What Should You Set Your Bitrate At When Streaming to TwitchTV? (Twitch Bitrate Guide)

Figure out what your bitrate should be when streaming to Twitch can be a very difficult process full of trial and error. That is until you watch our complete guide to figuring out your bitrate for TwitchTV! This video goes over everything from how to figure out your bitrate for Twitch to how to see if your internet can livestream to Twitch; we cover it all!

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About this video: So you are wanting to stream to TwitchTV, but it is very confusing to figure out how much bitrate you should use, what quality you should stream out, and even how good of internet you need to make your stream watchable. Well, in today's video, I'm going to show you exactly how to figure out the best bitrate for your stream's quality, your own internet connection, and Twitch in general.

Twitch actually has a guide on encoding settings that you can check out linked below. This is very helpful, but I'm going to going over this in-depth and tell you some other general tips that I have picked along the way from streaming myself.

First things first though, most stream software has auto-configuration and bitrate settings that look at your computer's hardware and your internet speed to set your stream's quality and bitrate. I would recommend doing this if you can, and unless you run into any issues, stream with the settings your streaming software sets itself. If you are having issues, let's go ahead and start by figuring out your internet's upload speed.

You see most internet service providers market download speed. For Twitch streaming though, we need to look at upload speed. In some areas, it isn't uncommon to have 30MB download with only 3MB upload. How can you figure out your internet's upload speed? It's pretty simple. Go to the speed test link in the description and run a speed test. It will give you your upload speed and download speed. Once you have your upload speed, you need to convert it to kilobytes. You can do this by moving the decimal 3 places. Thus, a 3.5MB upload speed would be 3,500KB. An 8MB upload speed would end up being 8,000KB speed.

Once you figure out your upload speed, we can start looking at the max bitrate you can stream at. I wouldn't recommend streaming at a bitrate any higher than two thirds your upload speed. For example, if you have a 3,000KBs upload speed, you will need to stream at a no more than a 2,000KBs bitrate.

So, now that we have all of that figured out, what is the recommended bitrate for 1080P 60FPS streaming on Twitch? Well, anywhere between 4,500 and 6,000 will work perfectly. 720P 60FPS is 3,500 to 5,000. If you are want to stream at 30FPS, Twitch recommends 3,500 to 5,000 for 1080P and 2,500 to 4,000 for 720P.

Overall, you will need at least A 3.5 to 4MB per second upload speed to stream to Twitch at a reasonable quality. And with that, you now know how to find the perfect bitrate for you when streaming on Twitch. if you have any questions, please let me know if the comment down below, and give the video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't already. Thank you very, very much in advance! It really does help us out.

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[allraiders]

4:46 “that’s for crystal queer quality”

*camera gets blurry*

[ItsMrDanny]

the first guy that makes a good bitrate video with information about speed and bitrate

[ryanslack]

The camera is my favorite thing in this video. Every time he says "crystal clear" it goes blurry

[megastank]

The absolute most helpful video out there... I’ve been searching for a video like this for the past 3 days...

Thanks man I appreciate it!!!

[konrawatch]

The Internet Download speed is megabits not megabytes

[peter.vanburen]

love the video I have not the best internet so I was curious. if someone can help me and point me in the right direction. my internet is as follows: ping: 24 MS download is 15.12 upload is 4.33 MBPS so converting that to KBPS it, s 4, 330 KBPS. With is information since he says to not use more than 2/3rd of my overall upload will I be okay to stream at 720p 30 FPS?? I plan on upgrading my internet soon but that's another thing I need help with what a good internet to look into can't do Verizon fiber, not in my area same as google fiber. I could maybe look into AT&T Fiber but let's just say no fiber is in my area whats a good internet that isn't fiber to look into?? thanks love the video !!

[jioonn]

Btw, download and upload speeds are measured by Megabits not megabytes*

[tchn]

i have PING ms
8
DOWNLOAD Mbps
88.15
UPLOAD Mbps
15.91
What bitrate should I do for 1080p 60fps? right now it is at 5500 but my stream dosent look the best, what should I do?

[xtreme]

my upload speed is 37 mega up so what would be a good bitrate for that

[straw_]

My internet speeds are good: 247mb download, 73mb upload. I was streaming on Twitch the other day at 1080p 30fps and when i played back my stream, it looked pretty crappy and pixelated still. Why?

[LucaDC_]

What bitrate if i have 19.06Mbps upload speed

[spets]

My speed test results are 25 mbps download and 48 mbps upload, but when I stream on twitch using stramlabsobs my bit rate are spiking from 6000 down to 300 up and down. How to fix this?

[originallite]

Wat bitrate an quaity should i stream at my thing is 44530

[nothinbutk]

Can a low bitrate result in bad frames when the camera moves because when i move my camera in my games squares show and it looks like 480 p only when moved. If i put it higher can it look better on my xbox

[jayhollowayii]

i am trying to get my bitrate under control what numbers do i need for 16mbps down and 1.5up i can normaly stream on the ps4 at 540p and i am trying to get the same 540p number for streamlabs obs if anyone can help me thank you verymuch

[poison]

i don't know JACK SH*T about computers, but this was easy to understand, a very helpful video, thank you!

[yumyumyum]

I'm streaming with my bitrate set at 6k. Upload is 12Mbps. It's been working well a week ago. Now my streams are showing up as multiple videos in Twitch. Even monitored it and it periodically shows me as going offline then back again. No FPS drops. Just keeps restarting in SLOBS. Any ideas?

[chorroman]

I have 30mbps upload but I cannot get my stream to work at all I don’t know what’s going on I’ve tried everything

[mrdpar]

so my upload speed is 19.64 but other times, it hits the 20 which makes it at 19640 or 20000 what would my bitrate be? I use streamlabs though so I had to things manually

[drewgaming]

Lol I have 0.94 upload speed so what bitrate should I use