Average OnlyFans Income in 2026: How Much Do Creators Make?

The average OnlyFans income in 2026 depends on which number you trust, because OnlyFans does not publish a typical-creator income figure.

The latest audited accounts for Fenix International Ltd, OnlyFans' parent company, cover fiscal 2025 (the year ended 30 November 2025).

They show $7.8 billion in fan payments and about $6.2 billion paid out across 5.063 million creator accounts, against 4.634 million the year before. Divide those payouts by every account, including inactive ones, and you get a mean of about $102 a month after the platform's 20% fee.

The $180 a month figure still quoted as a 2026 average is older than that. It is a median from Thomas Hollands' April 2020 modeled sample of about 1,000 accounts, before tips. Viral dashboards are a third thing.

Sophie Rain's January 2026 screen recording showed about $101.2 million in all-time gross earnings, not $40 million a month.

Those three numbers answer different questions. Mixing them is how this topic gets so wrong.

Figures below were checked against the cited sources on 3 October 2026.

Key takeaways

• There is no official "average OnlyFans income." Every figure you see is one of three different things.

• FY2025 filing (mean): about $102 a month after fees, dividing all creator payouts by every account, including inactive ones.

• 2020 sample (median): about $180 a month gross, from roughly 1,000 accounts, tips excluded. Still quoted as a 2026 average, wrongly.

• Viral dashboards: one creator's self-shown lifetime gross. Sophie Rain showed about $101 million in January 2026. Not audited, not typical.

• Earnings follow a power law. In the 2020 sample the top 1% took 33% of the money and the most common take-home was $0 .

• OnlyFans keeps 20% of fan payments. What you keep is that, minus tax, tools, and promotion.

The three numbers at a glance

Average OnlyFans Income vs Median Income

An average, or mean, adds up all creator payouts and divides them by the number of accounts. A median is the middle account when every account is lined up from lowest to highest earnings.

When a small share of accounts earns most of the money, the mean sits well above what a typical creator makes. That is why the two should never be swapped.

There is no official OnlyFans salary. When a page gives you one number, it is almost always one of these:

Fenix filing. Audited totals for a fiscal year. This is not a typical creator month.

Hollands 2020. A median from a sample of public-ish profiles. This is not a 2026 official average.

Dashboard receipts. One person's gross, self-shown. This is not audited, not net, and not typical.

Gross fan spend is what fans paid. Creator payout is 80% of that, after OnlyFans' cut. Take-home is payout minus tax, tools, promotion, and any management fees. Those three are not the same number.

Gross, payout, and take-home are three different numbers. Most "OnlyFans income" claims quietly swap one for another.

What the FY2025 filing actually shows

Fenix International Ltd files annual accounts in the UK. Its report for fiscal 2025 was published in August 2026 and filed at Companies House on 20 September 2026. The line items that matter for creator income, with the prior year for comparison:

Fiscal year end: 30 November 2025 (annual report)

Gross fan payments: $7.8 billion, up from $7.2 billion (annual report)

Paid to creators: about $6.2 billion, per the filing (OnlyFans' own announcement, reported by Variety, put it at $6.3 billion)

Platform revenue: $1.55 billion, up 10% (annual report)

Pre-tax profit: $715 million, up 5% (annual report)

Creator accounts: 5.063 million, up 9% from 4.634 million (annual report)

Fan accounts: 437.1 million, up 16% from 377.5 million (annual report)

Stated split: 80/20, described as $4 to creators for every $1 the group keeps (annual report)

"OnlyFans provides real opportunities to real people by creating a safe, regulated space where people can monetize their content with a global fan base," OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair said in the statement released with the fiscal 2025 results, quoted by Variety.

Two pieces of arithmetic, labelled as derived from those totals, not as figures OnlyFans published per creator:

$6.2 billion divided by 5.063 million accounts is about $1,225 per account per year, or about $102 a month after the 20% fee.

$7.8 billion divided by 5.063 million accounts is about $1,541 per account per year, or about $128 a month in gross fan spend per account.

Inactive and abandoned accounts sit in that denominator. The mean is not what an active poster makes.

Variety and the BBC reported that about 2.5 million creator accounts were active in fiscal 2025. That active count comes from press reports, not from a figure we could check in the filing.

If you divide $6.2 billion by that reported 2.5 million, you get roughly $207 a month. That is our derived average, not a median and not a typical salary. We found no active-only median from OnlyFans.

For comparison, Variety reported the fiscal 2024 accounts as $7.22 billion in fan payments and $5.80 billion to creators across 4.634 million accounts, or about $104 a month per account.

The FY2025 report restates that 2024 payout as $5.7 billion, so check which version a year-on-year comparison is using.

Ownership changed in 2026. Leonid Radvinsky, who owned OnlyFans, died in March 2026, which OnlyFans announced on 23 March 2026 in a statement reported by BBC, Bloomberg, and Reuters. UK filings later showed his widow, Yekaterina Katie Chudnovsky, as a person with significant control.

That is context. It does not change the FY2025 math.

OnlyFans Revenue and Net Worth in 2026

OnlyFans has not published any 2026 results yet. Its fiscal 2026 year ends on 30 November 2026, and those accounts are due at Companies House by 31 August 2027. The latest audited figures are for fiscal 2025.

Revenue here means the fee OnlyFans keeps, not everything fans spend. The accounts say gross site volume is not statutory revenue, because the creators' share passes through the platform.

The profit is large for a company with an average of 47 employees, which works out to about $33 million of revenue per employee. The directors' report also says the group has no external financing and no debt.

OnlyFans has no public share price, so there is no market value to quote as its net worth. The clearest marker is a private deal.

In May 2026 Fenix sold a 16% stake to the investment firm Architect Capital for $535 million. Variety, Bloomberg and Reuters reported that the deal valued the company at about $3.15 billion.

Most of the profit has gone to the owner as dividends. After the $535 million paid for fiscal 2025, Fenix declared four more dividends totalling $174 million between 16 January and 26 March 2026.

Is OnlyFans Still Profitable in 2026?

For the company, yes, on the latest numbers. In fiscal 2025 revenue rose 10% and profit before tax rose 5%, while creator accounts grew 9% to 5.063 million and fan accounts grew 16% to 437.1 million. Results for 2026 have not been published.

For creators, it is profitable for some and not for most. The mean across every creator account in fiscal 2025 was about $102 a month after the 20% fee.

Divided across the roughly 2.5 million active accounts reported by Variety and the BBC, it is about $207 a month. That is a derived average lifted by the biggest earners, not a median or a typical salary.

More creators are also chasing the same fans. Fan payments rose about 9% in fiscal 2025, roughly the same pace as creator accounts, so the payout per account barely moved.

Whether it is still worth it for you depends on the audience you bring and your costs after the fee. Tax, promotion and any agency share all come out of your 80%.

OnlyFans Median Income: Where the $180 Figure Comes From

On 24 April 2020, Thomas Hollands published an analysis called The Economics of OnlyFans. He sampled about 1,000 accounts. He estimated fans from likes per post, used the lowest listed subscription price when an account had several, and said tips were not in the data.

The biggest accounts, he wrote, were not in the sample.

What he reported:

The median account made about $180 a month in gross subscription revenue.

After a 20% cut, he put median take-home at about $136 a month . Most accounts took home under $145. The most common values were $0, then $4.99.

The top 1% of accounts in the sample made 33% of the money. The top 10% made 73% . He calculated a Gini index of 0.83.

The most common monthly take-home in the 2020 sample was $0. The second most common was $4.99.

He wrote that top accounts make something like $100,000 a month, and that those accounts were not in his sample.

That $180 is a median from a 2020 modeled sample by Thomas Hollands, an independent analyst. It is not a 2026 official average or a current median.

We found no newer public sample of the same kind. It is still useful, as long as the year and the method travel with it.

Do not mix the filing and the sample

The FY2025 mean (about $102 payout across all accounts) and the 2020 sample median ($180 gross across about 1,000 profiles) are not the same statistic. They use different years, different populations, and different definitions of earn.

Pages that say the average is $131 and the median is lower are usually stitching those two sources together. You cannot read one as a correction of the other.

You can apply Hollands' 33% top-1% share to the FY2025 payout total as a thought experiment. 33% of $6.2 billion is about $2.05 billion. One percent of 5.063 million accounts is about 50,600 accounts.

That comes to about $40,400 a year , or about $3,400 a month , after the platform fee, if the 2020 share still held.

That is derived, not measured. OnlyFans has not published a current top-1% dollar figure. Treat $3,400 a month as a stretch of an old share onto new totals, not as a salary.

It is also incompatible with the claim that the top 1% earn $20,000 to $100,000 a month. That range would require the top 1% of accounts to take far more than 33% of FY2025 payouts.

Why Celebrity Earnings Are Not Typical

OnlyFans does not publish a top earners list or rank its creators by income. Any top 10 or top 100 list with dollar figures is an estimate, not data from OnlyFans.

Headline earnings are self-shown, usually gross, and not audited. They show the ceiling, not the average.

Sophie Rain. In January 2026 she posted a screen recording of her OnlyFans dashboard. Secondary reports, including NDTV citing Complex, put the all-time gross figure on that recording at $101,209,778.70.

That is a self-shown lifetime gross total, not an audited figure, not a monthly figure and not take-home pay. LADbible reported a later self-shown total of about $110.3 million in May 2026.

Claims that the top 10 accounts earn $1 million to $10 million a month circulate widely. We found no filing, sample or named receipt that backs them up.

The company accounts do not rank creators. In a 2026 statement reported by Variety, OnlyFans said 5,076 creators had earned more than $1 million since its 2016 launch, a lifetime count rather than a monthly one.

We compare OnlyFans top earners and their reported earnings in a separate guide, with each figure's period, gross or net basis and source.

How Much Does OnlyFans Take?

The FY2025 annual report is the clean source for the split. It describes an 80/20 revenue distribution, with $4 going to creators for every $1 the group retains, and it shows about $6.2 billion of the $7.8 billion in fan payments reaching creators.

OnlyFans Help says creators receive 80% of any fan payment, including subscriptions, paid messages and tips, and that OnlyFans keeps 20%. The Terms of Service put it the same way: the fee is 20% of the total fan payment.

The 20% is the platform commission. It is not your whole cost of doing business. US self-employed creators also face self-employment tax (15.3%, charged on 92.35% of net earnings, before income tax). Banks can charge to receive a wire. Some payout methods list their own minimums.

Management or chatting agencies, if you use them, take a further cut.

Illustrative take-home on $1,000 of fan spend, labelled as a sketch, not a measurement:

Do not plan your rent around $687. The sketch only shows US self-employment tax, in simplified form, and stops before income tax.

There is no single OnlyFans tax rate. What you owe depends on your country, your total income, your filing status, and which costs you can deduct.

Creators outside the US follow their own country's rules. Speak to a tax professional where you live before you decide how much to set aside.

For US creators, OnlyFans typically issues a 1099-NEC if you are over the IRS reporting threshold, which rose from $600 to $2,000 for payments made in 2026 or later. Your OnlyFans tax settings show which forms apply to you.

Niche sites sometimes take a smaller commission than 20%. Compare the live fee page on each platform rather than a remembered rate.

For a side-by-side of other platforms, see sites like OnlyFans to make money .

How Much Can You Make on OnlyFans per Month?

OnlyFans pays creators 80% of every fan payment, so the per-subscriber figure starts with the price you set. OnlyFans Help says a subscription can cost $4.99 to $50 a month, or the account can be free.

Subscriptions are only part of it. OnlyFans Help says paid messages and paid posts can be priced from $3 to $100 each. Tips start at $3 and go up to $100 for new fans, or $200 after four months.

A subscriber who also buys messages can be worth several times the subscription price. A free account earns nothing per subscriber and relies on those paid extras.

What Do OnlyFans Creators Actually Charge in 2026?

The typical paid OnlyFans page charges about $13 a month. The ViceSnob Creator Pricing Study read the regular monthly price on 103 creator pages on 14 October 2026. The 69 paid pages had a median price of $12.99 and an average of $13.95.

A third of the pages were free to follow. Promos were common too. 45 of the 69 paid pages showed a promo or free trial when checked, so many fans pay less than the list price.

Read the figures with the method in mind. ViceSnob drew the sample from its own directory and Best Of lists, so it is not random. It left out promos, bundles, pay-per-view and tips. Prices topped out at $35, well under the $50 cap.

At the $12.99 median, a creator keeps about $10.39 per subscriber after the 20% fee. That is a price, not an income figure, so it does not replace the medians above.

Source. ViceSnob Creator Pricing Study, October 2026, licensed CC BY 4.0. Figures rechecked by SpicyRanked against the study's public CSV.

Per month, there are three honest answers. Across every creator account in fiscal 2025 the derived mean was about $102 after fees. Using the reported 2.5 million active accounts, it was about $207.

The only public median we found, from Thomas Hollands' 2020 modeled sample, was about $180 gross. None of the three is a current typical salary.

Per year, the same filing works out to about $1,225 per creator account, or roughly $2,480 per reported active account. Both are derived, and neither is a typical salary, because most of the money goes to a small share of accounts.

To estimate your own month, multiply your paying subscribers by 80% of your price, then add paid messages and tips. 100 subscribers at $9.99 come to about $799 after the fee, before tax, and only if all 100 pay full price.

OnlyFans income per month after the 20% fee (hypothetical examples)

These rows are arithmetic, not typical results. They assume every subscriber pays full price for the whole month, with no paid messages, tips, discounts, refunds or churn.

Do not treat any row as a likely outcome. The FY2025 filing works out to a mean of about $102 a month per creator account, and the most common take-home in the 2020 sample was $0.

How OnlyFans pays creators

OnlyFans pays to a connected bank account or another supported payout method. It is not PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App as a standard creator payout. Check the Banking section of your account for the methods OnlyFans currently offers in your country.

Earnings do not become withdrawable the moment a fan pays. OnlyFans Help says your Pending Balance holds what you earned in the last 7 days, and for most creators it then moves to your Current Balance.

According to OnlyFans Help, in a small number of countries with high levels of reversed transactions, earnings stay pending for 21 days.

Those creators switch to a 7-day rolling basis four months after their first earned transaction.

OnlyFans Help says the minimum withdrawal depends on your payout method and is $20 for most methods. Minimums and timing can vary by payout method and country, and your Statements page shows the minimum for the method you chose.

OnlyFans Help says payout requests are processed immediately and should arrive within 3 to 5 business days, though some take up to 10. If a processed payout has not arrived after 10 days, OnlyFans asks creators to email its payments team with a bank statement.

On a fan's card statement the charge is not disguised. OnlyFans Help says it shows as "OnlyFans", "OF" or "OnlyFans.com".

Our OnlyFans review covers billing and payments from the fan side.

For the privacy and payment side of the platform, see Is OnlyFans safe .

What actually moves earnings

Hollands' 2020 modeled sample is still the clearest public picture we found of the shape of the curve: a lot of accounts near $0, a long tail at the top, and a large gap between people who arrive with an audience and people who do not.

A few practical points follow from that.

Audience is the gate. OnlyFans is mostly a conversion engine. It does not reliably show a new creator to fans who never heard of them. Posting volume does not replace a missing audience.

If you want the signup flow, that lives on how to start an OnlyFans account .

Subscriptions are not the whole cheque. Hollands noted that tips were missing from his data and that they can be a large share of revenue for big accounts.

Neither the filing nor the 2020 sample says what share of creator income comes from pay-per-view, so a fixed figure such as 50% to 70% is a guess.

Time in DMs, posting cadence, and custom work show up in every serious creator interview. They are how people on the tail stay on the tail. They are not a published lift of 30% to 50% for answering messages.

Percentile dollar bands for 10 subscribers or 100 subscribers look precise and are usually just $9.99 times a headcount, ignoring discounts, churn, and pay-per-view. Read tables like that as illustrations, not data.

If you want category mix rather than platform-wide math, use 30 most profitable OnlyFans niches . Do not read a niche ranking as a typical outcome.

How Much Do Beginners Make on OnlyFans?

There is no official first-week or first-90-days figure.

If you arrive with no outside audience, the first weeks are often $0 because nobody knows the page exists. If you arrive with an engaged following, some of those people will convert. How many, and at what price, depends on that audience, not on a universal percentage.

Posting consistently, pricing the first month to get a foothold, and answering messages are still reasonable operating advice. They are not a promise that daily posting for 90 days almost always reaches $500 a month. We found no published data that backs that claim.

A first sale is also not cash in hand. OnlyFans Help says earnings stay pending for 7 days for most creators, or 21 days in some countries, before they can be withdrawn. Check your own Banking settings, since this can vary by country.

What male creators earn on OnlyFans

Men do earn on OnlyFans, but no reliable male average exists.

The annual filings do not break earnings down by gender, and halving the 2020 median does not produce a real male figure.

What is observable without a fake split: a large share of spend on OnlyFans goes to women creators, which leaves a smaller paying audience for many male creators. That is a structural point, not a $90 salary.

Gay male creators, fitness creators with an existing audience, and couple accounts are the patterns that show up in reporting about men who do well. Those are qualitative. They are not a $20,000-to-$500,000 monthly band.

Couples

Couple accounts can sell to a wider mix of fans than a solo page, and two people can split the work of posting and messaging. That is a product observation. We found no sourced median for couple accounts, so treat a quoted $400 to $1,200 average with caution.

If you are choosing a niche rather than a format, go to the niches guide .

Narrow niches and a second platform

On a general platform, a feet, fetish, or other narrow page competes with every other kind of content for attention. On a site built for that niche, the buyers already arrived for that content.

SpicyRanked covers that split in the best sites to sell feet pics . Some creators keep OnlyFans for a broader audience and use a niche marketplace as a second cheque. Compare live fees and payout rules. Do not assume a remembered commission.

OnlyFans is still the conversion layer for people who already have fans. It is a weak discovery layer for people who do not. That is the same point as the $102 mean. Dead accounts and quiet accounts sit in the average because the platform is easy to join and hard to get found on.

For another subscription platform with a different fee schedule, see What is Fanvue .

Frequently asked questions

The useful question

The useful question is not what the average OnlyFans income is. It is which number you are looking at, and whether it includes dead accounts.

The filing tells you the pool is huge and the per-account mean is small once you count everyone. The 2020 sample tells you the shape is a power law, and that $180 was already a median in a sample that missed tips. The dashboards tell you the ceiling exists. They do not move the middle.

If you still want to set the page up, start with how to start an OnlyFans account .

If OnlyFans is the wrong tool for a narrow niche, start with the feet-site list . Fanvue, covered above, is another subscription option.

If you want the risk picture rather than the money picture, read Is OnlyFans safe .

OnlyFans pays the people who already have attention, and a thin slice of people who grind past that. It pays almost nothing to accounts that never get found. The site is not the variable. The audience is.

This article provides general information about marketplace pricing and is not financial, tax, or legal advice. Figures were checked against the cited sources on 3 October 2026.

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