The comparison

"Outearns Twitch" — for whom?

The comparison that made pump.fun's creator fees famous is with the established creator platforms. It is a fair comparison to want, and this page makes it as carefully as it can be made — including saying plainly which half of it this site did not measure.

Only one column here is measured by this site. The pump.fun figures are reconstructed from the chain and can be recomputed by anyone. The Twitch, YouTube and Substack figures are not: they are published platform terms, cited and dated, entered by hand. They are not blended into any measured number, and no median for those platforms is claimed — reliable medians for them are not public, and inventing one to make a sharper comparison would be the exact failure this site exists to point at.

What each platform pays, and who is allowed in

The structural comparison is the honest one, because these are published terms rather than estimates. Two things differ: the share of revenue that reaches the creator, and the threshold you must cross before you earn anything at all.

The threshold is the whole story

pump.fun has no gate: anybody can launch a coin, and the fee share is generous. That is genuinely different from YouTube, where a channel below the Partner Program threshold earns exactly zero no matter how much it is watched. But an open door is not the same as an income. On pump.fun the gate is not applied at the door — it is applied by whether anyone trades your coin, and most creators never clear it.

What would make this comparison complete

A like-for-like answer needs the median Twitch streamer's annual payout and the median monetised YouTube channel's, measured the same way this site measures pump.fun. Neither platform publishes that, and no keyless source reconstructs it. Until one exists, the row below stays empty rather than being filled with an estimate.