How Much Are TikTok Gifts Worth in the UK?

Full TikTok Gift Price List in £ (2026)

Every TikTok gift is bought with coins, and coins are bought with real money. In the UK, the best-value coin bundle — 17,500 coins for £174.99 — works out to roughly £1 per 100 coins. Smaller bundles cost a little more per coin (the entry-level 70-coin pack is closer to £1.13 per 100), so the exact price depends on which bundle you buy and how many coins you need.

Here's what that means in pounds for TikTok's most popular gifts, from the 1-coin Rose right up to the 44,999-coin Universe.

These are rounded estimates based on the best-value UK bundle rate, and TikTok periodically adds, removes or reprices gifts, so treat them as current at time of writing rather than fixed forever. If you're working out the cost of a specific coin amount or comparing bundle sizes, our TikTok coins calculator does the exact maths and shows the cheapest way to buy any amount, including the coins-to-Diamonds conversion for gifts you receive.

How Much Is a Galaxy on TikTok?

A Galaxy costs 1,000 coins, which works out to roughly £10 in the UK at the best bundle rate — buying three of the 350-coin bundles gets you there for about £10.47, slightly cheaper than a single larger pack that overshoots what you need. It's a step up from small "thank you" gifts like the Rose or Perfume, but nowhere near the top of the gift menu — the Galaxy sits firmly in the mid-tier, popular during lives as a way to stand out in the comment feed without spending big.

When someone sends a Galaxy, TikTok converts the coin value into Diamonds for the creator at a 2-coins-to-1-diamond rate, then takes its own cut when the creator withdraws. After that split, a single Galaxy nets the creator around £2.50 — about a quarter of what the sender paid. The full breakdown of how that maths works is in the diamonds section below.

How Much Is a Lion on TikTok?

The Lion is one of TikTok's headline gifts — 29,999 coins, which comes to around £300 in the UK. It's the kind of gift that shows up in PK battles and big live moments, less a casual tip and more a statement. Only the TikTok Universe, at 44,999 coins (around £450), costs more.

On the creator side, a Lion converts to roughly 15,000 Diamonds. After TikTok's withdrawal cut, that lands at approximately £75 in the creator's payout balance — real money, but a much smaller slice than the £300 the sender spent buying the coins in the first place.

What the Creator Actually Keeps (TikTok Diamonds Explained)

Gifts don't pay creators directly in coins — they pay in Diamonds, TikTok's separate in-app currency for cashing out. The conversion is fixed: 2 coins sent equal 1 Diamond credited to the creator, a 50% cut before TikTok even gets involved in the withdrawal. Each Diamond is worth roughly half a US cent when converted to cash.

The second cut happens on withdrawal. TikTok keeps roughly half of the Diamond value again when a creator cashes out, which means the money that actually reaches a UK creator's bank account or PayPal works out to about 25% of what the gift-sender originally paid for the coins. Put plainly: for every £4 a fan spends on a gift, the creator who receives it usually ends up with about £1.

These figures assume the sender bought coins at the best-value bundle rate. If they used a smaller, pricier bundle instead, the creator's cut in pounds stays the same — it's the sender who pays more for the same gift.

TikTok's Cut and UK Cash-Out Thresholds

TikTok doesn't publish an exact percentage for its withdrawal fee, but the maths above — roughly 25% of the original coin spend reaching the creator — lines up with TikTok keeping around half of the Diamond value on cash-out, stacked on top of the 50% already lost in the coins-to-Diamonds conversion.

Before any of that reaches a UK bank account, there's a minimum balance to clear. TikTok tiers the threshold by account history: brand-new creators can withdraw from as little as $1 (roughly 70–80p) worth of Diamonds, established accounts typically need nearer $10–$20 (about £8–£16), and some payout methods or regions require up to $50 (around £40). There's also a $1,000-a-day (roughly £790) withdrawal cap, so Diamonds from one big live can take more than a day to fully clear.

UK creators usually cash out via PayPal or bank transfer, and TikTok reviews withdrawal requests within about 15 days. Exchange rates move, so treat the GBP figures on this page as a guide rather than an exact quote on any given day.

Gifts vs Other Ways UK TikTok Creators Get Paid

Gifting is only one income stream, and it rewards very different behaviour to TikTok's other payout routes. The Creator Rewards Program pays for qualified views on videos over a minute long — how much TikTok pays per view in the UK typically runs £0.40–£1.00 per 1,000 qualified views, which is steady but modest unless a video goes properly viral.

Gifting works on the opposite logic: it rewards a live, present audience rather than raw view count. A creator with a smaller but loyal following who streams regularly can out-earn a much bigger channel that never goes live. Follower count still matters as a baseline, though — TikTok gates LIVE access behind a follower threshold, and a bigger audience simply means more people in the room when the gifts start. Some creators pair steady content with a modest, well-paced boost from a service like UK TikTok follower growth to clear that threshold faster, though gifting income ultimately depends on the live itself holding people's attention, not the follower count alone.

Brand deals and TikTok Shop commissions round out the picture, and for most established UK creators they out-earn both gifts and Rewards combined. Gifting's real value is that it pays out immediately, in real time, directly from the audience — no brand negotiation or algorithm required.