How I Found 15 Companies That Pay $200-$1000 for Technical Articles (2025 Updated List)

I wanted to earn money from my coding knowledge without building a SaaS or freelancing on Upwork.

Turns out, dozens of tech companies pay developers $200-$1000 per tutorial article. They need content for their blogs but want it written by actual developers, not marketers.

Here is every program I found that is currently accepting submissions.

Tier 1: $500+ Per Article

Company	Pay	Topic Focus
Fauna	$700	Databases, serverless
Retool	$500-1000	Internal tools, workflows
Twilio	$500-650	Communications APIs
Vonage	$500	Voice, video, messaging APIs
Honeybadger	$500	Error tracking, Ruby, Python
Vultr	up to $800	Cloud, DevOps, infrastructure

Tier 2: $300-$500 Per Article

Company	Pay	Topic Focus
Draft.dev	$300-578	Any developer topic
Appsmith	$400	Low-code, internal tools
Earthly	$350	CI/CD, build systems
LogRocket	$350	Frontend, React, performance
CircleCI	$300	CI/CD, DevOps
Airbyte	$300-900	Data engineering, ETL

Tier 3: $100-$300 Per Article

Company	Pay	Topic Focus
Strapi	$200	Headless CMS, Node.js
FreeCodeCamp	$200-400	Beginner-friendly tutorials
Smashing Magazine	$250	Frontend, UX, CSS
Auth0/Okta	$200-400	Authentication, security
CSS-Tricks	$250	CSS, frontend

How the Process Works

1. You pitch a topic — send email or fill their form with article idea
2. They review — usually 1-2 weeks response time
3. You write — they assign an editor, you get feedback
4. You get paid — PayPal, Payoneer, or bank transfer after publication

What Makes a Good Pitch

From studying successful pitches, the pattern is:

Subject: [Tutorial Pitch] Building X with Y

Hi [team],

I would like to write a tutorial about [specific topic].

The article will cover:
- Problem it solves
- Step-by-step implementation
- Working code example
- Common pitfalls

Target audience: [Junior/Mid/Senior] developers working with [technology].

My background: [1-2 sentences about relevant experience]
Published work: [2-3 links to past articles]

Estimated length: 1500-2500 words
Delivery: 1-2 weeks after approval

Tips From My Experience

1. Pitch topics they do not have yet — check their existing blog first
2. Include code that works — editors will run your examples
3. Write for their audience — Honeybadger readers are different from Retool readers
4. Follow their style guide — most companies provide one after acceptance
5. Start with Tier 2 — $300-400 programs are less competitive than $700+ ones

The Math

One article per week at $350 average = $1,400/month extra income.

Two articles per week = $2,800/month.

This is not theoretical — developers actually do this as a side income stream.

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Have you written paid articles? Which programs worked best for you? I am building a tracker of all active paid writing programs and would love to include any I missed.