Starter
$99$199 per month, billed yearly $1,188per month, monthly
3 reviewer seats, 100,000 items a month through AI scoring.
Choose StarterTwitch moderators for hire and Twitch moderation services for brands and esports
We supply trained Twitch moderators for brand channels, esports broadcasts, publishers and creators with sponsors. The team is scheduled around your stream calendar, works chat against your rules, clears AutoMod holds, handles raids with Shield Mode and logs every timeout and ban.
Tell the form what you stream and when. The next screen shows the team per shift and a monthly estimate.
Estimate in two minutes. No sales call needed. Your channel rules stay yours.
Paid Twitch moderators in plain terms
Hiring Twitch moderators makes sense once a channel earns money from the stream: sponsor reads, an official game or league channel, a product launch. Volunteer mods are great until the sponsor's logo sits next to a slur that stayed up for four minutes because nobody was on.
A managed team fixes the scheduling problem. Every stream on your calendar has named moderators on it, with backups for sick days, one shared rulebook and a log of each action. You pay one monthly retainer that covers the hours you stream, not an hourly invoice per person.
- Moderators booked for every scheduled stream, including late and weekend slots
- Two or more seats on big broadcasts, tournaments and launches
- Weekly report with actions by type and AutoMod hold times
What our Twitch moderators handle on stream and off it
Live chat is only part of the job. The quiet work between streams is what keeps the next broadcast clean.
During the stream
- Hate, harassment and slurs written with spacing, symbols or emotes
- AutoMod holds approved or denied within seconds, not left to expire
- Hate raids and bot waves stopped with Shield Mode, followers only or slow mode
- Spoilers, doxxing, self promotion and scam links removed
- Chatters flagged by suspicious user detection watched or restricted
- Questions for the host or sponsor surfaced to your producer
Between streams
- Unban requests reviewed by a different moderator than the one who banned
- Blocked terms and AutoMod level tuned after each incident
- Shield Mode presets kept current for the next raid
- Clips and VOD chat checked when a sponsor asks
- Ban evasion accounts linked and closed out
- Incident write up for anything legal, threatening or involving a minor
Twitch AutoMod, volunteer mods or a paid moderation team
AutoMod and community mods are free and should stay on. The table shows where each one stops once a channel streams for money.
| What matters | AutoMod and bots only | Volunteer mods | Moderators managed team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coded slurs and context | misses many | catches them when online | catches them, every scheduled stream |
| AutoMod held messages | sit until someone reviews | reviewed when someone is free | cleared within seconds |
| Hate raids | partial, rule based | best effort | Shield Mode runbook on every shift |
| Sponsor brand safety | no judgement | no contract, no accountability | written brand rules and an incident log |
| Coverage when the host travels or goes late | always on | whoever is awake | booked from your calendar |
| Cost | included with Twitch | no wages, high turnover | one monthly retainer |
Who hires Twitch moderators from us
Brands running their own channel. Product launches, live shopping and community streams where legal and marketing both sign off on what can stay in chat. We turn their brand rules into a decision list moderators apply the same way every time.
Esports teams and leagues. Match days pull tens of thousands of chatters, opponents' fans included. We staff two to four seats on finals and keep a lighter rotation for weekly shows. Our gaming moderation team also covers in game chat and player reports.
Publishers and studios. Official channels for reveals, patch streams and developer Q&As, often simulcast to YouTube. If the community also lives on Discord, the same team can cover it through our Discord moderation services.
Creators with sponsors. Full time streamers whose sponsor contracts include brand safety terms and who cannot keep a volunteer team online for every late stream.
How hiring Twitch moderators through us works
Most channels are fully covered within 30 days. A single weekly show can start sooner.
- 1
Send your rules and calendar
Channel rules, sponsor brand guidelines and your stream schedule. We write the decision list with you: what gets deleted, what earns a timeout, what is an instant ban.
- 2
Grant the Moderator role
Standard Moderator on Twitch, plus the same role on YouTube or Kick if you simulcast. No Editor access and no account passwords.
- 3
Shadow streams
For the first two or three streams our moderators work next to your current mods. You review their calls and we fold the corrections into the rules.
- 4
Full coverage and weekly report
Every stream on the calendar is covered. Each week you see actions by type, AutoMod hold times, raids handled and unban outcomes.
What it costs to hire Twitch moderators
Paid Twitch moderator listings in the US ranged from about $21 to $64 an hour in October 2026, according to ZipRecruiter job data. Hours are the part people underestimate. A channel live 4 hours a night, 5 nights a week, needs about 87 moderator hours a month for a single seat. A finals weekend with three seats for 10 hours a day adds another 60.
Hiring freelancers for that means separate invoices, no backup when someone is sick and no one checking consistency. A managed team is billed as one retainer sized to your schedule. The plan builder at the top estimates it from your platform, content types, volume, languages and coverage hours. The full method is on our content moderation pricing page, and the content moderation outsourcing cost guide compares per hour, per item and retainer billing.
If you only want better tooling for your existing mods, such as a shared queue, an appeals log and reports from your bot, the moderation software starts at $199 a month.
Sponsor brand safety on live chat
Sponsors increasingly write chat into the contract. We keep a short brand list per sponsor (competitor names, banned topics, how to handle complaints about the product) and moderators apply it only during that sponsor's segment. Every removal tied to a sponsor rule is tagged in the log, so you can show the sponsor what was handled.
Younger viewers and serious cases
Many gaming audiences include teenagers. Grooming signals, requests to move to private apps, threats and self harm posts are escalated to your team right away with the evidence saved, never handled as routine chat cleanup. Our moderators work with blurred media and rotation, as described in our moderator wellbeing commitments.
Twitch moderation questions
Can you hire a Twitch moderator?
Yes. You can pay a freelancer, hire a moderator on your own payroll, or use a managed Twitch moderation service. Twitch has no built in marketplace for paid mods, so channels that stream for sponsors or run official esports and game channels usually hire a team scheduled around their stream calendar.
How much does it cost to hire a Twitch moderator?
US listings for paid Twitch moderator jobs showed roughly $21 to $64 an hour in October 2026. A channel streaming 4 hours a night, 5 nights a week, needs about 87 moderator hours a month per seat, and big broadcasts need two or more seats at once. A managed team bills one monthly retainer instead.
Do Twitch moderators get paid?
Most Twitch moderators are volunteers from the streamer's community and are not paid. Paid moderation is common on commercial channels: brand channels, esports leagues, publishers and creators whose sponsors expect a clean chat. Those channels pay hourly freelancers or a managed service.
What permissions does a hired Twitch moderator need?
The standard Moderator role is enough to delete messages, time out and ban users, approve or deny AutoMod holds, switch chat modes and turn on Shield Mode. Editor access is not needed. The Lead Moderator role is only worth granting to the person who manages the rest of the mod team.
Can moderators cover YouTube and Kick chat when we simulcast?
Yes. When a stream runs on Twitch, YouTube and Kick at once, each chat gets its own moderator on the shift, working from the same channel rules, so a ban reason means the same thing on every platform.
Will hired moderators replace our volunteer mods?
No, unless you want them to. Most channels keep their volunteers for community feel and use our team to guarantee coverage on every stream, take the heavy raid and harassment work, and keep a consistent record. Both groups work from the same rules.
Get your moderation plan in two minutes
Tell us your platform type, content, volume, languages and SLA. The plan shows your team per shift, the AI and human split and a monthly estimate.
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