--- title: "Donate to Cycle Planet | Cycle Planet" description: "Cycle Planet is free and without ads, made by two brothers who love bike touring. Your donation pays for the servers, the maps and the emails, and keeps it that way for every cyclist." canonical_url: "https://cycleplanet.org/donate" meta: "og:description": "Cycle Planet is free and without ads, made by two brothers who love bike touring. Your donation pays for the servers, the maps and the emails, and keeps it that way for every cyclist." "og:image": "https://cycleplanet.org/_og/s/o_b244f0a95c591346.png" "og:image:height": "600" "og:image:type": image/png "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Donate to Cycle Planet" "twitter:image": "https://cycleplanet.org/_og/s/o_b244f0a95c591346.png" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://cycleplanet.org/llms.txt) Support Cycle Planet # Keep Cycle Planet free Free hosts, visa information and places to sleep, for every cyclist: no ads, no paid memberships. That’s only possible with donations from cyclists like you. ## **Made by two cyclists, for all cyclists** Cycle Planet is made by Bas and his brother. Bas started it after his own world trip by bike: 20,000 km, from the Netherlands through West Africa, until corona sent him home from Namibia. On the road he saw how much cyclists rely on each other: for a bed, a warm shower, and what they know about visas, border crossings and places to sleep. So Cycle Planet became a free alternative to paid hosting networks, and every cyclist uses it for free. Advertisements or paid features would pay the bills, but they don’t belong on a platform like this. So we ask the people who use it: if Cycle Planet helped you find a bed, a visa or a route, help keep it going for the next cyclist. ## **What your donation pays for** ### **Servers and database** Every profile, place and message lives on Google’s cloud (Firebase), and the site runs there too. ### **Maps** The world map and the country maps use MapTiler’s tiles, paid per view. ### **Email** Requests to stay, messages and reviews reach you by email. ### **Building it** New features, fixes and the apps: the time Bas and his brother put into Cycle Planet. ## **Our promise** - Free for every cyclist, now and later: no paid memberships, no “premium” hosts. - No advertisements, and no selling or sharing your data. - Your donation goes to running and improving Cycle Planet, nothing else. ## **Supporters** ## Questions about donating ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"Cycle Planet is the bicycle touring platform: visas, border crossings, places to sleep and points of interest per country, and a community of cyclists who host each other.","name":"Cycle Planet","url":"https://cycleplanet.org/","publisher":{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/#identity"}},{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/donate#webpage","description":"Cycle Planet is free and without ads, made by two brothers who love bike touring. 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Your payment details never reach Cycle Planet."}},{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/donate#/schema/question/2","@type":"Question","inLanguage":"en","name":"Can I stop a monthly donation?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, whenever you like: send a message to info@cycleplanet.org and we stop it for you, no questions asked."}},{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/donate#/schema/question/3","@type":"Question","inLanguage":"en","name":"Do I get a receipt?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, Stripe emails a receipt for every payment, also for each month of a monthly donation."}},{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/donate#/schema/question/4","@type":"Question","inLanguage":"en","name":"Is my name shown?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Only when you tick “Show my name”. We never show amounts. Without it you appear as “A cyclist” on the list of supporters."}},{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/donate#/schema/question/5","@type":"Question","inLanguage":"en","name":"Can I help without money?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Very much! Host cyclists when you’re home, add places you found on your trip to the map, keep country information up to date, and tell other cyclists about Cycle Planet."}},{"@id":"https://cycleplanet.org/#logo","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Cycle Planet","contentUrl":"https://cycleplanet.org/logo.png","inLanguage":"en","url":"https://cycleplanet.org/logo.png"}]} ``` ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](https://cycleplanet.org/sitemap.md) for all pages.