Yes, there are Onlyfans fees, because OnlyFans isn’t free of charge . If you sell content on the OnlyFans platform, you can already guess that OnlyFans also wants to earn money from it. OnlyFans works on a profit-sharing model, so they receive additional commission from your earnings. When you sell your content, OnlyFans receives a commission and only transfers the difference to you. But there is also the possibility to monetize your OnlyFans page without OnlyFans fees. We’ll show you how the fees are split and whether there are any hidden costs. This way you can maximize your profit.
How much are the Onlyfans fees?
If you read the Terms of Service carefully, you will quickly realize that OnlyFans retains 20% of the creators’ revenue as a fee. This means that as a creator you only receive 80% of your earnings. So if you earn $100, OnlyFans keeps $20 as a fee and adds $80 to your balance that you can cash out.
OnlyFans keeps this 20% fees for:
- your use of their platform
- Using their servers to host your content.
- Coverage with live support
- the processing of your payments.
- And a few other services like help with DMCA takedowns.
Now you might think that the 20% share already seems very high and exaggerated, especially since OnlyFans also earns significantly more with higher creator revenue. That’s why we want to list the commissions from other platforms that also receive a revenue share from the monetization of the creators’ content.
- Twitch receives a 70% share of the streamers’ advertising, subscription and donation revenue.
- YouTube receives a 45% share of the advertising revenue generated by its creators.
- Fansly takes a 20% share, the same as OnlyFans.
- ManyVids takes a share of 20% or 40%, depending on what is sold.
- Patreon takes the smallest share at just under 5%.
So if you compare OnlyFans’ percentage share of 20% with all these other platforms, the fee is not excessive.
Are OnlyFans fees also on tips?
Yes, OnlyFans also receives a 20% share of your tips. The fees are therefore independent of content and revenue.
At OnlyFans, the revenue split of 80:20 applies to everything you earn on the platform. This applies to revenue from monthly subscriptions, the sale of PPV content and tips.
How to monetize your OnlyFans page without paying fees
In short, no. Everything you earn on OnlyFans will be subject to this fee. However, you have the opportunity to draw attention to other things in your content where you can generate additional income. However, this is independent of OnlyFans.
1. You can partner with a merchandising company or sell your own merchandising and share the platform in your content.
2. Another alternative is affiliate marketing. Share suitable products from Amazon or other websites that have affiliate marketing and encourage your audience to buy these or other products via your link. You will then receive a commission for each sale.
If you’re sporty, create a fitness program that your subscribers can buy.
Look for sponsorships and brand deals – which usually pay very well.
However, these are additional revenue streams that have nothing to do with OnlyFans as a platform. The bigger your fan base, the more you can earn on the side. For example, share an Amazon link to your wish list if your fans want to make you happy, then they can buy these items for you and you can earn commission on them.
Is to receive payments outside of OnlyFans to reduce the fees?
Some creators try to process payment outside of the platform when subscribers request special content. These can be payment accounts like and apps like PayPal and Venmo. This is an attempt to avoid the OnlyFans fees
But should get you into trouble.
On OnlyFans, your conversations are monitored to avoid such activity. Using certain words can then flag your account for suspicious activity and get you banned.
Suspicious words or some words like PayPal and Venmo are included in the list of banned words, as well as most third-party payment apps. If you use these, your account will come under surveillance.
OnlyFans will find out very quickly that you are trying to avoid the fees. If this is the case and you are caught making payments outside of the platform, you may be blocked or banned.
Secondly, PayPal (and most payment apps) are not officially allowed to send or receive money for services and the like related to OnlyFans content, including adult content.
OnlyFans’ payout percentage of 80% is high by industry standards, and you also get numerous privacy and security features. No one wants a follower to show up at their door.
How much do you earn after deducting the OnlyFans platform fees?
The 20% OnlyFans fee share mentioned above applies to all your earnings. Here are some examples to illustrate how much you can realistically earn with OnlyFans.
Your earnings will be credited to your OnlyFans account and you can then request a payout. What you should bear in mind is that the payout process for your earnings can take over a week.
How much you earn with OnlyFans depends mainly on your activity and marketing. Please note that you will also have to pay taxes on the payout from OnlyFans and do not plan to use up all your earnings. So if you create a lot of high-quality content and have a large number of followers, your income from OnlyFans will grow quite quickly. And as long as your followers are loyal to you, you will have a fairly stable source of income from the subscription fees.
Monthly subscription earnings
The price of the monthly subscription fee for your followers should not be too high, especially in the beginning. If you charge $8 or less, you will earn $6.40 per subscription per month.
Income from tips.
So a $10 tip will earn you $8. You can create a tip menu and pin it to your profile. This will allow you to receive more tips.
Income from PPV content
At OnlyFans, top creators charge up to several hundred dollars for a single video. Of course, this is not conducive to your start. But assuming you sell a video for 50 dollars, you will be credited 40 dollars from that sale.
How much does it cost to start OnlyFans?
Just setting up and registering with OnlyFans is free of charge. So you can create an account without any fees or costs. All you need is a smartphone to record and upload your content, a valid government-issued ID for verification and a bank account to receive your earnings.
Signing up, verifying and setting up your Creator account is completely free and also often very easy to do.
Once your account is set up, you can start uploading and sharing different content to your wall. To reach subscribers quickly, especially in the beginning, is to promote yourself on social media such as Reddit, Tiktok or Instagram.
Only when you have reached your first subscription or have your first sale of videos or images will you generate revenue with OnlyFans. And only then is the 20% OnlyFans fee due on this revenue.
You don’t necessarily have to have special equipment if your cell phone is very good and you are good at post-processing. Otherwise you will have to pay for a good camera or lighting to create high-quality and promising content.
Here you will find a practical OnlyFans guide on how to set up your profile.
How to boost your earnings on OnlyFans
The key to success on OnlyFans is effective and regular promotion on other platforms. Even if you do everything right – find your niche and topic area, produce excellent content such as images and videos, and interact with your fans – without good and active promotion of your account, you won’t gain many subscribers.
You can also use Reddit as a marketing platform. There are a lot of adult communities there on all kinds of topics. You can find out how to use Reddit in our OnlyFans marketing on Reddit guide
Without advertising, it will be difficult to reach enough interested customers to build up a large number of followers who will contribute to the growth of your income. Unfortunately, advertising and marketing your OnlyFans account is the most stressful part:
- Constantly creating new posts
- Not knowing the rules of all the platforms
- Not reaching customers and building followers
- A lot of time for research
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