Stop Lying to Yourself: Calculating True ROI on Rented Ad Accounts

We need to have a serious talk about how you’re calculating your Return on Ad Spend (ROAS). I see guys all the time on STM and Afflift bragging about their 300% ROI on some aggressive crypto offer, but when you look under the hood, their actual profit margin is a mess.

If you are using rented agency ad accounts to bypass Facebook or Google bans—which you absolutely should be in 2026—your standard dashboard metrics are lying to you.

The Dashboard Delusion

Your Facebook Ads Manager shows you spent $1,000 and made $2,500. A beautiful 2.5 ROAS.

But did you actually spend $1,000? No.

If you used a provider that charges an 8% top-up fee, you had to wire them $1,086 to get that $1,000 into the account. Then, factor in the currency conversion if you paid in Crypto to Fiat, and maybe the network fee for transferring USDT.

Suddenly, your actual cost wasn't $1,000; it was closer to $1,100.

The Infrastructure Tax

You can't just look at the ad spend. To run these grey-hat funnels safely, you are paying for an entire ecosystem:

• The Cloaker: Tools like TrafficShield or The White Rabbit (TWR) aren't cheap.
• The Proxies: Good, clean mobile proxies for your anti-detect browser will run you $50+ a month each.
• The VCCs: If you’re using virtual cards through PST.net or similar to fund the account, and they charge 2% per transaction, that eats margin too.

How to Actually Calculate Your Numbers

You need to shift from looking at "Ad Spend" to "Total Landed Cost."

Here is how you actually calculate it if you are pushing serious volume:

1. Start with Gross Revenue: What actually hit your affiliate network dashboard or merchant account.
2. Subtract Total Wire/Crypto Amount: Not what the ad dashboard says, but the total amount of money that left your wallet to fund the agency account. This bakes in the top-up fee and network transfer fees.
3. Subtract Prorated Infrastructure: Take your monthly cost for cloakers, trackers (like Voluum), proxies, and servers, and divide it by 30 to get a daily internal cost. Subtract that.
4. Subtract VCC/Payment Processing Fees: If it cost you 2% to move the money, take it out.

Now look at the number left over. That is your true net profit.

Why This Matters Now

In 2026, the margins in Nutra and Casino are tighter because the traffic quality filters are more aggressive. If you don't bake the 5-8% agency account top-up fee into your initial CPA targets, you'll think you're making money while you're actually slowly bleeding out.

Use the providers on AdAccountsHub to shop around for the lowest fees, absolutely. But more importantly, build a spreadsheet that tracks every single penny leaving your wallet, not just what Facebook tells you you spent.