How much is a Lion on TikTok?
The Lion costs 29,999 coins on TikTok: a viewer in the US pays about $310 to $450 for it, and the creator earns $150 after TikTok's cut. We saw it sent 606 times on the lives we monitor between 2026-10-05 and 2026-10-08. 29,999 coins — the gift people mean when they talk about someone landing a big one on live. Roughly $150 to the creator in a single send.
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29,999
what the viewer spends
29,999
creator-side face value
$310-$450
US web to app · varies by region
$150
take-home after the cut
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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 Lion 606 times between 2026-10-05 and 2026-10-08, inside a window of 1,805,979 gift events across 2,303 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 29,999 coins for the Lion cost about $310 to $450. The creator receives 29,999 diamonds, and diamonds cash out at an estimated $0.005 each, so $150 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 Lion on TikTok?
The Lion costs 29,999 TikTok coins, about $310 to $450 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 29,999 diamonds, worth about $150 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 Lion?
$150. Diamonds cash out at about $0.005 each and the Lion is worth 29,999 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 Lion costs 29,999 coins?
We read it off the live stream. TikTok includes the diamond value on every gift event, and we recorded the Lion 606 times between 2026-10-05 and 2026-10-08 across 1,805,979 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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