Cam: what a token is worth by the time it reaches you.
Ask how much Chaturbate models make, or what cam models make anywhere, and every answer you find is somebody's estimate — because neither Chaturbate nor Stripchat publishes an hourly. What they do publish is everything that happens to a token between a fan's card and your bank account: the cut, the floor, the wait, and the charge for sending it. That chain is the answer. It's shorter than you'd hope in one place and a good deal longer in another.
The short version — read this, skip the rest if you like
- A token is worth the same five cents to you on both platforms. What a fan paid for that token is the variable, and it is the one number neither platform prints beside the other.
- Chaturbate publishes exactly one fan price: the wire-transfer one. It's also the cheapest price it publishes, and it carries a minimum purchase large enough that a first-time viewer would not clear it. Every figure here built on that price is a ceiling, and we say so each time.
- Then there is the charge for sending you your own money. Chaturbate publishes one on nine of its eleven payout methods; Stripchat says it pays those costs itself. Same token, opposite last mile.
- Fast payouts on Chaturbate open only after you have completed normal ones — two inside the US, four outside it. The month you most need the money quickly is the month you can't have it.
What you're actually selling
Cam is the only stream on this map where you never see the price of the thing you sold. You set a rate in tokens. A fan pays for tokens in dollars, in a shop you have no access to, at a price that depends on how many they bought at once. Then the token lands in your account worth five cents. The gap between what they paid and what you got is the platform's, and nobody sends you the receipt.
Stripchat, to its credit, explains the mechanism on an open help page: larger token packages cost the fan less per token, models are always paid the same five cents, so the share reaching the model depends on which package the fan bought rather than on any rate. That's the clearest sentence either platform has written about its own economics, and it means the honest answer to "what percentage does cam take" is that there's no percentage. There's a spread, and where you sit in it is decided by a stranger at a checkout.
“You set the rate. The fan sets the price. Nobody tells you which.”
So this page doesn't chase a percentage. It follows one hundred dollars of a fan's money through every step the platforms do document — the conversion, the floor, the cadence and the charge for sending it — and stops where the documents stop. That leaves gaps. The gaps are marked, because a gap you can see is worth more to you than a number we made up.
What it pays
Four steps, in the order a dollar meets them. The middle column is what a platform prints. The one beside it is what that figure comes to once you follow it all the way out.
| Step in the chain | What the platform publishes | What it works out at | What it turns on |
|---|---|---|---|
| What one token is worth to you | $0.05 | from 37.5% | What the fan paid for it — published by Chaturbate for a wire transfer only, and by Stripchat not at all. |
| What $100 of a fan's spending becomes | $62.50 | $37.50 to $62.50 | How you take the money out. Nothing else in this table moves it as far. |
| What it costs to take it out | $0 to $80 a payout | 0% to 40% | Your method and your country, at the smallest payout that method allows. |
| What a private minute pays | Not published — the broadcaster sets it | A method, on one platform, and no number on either | You. The broadcaster sets the per-minute price, so there is no rate card to be under or over. |
| Read the top row and the second row together. The five cents is fixed and the hundred dollars is not, because the fan's price is the variable and only its cheapest value is published.What you keep on $100 → | |||
What it costs to be paid
The cut is the cost everyone talks about. These four are the ones that decide what a first month actually feels like, and none of them appears on a comparison page.
- The conversion step
- Tokens are not money until you convert them, and Chaturbate generates no payment at all until you have. Earning isn't the same as being owed. If you've never opened Token Stats, your balance is a score, not a bank transfer waiting to happen.
- The floor, which is not a delay
- Every method sets a minimum, and under it the money doesn't arrive late. It doesn't arrive. Chaturbate says so in its own words: the balance rolls into the next period until the minimum is met. On the more expensive methods that is several periods of earning before anything moves at all.
- The wait before you can wait less
- Daily payouts answer every question a new broadcaster has about timing, and a new broadcaster is exactly who can't have them. They open only after normal payouts have completed, and after more of them if you're outside the US. Plan the first two months around the slow cadence, because you'll be on it.
- The hours, which are the product
- This is a live stream, the room is empty until you're in it, and it stops earning the moment you leave. Budget the setup, the quiet first hour and the coming-down afterwards as part of the shift. They're part of it whether or not you price them.
Where it runs — and what it takes to get paid there
- ChaturbateTwo pay periods a month, sent within seven business days of a period closing. Publishes a fee against nine of its eleven methods.$50 on most methods, $200 on crypto and a FedEx chequeno relationship
- StripchatWeekly, on Tuesdays, and fortnightly for an international wire. Publishes a minimum against every method and a fee against none.$50 to $500, by methodno relationship
- Chaturbate daily payoutsThe fast lane, once you qualify for it. Charged once a day rather than once a request, so several requests in one day cost one fee.$3.95 a dayno relationship
- Chaturbate, in your first monthWhat stands between a new broadcaster and that fast lane, stated on the programme's own page.2 completed payouts in the US, 4 outside itno relationship
No row on this page is affiliate. The cam lane's referral programme is one we have not joined, so nothing here pays us and nothing here is ranked by what might. When that changes, the tag changes and the order stays exactly as it is. How we earn money.
Should you run it?
- You have hours before you have an audience — cam is the one stream where a stranger can find you tonight
- Nothing you make should outlive the session; a live show has no back catalogue to leak
- You are in the US, or on a payout method that charges you nothing to be paid
- You need money inside the first fortnight, on a platform that pays twice a month
- Your only workable payout method is a crypto transfer or an international cheque
- You want a rate you can quote in advance — this lane doesn't publish one, and neither do we
What nobody publishes
- What a fan pays for a token on a card. Chaturbate publishes its wire price and nothing else, and the wire price it does publish carries a minimum purchase no first-time viewer would clear. Every figure on this page built from that price is a ceiling, and the real number sits under it by an amount neither of us can see.
- What a cam hour pays. Stripchat has an article with that exact title; it explains that the figure appears in your own dashboard, averaged over your last thirty hours of streaming. Chaturbate has no such article. Between them the lane publishes the method and never the answer.
- What Chaturbate keeps, stated as a share. The only percentage in its help centre is a twenty-percent affiliate commission on referred users' spending — a different product, and the figure most often reprinted as a broadcaster's cut. The floor on our income map is arithmetic on two published token prices, because there is no published rate to read.
- What Stripchat's absorbed transaction costs actually come to. It says it pays them. It doesn't say what they are. We have published that as a claim attributed to Stripchat rather than as a figure. There's no document to check it against.
- Whether any of this describes your room. Demand is niche-specific and neither we nor the platforms can see your traffic. Nothing here is tax, legal or accounting advice either — that is somebody else's lane.
Sources & pull dates
- Chaturbate payout documentation — the methods table, its minimums and its fees$0 to $80 a payout
- Chaturbate daily payout programme — eligibility, charge and floor2 completed payouts in the US, 4 outside it
- Stripchat payout percentage, and its payment methods and minimumsover 55%, then 60%, then 70%, then over 75%
- Chaturbate private-show documentation — read for a rate, which it does not carryNot published — the broadcaster sets it