Donastar vs Boosty — Features & Pricing
The moment a donation lands mid-stream — the alert bursts on screen and a viewer’s message is read aloud in your own show — the whole room changes. Donastar is built for exactly that ‘while you are live’ moment, bundling real-time donation alerts, multilingual TTS, AI widgets, and multi-platform unified chat into a single subscription. Boosty, meanwhile, is a creator monetization and membership platform (part of VK) loved for steady, recurring monthly support — tiers, posts, and goals for a growing fan base, no live stream required. The two optimize for different moments, so they pair nicely: memberships that tick along off-stream, and a stage that comes alive when you go live. This article puts them on the same axis so you can decide what your live stream needs.
Official service: streamer.donastar.tv
What Boosty does well
Boosty is a creator monetization and membership platform (affiliated with VK) where fans subscribe monthly to a creator’s tiers. Its strengths are clear:
- Flexible membership tiers — design your subscription levels the way you want
- Posts, goals & community — creator posts, funding goals, and a fan community
- Fast daily payouts — quick withdrawals paid daily to your card
- A growing creator base — an expanding user base and discovery
If you don’t necessarily stream and want steady monthly membership revenue — with goals and posts for a global community — Boosty’s flexible tiers and fast payouts are a real advantage.
What Donastar adds
Donastar also offers memberships (recurring monthly subscriptions) like Boosty, but its core is real-time on-stream donations and live operations tooling, added to OBS as a browser source:
- The stream comes alive the instant a donation lands — real-time on-stream cheers with message, image, and audio “signature” widgets
- A viewer’s message becomes a voice — 30+ multilingual TTS voices (KR/EN/JA/ZH) read donation messages aloud
- Every platform’s viewers on one screen — 12-platform unified live chat (YouTube, Twitch, SOOP, Chzzk, TikTok, Kick, and more)
- Pro-level production, no editing — AI image generation (Imagen), AI live chat, and VTuber, plus roulette, mission, goal, and spreadsheet widgets
- Steady monthly revenue too — monthly membership subscriptions (Stripe recurring)
- Keep your global fans — one USD price worldwide (Dona top-ups can be paid in local currency at checkout), settled via Stripe and Wise (USD)
In other words, where Boosty owns the off-stream monthly membership, Donastar handles everything that happens while you are live — real-time donations, multilingual TTS, multi-platform unified chat, and AI widgets that you would otherwise stitch together from several separate services, all in a single subscription. The live-donation alerts, TTS, widgets, and multi-platform chat are the live layer Boosty doesn’t cover, so the two complement rather than compete.
At a glance
| Feature | Donastar | Boosty |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly membership subscriptions | ✓ | ✓ (both) |
| Real-time on-stream donations (cheers) | ✓ | ✗ (not live) |
| Donation alert / signature widgets | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multilingual TTS (30+ voices) | ✓ KR/EN/JA/ZH | ✗ |
| Multi-platform unified live chat | ✓ 12 platforms | ✗ |
| AI image / roulette / Excel widgets | ✓ | ✗ |
| Creator posts / goals / community | Membership-focused (limited) | ✓ (Boosty) |
| Payment currencies | USD · local-currency top-ups | USD / EUR |
| Payouts | Global (USD, Stripe/Wise) | Daily (card, USD/EUR) |
How pricing differs
Boosty is free to create a page and takes a platform fee out of what fans pay. On card payments the platform commission is about 11.7% (2026, up from 10% in 2025), plus a withdrawal fee of roughly $1/€1 per payout. Payouts are made daily in USD or EUR to your card. (Exact fees and policies can change, so check each provider’s official information.) Boosty is a creator monetization and membership platform affiliated with VK.
Donastar’s fee is the world’s lowest at 5%. The 3% payment-network fee is deducted with it at settlement (an 8% settlement fee in total), and settlements requested within your first 3 months (under 5,000 Dona received) are 0% for both. Viewers pay a 10% payment fee when they buy Dona (1 Dona = $0.10), and streamer settlement is global in USD via Stripe and Wise. The broadcasting tools start free — the free plan includes every tool (a watermark appears only on the spreadsheet and team-battle widgets and the Whale Detector) — and Premium is $110/month ($99 for the first purchase), with higher Premium+/Max tiers. New accounts get 2,000 credits free, and the first Premium subscription includes a 7-day free trial.
In short, Boosty is “free to start + a fee on membership payments (~11.7%),” while Donastar is “the world’s lowest 5% fee (0% for the first 3 months) plus live-stream tools you can start for free (Premium optional).” The models differ, so rather than comparing fee percentages alone, choose by the kind of support experience you need.
Which should you choose
- Already on Boosty? No need to switch. Keep Boosty for your off-stream monthly memberships, goals, and posts, and add Donastar only for the live-stream donations, alerts, TTS, AI widgets, and multi-platform chat that bring your broadcast to life. It takes minutes to put on your stream.
- Not really streaming — steady monthly membership for a global fan base built on posts and goals comes first → Boosty, with its flexible tiers and fast daily payouts.
- Live streaming at the center, wanting real-time donations, multilingual TTS, and multi-platform chat — all in one subscription → Donastar. And you can use both: Boosty for the monthly membership, Donastar for the live stage.
Wrap-up
Boosty is a creator monetization and membership platform where posts, goals, and subscription tiers earn steady monthly support from a global fan base — no stream required. Donastar’s stage is live: real-time donations, multilingual TTS, multi-platform chat on one screen, editing-free AI production, and monthly memberships bundled into a single subscription. The two cover different moments, so they run happily together — Boosty for the monthly membership, Donastar for the live stage. If you want a live-stream layer for your channel, try it free first — it takes just minutes to put on your stream.
Get started — 2,000 free credits on signup · 7-day Premium free trial: streamer.donastar.tv
Contact: hello@donastar.tv
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