Earnings
How Kome Hosts Earn Money
Kome Host earnings come from several distinct revenue channels, each contributing to the total income a host can generate from the platform. Understanding how each channel works helps you strategize your streaming approach for maximum earnings.
The foundation of Kome Host earnings is the platform's virtual gifting economy. Viewers who enjoy a host's content can purchase virtual gifts from the Kome app using real money. These gifts are then sent to hosts during live streams as a way of showing appreciation and support. Hosts receive a percentage of the monetary value of every gift they receive, which accumulates into weekly earnings settlements.
Call Revenue โ Earning from Private Calls
Kome Live offers a private call feature that allows viewers to initiate one-on-one video or audio calls with hosts. These calls are charged by the minute, with the cost deducted from the viewer's Kome coin balance. Hosts receive a significant portion of the per-minute call rate as direct earnings.
Call revenue can be extremely lucrative for popular hosts because fans who want personal time with their favourite host are often willing to spend significantly more per minute on private calls than they spend on group stream gifts. A host with 100 regular call clients spending 10 minutes each per week can generate substantial weekly call revenue alongside their streaming income.
To maximize call revenue, hosts should build strong personal connections with their audience during live streams, communicate their availability for private calls, and ensure their call setting is always active and responsive.
Gift Revenue โ Earning from Virtual Gifts
Virtual gift revenue is the primary earning channel for most Kome Hosts. During live streams, viewers select from a wide range of virtual gifts โ from small flowers and hearts to elaborate animated gift sequences โ and send them to the host in real time. The emotional and visual excitement of gift sending encourages viewers to compete in sending gifts, especially during special events and challenges.
The value of virtual gifts ranges from just a few coins to thousands of coins for premium animated gifts. Popular hosts who attract large, engaged audiences regularly receive hundreds or thousands of gifts per stream session. The cumulative value of these gifts, multiplied across daily streams, creates the foundation of a host's income.
Gift revenue grows directly proportional to audience size and engagement quality. A smaller, highly engaged audience will typically generate more gift revenue than a larger, passive audience. This is why engagement strategies are so important in Kome hosting โ the more your viewers feel connected to you personally, the more generously they gift.
Text Chat Revenue โ Earning from Messaging
Beyond live streaming, Kome Hosts can earn revenue from text-based chat interactions with their fans. Fans can send paid text messages to their favourite hosts, with each message carrying a coin value that translates to earnings for the host. This allows hosts to continue earning even when they are not actively broadcasting a live stream.
Text chat revenue is particularly valuable for building recurring income streams. Loyal fans who message their favourite host regularly create a consistent daily revenue flow that supplements streaming income. Hosts who respond promptly and engagingly to paid chat messages tend to encourage more frequent and higher-value messaging from their fan base.
Smart hosts treat their text chat as an extension of their streaming persona โ they maintain the same warm, engaging, personalized communication style that their fans love from their live streams.
Complete Earnings Breakdown
| Revenue Source | How It Works | Avg Monthly Range |
| Live Streaming Gifts |
Viewers send virtual gifts during broadcasts |
โน10,000 โ โน80,000 |
| Private Call Revenue |
Per-minute earnings from one-on-one calls |
โน3,000 โ โน30,000 |
| Text Chat Revenue |
Paid messages from fans outside streams |
โน2,000 โ โน20,000 |
| Event Prizes |
Contest and ranking event bonus payouts |
โน1,000 โ โน15,000 |
| Fan Subscriptions |
Monthly recurring fan support fees |
โน1,000 โ โน10,000 |
| Total Potential |
|
โน15,000 โ โน1,55,000+ |
*Ranges are estimates based on active hosts streaming 2-4 hours/day. Top hosts earning over โน1 lakh consistently stream 4-6 hours daily and have been active for 3+ months.