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MrBeast vs PewDiePieA familiar rivalry. A dated channel comparison.

MrBeast vs PewDiePie is a comparison between two specific channels with different catalogs and publishing choices. The counter cards show today’s public scale; the saved daily records show the narrower period we can actually verify.

Account counts checked Oct 28, 2026 · Public data and source records

Main YouTube channels only: @MrBeast and @PewDiePie. Secondary channels, translated catalogs and off-platform audiences are excluded. Current counters and historical records show their own observation dates.

MrBeast ↗

@mrbeast · Main channel

LEADING

PUBLIC YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBERS

524,000,000
144.85B lifetime views1,009 public videos

Checked 2026-10-28 02:49:55 UTC · Source record ↗

PewDiePie ↗

@pewdiepie · Main channel

PUBLIC YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBERS

109,000,000
29.55B lifetime views4,668 public videos

Checked 2026-10-28 02:50:19 UTC · Source record ↗

VS
THE REPORTED SUBSCRIBER GAP415,000,000

MrBeast leads by approximately 415M subscribers in these dated public observations.

YouTube subscriber totals are rounded. Each source has its own retrieval time; these are dated observations, not a simultaneous live counter.

THE SAME METRICS ON BOTH SIDES

Subscribers, views and the size of the catalog.

MetricMrBeastPewDiePie
Public subscribers · rounded524,000,000109,000,000
Lifetime channel views144,848,012,90429,554,455,086
Public video count1,0094,668
Lifetime views / public video · catalog ratio143.56M6.33M
Current counter checked (UTC)2026-10-28 02:49:55 UTC2026-10-28 02:50:19 UTC
Paired recorded subscriber change6,000,0000
Paired recorded view change3,759,493,88716,696,214

The catalog ratio is lifetime channel views divided by the current public upload count. It is not a median, a new-video forecast or a count of unique viewers. Recorded changes below use a separate historical window.

THE RACE, OVER TIME

Daily counts with source records.

Last 30 days · Daily records

Showing 26 saved daily records · 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-27 (UTC). Growth is measured from the first record in this period.

These are saved Kabo artifacts, not a complete set of original daily API responses. The file date proves when a record was saved, not that every upstream counter refreshed. Lines connect observed dates; no missing values are inserted.

Change in saved view counts since Sep 28. Each value is the difference between saved cumulative counts; this is not a live counter.

Oct 27MrBeast 3.76BPewDiePie 16.7M
01.05B2.11B3.16B4.21BSep 28Oct 15Oct 27

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Collector timestamp 2026-10-27 23:02:53 UTC · Collector archiveMrBeast source JSON ↗PewDiePie source JSON ↗

Latest archive: 2026-10-27 (UTC). Each dot has a saved source record. Lines connect saved observations, including across missing dates; no counts are added for those dates. Rounded subscriber counts can stay flat while the channel gains subscribers.

26 paired saved dates, Sep 28, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026. The current counter cards were checked separately and are not silently added to the historical line.

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READING THE CONTENT

Scale, publishing choices and the existing audience.

01

The subscriber gap answers one question well.

The dated cards establish which main channel has the larger public subscriber total and the approximate size of that gap. They do not establish active monthly viewers or unique people. A subscription can outlast a viewer’s regular watching habits, and one person can subscribe to both channels. The daily records add a second question: how did the saved public counts move within this particular observation window? That is more specific than calling one creator universally more popular.

02

MrBeast’s sampled titles put the outcome up front.

Lose 150 Lbs Together, Win $250,000 and Eat Everything In A Grocery Store, Win $1,000,000 both combine a visible task with a stated reward. Other sampled titles use a city-building intervention or an escape challenge as the central promise. The transferable observation is the clarity of that headline setup. The titles alone do not reveal production cost, watch time or the reason for a video’s performance, so those are not estimated here.

03

PewDiePie’s sample leans on the person viewers recognize.

I Google Myself, Meet our newest family member and I tried to make a Manga frame the upload around a personal activity or update. Those examples contrast with a task-and-prize headline without proving that every upload follows one formula. The six displayed videos have different ages and cumulative totals; a raw comparison of their views would mix time and format. Subscriber scale and title strategy can be compared here, while a fair first-month performance study would need age-aligned historical video data.

VISIBLE UPLOADS · TITLE AND FORMAT CONTEXT

What do the channels actually put in front of viewers?

Six first-visible entries from each channel’s Videos tab in Latest order, checked Oct 28, 2026. This selection excludes separate Shorts and Live tabs. Views and relative ages are retained as displayed; these are cumulative counts at different ages, not a fair launch-performance ranking.

SOURCES & LIMITATIONS

Know what each number can answer.

Who has more YouTube subscribers?

The dated counter cards above show the public main-channel totals and the gap. Subscriber reporting is rounded; the figures are not live estimates.

Is this the PewDiePie vs T-Series subscriber race?

No. This page compares MrBeast with PewDiePie. PewDiePie vs T-Series has its own comparison page.

Does a flat subscriber line mean no new subscribers?

No. Rounded public reporting can stay unchanged while subscriptions and unsubscriptions occur. The archive only proves the values saved on its recorded dates.

Dated public counts

Current counts come from the linked public-data envelopes or the official YouTube About panels. Both include retrieval times. A saved text capture preserves what was visible; it is separate from the historical archive.

Saved history, with its limits

Historical points come from Kabo creator files or exact YouTube rows extracted from saved ranking artifacts. Source commits and checksums are retained. Repeated values do not prove zero activity, and changes in saved totals are not YouTube Analytics daily-view reports.

No private audience claims

YouTube’s public channel statistics do not provide private retention, watch time, revenue, unique viewers or audience overlap. None is inferred from the counters or titles here.

Inspect historical coverage and source dates

MrBeast · 26 historical observations

Saved dateSubscribersTotal viewsSource
2026-09-28518,000,000141,012,089,272JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-09-29519,000,000141,135,555,566JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-09-30519,000,000141,252,796,510JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-02519,000,000141,401,695,682JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-04519,000,000141,620,080,287JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-06520,000,000141,855,566,763JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-07520,000,000141,961,726,982JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-08520,000,000142,071,087,502JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-09520,000,000142,153,736,720JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-10520,000,000142,299,869,452JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-11521,000,000142,437,098,620JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-13521,000,000142,646,308,668JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-14521,000,000142,688,379,304JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-15521,000,000142,830,800,258JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-16521,000,000142,947,509,305JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-17521,000,000143,064,001,077JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-18522,000,000143,240,927,814JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-19522,000,000143,417,760,439JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-20522,000,000143,605,351,979JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-21522,000,000143,700,252,369JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-22523,000,000144,023,636,916JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-23523,000,000144,160,877,719JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-24523,000,000144,353,642,443JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-25523,000,000144,516,221,563JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-26523,000,000144,656,439,884JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-27524,000,000144,771,583,159JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗

PewDiePie · 26 historical observations

Saved dateSubscribersTotal viewsSource
2026-09-28109,000,00029,537,481,419JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-09-29109,000,00029,538,528,417JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-09-30109,000,00029,539,305,707JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-02109,000,00029,541,889,172JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-04109,000,00029,543,266,502JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-06109,000,00029,544,321,814JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-07109,000,00029,544,796,954JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-08109,000,00029,545,233,249JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-09109,000,00029,545,498,448JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-10109,000,00029,545,998,155JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-11109,000,00029,546,356,456JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-13109,000,00029,547,077,392JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-14109,000,00029,547,201,827JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-15109,000,00029,547,674,376JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-16109,000,00029,548,094,308JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-17109,000,00029,548,401,507JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-18109,000,00029,548,721,342JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-19109,000,00029,548,898,178JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-20109,000,00029,549,202,693JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-21109,000,00029,549,415,343JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-22109,000,00029,550,059,497JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-23109,000,00029,550,339,339JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-24109,000,00029,552,119,758JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-25109,000,00029,552,853,276JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-26109,000,00029,553,604,531JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
2026-10-27109,000,00029,554,177,633JSON ↗ · Source commit ↗
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