How it works
- Enter your stream counts. Type how many streams you have on each platform — Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal, Deezer and YouTube Music. Leave a field empty for platforms you're not on.
- Pick your currency. Switch between USD, EUR and GBP — every figure converts instantly.
- Read the estimate. Each platform shows its estimate with its source and date (a low–high range where sources differ), plus your total and a bar showing which platform earns you the most.
Features
- Six platforms at once. Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer and YouTube Music, each with a sourced, dated per-stream estimate.
- Sourced estimates, never false precision. Every per-stream figure names its source (official or third-party) and its date; where sources differ you get a low–high range, and no spread is ever invented.
- Optional per-country hypothesis. Split your streams across major markets to see the order of magnitude of the gap between high- and low-revenue countries — clearly labelled as an AudioKit hypothesis.
- Instant, free and private. Pure calculation in your browser — no upload, no account, nothing sent to a server.
FAQ
Are these payout figures guaranteed?
No. They are estimates built from averages published by named sources, each shown with its date in the tool's “Sources & method” section (figures checked on 22 Oct 2026, reviewed every quarter). No platform pays a fixed rate per stream: royalties are a share of each platform's revenue pool and vary with the listener's country, subscription type (free vs premium) and your contracts. Your distributor's statements are the only reference for what you actually earn.
Where do the per-stream rates come from?
No platform publishes a fixed per-stream rate, so every estimate names its source and date. Spotify (~$0.0030), Amazon Music (~$0.0088) and YouTube (~$0.0048) come from Duetti's Music Economics Report (third-party, published 23 Jan 2025, 2024 data). Apple Music spans $0.0062 (Duetti) to $0.01, Apple's own 2020 average for individual paid plans, publishing included (official letter, April 2021). Tidal is shown at its lower bound of “over $6 per 1,000 streams” (Duetti data via Statista, 7 Feb 2025). Deezer publishes no figure: $0.004–0.007 is a distributor estimate (iMusician, 14 Apr 2026, underlying data not published).
What does the amount represent?
A gross estimate on the recording side (the master), before your distributor's fee or your label's share. Songwriting and publishing royalties are paid separately (Apple's figure is the exception: it includes them). What reaches the artist can be far lower: the UK competition regulator (CMA, 29 Nov 2022) estimated an artist could expect around £12,000 from 12 million UK streams in 2021.
Why does Spotify show a warning under 1,000 streams?
Spotify announced on 21 Nov 2023 (live since 1 April 2024) that tracks must reach at least 1,000 streams in the previous 12 months to generate recorded royalties. Below that threshold those streams earn nothing for that track, so the tool flags it when your Spotify number is between 1 and 999.
How does the per-country refinement work?
It is an AudioKit hypothesis, not a sourced figure: no platform publishes per-country rates. The optional section lets you enter roughly how your streams split by country; the tool blends rough coefficients (expensive-subscription markets like the US, UK and Australia above the worldwide figure, emerging markets like Brazil below) into a single multiplier applied to every platform. Leave it closed to use the sourced figures as they are.
Is the calculator free and private?
Yes — it's completely free, needs no account, and runs entirely in your browser. There's no file to upload and nothing is sent to a server; the numbers you type never leave your device.