How much do OnlyFans creators make? Official figures, the real average and example scenarios

What OnlyFans paid creators: the official figures

The most reliable answer to how much OnlyFans creators make is in the company’s own annual accounts. In the financial year that ended on 30 November 2025, OnlyFans paid $6.2 billion to creators, according to the accounts of its owner, Fenix International Limited, filed at Companies House, the UK company registry. Fans paid $7.8 billion in total. Eighty percent of that is about $6.24 billion, which lines up with the 80/20 split between creator and platform.

Financial year (1 Dec to 30 Nov)	Fans paid	Creators received	Creator accounts	Average per account per year
2024	$7.2 billion	$5.7 billion	4,634,000	About $1,230
2025	$7.8 billion	$6.2 billion	5,063,000	About $1,225

The last column is our own division: total creator payouts divided by the number of accounts. Both years come out at roughly $102 a month, because payouts and accounts grew at almost the same pace, close to 9%.

Two definitions from the accounts matter when you read the table:

• Accounts are not active creators. Fenix counts every account that was created and has not been deleted or deactivated, whether it is active or not.
• Fan payments are net of sales taxes and refunds.

Why the average is misleading

An average of about $1,225 a year per account doesn’t describe any real creator, for three reasons:

1. It mixes active and inactive accounts. The division includes profiles that never posted or stopped long ago. That drags the average down, but it tells you nothing about what someone who actually works their account makes.
2. The money is highly concentrated. OnlyFans announced in August 2026 that 5,076 creators have brought in at least $1 million since 2016, as reported by Tubefilter. That is roughly one in every thousand creator accounts that existed at the end of 2025. When a few people earn that much, the average rises and stops resembling what most creators make.
3. It is money before costs and tax. What OnlyFans pays out is 80% of what fans pay. Currency conversion, bank fees, income tax and, if you have one, an agency’s commission all come after that.

A made-up example shows the effect. If ten accounts earn $0, $0, $20, $40, $60, $80, $100, $150, $250 and $9,300, the average is $1,000, yet nine out of ten make $250 or less. With data this uneven, the median (the middle value) tells you more than the average.

OnlyFans doesn’t publish a median or what each tier of creators earns. Your dashboard may tell you that you are in the “top X%” of creators, but not how much each tier makes, and the per-percentile earnings you see online are third-party estimates, not official data.

What your earnings depend on

Your earnings come down to simple arithmetic: how many fans pay, how much each one pays per month and how many months they stay. Each part has its own lever:

• Paying fans, not followers. What counts is how many people subscribe or buy, and they usually find you outside OnlyFans, through promotion.
• Your subscription price. It shapes who you attract and how much each renewal brings in. We cover it in how to price your OnlyFans subscription.
• Extras. Paid messages, custom content and tips. On a free page they are your entire income; on a paid page, they are the part with the most room to grow.
• Retention. Subscriptions renew automatically, so every extra month a fan stays adds income at no acquisition cost.
• Chat time. A fan who waits hours for a reply goes cold. Answering during their hours, not yours, is part of the job.
• Consistency. A posting schedule you can keep supports renewals better than an ambitious one you abandon.

How to improve each lever is covered in our guide on how to make money on OnlyFans. Here we stick to the numbers.

Example scenarios after the 20% fee

To give you a sense of scale, here are four made-up examples with round numbers, worked out with the 20% fee OnlyFans keeps. They are not averages or promises, just arithmetic.

Example	What fans pay per month	Total	OnlyFans (20%)	You receive
Just starting	40 subscribers at $5 and $60 in tips	$260	$52	$208 a month ($2,496 a year)
Small but steady	150 subscribers at $9.99 and 30 paid messages at $10	$1,798.50	$359.70	$1,438.80 a month ($17,265.60 a year)
Free page with an active chat	120 paid messages at $15 and $400 in tips	$2,200	$440	$1,760 a month ($21,120 a year)
Established account	400 subscribers at $12, 200 paid messages at $15 and $1,000 in tips	$8,800	$1,760	$7,040 a month ($84,480 a year)

Three things stand out:

• The fee scales with you. Whatever the size of the account, for every $100 your fans pay, you receive $80.
• A free page can out-earn a small paid one if the chat sells, but that income has to be earned again every month, with no renewals underneath it.
• The 2025 average per account, about $102 a month, sits below even the first example. With millionaires pulling the average up, that points to a lot of accounts earning little or nothing.

If you are in the UK, these amounts are paid in dollars and converted into pounds by your bank or payout provider, at their exchange rate and minus any fees. To run your own numbers, use the OnlyFans earnings calculator: it adds up subscriptions, paid messages and tips and shows what you receive per month and per year.

How much beginners make on OnlyFans

There is no official data on what a new creator makes, and you should be wary of anyone who quotes you a fixed figure: it depends mostly on the audience you already have when you open the account. Without one, the first months go into building it, and the money comes later.

What you can control from day one:

• Measure from the start. How many fans join, how many renew the following month and how much each one spends on average. Those three numbers tell you what is wrong before your balance does.
• Watch renewals, not just new subscribers. A small account that renews well has a base that grows; one that brings in plenty of fans and loses almost all of them starts from scratch every month.
• Plan for payout timing. Every payment sits as pending for a few days before you can withdraw it, so your first payout takes a while.
• Meet the requirements. To get paid you must be 18 or over, verify your identity and have a payout method in your own name.

What you actually keep in the US and the UK

What OnlyFans pays you isn’t what you keep: there are four deductions between a fan’s payment and your bank account.

1. OnlyFans’ 20% fee. What it covers and what OnlyFans doesn’t charge is in our guide to OnlyFans fees.
2. Currency conversion and bank fees. Payouts are normally in US dollars. In the US there is no conversion; in the UK, your dollars become pounds at your bank’s or provider’s rate.
3. Tax. In the US, if your net self-employment earnings are $400 or more in a year, you generally owe self-employment tax of 15.3% (12.4% for Social Security and 2.9% for Medicare) on top of income tax, according to the IRS. In the UK, the first £1,000 of trading income a year is covered by the trading allowance; above that, you need to register for Self Assessment, according to GOV.UK. This is general information: see our guide to OnlyFans taxes and talk to an accountant about your own situation.
4. An agency’s commission, if you work with one. It comes on top of OnlyFans’ fee and changes a lot depending on whether it is calculated on what fans pay or on what you receive. We explain it in what an OnlyFans agency charges.

If you are thinking about working with us, the conversation starts with your real numbers, not promises: what OnlyFans pays you today, how much comes from subscriptions and how much from chat. That shows whether there is room to grow and where it is, and you see it worked out before you sign anything.