Fee schedule and cashing out
Fee schedule
This Fee schedule applies only to the extent you are eligible for, and have enabled, each of the Monetization Services (as defined in the Spotify for Creators Terms of Service) referenced below. Please note that one or more Monetization Services may not be available in your country. Refer to Spotify for Creators' monetization options for more details.
Transaction fees
This section sets out the fees applicable per transaction. These transaction fees differ depending on what Monetization Services you're using.
Subscriptions
The following fees are deducted from each Subscription payment, as described in the Subscriptions Creator Terms:
- Payment processing fee: 5.5%
- Foreign exchange fee (applies if your subscriber’s currency differs from your own currency):
- 0.8% applied to exchange non-USD currency to USD or vice versa
- 1.6% applied to exchange non-USD currency to another non-USD currency
An example of how it works:
- You’re based in the US, and you’ve set your subscription price to $2.99 per month
- Let’s say you get 1 subscriber from Belgium who pays € 2,99 per month. Each month:
- € 2,99 * 5.5% (€ 0,16445) is deducted for the payment processing fee
- € 2,99 * 0.8% (€ 0,02392) is deducted for the foreign exchange fee
- Taxes, if applicable in your region, are deducted
- The remaining amount, converted to USD based on current exchange rates, appears in your wallet
Cash out fees
Please note that when you first start to earn money with any of Spotify for Creators’ Monetization Services, there may be a delay in funds being reflected in your earnings balance. After that validation period, new transactions will be reflected in your balance within a few days.
If you utilize Subscriptions, earnings are paid out via Stripe automatically on a rolling 30-day schedule, provided you have satisfied the following requirements:
- At least 30 days have passed since you first earned money through Spotify for Creators' Monetization Services
- You have provided all information requested by Spotify or the Payment Service Provider
- Your earnings for the payout period are at least US$10 (or equivalent amount in your local currency)
- After you are paid out, it will generally take a few days for that money to hit your bank account.
If you utilize Spotify Payouts, your funds are paid out automatically. You can read more about Spotify Payouts’ payouts here.
- Distributing your show to other platforms
- Getting your show on Spotify
- Changing episode order
- Submitting your show to Apple Podcasts
- Submitting your show to Amazon Music
- Submitting your show to Castbox
- Submitting your show to Goodpods
- Submitting your show to iHeartRadio
- Submitting your show to Overcast
- Submitting your show to Pocket Casts
- Submitting your show to RadioPublic
- Analytics glossary
- Understanding Overview analytics
- Understanding Audience analytics
- Understanding Discovery analytics
- Understanding Engagement analytics
- Podcast charts on Spotify
- Episode analytics
- Video analytics
- Link sharing and referral data in Spotify for Creators
- Understanding your Spotify Partner Program analytics
- Subscription analytics
- Downloading your show's analytics data
- Data changes after switching to Spotify for Creators
- Switching your show's hosting to Spotify for Creators
- Importing your episodes from another host
- Trouble switching your show's hosting to Spotify for Creators
- Redirecting from Audioboom
- Redirecting from Blubrry
- Redirecting from Buzzsprout
- Redirecting from Castbox
- Redirecting from iVoox
- Redirecting from Libsyn
- Redirecting from Megaphone
- Redirecting from Podbean
- Redirecting from Podomatic
- Redirecting from Simplecast
- Redirecting from SoundCloud
- Redirecting from Spreaker
- Redirecting from Squarespace
- Redirecting from Transistor