# Average OnlyFans Income (2026): What Creators Really Earn

> Average OnlyFans income in 2026: about $210 a month per active creator. See the filing math, median vs mean, and what top earners make.

Average OnlyFans income in 2026 is about $210 a month for an active creator, after OnlyFans' 20% fee. Across every registered creator account, including the millions that are inactive, the average OnlyFans income drops to about $104 a month. A creator who has just started will usually earn less than the $210 active-creator average.

**Key Takeaways**

- OnlyFans paid creators about $6.3 billion in the year to 30 November 2025, according to the company, as reported by Tubefilter.
- Divided across the about 2.5 million creators OnlyFans counts as active, that is roughly $2,500 a year, or $210 a month each. Across all 5.06 million registered creator accounts it is about $104 a month.
- Income is heavily concentrated: a 2020 study found the top 1% of accounts earned about a third of all subscription revenue.
- Average payout per registered account has fallen each year in the published figures since 2022, because creator accounts grow faster than fan spending.
- The average is a weak benchmark for your own page. Track your revenue per fan and per traffic source instead.

## What is the average OnlyFans income in 2026?

The average OnlyFans income is about $210 a month per active creator, or $104 a month per registered creator account. Both numbers come from dividing what OnlyFans paid out to creators by the number of creators, using OnlyFans' latest figures and the annual accounts of Fenix International, the company that owns OnlyFans.

| Figure (year to 30 Nov 2025) | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fans spent on OnlyFans | about $7.8 billion | Fenix International annual accounts, reported by Variety and Tubefilter |
| Paid out to creators | about $6.3 billion | OnlyFans statement, reported by Tubefilter |
| Registered creator accounts | about 5.06 million | Fenix International annual accounts, reported by Variety |
| Active creators | about 2.5 million | OnlyFans statement, reported by Tubefilter |
| **Average per active creator** | **about $2,500 a year, $210 a month** | $6.3B ÷ 2.5M |
| **Average per registered account** | **about $1,245 a year, $104 a month** | $6.3B ÷ 5.06M |

Which average is right depends on who you count. The $104 figure includes inactive accounts. The $210 figure only counts creators OnlyFans describes as active, which is closer to what someone running a real page should compare against. Neither is a promise of what a new page will earn.

## Average vs median OnlyFans income: why the numbers disagree

The median OnlyFans income, the amount the creator in the middle earns, is much lower than most people expect, and OnlyFans has never published it. The figure you will see quoted most, about $180 a month, comes from a 2020 study by Thomas Hollands, published on XSRUS, that sampled roughly 1,000 accounts.

That study has three limits worth knowing before you use its number:

- It measured **subscription revenue only**. Tips, paid messages and PPV were not counted, and on many pages they add a large share of revenue.
- The **most common result was $0**, followed by $4.99. Many sampled accounts had no paying fans at all.
- It is **six years old**. The platform has grown its creator accounts many times over since then.

The mean and the median measure different things. A small group of very high earners pulls the mean up, so when you compare like with like, for example active creators only, the mean sits above what the middle creator takes home. Reading the average as "what most creators earn" is a common mistake in coverage of this topic.

## How much do the top OnlyFans creators earn?

The top of OnlyFans earns most of the money. The 2020 Hollands study found that the top 1% of accounts took about 33% of all subscription revenue, and the top 10% took about 73%, leaving roughly 27% for everyone else.

| Group of creators | Share of subscription revenue (2020 sample) |
| --- | --- |
| Top 1% | about 33% |
| Top 10% | about 73% |
| Remaining 90% | about 27% |

More recent data points the same way. In August 2026 OnlyFans said, as reported by Variety and Tubefilter, that 5,076 creators had earned more than $1 million on the platform since 2016, out of total creator payouts of more than $30 billion over the same period. That is roughly one creator in a thousand, measured against today's account count, so treat it as a rough ratio rather than an exact share.

## Where a fan's dollar goes

Of every dollar a fan spends on OnlyFans, about 80 cents goes to the creator and about 20 cents to OnlyFans. In the year to November 2025, fans spent about $7.8 billion, creators received about $6.3 billion, and OnlyFans kept the difference, about $1.5 billion.

The creator's 80 cents is not take-home pay. From it come:

1. **Income tax** in the creator's country.
2. **Agency or chatter costs**, if the page is managed. Agency commissions vary widely by contract.
3. **Marketing costs**, such as paid traffic, promotion swaps or tools.

This is why two creators with the same OnlyFans income can keep very different amounts. The [AI Financial Analytics](https://onlyfansapi.com/ai-financial-analytics) module (Pro plan and up) tracks this per creator: revenue, commissions and every cost line in one profitability view.

## Is OnlyFans income going up or down?

Average payout per registered account has been falling slowly, even as total payouts hit new records. The number of creator accounts grows faster than fan spending, so the money is split across more pages each year.

| Financial year | Fans spent | Paid to creators | Creator accounts | Average per account, per year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FY2022 | $5.55B | about $4.4B | 3.18M | about $1,400 |
| FY2023 | $6.63B | about $5.3B | 4.12M | about $1,290 |
| FY2024 | $7.22B | $5.8B | 4.63M | about $1,250 |
| FY2025 | about $7.8B | about $6.3B | 5.06M | about $1,245 |

FY2022 and FY2023 payouts are estimated at 80% of fan spending. FY2024 figures come from Fenix International's accounts as reported by PA Media and Variety, FY2023 from Fortune, and FY2022 from Business Insider.

The takeaway for a creator: a growing platform does not mean a growing slice for each page. More competition for the same fans makes it more important to know which of your fans and traffic sources actually pay.

## How to measure your own OnlyFans income against the average

The platform average tells you little about your own page. The numbers that do are your revenue per active fan, how many new subscribers make a first purchase, and which traffic source each paying fan came from.

- **Revenue per traffic source.** Give every promotion channel its own link. [Smart Links](https://onlyfansapi.com/smart-links) (Basic plan and up) follow subscriptions, PPV and tips back to the link that brought each fan, and can send conversion events to Meta, TikTok and Snapchat.
- **Revenue per fan.** [AI Fan Analytics](https://onlyfansapi.com/ai-fan-analytics) shows your top spenders and an earnings overview, so you know which fans carry the page. The data is also available through the [earnings overview endpoint](https://docs.onlyfansapi.com/api-reference/analytics-summary/get-earnings-overview) on the Pro plan and up.
- **Profit, not revenue.** If you work with an agency or pay for traffic, track what is left after costs. AI Financial Analytics (Pro plan and up for the analytics endpoints) shows profitability per creator per month.

For the practical side of growing these numbers, see our guides on [how to make money on OnlyFans](https://onlyfansapi.com/blog/how-to-make-money-on-onlyfans) and the wider [OnlyFans statistics](https://onlyfansapi.com/blog/onlyfans-statistics) for 2026.

## How we calculated these figures

- **Payouts and accounts** come from Fenix International Ltd's annual accounts (UK Companies House, company number 10354575), as reported by Variety, Tubefilter, PA Media, Fortune and Business Insider. OnlyFans' financial year ends on 30 November.
- **Payouts to creators** (about $6.3 billion) and **active creators** (about 2.5 million) are company statements reported by Tubefilter, not audited line items.
- **Averages** are total payouts divided by creator count. They are after the 20% OnlyFans fee and before tax and costs.
- **Median and concentration** figures come from Thomas Hollands' 2020 study on XSRUS, which sampled about 1,000 accounts and counted subscription revenue only.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is the average OnlyFans income per month?

About $210 a month per active creator, after OnlyFans' 20% fee, based on the $6.3 billion OnlyFans reported paying creators in the year to November 2025 and its figure of about 2.5 million active creators. Across all 5.06 million registered creator accounts, active or not, the average is about $104 a month.

### What is the median OnlyFans income?

OnlyFans does not publish a median. The most quoted figure, about $180 a month, comes from an independent 2020 study of roughly 1,000 accounts that counted subscription revenue only and left out tips and messages.

### How much do the top 1% of OnlyFans creators earn?

The same 2020 study found the top 1% of accounts took about 33% of all subscription revenue, and the top 10% took about 73%. OnlyFans said in August 2026 that 5,076 creators have earned more than $1 million on the platform since 2016.

### Is average OnlyFans income before or after the 20% fee?

The averages in this article are after the fee: they divide what OnlyFans paid out to creators, not what fans spent. They are before tax, agency commission and any marketing costs.