The video live streaming service Twitch has turned from a video game live streaming service to an entertainment form rivaling television for some people.
The service showcases other creative content from these humble beginnings, like musical broadcasts, drawing, and other endeavors.
The rise of its popularity has given rise to personalities within the service that draw in the most viewers. It was reported that as of February 2020, the service had 140 million monthly unique viewers, 30 million daily active users, and over 7 million monthly creators.
Ranked in this list are the ten Twitch streamers with the most subscribers. These streamers have become akin to celebrities to most of their viewers, and some have even become millionaires.
Disclaimer: Twitch does not count its subscribers as YouTube does, so in this article, we will focus on the most recent data on streamers and their active subscribers.
Here we have Twitch streamers ranked with the most subscribers and how much they earn.
10. Aminematue – 37,286 Current Active Subscribers
Aminematue is currently in tenth place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 37,286 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 13,925 falls under the paid category (subscribers pay a minimum of $4.99 to sub to the channel), 17,271 falls under the Prime category (subscribers have an Amazon Prime account), and 1,529 falls under the Gifted category (subscribers that gift other users subscription to the channel). Though his Prime subscribers outnumber his Paid subscribers, the disparity is not as great as other entries on the list.
He is perhaps the least famous person on the list, though that is not to say he is not popular, as there are over seven million monthly creators on Twitch. He mostly makes videos around the football game FIFA and reacts to various football games on stream.
His net worth is not as easily available as others on this list, but most sources agree that it is around $100,000. Given his subscribers, he makes at least $69,485 from his Paid subscribers monthly and $51,640 from his Prime subscribers.
9. Asmongold – 37,551 Current Active Subscribers
Asmongold is currently in ninth place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 37,551 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 26,372 falls under the Paid category, 8,821 falls under the Prime category, and 23,724 falls under the Gifted category. Asmongold perhaps has the largest amount of subscribers in the Gifted category out of everyone on this list.
As with many other streamers, he is known for streaming video games. His video game of choice seems to be the popular online game World of Warcraft, though he also dabbles in other games like Final Fantasy, Dark Souls, and Elden Ring.
He is the co-owner of the gaming organization, One True King and one of the content creators under that organization. 12 content creators are under the umbrella of One True King, with eight of them being c-owners
As with other streamers, he also has a YouTube channel, four in total, and he has over 2.71 million subscribers combined.
He has a net worth of over $200,000. Given his subscriber numbers, he makes $131,596 from his Paid subscribers and $26,374 from his Prime subscribers. Given that he has a large number of Gifted subscribers, he earns a huge chunk of his Twitch earnings from them.
8. Ibai – 43,860 Current Active Subscribers
Ibai is currently in eighth place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 43,860 current active subscribers.
Among his subscribers, 6,747 falls under the Paid category, 21,101 falls under the Prime category, and 1,085 falls under the Gifted category.
He has the lowest number of Paid subscribers on the list, though he more than makes up for it with his Prime subscribers.
Ibai aka Ibai Llanos Galatea is a Spanish internet personality. He is most known for streaming e-sports-related news and e-sports in general. His most famous topic is League of Legends, but he also talks about Football, reacting to many matches in the Spanish league.
Aside from Twitch and streaming, he is also the co-owner of KOI, an esports team that specializes in League of Legends. He is also a YouTuber and has a channel with over 9.04 million subscribers.
He has an estimated net worth of around 5 million dollars, and his channel is the fourth-most followed channel on the platform overall.
Due to his popularity, he constantly breaks records on the platform, with the most recent one being a stream where he surpassed over 3.3 million viewers on June 25, 2022.
His influence has reached far beyond Twitch and the Internet. During the uproar over famed Argentinian Footballer Lionel Messi’s retirement, he was one of the few people invited to a farewell dinner in Barcelona. Ibai was amongst celebrities like Shakira and other famous footballers like Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba.
7. Nickmercs – 46,460 Current Active Subscribers
Nickmercs is currently seventh place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 46,460 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 15,813 falls under the Paid category, 8,976 falls under the Prime category, and 2,879 falls under the Gifted category. His subscribers are more evenly spread out when compared with the previous people on this list.
Nickmercs, whose real name is Nicholas Kolcheff, is a Twitch streamer and YouTuber from America.
He is perhaps most known as the co-owner of the popular e-sports team and organization, FaZe Clan.
Each member of the FaZe Clan is known for specializing in certain video games or games. As for Nickmercs, he specializes in playing Fortnite Battle Royale, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty: Warzone.
Nickmercs has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Given his subscriber count, he makes at least $78,906 from his Paid subscribers monthly and at least $26,838 from his Prime subscribers. Then there are also his Gifted subscribers.
As the co-owner of FaZe Clan, which has an estimated net worth of $0.14 billion, Nickmercs surely makes a sizeable amount of his income from the company.
What separates Nickmercs from many people on this list is that he probably has the most loyal fanbase. His fanbase is MFAM, where the M stands for Mercs and the FAM stands for family.
6. Adin Ross – 47,859 Current Active Subscribers
Adin Ross is currently in sixth place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 47,859 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 23,820 falls under the Paid category, 12,460 falls under the Prime category, and 10,675 falls under the Gifted category. He has the second-highest number of Gifted subscribers on the list.
He might be the most popular streamer on the list as the 22-year-old from Baco Raton, Florida is often embroiled in controversy and notoriety.
Though he started from humble beginnings by streaming games like NBA 2K20 and GTA V, he has now become a prominent figure amongst Hip-Hop fans due to the various rappers that have appeared on his streams.
Perhaps the most famous case of a rapper appearing on his stream was Tory Lanez back in 2021, when he rapped a freestyle that ended up becoming a popular song amongst fans of both the streamer and the rapper.
Adin Ross is the richest person on this list, with a net worth of over $24 million. Out of this $24 million, $7 million comes solely from Twitch itself and for many of his fans, he is the face of Twitch.
5. Gaules – 56,883 Current Active Subscribers
Gaules is currently fifth place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 56,883 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 57,128 falls under the Paid category, 13,687 falls under the Prime category, and 2,271 falls under the Gifted category. Gaules perhaps has the greatest disparity between his Paid and Prime subscriber count out of anyone on this list, perhaps even more so than Kai Cenat.
Gaules, whose real name is Alexandre Borba, is a retired professional Counter-Strike player from Brazil. He first gained prominence in 2001 when he co-founded g3neration X, a South American host for Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team games. The organization was active until 2016.
He is more famous and even beloved as a coach than as a player. He started coaching in 2007 for the Brazilian esports organization mibr, which stands for Made in Brazil.
He is more of a full-time streamer and constantly broadcasts himself playing many Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments in the Portuguese language. From 2018 onwards, he has worked as an analyst and commentator on various Counter-Strike tournaments and matches.
Gaules has an estimated net worth of over $410,000.
As a full-time streamer, one can assume he makes much of his wealth from streaming. Looking at his numbers, he makes over $285,517 from his Paid subscribers monthly and over $40,924 from his Prime subscribers.
In 2021, he was publicly elected as the Personality of the Year of 2021 at the Gamers Club Awards.
4. Hasanabi – 62,467 Current Active Subscribers
Hasanabi is currently fourth place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 62,467 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 15,989 falls under the Paid category, 15,662 falls under the Prime category, and 6,479 falls under the Gifted category. Hasanabi subscribers are evenly distributed among the Paid and Prime category, which stands in stark contrast with the previous people on the list.
Hasanabi, whose real name is Hasan Piker, is a Turkish-American political commentator known for his left-wing ideals.
He uses his platform to talk about political issues and react to contemporary discourse. He is known to talk about and react to viral memes and trends.
With a net worth of over $2.63 million, Hasan is one of the richest streamers on the platform. He earns over $79,785 a month from his paid subscribers and over $46,829 from his Prime subscribers.
He also has a YouTube channel, multiple, in fact, and his total subscriber count on YouTube is 1.15 million.
His wealth is supplemented by his various endeavors outside Twitch, like YouTube. He is also a member of the commentary show, The Young Turks, where he works as a broadcast journalist, producer, and columnist at Huffington Post.
3. XQC – 78,038 Current Active Subscribers
XQC is currently third place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 78,038 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 13,900 falls under the Paid category, 20,550 falls under the Prime category, and 3,112 falls under the Gifted category. XQC’s Prime subscribers outweigh his Paid and Gifted subscribers, but not by as large a margin.
XQC, whose real name is Felix Lengyel, is an internet personality from Canada.
He initially rose to fame as a professional Overwatch player, through which he developed a following that he then transferred over onto his YouTube and Twitch channels.
On YouTube, he has over 2.16 million subscribers, and much of his content over there are clips and edited parts of his Twitch streams. Twitch is his main project and job, and he has seen much success on the platform.
Through various phases of his career, XQC has been the streamer with the most subscribers on Twitch. He has a net worth of over $9 million.
Much of the wealth he possesses is not solely from Twitch, as he earned a pretty penny from his e-sports days and has various brand and sponsorship deals on YouTube and through his other social media accounts.
He is thought to earn around $3 to 4 million dollars from Twitch solely, which is still more than the two previous streamers combined.
2. Casimito – 78,321 Current Active Subscribers
Casimito is currently second place among Twitch Streamers ranked with 78,321 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 15,450 falls under the Paid category, 49,403 falls under the Prime category, and 781 falls under the Gifted category. As can be seen, most of the subscribers on his channel fall under the Prime category, meaning their twitch subscription is part of their Amazon Prime account.
Casimito, whose real name is Casimiro Miguel Vieria da Silva Ferreira, is a journalist and sports commentator from Brazil, among other things. He is known as one of the most popular streamers in Brazil.
Like Kai Cenat, he also has a YouTube channel alongside his Twitch channel, where he currently has over 6.25 million subscribers on his various channels. Aside from his channel, he also works on TNT Sports (Brazil), Ei Games, and De Sola.
On Twitch, he is known for streaming his reactions to various sports matches, playing the football video game FIFA, or simply talking to his fans about his various interests or any relevant news that strikes his interest.
He has a net worth of over $500,000. In 2021, it was reported that the streamer’s net worth was specifically $576,507. With 15,450 paid subs, each paying a minimum of $4.99 a month, he is making at least $77,095 from these subscribers alone.
Prime subs are stated to pay $2.5 each, so the streamer makes at least $147,714 from that subgroup.
1. Kai Cenat – 88,252 Current Active Subscribers
Kai Cenat is currently the Twitch streamer ranked with 88,252 current active subscribers.
Among these subscribers, 47,887 falls under the Paid category, 21,693 falls under the Prime category, and 16,150 falls under the Gifted category.
He is known for making vlogging and prank videos on YouTube, where he has over 3.09 million subscribers. As for Twitch, he has recently grown popular for including various rappers and other hip-hop-related individuals on his streams.
The first of these rappers was Bobby Shmurda, who appeared in April 2022 to widespread success. He then brought in Lil Baby in October and, most recently, 21 Savage in November, whose inclusion helped him reach 283,245 viewers, his highest yet.
He currently has a net worth of over $1.82 million, which is expected to grow even higher due to the increase in his current paid subscribers.
His paid subscribers are tens of thousands higher than other people on this list, meaning he rakes in at least $4.99 from each of his 47,887 paid subs.
The twitch streamer is making at least $238,956 from paid subs only. Then there are his prime and gifted subs, so Kai Cenat is seeing a meteoric rise.