Look, i want to start this with full transparency, because that's the whole point of build in public.
I've been running a small AI tools blog for about 14 months now. Nothing fancy. I write about what I'm testing, share the dashboards I use, post my monthly numbers on Twitter whether they're good or bad. Some months I'm embarrassed. Some months I'm thrilled. That's the deal when you commit to radical honesty in public.
This post is about one specific income stream that's been quietly compounding in the background of my business: the Global API affiliate program. I want to walk you through exactly how it works, what the real numbers look like in my account, and why I think it's one of the more underrated affiliate opportunities for anyone in the AI and developer space right now.
Let me get into it.

How I Stumbled Into This

Here's the backstory. Around late 2024, I was burning through a pile of different AI provider accounts for various side projects. I had logins for DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, a couple of others, and I was constantly juggling API keys and getting confused about which dashboard showed what each month.
A dev friend of mine mentioned Global API — basically a unified access point for a bunch of different models under one roof. I signed up to test it. Got 100 free credits to play with. Spent an afternoon migrating some of my scripts over. And it worked fine. Honestly, it just worked.
What I didn't immediately notice was the affiliate link tucked into the footer of my account dashboard. Took me probably two weeks to even see it. Clicked it. Read the commission page. And then I did the math.
That's when things got interesting.

The Commission Math (Here's My Real Numbers)

I'm going to be super specific here because most "affiliate program review" posts online are vague on purpose. They want to sound impressive without committing to actual numbers. I'm