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Twitch pricing
Twitch publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $4.99/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Twitch plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Turbo | $8.99/month | 5 | +$8.99/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers watch live streams, chat participation, follow streamers, mobile app access, basic emotes.
Turbo
$8.99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Ad-free viewing
- Expanded emoticon set
- Priority support
- Chat badge
- Extended broadcast storage
Where Twitch stops being free
Free, Free
- Watch live streams
- Chat participation
- Follow streamers
- Mobile app access
- Basic emotes
Turbo, $8.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Ad-free viewing
- Expanded emoticon set
- Priority support
- Chat badge
- Extended broadcast storage
What the product covers
The full Twitch feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Live streaming
- Chat interaction
- Video on demand
- Clips and highlights
- Channel subscriptions
- Donations and bits
- Extensions
- Mobile streaming
Integrations
- OBS Studio
- Streamlabs
- Amazon services
- Discord
- Social media
- Gaming platforms
Security
- Content moderation
- Chat filters
- Privacy settings
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
- Xbox support
- Playstation support
- Nintendo-switch support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Italian language support
- Portuguese language support
- Japanese language support
- Korean language support
- Chinese language support
- Russian language support
People bring Twitch in for gaming live streams, content creation, community building, esports viewing, creative streaming. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Twitch are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Twitch
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $8.99/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Twitch runs on web, ios, android, xbox, playstation, nintendo-switch, and is published by Amazon.com Inc of San Francisco, CA, USA. The full record is on the Twitch review.
Twitch pricing questions
- How much does Twitch cost?
- Twitch publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $8.99/month for Turbo. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Twitch have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers watch live streams, chat participation, follow streamers. Paying starts at $8.99/month for Turbo.
- What is the difference between Free and Turbo on Twitch?
- Turbo costs $8.99/month against Free, and adds ad-free viewing, expanded emoticon set, priority support, chat badge.
- What am I actually paying for with Twitch?
- The record lists 34 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for gaming live streams, content creation, community building.
- Does Twitch charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Twitch prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Twitch against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Twitch to make a useful price comparison.