Streaming Royalty Calculator

Plug in your numbers and get an honest estimate of what your streams are actually worth, based on the same 2026 rate ranges we walk through in the full streaming royalties breakdown. There's no per-stream rate that's exactly right for everyone; this gives you the real range instead of a myth.

Monthly streams Platform / rate Distributor's cut (%) Way to split (people)

Estimated monthly payout $40.00

Per person, per month $40.00

Projected over a year $480.00

That's about 2 pizzas a month, or the same money as 3 Bandcamp sales at $15, or 2 shirts sold at $25.

These are ranges, not guarantees. Actual per-stream payouts move with subscription prices, ad revenue, your listeners' countries, and how the platform's royalty pool is divided that month. Use this to sanity-check a distributor statement, not to budget rent. For the full explanation of why there's no fixed rate, read the math behind the numbers, and for what actually pays better per hour of effort, see the 2026 promotion playbook.