Streamer Revenue Calculator

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 5 October 2026

Tier one subscriptions

Tier two subscriptions

Tier three subscriptions

Streamer share of a sub, %

Bits a month

Streaming hours a month

Average viewers

Revenue per thousand ad impressions, $

Advanced options

Tier one price, $

$5.99 is the US web price in Twitch Help. Other countries and the mobile apps have their own prices.

Tier two price, $

Check it against your own subscription page.

Tier three price, $

Check it against your own subscription page.

Result

Total a month, $622.94
From subscriptions, $386.94
From bits, $200
From advertising, $36
Subscriptions before the platform cut, $773.87
A year, $7,475.28

Three income streams, three different sums

Works out monthly earnings from subscriptions, bits and advertising at a given audience and platform split.

The three sources work completely differently. Subscriptions are split with the platform: the base streamer share is half, and some Twitch programmes pay more. Bits arrive almost whole: one bit is one cent. Advertising is counted per thousand impressions and swings with audience and season.

Which source ends up largest depends on subscriptions, bits, ad load and the revenue per impression — the calculator shows the split for your own numbers. All sums are in US dollars.

How to use

Enter the number of subscriptions at each tier; the default prices are $5.99, $9.99 and $24.99, and the extra fields let you replace them with your own.
Set the share that stays with you: half is the baseline, and some Twitch programmes pay more.
Enter bits for the month: one bit is one cent to the streamer.
Give stream hours, average concurrent viewers and revenue per thousand ad impressions — those three make up the ad line.

What a month is made of

Each row is a run of this calculator at prices of $5.99, $9.99 and $24.99, 20,000 bits, 80 stream hours and $3 per thousand ad impressions, with subscriptions, viewers and the split changing. Every field is monthly, so the yearly line is simply twelve of them.

Subscriptions scale faster than anything else: tripling the channel triples them, bits do not move at all, and ads follow the viewer count. And the subscription split carries real weight — in these runs, going from half to 70 percent adds more to the total than the entire ad line.

Runs of this calculator at $5.99, $9.99 and $24.99, 20,000 bits, 80 stream hours and $3 per thousand ad impressions.
Subs 1/2/3	Viewers	Split	From subs, $	From bits, $	From ads, $	Month total, $
50 / 5 / 1	75	50%	187.22	200	18	405.22
100 / 10 / 3	150	50%	386.94	200	36	622.94
100 / 10 / 3	150	70%	541.71	200	36	777.71
300 / 30 / 9	400	50%	1,160.81	200	96	1,456.81

What this calculator shows

Total monthly income split across the three sources
Subscription revenue before the platform takes its share
The annual figure if the numbers hold

What to keep in mind

Subscription prices are fields: $5.99 for tier one by default (the US web price in Twitch Help), $9.99 and $24.99 for tiers two and three. The price depends on country and on how the sub is bought, and the streamer's share is taken from what was actually paid.
The result is before tax and before any payout fees.

FAQs

How much does the platform take from a subscription?

The base streamer share is half the subscription price; some Twitch programmes raise it, up to 70 percent. It is taken from the price the subscriber actually paid in their country.

What is a bit worth to the streamer?

One cent. The viewer pays more — the platform earns the difference when selling bits.

Subscriptions or advertising?

There is no universal answer: your subscriptions, ad load and revenue per thousand impressions decide it. Enter your own numbers and the calculator shows both sums side by side.

Are donations included?

No — they go through third-party services and do not touch the platform. Add them to the result separately.

What is a single bit worth?

One cent to the streamer. 20,000 bits a month is $200, and that line moves with neither the subscription split nor the ad rate.

How does the calculator handle ads?

Stream hours are multiplied by average concurrent viewers and by the revenue per thousand impressions, then divided by a thousand. It is a coarse model: it assumes each viewer sees one ad an hour and ignores both skipped ads and differences between countries.

Worked example

A mid-sized channel

Input: 100 tier-one, 10 tier-two and 3 tier-three subs, a 50% split, 20,000 bits, 80 hours at 150 average viewers, $3 per thousand impressions

Output: About $623 a month, $386.94 of it from subscriptions

Note: Advertising contributes $36 here — about 6 percent of the total. Its share grows with viewers, stream hours and the revenue per thousand impressions.

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