The redirect
goes out first.
APEX is a self-hosted performance tracker for high-volume affiliate traffic. Route, track, optimize and analyze without per-click limits or giving up control of your data.
- Routing decision
- < 3 ms
- p99 · excludes network latency
- Architecture
- 100M+
- clicks per day, horizontally scalable
- Click limit
- None
- on every edition, including free
- Time to first click
- 15 min
- from a bare VPS
GET /c/aef2?zone=118442&sub1=push_ru_18&cost=0.0031Sample trace. Timings measured on a 4 vCPU / 8 GB VPS. Routing decision only — excludes network latency.
curl -fsSL https://download.apextracker.io/install.sh | bashUbuntu 24.04 · Docker · Your VPS
Switch without
rebuilding.
Already on Binom, Keitaro or Voluum? Import campaigns, offers, routing rules and postback configurations — no rebuild from scratch.
Campaigns · Offers · Routing · Postbacks
Built for high-volume traffic.
Everything a performance buyer needs. Nothing that slows the redirect down.
Sub-3ms routing
The 302 fires before anything writes to disk. Latency is not a cost here.
Unlimited clicks
No caps on any edition. The free tracker is the whole tracker.
Full data ownership
Your clickstream stays on your server. No vendor lock-in, no export fees.
Advanced routing rules
Geo, OS, ISP, carrier, language, device, time — nested, with regex and fallbacks.
Real-time analytics
EPC, ROI, CR and profit by every dimension you tracked. ClickHouse, no sampling.
S2S postbacks
Conversions match back to the click by ID, within milliseconds of the fire.
Your data stays local.The intelligence gets global.
The whole tracker is free because the network is worth more than the licence. Every node running APEX makes the next routing decision sharper — for the person who ran it and for everyone else. That is the trade, and it is the entire business model.
Sees one corner
Your own traffic: the zones you buy, the GEOs you run, the addresses that reach you.
Sees the shape
Thousands of nodes, each contributing anonymised patterns and nothing commercial.
Sees it for you
Which zones convert, which addresses are bots, which offers pay late — as routing intelligence.
- No limits, no expiryFree forever
- The full tracker: unlimited clicks, unlimited campaigns, the whole routing engine. Not a trial, not a seat count, not a feature lock that appears at scale.
- Stronger with each node
- Your tracker data stays on your server. What the network pools is anonymised aggregated signal. One tracker has a hunch; thousands have an answer.
- Your data stays yours
- Raw clicks never leave your infrastructure, and contributing is opt-in. You choose what goes out and what you take back.
- Raw click data
- —
- Campaign structure
- —
- Revenue & payout data
- —
- User identities
- —
- Anonymised aggregated signals
- opt-in
Three milliseconds is the whole argument.
Every tracker promises analytics. What decides whether your traffic survives is which work runs before the 302 — and which work is honest enough to wait.
On the redirect path
budget 3.00 ms- parse
- Six tokens off the query string, plus your custom ones
- fingerprint
- Device signature and bot score, computed inline
- filter
- Geo, OS, ISP, carrier, language, device, hour of day
- route
- Weighted rotation, caps, fallbacks, A/B splits
- 302
- Issued. The visitor is gone.
After the visitor is gone
no budget- write
- The click lands in ClickHouse, asynchronously
- reconcile
- Postbacks match conversions back to the click
- cost
- Spend imported from the traffic source API
- refresh
- GeoIP and intelligence packages roll in hot
- optimize
- Offer weights adjust on the new conversion data
The loop, closed.
A click goes out, a conversion comes back, and the two find each other. This is the part every tracker claims and the part that quietly breaks.
https://t.yourdomain.com/postback?clickid={clickid}&payout={payout}&status={status}- {clickid}
- the ID APEX handed the network on the way out
- {payout}
- what they are paying for this conversion
- {status}
- approved · pending · rejected · chargeback
- click_id
- 9f2a41c8
- status
- approved
- payout
- 1.4000 USD
- cost
- 0.0031 USD
- profit
- +1.3969 USD
- matched
- 142 ms after the conversion fired
What is in the box.
No tiers on the tracker itself. Everything below ships in the free edition.
- Tracking
- S2S postback
- Full parameter passthrough, sub1–sub8, custom tokens, and a click ID that survives the whole funnel.
- Routing
- Rule engine
- Nested conditions with regex over geo, OS, ISP, carrier, language, device and time. Weighted rotation and fallbacks.
- Caps
- Per offer / path
- Daily, weekly and lifetime caps. When one fills, traffic moves to the next path instead of dying.
- Analytics
- ClickHouse
- No sampling and no aggregation delay. EPC, ROI, CR and profit decomposed by any dimension you tracked.
- Anti-fraud
- Click scoring
- VPN, proxy, TOR, datacentre and bot detection with fingerprint deduplication, scored before routing.
- Deployment
- Docker Compose
- One command on Ubuntu 24.04. Automatic HTTPS, health checks, and hot updates that never pause the router.
Track free. Upgrade the intelligence.
Community is the full tracker — unlimited, no card. Paid editions add the intelligence layer: optimizer, anti-fraud and API automation.
Community
Free
forever · no card
The whole tracker. No expiry, no click cap.
- Unlimited clicks
- Full routing engine
- ClickHouse analytics
- Community support
Professional
Most taken$49
per month
Community, plus the intelligence layer.
- Daily intelligence feed
- Adaptive optimizer
- Anti-fraud scoring
- Team of 5
Enterprise
$199
per month
Professional, plus ML automation.
- ML optimizer
- Unlimited users
- API automation
- Priority SLA
Enterprise+
Custom
networks & agencies
Enterprise, plus multi-tenant scale.
- Multi-tenant
- White-label
- Dedicated infra
- Account manager
Community needs no card · every edition is unlimited on clicks
Four steps, in order.
This is a sequence, so it is numbered. Most people are looking at their first tracked click inside fifteen minutes.
Ubuntu 24.04 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM
- 01
Point a domain at a fresh VPS
Ubuntu 24.04, 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM. An A record is the only DNS you need.
- 02
Run the installer
It brings up ClickHouse, the router, nginx and TLS, then health-checks the stack.
- 03
Add your traffic source
Pick the source, map its tokens, and copy the tracking link it generates.
- 04
Paste the postback into your network
Conversions start matching back to clicks on the next fire.
curl -fsSL https://download.apextracker.io/install.sh | bashAsked every time.
Is APEX really self-hosted?
Yes. The installer runs on your own VPS. Your click data, campaign structure and conversion history never touch our servers. The tracker binary and all its dependencies run under your control, on infrastructure you own.
Are there click limits?
None on any edition. A 4 vCPU / 8 GB VPS is comfortable at 10M+ clicks per day. Beyond that you scale vertically or add nodes — there is no architectural ceiling and no billing one either.
Can I migrate from Binom, Keitaro or Voluum?
Yes. APEX includes migration importers for all three. Campaigns, offers, routing rules and postback configurations transfer without rebuilding from scratch. The migration guide walks through the process step by step.
Does APEX support S2S postbacks?
Full S2S postback support is included in every edition. Pass clickid, payout, status and any custom parameters. Conversions match back to the originating click within milliseconds of the postback firing.
How does Community Intelligence work?
Participating nodes contribute anonymised aggregated signals — which zones are bots, which IP ranges are worthless, which offer rotations decay. Raw click data, campaign data and revenue data never leave your server. Participation is opt-in.
Is the Community edition really free forever?
Yes. No card, no expiry, no feature lock that activates when your volume grows. The business model is the intelligence layer, not the tracker. Community is the whole routing engine.
Why is the redirect so fast?
Nothing writes to disk before the 302. Parsing, scoring, filtering and routing run in memory; the click is handed to an async writer afterwards. A slow database can make your reports late. It cannot make your traffic wait.
What infrastructure do I need?
Ubuntu 24.04, Docker, and a domain pointed at the server. The installer handles ClickHouse, the router, nginx and TLS certificates automatically. No DevOps experience required.
What happens to my data if I stop paying?
Nothing. It is on your server. Paid features switch off; the tracker, your clicks and your history stay exactly where they are. There is no export fee because there is nothing to export from.
Your traffic.
Your infrastructure.
Your data.
APEX runs on your VPS. Free forever on the Community edition. Upgrade when the intelligence matters.