OnlyFans Platform Fees: Fansly and Fanvue Compared for Creators

All three of the big creator platforms now take the same 20% cut. OnlyFans deducts a fee "calculated as 20% of the total Fan Payment". Fansly's terms of service say creators "earn eighty percent (80%) of the revenue". Fanvue's own help centre confirmed in May 2026 that its 85% rate has ended and the platform is moving to a standard 80%. If you are shopping for a better revenue split, there is no longer one to find. Pick your platform on how many buyers can actually discover you, because that is the only variable left that changes your income.

Last updated August 2026. Every fee below is quoted from the platform's own terms or help centre, not from a review site.

OnlyFans, Fansly and Fanvue fees at a glance

That table is the whole argument. Three platforms, one number. Anything you read that promises a materially better split is either quoting a promotion that has expired or quoting a much smaller platform that has no audience to sell to.

How much does OnlyFans take from creators?

OnlyFans takes 20% of every payment a fan makes to you, and it is deducted from each payment rather than billed later. That applies to subscriptions, tips, and pay-per-view messages alike. On a $12.84 subscription, which is the average paid price across the 192,987 creator profiles listed on OnlyFinds, the creator nets about $10.27 before taxes and before any agency or chatter cut.

The 20% is not negotiable and there is no volume tier that lowers it. What you can change is the price itself, and most creators leave money there rather than in the fee. Our post on how to price your OnlyFans works through where the pricing floor actually sits.

Does Fansly pay more than OnlyFans?

No. Fansly pays exactly the same 80%. Its terms of service, updated July 21, 2026, state that creators earn eighty percent of revenue generated on all subscriptions, sales, or tips. Fansly is operated by Select Media LLC, a Maryland limited liability company, so US creators are dealing with a US entity, which some people prefer for tax and banking reasons.

Where Fansly genuinely differs is product, not price. It supports tiered subscriptions, so you can sell several access levels from one profile instead of running separate accounts. If your content splits cleanly into a soft tier and an explicit tier, that is a real reason to look at it. A better revenue split is not.

Is Fanvue really 85%?

Not anymore. Fanvue ran an 85% earning rate for creators who joined in 2022, and that promotion is over. Fanvue's own help centre article, dated May 4, 2026, says the 85% rate "has come to an end and the platform is now transitioning to its standard 80% rate". Its Creator Earnings policy lists 80% as the standard rate.

This matters because the 85% figure is still repeated across a lot of comparison articles that were written when it was true and never updated. If you are choosing a platform in 2026 on the strength of an 85% split, you are choosing on a number that no longer exists.

Fanvue does publish clearer payout mechanics than most. Earnings sit in a pending period of seven days, which can be extended to twenty-eight days depending on account verification and activity, and Fanvue aims to initiate valid payout requests within ten business days. Payouts go out by direct bank transfer, crypto wallets where supported, or third-party wallets.

Which platform pays creators the most?

Whichever one has the most buyers who can find you. Once the fee is identical, your income is set by subscriber count and price, and subscriber count is set by discovery. A creator with 400 subscribers at $10 on OnlyFans out-earns the same creator with 40 subscribers at $12 on a smaller platform by a factor of roughly eight, and no split difference of a few percent closes that gap.

This is the part the fee comparisons skip. OnlyFans reported 4.63 million creator accounts in its FY2024 filing with UK Companies House. That is enormous competition, but it is also where the paying audience already is. The smaller platforms are less crowded and also much less shopped.

Should you move your OnlyFans to another platform?

Moving rarely pays for itself. Your subscribers do not transfer, your billing relationships do not transfer, and you restart discovery from zero on a platform with a smaller buying audience. Since the fee is the same 20% everywhere, a move buys you a different feature set and a smaller market, and costs you your entire existing subscriber base.

The case for moving is narrow and specific: you have been permanently restricted, your niche is banned on your current platform, or you need a product feature such as tiered subscriptions badly enough to rebuild for it. "Better split" is not on that list in 2026.

Can you run OnlyFans and Fansly at the same time?

Yes, and most established creators do. None of the three platforms demands exclusivity, so the usual pattern is to keep the main account where the subscribers already are and run a second profile as a hedge against restriction. The cost is real though: two content calendars, two inboxes, and two sets of fans expecting replies.

The accounting gets messier too. Two platforms means two payout streams landing on different schedules, and at tax time you need one consolidated figure rather than two dashboards you check separately. It is worth keeping a single running total of what actually cleared into your bank from the first month you go multi-platform, because reconstructing it in April from payout histories is miserable work. Our guide to filing OnlyFans taxes covers what the IRS expects from self-employed creators.

What a $1,000 month looks like on each platform

The numbers are identical on OnlyFans, Fansly and Fanvue, which is precisely the point. The only line in that table you control is the first one. If you are weighing whether a manager earns their share of column four, choosing an OnlyFans agency goes through the questions worth asking before you sign anything.

What actually changes your income

Since the split is fixed, there are only three levers left, and they are all upstream of the platform you pick.

• Price. Across the profiles we index, paid subscriptions average $12.84 and the median is $10.00. Creators cluster hard at $10 because it feels safe, not because it tested best.
• Volume of buyers who find you. Search, directories and off-platform traffic. This is the lever with the most headroom for almost everyone, and the one most creators spend the least time on.
• Spend per subscriber. Tips and pay-per-view usually outrun subscription revenue once a fanbase matures.

Discovery is where the leverage is, because it is the only one of the three that compounds. A fan who finds you this month can still be subscribed next year. If you are working on that, getting your OnlyFans discovered covers the organic side, and what paid directory placement costs covers when it makes sense to pay for it. Creators who want to be listed and found on OnlyFinds can start with our OnlyFans promotion guide.

The bottom line

OnlyFans, Fansly and Fanvue all take 20% in 2026. The 85% Fanvue rate that shows up in older comparisons has ended, by Fanvue's own admission. Choosing a platform on the split is choosing on a difference that does not exist, and switching platforms costs you the subscriber base and discovery position you already built.

Decide on audience size, product features you actually need, and how easily a paying fan can find your page. Then put the effort you were going to spend comparing fees into pricing and discovery instead, because those are the only numbers on your payout statement you can still move.