How much does Sweatcoin pay?

Sweatcoin is the third distinct answer we have found to this question, and the most lopsided. It publishes its earn rate exactly, to the step, with the commission named. It publishes no price for the thing that rate earns you. And the rate is capped in a way that changes what the app is for: on a free account, walking stops paying at 10,000 steps a day.

The rate is published, and it has a hard stop

Two Sweatcoin help articles, read together, settle the earning side of this completely. Almost nothing written about the app puts them side by side.

• 1,000 verified steps make 1 sweatcoin, less a 5% commission. Sweatcoin states the rate and works the example itself: 10,000 steps a day earns 9.5 sweatcoins. It also says its algorithm detects shakes and bumps and discounts them, so a real conversion rate is never 100%.
• Free-plan users earn sweatcoins on steps from 0 to 10,000 a day. Premium widens that window to 20,000. This is stated in the article about $SWEAT, which is where nobody looks for it.

Put them together and the answer to the heading is a ceiling rather than a rate. 9.5 sweatcoins a day is the most a free account can earn, and every step past ten thousand is unpaid. A twenty-thousand-step day and a ten-thousand-step day are worth exactly the same to your balance.

That is not a criticism, and Sweatcoin has a defensible reason for a cap. It is simply the opposite of how the app is usually described. “It pays you to walk” implies more walking pays more, and above ten thousand steps it does not.

The ceiling, multiplied out

Every row below is derived, from Sweatcoin's published rate and Sweatcoin's published step window and nothing else. The arithmetic is 10,000 steps, divided by 1,000, less 5%, which is 9.5.

• 9.5 sweatcoins a day — the free-plan maximum.
• 66.5 a week — 9.5 times seven, walking 10,000 steps every single day.
• 3,467.5 a year — 9.5 times 365, before the shake discount takes its cut.
• 19 a day, 6,935 a year — the same sum on Premium, where the window runs to 20,000 steps.

Those are ceilings and not forecasts, and they are also the most precise answer this question has. The problem is what happens next. Multiply 3,467.5 by the price of a sweatcoin and you get the dollar figure everybody wants, except that the price of a sweatcoin does not exist.

The number that does not exist: what a sweatcoin buys

On most apps in this category the exchange rate is unpublished but real, sitting in a store you can see once you install. Mistplay is like that. Sweatcoin is a step further out: there is no fixed rate to publish.

Its own description of the marketplace explains why. Offers change at least once a day. Some are paid for entirely in sweatcoins. Others are discounts, where you spend sweatcoins and then still pay the brand in dollars to complete the purchase. The larger items sit in an Auctions feature, and the help-center article about them is titled “Some of your offers are unattainable” — Sweatcoin's word, not ours — describing them as something to work toward over the long haul.

So the same balance is worth different amounts on different days, and the price of the good things is set by what other users are willing to bid. That is a coherent design and it is honestly described. It also means the question in the heading has no dollar answer, not because Sweatcoin is withholding one, but because there is not one to withhold.

The one route to cash is an auction

The help center is direct that sweatcoins cannot be cashed out via PayPal or bank transfer. The same article then names an exception that deserves more attention than it gets: there is no route to real money other than purchasing one of our PayPal or Amazon vouchers, which feature regularly in our auctions.

That single sentence is the whole answer to whether Sweatcoin pays cash. It does, sometimes, in voucher form, at a price other bidders decide. A withdrawal has a rate you can check before you start. An auction has a clearing price you discover afterward, and only if you win.

It is worth setting against Swagbucks, where every reward is priced in public before you sign up. Both apps are legitimate and both disclose their mechanics. Only one of them lets you work out the deal in advance.

Premium, and the second price that is not printed

Premium doubles the earning window to 20,000 steps. What it costs is not on the website. The help-center article on subscription plans sets out the seven-day trial and monthly or annual billing, mentions deep discounts on the annual plan, and then asks you to check the Sweatcoin app for the latest pricing. The article actually titled “Does Sweatcoin cost anything?” names Premium and does not price it either.

We looked for it on Apple's product page as well, and want to be careful about what that showed: Apple's web listing says only that in-app purchases exist, with no prices. We checked a competitor's listing the same way and it behaves identically, so this is how Apple's pages work and not something Sweatcoin has done. The result is the same for a reader either way. Both prices in this economy — what you pay for Premium, and what a sweatcoin is worth — are visible only from inside the app.

The same article carries a fair use policy whose numbers do not reconcile with the rest of the help center. It gives the Premium daily limit as 100 sweatcoins, which it describes as equivalent to over 52,000 steps. At the published rate of 1,000 steps less 5%, 100 sweatcoins would take about 105,000 steps, so the 52,000 figure implies a Premium rate roughly double the standard one, which no Sweatcoin article states. Either way, 52,000 steps sits well outside the 20,000-step window the same help center gives for Premium, which makes the fair use limit unreachable by walking. We have not found a reading that squares the two.

The $SWEAT half, which is a different question

There is a second currency, minted in the separate Sweat Wallet app, and it genuinely converts to money because it trades on exchanges. Three published facts decide how much it can pay.

• Sweatcoins and $SWEAT never convert. The help center is explicit: the two are separate currencies, and the only way to mint $SWEAT is by walking with both apps installed. A large sweatcoin balance buys no tokens.
• Your first 3,000 steps mint nothing. After a July 2024 community vote, which Sweatcoin says drew more than 70% support, free-plan minting runs only on steps between 3,000 and 10,000 a day. So the $SWEAT window is 7,000 steps wide while the sweatcoin window is 10,000.
• The token traded at $0.0003555 on 25 August 2026, about 2,813 tokens to the dollar, at a market capitalization of $4.7 million. Its listed maximum supply is unlimited.

We are not going to convert steps into dollars through $SWEAT, for the reason our review gives: the current mint rate per step is not published, and every steps-per-token number in circulation is an estimate presented as a fact. A page that will not estimate the sweatcoin side cannot estimate this side either.

The whole sum, side by side

Same rows as the other two pages in this format, so all three compare. Every Sweatcoin figure is published or derived from a published one, read on 25 August 2026.

The top two rows are the point of the table, and they run in opposite directions. Sweatcoin publishes what a step earns and not what the earnings are worth. We publish what a coin is worth and not what a milestone earns. Neither column adds up to a complete answer on its own.

What Sweatcoin does better than we do

This section is on every page we write about a competitor, and on the narrow question of publishing earnings, one item here is a concession rather than a compliment.

• It publishes a per-action rate and we do not. Sweatcoin tells you what 1,000 steps earn before you install. Our Step and Earn page says a milestone lands every 500 steps and never says how many coins a milestone pays. That is precisely the omission this page is built around, and it is on our side of the table.
• The ceiling is far above ours. Our own page says a steady walker reaches the $2.00 threshold in about a month, which is roughly twenty-four dollars a year. A single good item won at a Sweatcoin auction can be worth more than that. We cannot price the average, but we are not going to pretend the upper end is close.
• It is on Android. Step and Earn is iPhone and iPad only, and step counting is tied to Apple Health, so for most of the world this comparison does not start.
• It names its business model plainly. Asked how it makes money, the help center answers in one sentence: brand partnerships in the marketplace, ad revenue, and healthcare and insurance partners. Plenty of apps in this category do not answer that question anywhere.
• It is a better reason to walk. Challenges, badges and a large community keep people moving, and none of that depends on the payout being any good.

Three ways this question gets answered

With three of these pages written, the useful pattern is not about any one app. It is that “how much does it pay” has exactly three failure modes, and knowing which one you are in tells you what to do next.

• Both halves published. Swagbucks. Do the division, read the same reward at every denomination, and the answer is a number you can act on.
• Numerator published, denominator hidden. Sweatcoin, and this page. You can calculate the ceiling to one decimal place and still not have a dollar figure, because the price only exists inside the app or inside an auction.
• Neither published, and the rate is personal. Mistplay, whose terms say different users may be paid differently for identical actions. Here nobody can answer the question, including the company, and other people's payout screenshots are evidence about those people.

The second case is the easiest one to mistake for the first, because the published half looks so precise. A rate quoted to the step feels like a real answer. It is half of one, and the missing half is the half with dollars in it.