Deezer Royalty Calculator

Use our Deezer earnings calculator to estimate how much you can earn per stream in 2026.

Pick a listener region and audience type to see how streams from Europe, South America and beyond change the estimate.

Deezer Royalty Calculator

Disclaimer: This calculator provides an estimate based on third-party per-stream estimates, not rates the platform publishes. Actual earnings may vary due to factors like the listener’s country, subscription type, and more. The audience-type adjustment (about 1.6x the mixed average for mostly Premium/HiFi audiences, 0.3x for mostly free/ad-supported) is our assumption, not a figure Deezer publishes.

Learn more about Deezer distribution, delivery timelines, and platform requirements on our Deezer platform page.

DEEP DIVE

How Deezer Pays Artists

Deezer does not publish a per-stream rate. It pays out of a revenue pool: Deezer says a money pool is created from its subscribers’ payments and split by each artist’s share of the streams counted against it. Third-party estimates put the average at roughly $0.006 per stream, gross before splits, with the same estimates running from about $0.0011 to $0.0064 depending on the listener’s market and plan, so treat that as a planning figure rather than a posted price, because what you keep depends on your distributor, label and publisher agreements. The regional figures this calculator applies are lower than that average: about $0.0016 per stream (Africa) to $0.0044 (North America), with $0.004 as the worldwide default, so the tool’s result will come in under the $0.006 figure. France is Deezer’s home market, and it has a strong presence in Brazil.

User-centric payment systems (UCPS) work differently: each subscriber’s payment goes only to the rights holders of the music they actually listen to, rather than being pooled across all streams platform-wide. The model Deezer actually runs is artist-centric, launched in France in late 2023 with Deezer saying more markets would follow. Revenue is still pooled, but streams from artists with more than 1,000 streams a month from at least 500 unique listeners count double.

Deezer has a Free ad-supported tier alongside paid plans such as Premium, Duo, Family and Student, and in most countries Premium, Duo and Family include lossless FLAC (HiFi) audio. What a stream earns varies with the listener’s plan and country.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions

Deezer does not publish a per-stream rate. It pays out of a revenue pool: Deezer says a money pool is created from its subscribers’ payments and split by each artist’s share of the streams counted against it. Third-party estimates put the average at roughly $0.006 per stream, gross before splits, with the same estimates running from about $0.0011 to $0.0064 depending on the listener’s market and plan. The regional figures this calculator applies are lower than that average: about $0.0016 per stream (Africa) to $0.0044 (North America), with $0.004 as the worldwide default, so the tool’s result will come in under the $0.006 figure. What a stream is actually worth depends on the listener’s country and subscription plan, Deezer’s overall revenue, and your distributor or label agreement.

Not a pure one. Deezer runs an artist-centric payment model, launched in France in late 2023 with more markets to follow. Subscription revenue is still pooled, but streams from artists with more than 1,000 streams a month from at least 500 unique listeners count double, and each listener counts for at most 1,000 streams a month. The aim is to pay more for music fans actively choose and less for noise and fraud.

Deezer does not publish a per-stream rate. Using the third-party estimated average of roughly $0.006 per stream, you would need approximately 167,000 streams to earn $1,000 in gross royalties; at the low end of those estimates it would take several times that, depending on the mix of markets and subscription tiers. At the worldwide figure this calculator applies ($0.004), you would need about 250,000 streams.

Neither platform publishes a per-stream rate; both split pooled revenue by share of streams. Spotify computes that pool per market from subscription and advertising revenue, while Deezer describes a pool built from its subscribers’ payments. Third-party estimates put the average at roughly $0.006 for Deezer versus $0.003-$0.005 for Spotify, gross before splits. The difference that matters more is the model: Deezer’s artist-centric model, launched in France in late 2023 with more markets to follow, counts streams from artists with more than 1,000 streams a month from at least 500 unique listeners double, a boost Spotify’s model does not apply.

France is Deezer’s home market, it has a strong presence in Brazil, and it is also established in Germany and growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. If your audience is concentrated in these regions, Deezer deserves a place in your release plan.

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