TikTok Statistics & Creator Economy Data 2026

Creator Economy Benchmarks

Key earnings and monetization metrics for TikTok creators in 2026.

Highest-Paying TikTok Niches (2026)

Revenue per 1,000 views (RPM) by content category, based on Creator Rewards + affiliate income.

RPM = revenue per mille (1,000 views). Includes Creator Rewards + average affiliate/shop income. MonetizedNow community survey, n = 2,400 creators.

TikTok Account Market Snapshot (September 2026)

What TikTok accounts are listed for on the open bulk market. We counted every listing type on Accs-Market's TikTok catalog on September 10, 2026 — 717 in total, of which 246 were in stock and buyable. The table counts the 246 you could actually buy that day.

The headline number: the median asking price for a bulk-market TikTok account is $2.78, down from $3.05 three weeks earlier, and the cheapest listings start at 14 cents. Supply grew faster than price fell — buyable listing types went from 143 to 246 — and the catalog piled into the $1–$10 band, which is now 56% of everything on sale.

The number that matters more is what a real audience sells for. On the same day, Fameswap's public completed-sales feed showed 11 TikTok accounts sold between September 2 and 9 at $50, $75, $100, $120, $130, $160, $195, $230, $250, $500 and $650 — a median of $160 in confirmed transactions, against $2.78 in asking prices on the bulk market. Those are two different products wearing the same name: one is a login, the other is an audience. Full price ranges by follower count are in our TikTok account value data.

Method: Accs-Market public TikTok catalog (accsmarket.com) and its four account sub-catalogs, fetched September 10, 2026 — 717 listing types found, 246 in stock and buyable, each counted once at its posted per-account price. Asking prices, not confirmed sale prices. Second source: Fameswap's public completed-sales feed (fameswap.com), 11 unique TikTok sales dated September 2–9, 2026; Fameswap's asking prices are behind a login and are not claimed here. One caveat we would rather publish than hide: our August reading recorded a $314.50 ceiling, but an Internet Archive capture of the same catalog from June 6, 2026 already showed $481, so August most likely missed the top of the follower tier. Treat the count, median and bands as solid and the change in the ceiling as unreliable. Free to cite with attribution.

TikTok Asking Price by Follower Count (September 2026)

The median TikTok account listed on the open market asks $80 and carries about 16,000 followers, which works out to $4.25 per 1,000 followers. We pulled every listing on Dealbaron's public TikTok catalog on September 17, 2026: 706 accounts across 23 catalog pages, each with a posted price and a seller-declared follower count.

This is the follower-count view that the bulk-market snapshot above cannot give, because bulk listings rarely state a follower number. Dealbaron took over Accs-Market's single-account marketplace. So the two tables read one market from two ends: blocks of logins there, single accounts with audiences here.

The bigger the audience, the cheaper each follower gets. Sellers ask about $46 per 1,000 followers on accounts under 1,000 followers and $1.35 per 1,000 on accounts above 500,000. That is a 34-fold drop in unit price from the smallest band to the largest. Price rises with follower count, but much more slowly than the count itself.

The busiest band is 10,000 to 49,999 followers: 249 listings, 35% of the catalog, at a median of $75 with the middle half between $50 and $130. That is the size most buyers search for, and it is where sellers compete hardest on price.

Only 86 of the 706 sellers (12%) state any monthly income, and among those who do, the median claim is $65 a month. The other 88% are selling an audience, not an income. Only 44 listing titles (6%) advertise a US audience, and the largest single category is "Luxury & Motivation" at 195 listings (28%), the classic repost niche.

The floor was $5 and the ceiling was $80,000, for an account with about 199,000 followers. Both are single listings. Read the medians and the middle halves as the market, and the two ends as noise.

These medians price a login with followers attached. Almost none of these accounts has Creator Rewards switched on, and most audiences sit outside the countries where it pays. What real US-audience accounts are worth, by size, is in our TikTok account value data, and what a payout-ready account costs, delivered with full credentials and a 30-day account guarantee, is on the monetized TikTok account page.

Method: Dealbaron public TikTok catalog (dealbaron.com/tiktok), fetched September 17, 2026, all 23 catalog pages, 706 listings, each counted once at its posted price and seller-declared follower count. Asking prices, not confirmed sales. Follower counts and income claims are the seller's statements and were not verified by us. Bands are by follower count. "Middle half" is the 25th to 75th percentile of asking prices in the band. "Per 1,000 followers" is the median of price divided by followers, times 1,000, within the band. Shares are rounded and sum to 101%. Each paragraph in this section has its own anchor, so a single fact can be linked directly. Free to cite with attribution.