Subscriber Revenue Calculator

Because the platform keeps a cut before you see any of it. Twitch's standard split takes roughly 50% of subscription revenue and YouTube Memberships typically take around 30%, so Sub Revenue (net) reflects what actually lands in your account after that split, not the gross amount subscribers pay. Platform Cut lets you model your own actual rate if it differs from these defaults.

No -- this calculator only applies Platform Cut to subscription revenue, since tips, bits, and Super Chats generally aren't split with the platform the way paid subscriptions are, and ad revenue runs through a separate payout system entirely (tied to views and ad rates, not a percentage of a listed price). That's why Monthly Donations and Monthly Ad Revenue pass straight through into Monthly Total unchanged.

Because it's answering a narrower question: how many paid subscribers, on their own, would it take to reach $1,000 using only your subscription price and platform cut -- it deliberately ignores donations and ad revenue so you can see what subscriptions alone contribute. If donations or ads already cover part of your income, your real break-even subscriber count for $1,000 total monthly revenue would be lower than this figure.

Directly and proportionally -- Sub Revenue (net) is subscriber count times price times the SHARE you keep, so moving from a 30% cut to a 50% cut isn't a 20-percentage- point loss, it's roughly a 29% cut in your net subscription income (you keep 70% instead of 50%, but 50/70 ≈ 0.71, so you lose about 29% of what you were netting before).