How much do OnlyFans creators make? The maths from real prices

Updated October 30, 2026 · Figures come from TastyFans's index of public creator profiles and refresh hourly

OnlyFans pays creators 80% of what fans spend on them: subscriptions, pay-per-view posts and messages, and tips. Across all creator accounts, OnlyFans’ published figures work out at roughly $1,250 a year each, about $100 a month, and the typical creator probably makes less. What any one page earns depends mostly on how many fans pay. Here is the maths at the prices real pages charge.

How much of the money creators keep

Creators keep 80% of every payment and OnlyFans keeps 20%. Its terms set the fee at 20% of the total fan payment, deducted from each one, and a fan payment covers subscriptions, pay-per-view (PPV) content, tips and paid messages alike.

Prices and earnings are in US dollars. Your bank or e-wallet may charge its own conversion or transfer fees on top.
Where VAT or sales tax applies, it is added to the fan’s bill on top of the price the creator sets.
If a fan gets a refund or a chargeback, OnlyFans can take the creator’s share of that payment back.

Subscription maths at real OnlyFans prices

At the median OnlyFans price of $10 a month, a creator keeps $8 per subscriber, so 100 paying subscribers bring in about $800 a month before tax. Reaching $1,000 a month from subscriptions alone takes 125 paying subscribers at that price, and $3,000 takes 375. The median comes from the 46,863 paid OnlyFans pages TastyFans lists, and the commonest single price is $10.

What subscriptions alone bring in each month after OnlyFans’ 20%:

Paying subscribers	At $10/mo
10	$80
50	$400
100	$800
500	$4,000
1,000	$8,000

These are monthly figures after the fee and before tax, for a page that keeps every subscriber, with no PPV or tips. 27% of the OnlyFans pages TastyFans lists charge nothing at all and earn only from extras, while 2,704 creators say their subscription includes everything and rely mainly on the monthly price.

Where most of the money comes from

For many creators, the extras earn more than the subscription. Fans pay for locked posts and messages (PPV), and send tips on top of the monthly price, and every one of those payments is split 80/20 in the same way. OnlyFans doesn’t publish the split between subscriptions and extras, but a 2024 analysis of its published accounts by the analyst Matthew Ball estimates that more than 60% of fan spending now goes on these one-off payments rather than subscriptions.

That is one reason so many pages are free: anyone can follow a free page, and it earns from messages, PPV and tips instead. What PPV means on OnlyFans covers how those sales work, and free OnlyFans pages explains how a page with no subscription price still gets paid.

Average OnlyFans income: what the published figures say

Across all accounts, the average works out at roughly $1,250 a year, or about $100 a month. The published accounts of Fenix International, the company behind OnlyFans, show fans paid about $7.2 billion in the year to November 2024, and the company reported about 4.63 million creator accounts. Creators’ 80% of that is about $5.8 billion, and dividing it between those accounts gives the average. The year before, fans paid about $6.6 billion to about 4.1 million creator accounts, which gives a similar figure of about $1,300.

That average says little about a typical creator. It counts every creator account, including ones that never post or have no paying fans, and a few very large pages pull the figure up. OnlyFans doesn’t publish a median or how earnings are spread, so the typical creator very likely earns less than the average.

Why “average earnings” figures disagree

Figures you find online range from under $200 a month to many thousands. The usual reasons:

Average or median. A few top earners pull an average far above what the middle creator makes. A median is more useful, and OnlyFans doesn’t publish one.
Before or after the fee. Some figures are what fans paid; others are what creators kept, 20% less.
Who is counted. “Creators” can mean every account that switched on payments, or only active pages with paying fans.
Where the figure comes from. Earnings screenshots, agency marketing and small surveys come from creators who chose to share them, usually successful ones. Treat a figure without a stated source and date as a guess.

For prices rather than earnings, which can be counted, see OnlyFans statistics: they come from the public profiles TastyFans indexes.

When creators get paid

Creators withdraw their balance to a bank account or another payout method once it reaches OnlyFans’ minimum payout amount. OnlyFans’ terms don’t state the minimum or how long new earnings take to clear; third-party creator guides commonly put the minimum at $20 and describe a hold of about a week on new earnings, sometimes longer for new accounts, but the figures that apply to you are the ones shown in your account’s payout settings.

OnlyFans can also hold back earnings while it reviews a suspected breach of its terms or a fraudulent payment, and can deduct refunds and chargebacks from what you are owed.

How to work out your own earnings

Choose a price. See what pages in your niche charge with the price checker, or read how much OnlyFans costs. A free page is an option too.
Estimate paying subscribers honestly. Start from the audience you already have on other platforms; only a small share of followers usually pays.
Add PPV and tips per subscriber. Average them over every subscriber, including those who never buy anything.
Allow for churn. Most subscriptions run month to month and some fans turn off renewal each month, so a page needs new subscribers just to stand still.
Take off the 20% fee, and anyone else’s share. The income calculator does the fee and churn for you. If an agency or paid chatters help run the page, their cut comes out of your 80%.
Set money aside for tax. OnlyFans’ terms make creators responsible for their own tax. Ask a local accountant or tax adviser what applies where you live.

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Questions

How much do OnlyFans creators make?

Most make modest amounts. Across all creator accounts, OnlyFans’ published accounts work out at roughly $1,250 a year each for 2024, and the typical creator probably earns less than that average, because a few very large pages pull it up. Earnings depend on paying subscribers, price, and sales of PPV, messages and tips.

What percentage does OnlyFans take?

20% of every fan payment: subscriptions, pay-per-view posts and messages, and tips. The creator keeps 80%. VAT or sales tax, where it applies, is added on top of the fan’s price.

How many subscribers do you need to make $1,000 a month on OnlyFans?

At the median OnlyFans price of $10 a month, 125 paying subscribers, from subscriptions alone. PPV and tips lower the number; cancellations raise it.

What is the minimum payout on OnlyFans?

OnlyFans’ terms say only that your balance must reach the minimum payout amount. Third-party creator guides commonly put it at $20; your account’s payout settings show the figure that applies to you.

Do OnlyFans creators pay tax on their earnings?

Usually, yes. OnlyFans’ terms make creators responsible for their own tax. Rules differ by country, so ask a local accountant or tax adviser.

Prices are each OnlyFans page’s regular monthly price as shown on its public profile when we last checked it, without temporary discounts. TastyFans has no access to anyone’s earnings: the tables multiply public prices, and the averages above come from OnlyFans’ published company accounts.