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“Name Minimum Fee Delivery Time | Paxum $50.00 $0.50 2-5 business days | Bitcoin $200.00 $45.00 1 business day | Check by FedEx $200.00 $40.00 within the US $80.00 international”

Two rows in that table charge nothing at all — ACH Direct Deposit and a cheque by USPS — and both are US-only in practice. Tether and USD Coin are quoted here as the document quotes them, 35 USDT plus a 0.9% network fee, and not converted to dollars: a stablecoin's dollar value is an assumption, and the desk does not print assumptions as figures.

“A minimum amount is required to receive a payout; most methods start at a minimum of $50.00.”

This is not a fee Chaturbate hides — it prints it in a plain table on an open help page. What nobody prints is what it comes to. Forty percent of an international cheque is a larger bite than the platform's own cut of the same money, and it is taken after that cut.

“Furthermore, Stripchat pays all transaction costs for the payouts made to models so to ensure that they indeed receive the $0.05 per token.”

• “Your payout is scheduled once you reach the minimum amount set by each provider: For Paxum, Yoursafe, and Cosmo Payment the minimum is $50”

  Stripchat — payment methods and options: frequency and minimum amounts

Stripchat says it absorbs the cost; it does not publish what the cost is, so this row records a claim the platform makes about itself rather than a figure the desk verified independently. It is still the sharpest contrast on this page. The two platforms pay the same $0.05 a token and treat the last step of the journey in opposite ways.

“Our own arithmetic on two of Chaturbate's published figures: a fan sending $100 by wire is credited 1,250 tokens at $0.08 each, and 1,250 tokens convert to the broadcaster at $0.05 each, which is $62.50.”

Both ends are best cases in the same respect, and it matters. Wire is the cheapest way a fan can buy a token, and Chaturbate does not publish its card prices anywhere the desk can read them — so the real top of this range is below $62.50 and the real bottom is below $37.50. The figure to take from it is the size of the gap, which is entirely a decision about how you take the money out.

“A minimum amount is required to receive a payout; most methods start at a minimum of $50.00. If you do not earn the minimum amount required within a pay period, your balance will roll over into the next pay period until the minimum is achieved.”

The second half of that quote is the part with teeth. Below the floor the money does not arrive late — it does not arrive at all, and waits for a period in which you clear the floor. A broadcaster earning $30 a period on Bitcoin waits seven periods before anything moves.

“For Bitcoin (BTC) and Tether (USDT) the minimum is $50, for Ethereum (ETH) and USD Coin (USDC) it's $100 … For International Wire Transfer the minimum is $500”

The two platforms diverge hardest exactly where a beginner meets them. Chaturbate wants $200 before it will send Bitcoin; Stripchat wants $50. Read alongside the fee rows, the floor and the charge move together — the method that costs most to use is usually the one that also makes you wait longest to use it.

“U.S. based broadcasters must have already received 2 normal payouts International broadcasters must have already received 4 normal payouts”

This is the row that decides what a first month actually feels like, and it is the one no comparison page carries. Daily payouts are the answer to every question a new broadcaster has about the wait, and a new broadcaster is precisely who cannot have them. Read with the floor row it compounds: the two normal payouts you must first complete are two payouts you must first clear the minimum on.

“There is a $3.95 fee for using daily payouts. The fee is only charged once per day, so you can add to your daily payout request multiple times within the same day, and only get charged one fee.”

On the $20 floor that same page sets for a cheque, ACH or Paxum daily payout, $3.95 is 19.75% of the payout, and it is charged on top of any processing fee the method already carries — the page says so explicitly. Requesting daily at the minimum every day is the most expensive way to be paid on this platform.

“You will need at least $20.00 in converted tokens before you can request a daily payout for Check, ACH, or Paxum. You will need at least $500.00 in converted tokens before you can request a daily payout for Wire.”

“On average, over 55% of all user spending is paid out … the payout to models gets closer to 60% … the percentage paid to models increases to 70% … the actual percentage paid to models raises to over 75%.”

Take the page at its word and it is doing something unusual: it shows its working. The same page states the mechanism that makes any single percentage impossible — larger token packages cost the fan less per token while the model is always paid $0.05, so the share depends on what the fan bought, not on a rate. That sentence is the most useful thing either platform publishes, and it is why the number on the map is a floor rather than a rate.

“For broadcasters, they are a good way to accumulate tokens at a faster rate, as you can set your own price for how much you charge by the minute!”

• “This will pop up an information box containing the broadcaster's tokens per minute cost, the minimum minutes, and will let you know if you will receive a recording of the show.”

  Chaturbate — how do I start a private show

This is an honest absence rather than a withheld figure, and it cuts both ways. There is no rate card to be cheated by, and equally no floor: the going rate for a private minute is whatever the room next door is charging, and neither platform publishes that either. Every per-minute figure the desk found in the lane traced back to a creator's own screenshot, which is not a document.

“Stripchat income and earnings per hour show your average hourly rate, calculated based on your last 30 hours of streaming activity on the platform. 1 tk = $0.05”

The article that carries the exact phrase a creator searches for turns out to explain where the number appears in her own dashboard after she has already streamed thirty hours. That is not evasion — an hourly rate genuinely depends on the room — but it does mean that the most-asked question in this lane has no published answer, and every figure circulating as one was written by somebody selling something.