How much is a Dolphin on TikTok?
The Dolphin costs 20,000 coins on TikTok: a viewer in the US pays about $210 to $300 for it, and the creator earns $100 after TikTok's cut. We saw it sent 33 times on the lives we monitor between 2026-08-06 and 2026-08-11. Twenty thousand coins for the dolphin animation.
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20,000
what the viewer spends
20,000
creator-side face value
$210-$300
US web to app · varies by region
$100
take-home after the cut
How we know
This isn't copied from another gift chart. TikTok puts the diamond value on every gift event it sends, and we monitor live streams directly, so we recorded the Dolphin 33 times between 2026-08-06 and 2026-08-11, inside a window of 375,226 gift events across 1,315 distinct gifts. If a gift isn't on this site, it's because we haven't seen it sent.
Where the money goes
In the US a coin costs about $0.0104 on tiktok.com and about $0.0151 in the iPhone app (prices checked 2026-10-28), so the 20,000 coins for the Dolphin cost about $210 to $300. The creator receives 20,000 diamonds, and diamonds cash out at an estimated $0.005 each, so $100 reaches the creator's wallet. The gap is TikTok's platform cut, and it is already inside the $0.005 rate. Don't halve it twice: that mistake is why so many gift charts quote half the real payout.
Coin prices vary by country and by whether the viewer buys in-app or on the web, so the viewer-side figure is a range. The creator payout is the firmer of the two numbers. Convert any amount with TikTok coins to USD, or read the full workings on our methodology page.
How much is a Dolphin on TikTok?
The Dolphin costs 20,000 TikTok coins, about $210 to $300 for the viewer who sends it in the US: coins are cheaper on tiktok.com than in the app, and prices vary by region. The creator receives 20,000 diamonds, worth about $100 at the industry-standard estimate of $0.005 per diamond. TikTok's cut is already in that figure, and TikTok publishes no official rate.
How much does the creator actually get from a Dolphin?
$100. Diamonds cash out at about $0.005 each and the Dolphin is worth 20,000 diamonds. That figure is take-home: TikTok's cut is already inside the $0.005 rate, so you do not subtract another 50%.
How do you know the Dolphin costs 20,000 coins?
We read it off the live stream. TikTok includes the diamond value on every gift event, and we recorded the Dolphin 33 times between 2026-08-06 and 2026-08-11 across 375,226 gift events in total.
Want to see gifts like this land in real time, with the running dollar total for a creator's stream? That's what TikMonitor does. Or browse the full gift price list, the TikTok coins to USD calculator and the diamonds calculator.
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