Instagram Gifts eligibility: countries list and requirements

Instagram Gifts eligibility depends on where you live and on your account: you need a professional (creator or business) account, you must be 18 or older, you must live in a country where Instagram offers Gifts, and you must follow Instagram's monetization policies and accept the Gifts terms. The only reliable country list for your account is the Gifts entry in your Professional dashboard, because Instagram adds countries without fixed announcements.

This guide covers how the Gifts country rollout has developed, every requirement in one checklist, how to check and turn on Gifts for Reels, and what to fix when the option does not appear.

Which countries is Instagram Gifts available in?

Instagram Gifts is available in the United States and in a growing list of other countries, and Instagram publishes the current list in its Gifts help article rather than in dated announcements. The rollout so far happened in clear stages:

• November 2022: Instagram started testing Gifts on Reels with a small group of US creators.
• February 2023: Meta expanded Gifts to more creators across the US.
• September 2023: Instagram opened Gifts to creators in more than 30 additional countries; coverage named Ireland, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia among them.
• Since then: Instagram has published no dated country announcement; its help article is where any changes to the list appear.

Because the list changes, a "2026 list" copied from a third-party site can already be out of date. If your country is not on Instagram's help page and the Gifts option is missing from your dashboard, Gifts is not available to you yet; there is no legitimate way to unlock it from another country, and using a false location breaks the monetization terms and can put payouts at risk.

Instagram Gifts requirements checklist

Instagram Gifts requires an eligible account, an eligible creator and an eligible country at the same time; missing any one of them hides the feature. Check each item:

1. Professional account: a creator or business account, not a personal account.
2. Age: you must be 18 or older.
3. Location: you must live in a country where Gifts is offered.
4. Followers: the 2023 expansion required more than 5,000 followers. Instagram can change this threshold without an announcement, so treat your dashboard as the authority rather than any fixed number.
5. Policies: your account must meet Instagram's Partner Monetization Policies and Content Monetization Policies, and you must agree to the Gifts terms.
6. Payout account: you need a payout account set up in the Professional dashboard to actually receive the money.

Account health matters as much as the numbers. A profile with recent policy violations can fail the monetization check even when it meets the age, country and follower conditions.

How to check eligibility and enable gifts on Instagram Reels

You check Instagram Gifts eligibility and turn the feature on in the same place: the Professional dashboard in the Instagram app. Meta itself points creators there to check eligibility.

1. Open the Instagram app and go to your profile.
2. Tap Professional dashboard.
3. Look for Gifts in your tools or monetization section. If it is not listed, your account or country is not eligible yet.
4. Tap Gifts, review and accept the terms, and turn on gifts for your reels.
5. Set up a payout account in the same dashboard so earnings can be paid out.

Once Gifts is on, viewers can send gifts on your eligible reels. You can usually turn gifts off for a single reel in its advanced settings while posting, or for all reels from the Gifts settings. Instagram moves menu labels between app versions, so if a label differs on your phone, search for "Gifts" in the app's settings.

To stay safe while you build an audience, also turn on two-factor authentication for Instagram, because a monetized account with a payout method is a more attractive target for account takeovers.

How much creators earn from Instagram Gifts

Instagram Gifts pays creators one US cent for every Star received. Viewers buy Stars in the app and spend them on gifts, and the creator receives that fixed amount per Star, whatever the viewer paid for the Stars. A gift worth 100 Stars therefore earns the creator about $1.

Earnings appear in the Professional dashboard, and Instagram pays them monthly once your balance passes the minimum payout threshold. At the 2023 launch that threshold was $25, including earnings from other Instagram monetization tools. Minimums can differ by country and payout method, so check the Payouts section for the figure that applies to you.

Set up the payout account early. In the 2023 terms, creators who had not connected a payout account within 6 months lost the right to those earnings.

Why Instagram Gifts is not showing up

When Instagram Gifts does not appear, one of the eligibility conditions is usually missing. Use this table to narrow it down:

Updating the Instagram app also helps, because new monetization options often reach older app versions late.

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