Twitch Sub Count to Income: What 100, 500 & 1,000 Subs Earn

How Twitch sub income scales

Sub income is the most predictable money on Twitch, and the math is simple: subscribers multiplied by the tier price multiplied by your revenue split. A Tier 1 sub costs $5.99 and pays you 50% ($3.00) to start, rising to 70% ($4.19) through the Plus Program. Because it scales linearly, every sub you add is a known amount of recurring monthly income, which is exactly why most streamers treat growing subs as their core financial goal.

Monthly income at 50 to 5,000 subs

Here is what different sub counts earn per month, assuming Tier 1 subs, at the 50% starting split and the 70% top split. These are clean benchmarks; a real channel with a tier mix and Prime subs lands close to these with some variation, covered below.

How tier mix and Prime share change your total

The clean table above assumes every sub is a paid Tier 1. Real channels are a mix, and two factors pull in opposite directions. Higher tiers lift your total: a typical mix is around 85% Tier 1, 12% Tier 2 ($5.00–$6.99 each), and 3% Tier 3 ($12.50–$17.49 each), so the Tier 2 and Tier 3 supporters raise your average above the Tier 1 figure. Prime subs pull it down: roughly 30% of a channel's subs are free Amazon Prime subs, which pay a fixed $2.25 each with no split. The two effects roughly offset, so the Tier 1 benchmark is a fair anchor, but a channel heavy on Tier 3 will beat it and a Prime-heavy channel will trail it.

How the 50/60/70 split changes the numbers

Your split is the single biggest lever on sub income that does not require more subscribers. Moving from the starting 50% to the top 70% is a 40% raise on every paid sub. You climb that ladder through the Plus Program by earning and holding Plus Points from renewing paid subs: 100 points for the 60% split, 300 for 70%. For a 1,000-sub channel, that progression is the difference between $3,000 and $4,190 a month for the exact same audience.

Subs vs bits vs ads: where sub income fits

Subscriptions are usually the largest and steadiest slice of a streamer's native Twitch income, because they recur every month. Bits ($0.01 each) typically add another 15–25% on top, and ad revenue is a smaller, more passive layer that is weak per hour for smaller channels. The pattern flips only at scale: once you pass a few hundred concurrent viewers, sponsorships overtake all three. For most streamers though, sub count is the number that best predicts monthly income, which is why it is worth tracking above everything else.