outbid.love vs outbid.lol
Both are pay-to-rank leaderboards. One rule separates them: whether a bid keeps its value forever, or loses 10% of it every day.
The short version
outbid.lol popularised the format in August 2026: enter a link, pay more than the listing above you, and hold that rank until somebody pays more. Because a bid keeps its amount, the price of the top spot only goes up, and the leaderboard settles into whoever spent the most on the day they arrived.
outbid.love keeps the format and changes the economics. Every payment loses 10% of its value per day, so a bid is rent rather than property. The board reorders itself even when nobody pays anything, the cost of taking #1 falls every hour, and a listing that stops being fed eventually drops off entirely.
Side by side
| outbid.love | outbid.lol | |
|---|---|---|
| What decides your rank | The money you have paid, after decay | The money you have paid |
| What happens to a bid over time | Loses 10% of its value every day | Keeps its amount until raised or outranked |
| Can #1 be bought permanently | No — the position erodes automatically | In practice yes, while nobody pays more |
| Direction the price of #1 moves | Down, every hour, unless the leader tops up | Up — each new leader has to beat the last |
| Minimum bid | $5 | $5 |
| Realistic cost of the top spot | One cent over the decayed leader — often single or double digits | Whatever the last leader paid, which has run into five figures |
| When a listing disappears | When its value decays below $1 | It stays, sliding down as others outbid it |
| Account required | No | No |
| Outbound links | Counted redirect, nofollow, click count shown publicly | Direct listing link |
| Categories | 27, each with its own ranking and its own page | 27 |
| Languages | 12, each with translated pages | English |
Details for outbid.lol are taken from its own public rules page. It is an independent project with no connection to outbid.love; if anything here is out of date, its site is the authority.
Which one suits you
Pick the permanent board if you want to pay once, be listed indefinitely, and treat the amount as a sunk marketing cost. Pick the decaying board if you want visibility during a specific window — a launch, a campaign, a funding announcement — and would rather pay a little repeatedly than a lot once. The decaying board is also the only one of the two where arriving late is not a disadvantage: the price of the top has been falling the whole time you were away.
Questions
- Is outbid.love an alternative to outbid.lol?
- It is the same idea — a public leaderboard where rank is bought — with one rule changed. On outbid.lol a bid keeps its amount until somebody raises or outranks it. On outbid.love every bid loses 10% of its value per day, so positions expire on their own and the top spot returns to being affordable.
- Which one is cheaper to reach #1 on?
- outbid.love, structurally. On a permanent board the price of the top spot only ratchets upward, because each new leader must beat the highest amount ever paid. On a decaying board the price of #1 falls every hour that the leader does not top up, so the entry point stays close to the $5 minimum for most of the time.
- Is a permanent bid better value?
- It depends on what you are buying. A permanent bid is a one-time cost for a position that slowly slides as others outbid it. A decaying bid is a running cost for a position that is visible now. If you want a spot for a launch week, decay is cheaper; if you want a line item that sits on a board indefinitely, permanence is simpler.
- Can I list on both?
- Yes. They are unrelated projects and nothing stops the same site or X handle appearing on both boards.