use the Tools License instead, which is for one copy of a tool or app and does not allow modifying it. The license on the item page is the one that applies.
A Buyer on Zero to Hundred receives a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use, modify, and deploy the software, including in their own commercial products. The Buyer may not resell, re-list, sub-license, or redistribute the software as a product. The purchase does not include a business, customers, or revenue.
Common questions
What is CodeCanyon?
CodeCanyon is part of Envato Market. Its getting-started page says you can buy and sell scripts and components for languages and frameworks including JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, and Java. The price includes a buyer fee.
What does an Envato author earn on CodeCanyon?
Envato's author help says authors pay a 50% author fee on the item price, and receive the rest of the item price before taxes. The buyer fee is separate. It is added to the item price to make the list price, and it is not part of the item price the author fee is calculated on. Envato's author hub says this 50% author fee has applied to all authors since 1 July 2026.
What does the CodeCanyon buyer pay on top of the item price?
Envato publishes a fixed buyer fee by category. On the CodeCanyon table checked on 27 October 2026, a regular license buyer fee runs from $1 to $5. Where an extended license is offered, that buyer fee runs from $5 to $25. The Apps category lists no extended-license fee.
Can the same item be sold more than once?
Yes, on both. Envato's author hub says that from 1 July 2026 authors can sell the same content on Envato and elsewhere. On Zero to Hundred, a listing stays up after each sale.
What does Zero to Hundred charge?
Listing is free, with no monthly fee. A sale costs 8% plus $0.50 when the Buyer comes through the Builder's share link, or 25% when they find the listing on the marketplace. The Buyer pays the listed price. Processing fees and currency conversion costs may be passed on under the Terms of Use.
Zero to Hundred is not affiliated with Envato or CodeCanyon. Sources, checked 27 October 2026: CodeCanyon getting started, Envato author hub, 1 July 2026 changes, Pricing your items, Fixed buyer fees, Regular license, and Tools license.
