20 Companies That Pay Developers $200-$1000 to Write Technical Articles

I've been technical writing for years, and the single biggest surprise was discovering that companies will pay you $200-$1000 per article. Not content mills. Real tech companies that need developer tutorials. Here's every company I've found that has an active "write for us" program in 2025: Tier 1: $500+ per article 1. Twilio — $500/article Topics: APIs, communication, SMS, voice, video Apply: devrel@twilio.com Format: Tutorial with working code samples 2. Vonage — $500/article Topics: Communication APIs, WebRTC, messaging Apply: devrel@vonage.com Format: Step-by-step tutorials 3. Honeybadger — $500/article Topics: Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, error monitoring Apply: content@honeybadger.io Format: In-depth tutorials 4. Retool — $500-1000/article Topics: Internal tools, databases, APIs, low-code Apply: content@retool.com Format: Tutorials and how-to guides 5. Fauna — $700/article Topics: Databases, serverless, GraphQL Apply: content@fauna.com Format: Technical tutorials Tier 2: $300-$500 per