How Much Is 100 Gifted Subs on Twitch
The gifter pays one number and the streamer receives a very different one. Both are worth knowing before anyone clicks.
How much is 100 gifted subs on Twitch? At the US Tier 1 web price of $5.99 (raised from $4.99 in July 2024), 100 gifted subs cost the gifter about $599 before any sales tax, $999 at Tier 2 and $2,499 at Tier 3. The streamer keeps roughly half on the default 50/50 split, about $300 from the Tier 1 batch, before tax and currency conversion.
Those are US prices. Twitch sets a local price in many countries, so a gifter elsewhere can pay considerably less for the same hundred subs, and the streamer's share falls with it.
The split is also not the same for every channel. Through Twitch's Plus Program, qualifying channels keep 60% or 70% of subscription revenue instead of 50%, which would put the same Tier 1 batch at roughly $360 or $420 for the streamer.
Twitch prices subscriptions by region. The same Tier 1 sub costs noticeably less in lower-income markets than in the United States, because Twitch sets a local price in each one rather than converting a dollar figure.
That has a consequence people miss when they compare streamers: a hundred gifted subs is not a fixed amount of money. It is a fixed number of subscriptions whose cash value depends entirely on where the person clicking the button lives. How much a Twitch sub costs sets out the tiers and the regional pricing in full.
It also means that sub counts are not comparable as revenue between channels in different regions, which is why 'they got 100 gifted subs' tells you much less about a stream's income than it appears to.
Nor does a gifting event say anything about the audience size, which is a separate public number. The live viewer count on a stream is what Twitch viewers add to; it is shown on the stream and its thumbnail, and it brings no subscriptions or revenue with it.
What the gifter pays
Gifting a batch is simply buying that many subscriptions at once. At list price a hundred gifted subs costs a hundred subs. Twitch does sometimes discount Tier 1 gift bundles of five or more, through site-wide promotions or Treasure Trains, unless the streamer has opted out in their subscription settings.
Tiers multiply it. Tier 2 and Tier 3 cost substantially more per sub, so the same hundred at a higher tier runs several times the Tier 1 figure.
Buying through a mobile app can cost more than buying on the web, because the app store takes its own cut and the price is set to absorb it. Gifting from a browser is usually the cheaper route for the same result.
- 100 Tier 1 gifts at the US price: about $599.
- 100 Tier 2 gifts: about $999.
- 100 Tier 3 gifts: about $2,499.
- Sales tax, where it applies, is added on top at checkout.
What the streamer receives
The standard revenue share is 50/50, calculated on net subscription revenue. Twitch's Plus Program raises it to 60% or 70% for channels that qualify through Plus Points earned from paid recurring subs, and some large partners hold negotiated terms.
Gifted subs pay the streamer at whatever split the channel has, but they do not earn Plus Points, because they are not recurring. A channel cannot reach the better split through gifting events alone.
Out of the streamer's share comes income tax, and for streamers outside the United States, withholding and currency conversion. Twitch also holds payouts until a minimum balance is reached.
The practical version: the number celebrated on screen when someone gifts a hundred subs is roughly double what will eventually arrive in the streamer's account on default terms.
Gifting to a channel that is not Affiliate yet
Since May 13, 2026, Twitch has opened subscriptions and Bits to eligible streamers before they reach Affiliate, under an update it called Monetization for All. That means a smaller channel can now receive a gifting event that would have been impossible a year earlier.
The catch is the payout. Twitch's announcement says a streamer still needs Affiliate or Partner status to be paid out. The revenue from those hundred subs is earned, but it waits until the channel qualifies, and then arrives on the normal payout schedule. How much Twitch pays covers the payout timing and the other revenue lines.
What a gifted sub does for the channel besides money
Each gifted sub is a real subscription given to a real viewer account, so the recipients get ad-free viewing, emotes and sub-only chat access for the month.
For the channel, the visible effect is the sub count and the burst of activity in chat. What it does not do is guarantee those hundred people come back next month. Gifted subs do not auto-renew, which is why a channel can show a large sub count one month and a much smaller one the next without anything going wrong.
That renewal cliff is the single most misread number in Twitch analytics.
Gifted subs, Prime subs and paid subs compared
Three kinds of subscription land in the same sub count, and they behave differently.
A paid recurring sub renews every month until the viewer cancels, pays the channel each month, and earns Plus Points.
A gifted sub covers one month, pays the channel once, and lapses unless the recipient decides to subscribe themselves.
A Prime sub costs the viewer nothing extra if they already have Amazon Prime, pays the channel like a Tier 1 sub, and has to be renewed by hand each month. Using a Prime sub on Twitch explains how.
For a streamer reading a sub count, the mix matters more than the total. A hundred recurring subs is a monthly income; a hundred gifted subs is a single event.
Sub count, viewer count and discovery are three different things
Subscribers are not what a stranger browsing a category sees first. Every stream thumbnail shows the number of people watching right now, and category pages can be sorted by viewer count. A hundred gifted subs does not change that number; people watching does.
The two interact indirectly: gifted subs generate chat activity, chat activity keeps people on the page, and an active chat is part of why a visitor stays. But the number on the thumbnail is viewers, not subs.
If the goal is the directory, the lever is viewers
A stream that sits among hundreds in a crowded category is seen by almost nobody, and the honest fix is the unglamorous one: stream at times when the category is thinner, make clips that travel, and give people a reason to stay past the first minute. How to start streaming on Twitch covers the setup side of that.
The viewer figure on the thumbnail is public, and Twitch viewers add to it for the length of a stream. That changes the number a browsing stranger reads and nothing about subscriptions, revenue or whether anyone comes back. Everything else for streamers is collected on the Twitch hub.
Questions people ask about gifted subs
How much do 100 gifted Tier 1 subs cost?
About $599 at the US web price of $5.99 per sub, before any sales tax. Local pricing makes it cheaper in many other countries.
How much does a streamer get from 100 gifted subs?
About $300 from 100 US Tier 1 gifts on the default 50/50 split, or roughly $360 to $420 for channels at a Plus Program level, before tax and currency conversion.
Do gifted subs renew automatically?
No. A gifted sub covers one month and then lapses unless the recipient chooses to subscribe themselves. This is why sub counts drop sharply a month after a large gifting event.
Is it cheaper to gift from a phone?
Usually the opposite. App store fees are built into in-app prices, so gifting through a browser tends to cost less for the same subs.
Do gifted subs count toward the Plus Program?
No. Gifted subs pay the channel at its current split, but only paid recurring subs earn the Plus Points that qualify a channel for 60% or 70%.
Do gifted subs help a channel get discovered?
Only indirectly. The number on a stream thumbnail is concurrent viewers, not subscribers. Gifts drive chat activity, which can help people stay, but they are not the figure strangers see.
Keep reading
- Twitch viewers — The live viewer count on a stream thumbnail is public, and Twitch viewers add to it; they bring no subscriptions or revenue.
- setting a stream up properly — If the channel is new, setting a stream up properly matters more than any purchase.
- How much a Twitch sub costs — The three tiers, regional pricing and the free Prime sub.