There is no TikTok rate we can honestly quote. We found no dated public source we could verify, and short-form income is set by the platform’s own deal terms, not a per-stream price like a music store’s. Your own statement’s short-form rows, divided by their units, give the only number that applies to you.
DistroKid’s help centre has an article titled “How Much Does TikTok Pay Per Stream?”, which shows the question is common. We could not open it, and the per-stream tables we did read (RouteNote, May 2025; Royalty Exchange, July 2026) do not include TikTok. So we are not giving a figure. Quoting a made-up one would be worse than none.
A music store pays out of a pool, divided by listener and country. Short-form platforms pay a licensed amount for uses of a sound inside other people’s videos, and what a “unit” means in your statement differs by platform. Two lines with the same count can pay very differently. Treat a unit on a short-form row as something other than a Spotify stream.
In your statement, take the earnings on the short-form rows and divide by the units on them, for each platform and country separately. That is your effective rate for those rows. It is a description of what you were paid, and it will move from month to month.
Open your own DistroKid statement here and see exactly what each store and platform paid per unit on your own rows — free, and it stays in your browser: https://musiciwant.com/musicians/distrokid
Last checked October 15, 2026. Sources marked “read as a summary” are pages we could see only as a search-result summary because the page itself would not open for us; we have kept those claims general and not quoted numbers from them. Per-stream figures are estimates from the two dated articles named below; none of them are ours.