Enter your stream count and see estimated earnings on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer and Tidal, with 2026 rate ranges, a distributor-cut slider and monthly-to-yearly projections.
| Platform | $ / stream | EstimatedMonthly est. |
|---|---|---|
| Spotify | $0.004 | $300–$500 ≈ $4,800 / yr |
| Apple Music | $0.007 | $600–$1,000 ≈ $8,400 / yr |
| YouTube Music | $0.006 | $200–$1,500 ≈ $7,200 / yr |
| Amazon Music | $0.005 | $100–$880 ≈ $6,000 / yr |
| Deezer | $0.006 | $500–$700 ≈ $7,200 / yr |
| Tidal | $0.013 | $800–$1,500 ≈ $15,600 / yr |
Spotify pays no royalties on tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams in 12 months, so this Spotify estimate may effectively be $0.
Royalty estimates use 2026 industry-average per-stream rates compiled from Chartlex, FWD Music and the Duetti Music Economics Report. Actual payouts vary with listener country, premium vs ad-supported mix, platform payment model and your distributor's cut, and Spotify pays nothing on tracks under 1,000 streams in 12 months.
No platform pays a fixed price per stream, but the 2026 averages compiled by Chartlex and FWD Music give a usable baseline: Spotify sits around $0.004, Apple Music at $0.007, YouTube Music at $0.006, Amazon Music at $0.005, Deezer at $0.006 and Tidal at $0.013, the highest-paying mainstream platform, largely because it has no free tier.
Averages tell one story; measured payouts tell another. Duetti's Music Economics Report, built from real independent-artist payouts in 2024, ranks the platforms per 1,000 streams, against an industry blended average of $3.41:
| Platform | 2026 avg. / stream | Duetti 2024 / 1,000 streams |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Music | $0.005 | $8.80 |
| Tidal | $0.013 | $6.80 |
| Apple Music | $0.007 | $6.20 |
| YouTube Music | $0.006 | $4.80 |
| Deezer | $0.006 | $4.80 |
| Spotify | $0.004 | $3.00 |
One caveat on YouTube: these figures cover YouTube Music streams. When your track plays inside someone else's video and gets matched by Content ID, FWD Music puts the payout near $0.00087 per view, a different economy entirely.
Enter a stream count and the calculator multiplies it by each platform's 2026 average rate to produce a gross estimate (what the platform pays out before anyone in your chain takes a share). The smaller figure under each estimate is that platform's published range, because a single average hides real variance: at $0.001–$0.0088, Amazon Music has the widest spread, with its Unlimited tier near the top and Prime-bundled listening far below.
The distributor-cut slider turns gross into net: distributors and labels typically keep 0–30%, so set it to match your deal and the table updates. In monthly mode, your input is treated as streams per month and projected to a yearly figure, handy for checking whether a release is on track. And if you'd rather start from an income target and work backwards, the stream goal calculator does exactly that.
Streaming services don't pay a set price per stream. They pool subscription and ad revenue, then split the pool among rights holders pro-rata, so your effective rate moves with things you don't control: subscription prices in the countries where you're streamed, and how many of your listeners pay for premium. Per Chartlex, a premium stream can pay up to roughly 10x more than an ad-supported one.
Geography alone can swing the number several-fold. Estimated Spotify rates run from about $0.008 per stream in Iceland and Norway down to $0.0008 in India. If you know where your audience lives, the country royalty calculator breaks estimated earnings down by market.
Payment model matters too: Deezer's artist-centric system applies multiplier boosts for artists with 1,000+ monthly listeners, while Spotify has paid nothing on tracks under 1,000 streams in 12 months since 2024. And whatever the platform pays, your distributor's cut comes off the top.
At the 2026 average of $0.004 per stream, 100,000 Spotify streams earn roughly $400 gross. Using the published range of $0.003–$0.005, a realistic span is $300–$500, before your distributor's cut, and depending heavily on where your listeners are.
Yes. Since 2024, Spotify has paid no royalties on tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams in the previous 12 months. The calculator flags this under the table: a low-stream track can show an estimate here yet effectively pay $0.
By average rate, Tidal: around $0.013 per stream in 2026, the highest of the mainstream services, helped by having no free tier. In Duetti's measured indie-artist payouts, though, Amazon Music came out on top at $8.80 per 1,000 streams versus Tidal's $6.80. So: Tidal on paper, Amazon in the measured data, and both far above Spotify.
Because there is no fixed rate. Platforms pay from a shared revenue pool, so your effective rate falls when more of your streams come from ad-supported listeners or lower-priced markets, or when total streams grow faster than the pool. A drop usually reflects a change in where and how you are being streamed, not a penalty.
No. They are estimates built on industry averages from Chartlex, FWD Music and Duetti. Real statements vary with listener country, premium versus ad-supported mix, each platform's payment model and your distributor's cut. Treat the range as the realistic envelope, not the average as a promise.