How Much Does a Twitch Streamer Earn From One Subscription?
Last updated: 9 September 2026. Every figure below comes from Twitch’s own announcements and help pages, linked at the bottom.
The question has a simple form and no simple answer. A Tier 1 subscription in the United States costs $5.99 on the web, the standard split is 50/50, so the streamer gets about three dollars.
That is true, and it is also the least useful sentence you will read on this topic. Four separate things change the number, and one of them can raise it by 40 percent.
Start with the standard split
Unless you qualify for something better, subscription revenue is shared 50/50. Half to you, half to Twitch.
| Tier | US web price | Streamer at 50% |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | $5.99 | about $3.00 |
| Tier 2 | $9.99 | about $5.00 |
| Tier 3 | $24.99 | about $12.50 |
Two things about that table are worth saying out loud.
It says US web price for a reason. Subscriptions bought inside the iOS or Android apps cost the viewer more, because Apple and Google take a cut of in-app purchases. Same subscription, same streamer, different price depending on where the viewer tapped the button.
And these are gross figures. Taxes, currency conversion and payment processing come out afterwards. The number that lands in your account is lower than the number in that column.
The buyer’s country decides the price, not yours
This is the part that surprises people, and it matters more than the tier.
Twitch prices subscriptions locally. The price is set by where the subscriber is, not where you are. A streamer in Berlin with an audience in Turkey and a streamer in Berlin with an audience in the United States earn very different amounts from the same number of subscribers.
| Subscriber in | Tier 1 web price | Streamer at 50% |
|---|---|---|
| United States | $5.99 | about $3.00 |
| United Kingdom | £4.99 | about £2.50 |
| Turkey | 43.90 TRY | about 21.95 TRY |
Convert that Turkish figure and the gap is not small. It is the difference between a subscriber who funds part of your month and one who does not, at identical effort on your side.
The UK and Turkey prices above were set in Twitch’s February 2024 pricing update, effective in March and April 2024. The US web price rose from $4.99 to $5.99 later that year. Local prices do change, so treat these as the current published figures rather than permanent ones.
The practical consequence: two channels with the same subscriber count can have very different incomes, and neither of them did anything wrong. If your audience is concentrated in a low-priced region, subscriber count is a poor measure of how you are doing.
Partner Plus: how the split actually improves
Most articles mention a 70/30 split as if it were a private arrangement handed to famous streamers. It is not. It is a published programme with published criteria, and almost nobody explains how it works.
Twitch counts Plus Points. Each paid subscription is worth points according to its tier:
| Subscription | Plus Points |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 1 |
| Tier 2 | 2 |
| Tier 3 | 6 |
Hold enough points for three consecutive months and the split improves:
| Plus Points, 3 months running | Your share |
|---|---|
| 100 | 60/40 |
| 300 | 70/30 |
At 70/30 a Tier 1 US sub pays about $4.19 instead of $3.00. Same subscriber, same tier, 40 percent more money.
Two details that most coverage is out of date on.
First, Affiliates qualify too. From May 2024 the programme stopped being Partner-only. If you read somewhere that you need to be a Partner to reach 70/30, that is no longer accurate. Our guide to Affiliate and Partner requirements covers how to get through the first door.
Second, the $100,000 cap is gone. Under the old structure the improved rate applied only up to $100,000 of annual subscription revenue, after which you dropped back to 50 percent. Twitch removed that cap in January 2024. Plenty of articles still describe the ceiling as if it existed.
The consequence of the points system is worth thinking about. One Tier 3 subscriber is worth six Tier 1 subscribers for qualification purposes. A channel with a small but committed audience can reach the threshold that a channel with far more casual subscribers cannot.
Prime subs work differently, and it is not a revenue share
An Amazon Prime member gets one free subscription per month to give away. For the streamer this used to be paid at the same rate as a Tier 1 sub.
That changed on 3 June 2024. Prime subscriptions now pay a fixed rate set by country, not a share of a price. There is no percentage to apply because there is no purchase price to share.
Twitch does not publish the fixed rates. What it did say when it announced the change is that for the vast majority of countries the difference from the old model is less than 5 percent. So if you see a specific Prime payout figure quoted online, it is a creator reporting what appeared in their own dashboard, not a Twitch price list. We do not publish estimates as facts, and this is one of those cases.
One practical point that costs streamers real money: Prime subs do not renew automatically. The viewer has to go back and re-apply every month. A channel with a lot of Prime subs has a churn problem built into it that has nothing to do with whether people still like the stream.
So what does one subscription actually pay?
Take the same Tier 1 subscriber and change one variable at a time.
| Situation | Streamer receives |
|---|---|
| US subscriber, 50/50 | about $3.00 |
| US subscriber, 70/30 via Partner Plus | about $4.19 |
| Turkish subscriber, 50/50 | about 21.95 TRY |
| Prime subscriber | fixed rate, varies by country, not published |
All four are the same thing from the viewer’s point of view: one person subscribing to your channel. The spread between them is the actual answer to the question.
What to take from this
Subscriber count on its own tells you very little. Where those subscribers live, which tier they chose, whether they bought on the web or in the app, and which revenue share level you are on all move the number more than the count does.
If you want one thing to act on, it is the Plus Points threshold. It is the only variable on this page you control, it is published, and it is worth 40 percent. Everything else is decided by where your audience happens to live.
And when the money does arrive, there is one more deduction if you are outside the United States. Twitch withholds US tax before the money reaches you, and the default rate is 30 percent unless you complete the tax interview in your Creator Dashboard and claim a treaty. Twitch handles this through Amazon Tax Central, not through Google.
The mechanism itself is the same on every platform that pays you from the United States. We explained how the withholding works and what a treaty changes, using Google’s version of the form.
Sources
- Twitch Blog: An Update to Several Streamer Payout Programs
- Twitch Blog: Updates to Subscription Pricing
- Twitch Blog: A Letter from Dan Clancy on Subscription Revenue Shares
- Twitch Help: The Plus Program
Prices and revenue share terms change, and local prices differ by country. Check your own Creator Dashboard and the Twitch pages linked above before making decisions based on this article.
