Twitch Bits to Dollars Table

The conversion

Every row below is the same sum: bits × $0.01, or bits divided by 100. Twitch credits a streamer one cent for each bit cheered in their channel, and says broadcasters receive that same amount "regardless of how users acquired the Bits" — so a cheer is worth the same whether the viewer bought the bits at full price, in a discounted bundle, or earned them watching an ad.

If you want the other direction — a dollar amount converted into the bits needed — or you want to see Twitch's share of what a viewer paid, use the Twitch bits to USD calculator, which has a reverse mode.

Bits to dollars, every common amount

Rows marked ★ are bundle sizes Twitch sells; the rest are amounts people commonly cheer or search for. Each row has its own link, so you can share a single amount directly.

Why one page and not fifty

Search for a specific amount and you will find pages built for exactly that number — one for 2,000 bits, another for 5,000, each repeating the same sentence with a different figure. They exist to catch a search, not to answer a question, and none of them tells you anything the row above does not.

The conversion is linear, so a table serves it better than fifty pages: you can see 100 and 10,000 at once, compare them, and spot that the relationship never bends. Every amount here is anchored, so a link to the row for 2,000 bits goes straight to it.

It also stays correct. If Twitch ever changes the rate, one table changes; fifty pages drift apart, and some of them never get updated at all. That is the practical problem with answering a linear conversion one page at a time.

Where the rate comes from

Twitch published the rate when Cheering launched: it provides participating partners "a share of the revenue Twitch receives from Bits equal to 1 cent per Bit used to Cheer for them". It has not changed since. The same FAQ adds that broadcasters receive the same amount per bit "regardless of how users acquired the Bits", which is the detail that makes a flat table possible at all.

Without that sentence, every row would need an asterisk for discounted bundles, promotional bits and bits earned from ads. With it, there is exactly one number per amount. If you see a bits calculator returning something other than bits ÷ 100 — most commonly half, from a 50% "affiliate split" that applies to subscriptions rather than bits — it is modelling the wrong product.

What a cheer is worth in context

Raw dollars are easier to judge against something familiar. A 100-bit cheer is a dollar. A 1,000-bit cheer is about four Tier 1 subscriptions' worth of monthly income on the standard share. A 10,000-bit cheer, at $100, is roughly what forty Tier 1 subscribers pay a channel in a month.

The comparison cuts both ways, though. A cheer happens once; a subscriber keeps paying. A channel with forty subs has a floor it can plan around, while a channel that received one 10,000-bit cheer has a good month and no guarantee about the next. Only subs build the Plus Points that raise a channel's revenue share, so the two are not interchangeable even when the dollar figures match.

Reading the table

• The payout is gross. It goes to the channel balance, which Twitch pays out at 50 dollars, before tax.
• Bundle rows are what Twitch sells. The largest single bundle is 25,000 bits; bigger cheers come from multiple purchases or a balance.
• Cheer amounts are not tiers of value. Larger cheers trigger fancier Cheermotes, but the rate per bit never changes.
• The viewer's cost is not here. It varies by country and Twitch does not publish it.

To put these numbers next to subscription income, readbits vs subs for streamers, or seehow Twitch bits pay out for what happens between the cheer and the bank transfer.