TikTok Gift Calculator

About $2.50. The viewer pays roughly $13 for 1,000 coins, and the creator receives roughly 500 diamonds, which cash out at half a cent each. Most gift calculators report a much higher figure because they halve the retail coin price instead of converting to diamonds, which overstates the payout by around two and a half times.

One diamond is $0.005, so 200 diamonds is $1 and 1,000 diamonds is $5. Diamonds are the number that matters, because they are what actually sits in your creator balance and what you withdraw. Coins are the viewer side of the transaction and never reach you directly.

A balance of 1 million diamonds is $5,000 before tax and payment fees, and it took senders about 2 million coins, roughly $26,000, to put it there. TikTok LIVE sometimes labels the figure as gift points rather than diamonds depending on the region and app version, but the cash rate is the same half a cent each.

TikTok describes its share as roughly 50%, which is accurate against the nominal value of a coin. Measured against what the viewer actually paid, the creator keeps closer to 20%, because the retail price of coins is above their nominal value and is higher again in the iOS app, where Apple takes a cut before TikTok does.

The Money Gun costs 500 coins, so the sender pays around $6.50 and the creator receives 250 diamonds, which is $1.25. The Galaxy at 1,000 coins pays about $2.50, and a single Rose at 1 coin pays half a cent. As with every gift, the creator ends up with roughly a fifth of what the sender spent.

A Lion costs 29,999 coins, so the sender pays around $390 and the creator receives roughly 15,000 diamonds, about $75. The Universe gift at 34,999 coins works out at roughly $87 to the creator. Gift prices change and vary by region, so check the current cost in the app.

You need a balance of at least $100 to request a withdrawal, and TikTok applies a processing period before the money reaches your account. Withdrawals go through PayPal or a linked bank account depending on region, and the amount you receive is before income tax, which is yours to declare.