Twitch streamers rarely get paid from just one place — subscriptions, Bits cheered mid-stream, and pre-roll or mid-roll ads all land in the same monthly payout, but each one is priced differently and split differently depending on your standing with Twitch. This calculator adds all three together from numbers you already have — your subscriber count, your revenue split, Bits cheered, and ad impressions — so you get one honest total instead of three figures you have to reconcile by hand.
How it works
The engine treats each revenue stream as its own small calculation, then adds the results. Subscription revenue is your Tier 1 subscriber count times the $5.99 list price, times your revenue split as a percentage — because Twitch never hands over the full sub price, only your negotiated share of it. Bits revenue is simpler: every Bit cheered pays a flat one cent to the broadcaster, so it's just your monthly Bits count times $0.01, with no split to apply. Ad revenue works like the RPM math on other creator-earnings tools here — your monthly ad impressions divided by 1,000, times your average ad RPM in dollars.
Each of those three figures is rounded to the cent before they're added together, and the total is the sum of those rounded parts rather than a single rounding of the raw sum. That's a deliberate choice: it guarantees the three line items you see on screen always add up to the total you see below them, with no invisible rounding drift between what's displayed and what's added.
Worked example
Take a streamer with 100 Tier 1 subscribers on the standard 50% split, who also gets 10,000 Bits cheered and serves 50,000 ad impressions a month at a $3 RPM.
- Subscription revenue: 100 × $5.99 × 0.50 = $299.50
- Bits revenue: 10,000 × $0.01 = $100.00
- Ad revenue: (50,000 ÷ 1,000) × $3 = $150.00
- Total monthly revenue: $299.50 + $100.00 + $150.00 = $549.50
Nudge the split up to a Partner Plus tier of 70% and subscription revenue alone jumps to $419.30 — a swing of well over $100 from the same 100 subscribers, just from a better contract with Twitch.
How to interpret your result
Read this as a floor built on public, well-documented rates, not a mirror of your next payout statement. Twitch doesn't publish an exact ad RPM the way it publishes the flat $0.01 Bits rate, so the ad line here is only as good as the RPM you enter — pull that number from your own Creator Dashboard if you have stream history, rather than guessing. Gifted subs, Prime subs, and resubs all count toward your Tier 1 total the same way a fresh paid sub does, but chargebacks, fraud holds, and payment processor fees can quietly shave a little off whatever Twitch actually deposits.
The revenue split is the lever most worth double-checking. Affiliates and most Partners sit at the standard 50/50 split; the Partner Plus program lets qualifying Partners climb to 60/40 or 70/30 once they've held enough Plus Points for three consecutive months. If you don't know your current tier, assume 50% — it's the conservative, safer default this calculator ships with.
Methodology & sources
The formulas are subRevenue = tier1Subs × $5.99 × split%, bitsRevenue = bitsPerMonth × $0.01, and adRevenue = (monthlyAdImpressions ÷ 1,000) × avgAdRpm, summed into totalMonthly after each is independently rounded to the cent.
The $5.99 figure is the current US list price for a Tier 1 sub — Twitch raised it from $4.99 in 2024, and that same $5.99 US figure is the reference price used in Twitch's own Local Subscription Pricing help article — and the fixed $0.01-per-Bit payout is confirmed directly in Twitch's guide to cheering with Bits. Worth flagging honestly: $5.99 is the US price specifically, and Twitch's local-pricing model means many other countries pay a different, currency-adjusted Tier 1 price, so swap in your actual local Tier 1 price if you know it differs. The 50/50 standard split and the Partner Plus 60/40 and 70/30 tiers are documented in Twitch's own payout program update. None of this includes donations through third-party tools, sponsorship deals, or merch sales — those are real income for most established streamers, but they don't run through Twitch's own payout system and aren't estimated here.