Twitch's own partner page fixes sub tiers and a flat cent per Bit

The setup

Twitch subscriptions let a viewer pay a recurring monthly fee to a channel for badges, emotes and other perks; Bits are a separate virtual currency viewers buy outright and spend to Cheer, posting a highlighted, animated message in chat. Twitch's own Partner program page, as retrieved on 16 September 2026, is the platform's most direct public statement of how both work: subscriptions are offered at three price points, $5.99, $9.99 or $24.99, or free through Prime Gaming, and Bits pay a fixed rate. The page states that Twitch provides participating Partners a share of Bits revenue equal to one cent per Bit used to Cheer for them.

What the documents show

That one-cent-per-Bit figure is the clearest revenue mechanic Twitch discloses on this page for either feature; the subscription price points are stated as list prices to the viewer, not as a percentage split between Twitch and the streamer. A second Twitch document, its Partner Plus announcement, fills part of that gap from a different angle: it describes Partner Plus as an elevated tier offering a '70/30 revenue share on net subscription revenue' to streamers who maintain at least 350 paid subscriptions for three consecutive months, applied for twelve months up to $100,000. That a 70/30 split is marketed as an upgrade establishes that a different, lower baseline split exists for subscriptions generally, without either document stating that baseline number outright, a gap this entry does not fill in.

The craft

In practice, a streamer building a subscriber base designs badge art and emote sets around Twitch's tier structure, using Bits goals and Cheermotes as a second, lower-friction way for viewers who don't want a recurring charge to still show support mid-stream. Because the Partners page also confirms Partners receive a share of the revenue generated from any ads played on their channel, a full monetization setup for a VTuber typically layers subscriptions, Bits and ads rather than relying on any single mechanism.

Keeping the creator in control

The documented gap around the standard subscription split matters for a creator's control over their own finances: without a published baseline number, a streamer cannot verify from Twitch's own pages alone whether an enhanced-tier offer like Partner Plus represents a meaningful raise without checking their own account statements rather than marketing copy. That is an editorial caution the pages themselves do not spell out.

• Does the channel's current payout statement show what percentage of subscription revenue it actually keeps today?
• How much of a month's income comes from Bits versus subscriptions, and does that change which feature is worth promoting?
• Would qualifying for Partner Plus change on-stream behavior in a way that risks the underlying audience relationship?

Twitch discloses one exact figure, a cent per Bit, and leaves the more consequential number, the standard subscription split, to be inferred from the shape of a program built to improve on it.