Pay for what you use
Streaming here is free — we do not re-encode your video, so it costs us almost nothing and we charge you nothing for it. We take 0% of memberships and 0% of tips. The only things that cost money are optional, and they cost exactly what they cost us.
Memberships from your first stream. No partner program, no application.
100 hours a month
Minimum $2. You keep all of it — the member covers card processing on top.
Same channel, same members, same month. The difference is what each platform keeps. Every figure is a monthly total.
| Platform | You pay | You earn | Take home |
|---|---|---|---|
| GenkaMember pays $5.00 · you keep $5.00 | Nothing | $50.00 | $50.00 |
| KickMember pays $5.00 (fixed) · you keep $4.75 | $0.00 | $47.50 | $47.50 |
| YouTubeMember pays $5.00 · you keep $3.50 | $0.00 | $35.00 | $35.00 |
| TwitchCan’t go below $5.99Member pays $5.99 (fixed) · you keep $3.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
You take home $2.50 more a month here than on Kick, the best of the others — 5% more from the same audience.
Twitch’s tier is fixed at $5.99 and Kick’s at $5.00 — neither lets you choose, so their columns use their own prices. You and YouTube are the only two where the price is yours.
Twitch needs Affiliate. YouTube needs 500 subscribers and 3,000 watch hours. Kick needs 5 hours streamed. We need nothing — your first stream can have members.
Every rate here is published and checkable against the provider’s own price list. None of it is a cut of your income.
| Line | Per month |
|---|---|
| Streaming5 hours a day × 20 days = 100 hours live. We do not re-encode your video, so we do not charge for it. | $0.00 |
| What you pay | $0.00 |
| Memberships10 × $5.00 a month. We take none of it, and the member covers card processing on top. | +$50.00 |
| Take home | $50.00 |
All streaming 5 hours a day, 20 days a month, on the free passthrough default with $5.00 memberships. Twitch’s tier is fixed at $5.99 and Kick’s at $5.00, so those columns use their own prices. Select any row to load it above.
| Best for this channel | Channel | You pay / mo | Take home here / mo | YouTube | Kick | Twitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level — no members | 5 watching, no members | Nothing | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Here | 10 watching, 5 members | Nothing | $25 | $18 | $24 | $15 |
| Here | 30 watching, 10 members | Nothing | $50 | $35 | $48 | $30 |
| Here | 100 watching, 20 members | Nothing | $100 | $70 | $95 | $60 |
| Here | 500 watching, 100 members | Nothing | $500 | $350 | $475 | $300 |
| Here | 2,000 watching, 400 members | Nothing | $2,000 | $1,400 | $1,900 | $1,198 |
| Here | 8,000 watching, 1,500 members | Nothing | $7,500 | $5,250 | $7,125 | $4,493 |
Swipe the table sideways to see every platform →
Every row pays nothing to stream, including the one with five viewers and no members — the row that used to cost about $22 a month before streaming went free.
Comparisons assume Twitch’s standard 50/50 split on a $5.99 tier, YouTube’s 70/30 at whatever price you set, and Kick’s 95/5 on their fixed $5.00 tier. Twitch’s split is 50/50 by default; its Plus Program pays 60/40 at 100 points and 70/30 at 300, where only paid recurring subs earn points. Twitch also discounts the tier from time to time — a 25% promotion is live at the time of writing, taking $5.99 to $4.49 — so a Twitch column at full list price is the generous reading. No ad income is shown on any platform — we have no ads at launch. Our prices move when our providers’ prices move, in both directions, and every change goes in a public log with the date. This is an estimate, not a quote.