FantasyHow much do OnlyFans creators actually make?
The platform publishes two numbers a year that settle this, and almost nobody divides one by the other. Here is the arithmetic, what the average leaves out, and what an account that is actually being run does instead.
Short answer
$104 a month per creator account. That is not an estimate. OnlyFans' operating company, Fenix International Ltd, files audited accounts at UK Companies House, and the filing for the year to 30 November 2024 reports $5.80 billion paid out to creators across 4.63 million creator accounts. Divide one by the other and by twelve and you get $104.39 a month.
It fell. The year before, the same two figures were $5.32 billion and 4.12 million accounts, which is $107.61 a month. Payouts grew about 9% and the number of creator accounts about 13%, so the pie got bigger and the average slice got about 3% smaller.
And it is an average, not a median. The same company reported in August 2026 that 5,076 creators have crossed $1 million in lifetime earnings. Against 4.63 million accounts that is 0.11%, about one in 900, and a handful of people earning eight figures pulls an average a long way up. The median creator account earns far less than $104 a month. Nobody publishes the median, and anybody who quotes you one is estimating.
The arithmetic, so you can repeat it
Two published figures, one division. Both come from the same audited filing, which is public and searchable at Companies House under Fenix International Ltd.
The year to 30 November 2024, as filed
| Gross fan payments | $7.22bn |
| Paid out to creators | $5.80bn |
| Kept by the platform | $1.41bn |
| Creator accounts | 4.63m |
| Per account, per year | $1,252.70 |
| Per account, per month | $104.39 |
The payout share works out at 80.3%, which is the 80/20 split the platform publishes, confirmed from the other direction. Source: Fenix International Ltd, audited accounts for the year ended 30 November 2024, filed at UK Companies House. Read on 23 September 2026.
The figure that actually tells you something: it is going down
One year is a number. Two years is a direction, and the direction is the part worth knowing before you plan anything.
| Year to 30 November | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Paid out to creators | $5.32bn | $5.80bn |
| Creator accounts | 4.12m | 4.63m |
| Average per account, per month | $107.61 | $104.39 |
| Fan accounts per creator account | 74.1 | 81.5 |
Money into the platform rose. People competing for it rose faster. That is the whole story of the last reported year, and it is why "OnlyFans is growing" and "the average creator is earning less" are both true at once and not a contradiction.
The fan count per creator went the other way, from 74 to 82. There are more fans per creator than there were, and less money per creator than there was, which means the gap is not a shortage of audience. It is a distribution problem: more accounts are failing to convert the audience that exists.
Why the average is not what you would earn
Three things sit inside that $104 and none of them is visible in the headline.
1. It counts every account, including the ones nobody is running
4.63 million is creator accounts, not working creators. It includes accounts opened and abandoned in a week, accounts that never posted, accounts opened to reserve a name. The platform has no reason to report a "currently active" figure and does not. So $104 answers "per registered account", and the number of people genuinely trying is smaller, which pushes the real working average up.
2. The distribution is not a bell curve, it is a long tail
0.11% of accounts have ever crossed a million dollars. At the top of that group are people earning more in a month than most accounts earn in a decade. An average over a distribution shaped like that tells you about the total, not about the middle. The median is the number that would answer your question, and it is not published by anyone, including us.
3. It is a yearly average of a monthly figure
An account that earns nothing for eight months and $1,200 in December averages $100 a month and has never had a $100 month. Most accounts that do earn something earn it unevenly.
What an account that is actually being run does
We publish the payout history of every account we manage where the creator agreed, as the platform's own screenshot with the months readable. Eleven of them are on the results page. They are not a sample of the market, they are the accounts of one agency that declines roughly 95% of applications, and they should be read that way. What they do show is the shape of the climb, which is the part no average can.
| Account | Starting month | Latest month shown |
|---|---|---|
| Longest run, 46 months | $51.84, November 2022 | $244,725.40, August 2026 |
| Came from another agency | $12,428.20, March 2026 | $84,941.85, August 2026 |
| Starter Track, from near zero | $480.00, May 2026 | $32,486.40, September 2026 |
| Starter Track, second account | $632.00, May 2026 | $13,641.60, August 2026 |
| Starter Track, fastest start | $606.72, July 2026 | $7,842.24, August 2026 |
| Already earning when it started | $4,174.98, October 2024 | $75,442.11, July 2025 |
The three Starter Track rows are the ones worth sitting with, because they start where the market average sits. $480 and $632 and $606.72 are ordinary numbers, the kind almost any account produces in its first months. The columns beside them are four months later.
The point is not that those figures are typical, because they are not, and eleven accounts prove nothing about a market of 4.6 million. The point is narrower and it is the only thing this data can honestly support: the distance between $104 a month and a five figure month is not crossed by a different kind of person. It is crossed by an account where the posting, the pricing, the messaging and the marketing are somebody's actual job.
How the market average and a $10,000 month fit together
A $10,000 payout month is 96 times the market average, which sounds impossible until you count it in subscribers instead of dollars. On our accounts a $10,000 month is about 300 paying subscribers, or about 2,500 free ones. Three hundred people. That is a full lecture hall, not a stadium, and it is the number that makes the gap between the two figures stop looking like magic.
The other half of the same arithmetic: those 300 spend $12,500 for you to be paid $10,000, because the platform takes 20% first. And the money inside that is not where people expect it. About 10% comes from subscriptions, 15% from tips and 75% from messages, which is why an account with a good subscription price and nobody answering the chat stays close to the market average no matter how good the content is.
Between $104 and $10,000 there is an intermediate step that most accounts never take, and it has its own arithmetic: how long until an OnlyFans account earns $1,000 a month. Every operating figure we publish, and the page each one is worked out on, sits in one table on how OnlyFans actually works, in numbers.
Frequently asked
What is the average OnlyFans creator income per month?
$104.39, worked out from OnlyFans' own audited filing for the year to 30 November 2024: $5.80 billion paid to creators across 4.63 million creator accounts, divided by twelve. The year before it was $107.61, so the average fell about 3% while total payouts rose about 9%.
Is the median the same as the average?
No, and the difference is the whole point. 5,076 creators have crossed $1 million in lifetime earnings, which is about one account in 900, and a tail that heavy pulls the average well above the middle. The median is lower than $104 and nobody publishes it, so treat any specific median figure you are quoted as an estimate rather than a fact.
How many OnlyFans creators make $10,000 a month?
The platform does not publish that breakdown. What it does publish is the lifetime million-dollar count, 5,076 as of August 2026. What we can say from our own accounts is what a $10,000 month is made of: about 300 paying subscribers, $12,500 of fan spend before the platform's 20%, and roughly 75% of it arriving through messages rather than subscriptions.
Why did the average go down while OnlyFans grew?
Creator accounts grew about 13% in the reported year and creator payouts about 9%. More people arrived than money did. Fan accounts per creator actually rose over the same period, from 74.1 to 81.5, so the audience is there; it is being converted by fewer of the accounts chasing it.
Can an agency change what an account earns?
It can change whether the work happens, which on the evidence is what separates the market average from a working account. Eleven payout histories with the months readable are on our results page, including three that started at $480, $632 and $606.72 a month. What an agency costs, and the point at which it pays for itself on your own figure, is worked out on what an OnlyFans agency costs.
Sources
The platform figures come from Fenix International Ltd's audited accounts filed at UK Companies House, for the years ended 30 November 2023 and 30 November 2024, as reported at the time of filing: for 2023 by Variety ($5.32 billion to creators, 4.12 million creator accounts, "a mean average of nearly $1,300 per creator"), for 2024 in coverage of the filing ($7.22 billion gross, $5.8 billion to creators, creator accounts up 13% to 4.63 million, fan accounts up 24% to 377.5 million), and from the company's August 2026 statement of the lifetime million-dollar creator count. Read on 23 September 2026. The accounts for the year to 30 November 2025 were filed on 20 September 2026 and were not yet public when this page was written, so every figure here will be worth recomputing once they are.
The payout histories are screenshots from the platform's own payout page, published with each creator's permission, with the months and amounts readable rather than retyped. Our own terms, the commission range and what we do and do not publish are on how we work.