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What Spotify actually pays you
Enter your monthly streams and see the gap between Spotify’s pro-rata cents and a fair-pay model.
Spotify
€360
per year (approx.)
Artyfile
€3,600 – €24,000
per year
On Artyfile you’d earn €3,240 – €23,640 more per year — that’s 10–60× the Spotify rate.
How we calculate: Spotify ≈ €0.00/stream (its own reported pro-rata rate). Artyfile pays artists €0.03–€0.20/stream.
This is what fair pay looks like. On Artyfile, every subscription pays artists up to 60× more.
Why the gap is so big
Spotify pays roughly €0.003 per stream on average — pro-rata from a shared pool, so artists only break even after hundreds of streams per listener. Artyfile pays €0.03 to €0.20 per stream and routes up to half of every subscription straight to creators — while streaming uncompressed WAV recordings of real orchestras.
Frequently asked
How much does Spotify pay per stream?
Spotify pays roughly €0.003 per stream on average. Payouts are pro-rata from a shared pool — your subscription funds the whole platform rather than the specific artists you actually listen to.
How much is that per 1,000 streams?
About €3 per 1,000 streams on Spotify. The same 1,000 streams pay the artist €30–€200 on Artyfile.
How much does Artyfile pay per stream?
Artyfile pays artists €0.03–€0.20 per stream — a guaranteed minimum of €0.03 (10× Spotify), up to €0.20 (60×). Up to half of every subscription goes straight to the creators.
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