Best Creator Platforms That Publish Their Fee

Seven of the eight biggest creator platforms will tell you in their own documentation what percentage they keep, though one of them, LoyalFans, keeps it out of its help center. One will not. If you are choosing where to build a business, that distinction is worth more than the headline rate, because a number you cannot read is a number that can change without you noticing.

We have spent the past several weeks reading creator platforms’ own help centers rather than the affiliate roundups that recycle each other. The method is dull and it works: pull every article a platform publishes, then count how often the words a creator actually needs appear. Commission. Payout. Minimum. Withdraw. Tax. A platform that means to be straight with you uses those words. A platform that does not, does not.

Here is where the eight platforms creators ask us about most actually stand, as of September 2026.

How we checked, so you can check us

Every platform in that table with a public help center got the same treatment. We pulled the full text of every article it publishes, then searched the whole corpus for the terms that have to appear in any honest description of getting paid. Counting the words that are missing turns out to be far more informative than quoting the ones that are present, because nobody can spin a zero.

FanCentro is the starker of the two. All 38 of its public articles sit under one category, and FanCentro named that category Fan Articles and Guides. There is no creator category, because there are no creator articles. Across 49,892 characters the words commission, payout, earnings, minimum, percentage, revenue share and withdraw each appear exactly zero times. The word fee appears once, and it is describing a fan unlocking a locked post.

What FanCentro does document is precise. A wallet token costs a fan exactly $1. You may buy up to 9,999 in one transaction. Token purchases are non-refundable. The price per minute of a call appears on the call interface. FanCentro will tell a buyer the price to the dollar and will not tell a seller the commission to the nearest five points. Our full FanCentro review has the complete term-by-term count, and the FanCentro alternatives comparison puts it next to the platforms that do publish.

LoyalFans fails the help center test and passes the wider one. Its help center has 29 articles and 58,445 characters, and it is genuinely detailed, just not about money. It documents how to pair a Bluetooth toy in more depth than it documents how you get paid. The word payout appears exactly once across the whole help center, in a sentence instructing you to email support. The money terms sit elsewhere: its payout page shows 80% to creators, payouts twice a month, a $50.00 minimum and ACH, wire, SEPA or Paxum, and its terms of service state “Our fee is 20% of the total Fan Payment.” Search a platform’s terms and footer pages as well as its help center. Our LoyalFans review lays out all of it.

Best creator platforms that publish their fee

Fansly, for the clearest terms of the big three

Fansly writes 80% into its terms of service in plain language, and it documents the rest of the mechanics too: every sale pends for seven days to the hour, approval runs about 48 hours, delivery takes one to three business days, and payout minimums are $20 on Paxum, Cosmopayment or US ACH, $50 on SEPA, and $100 on SWIFT or crypto. Plan for nine to twelve days from sale to bank, not the same-day payouts some write-ups claim. Fansly also gives creators full discretion over refunds, which OnlyFans does not. One term to know before you go quiet: Fansly deducts $5 a month from unpaid earnings after twelve months without a login. Our Fansly review covers the whole set.

Fanvue, for documenting the awkward parts

Fanvue is the best example on this list of a platform publishing something it had no marketing reason to publish. Almost every Fanvue review still says the platform pays 85%. Fanvue itself has an article stating that the 85% rate offered to creators joining in 2022 has ended and that it is transitioning to its standard 80% rate. It also publishes that TripleA is the only payout provider carrying a Fanvue fee, at 1%, that the minimum withdrawal is $20 and requires at least five uploaded pieces of content, and that earnings pend for about seven days but can be held for up to 30 if the fan has not verified their email address.

That last one is the kind of detail a platform hides if it is inclined to hide things. A creator’s money can sit for a month because of something a buyer did not do, and Fanvue wrote it down anyway. The full breakdown is in our Fanvue review.

OnlyFans, for a rate you can verify from outside

OnlyFans takes a flat 20%, all in, with payment processing included rather than stacked on top. It is also the only platform here whose rate you can check against an audited financial statement: Fenix International, which owns OnlyFans, reported $7.22 billion in gross merchandise value for FY2024 and $5.80 billion paid to creators. That is 80.3%, which corroborates the published rate to within a rounding error. The trade-off is control. OnlyFans creators have no discretion over refunds, and purchases are final by default.

ManyVids, for publishing a rate that is not flattering

ManyVids deserves credit for a rate card that makes it look worse than its competitors. It pays 80% on Club subscriptions, customs, tips and store items, but only 60% on individual video sales, video bundles, contest votes and Pay To Open messages. A video-heavy month therefore blends far below the headline. It says so anyway, in a published table. Its MV Live token rate of $0.08 is explicitly labeled promotional. US creators should also know that a W-9 has to be filed before you can even add a payment method.

Why a published rate is worth more than a good rate

The obvious objection is that this is all a bit abstract. A creator earning $5,000 a month at 80% keeps $4,000, and it hardly matters whether the 20% is written down. That holds right up until the month it does not.

That is the actual spread on FanCentro today, where reported figures split between 75% and 80% and neither has a primary source. At $10,000 a month it is $6,000 a year of income you cannot forecast. And the deeper problem is not the money, it is that an unpublished rate has no version history. If a platform never wrote the number down, it never has to announce changing it, and you would find out by noticing your deposits shrank. Fanvue, by contrast, could only end its 85% promotion by publishing an article about ending it.

What to do before you commit to a platform

Three checks, none of which take longer than ten minutes.

First, find the rate in writing on a domain the platform controls, not on a review site and not in a support agent’s reply. Search the help center and the terms of service for the word commission or fee, and check the footer for a payout page. If none of them returns a number, that is your answer.

Second, find the payout minimum, the pending period and the transfer time, and add them together honestly. Almost nobody in this category pays in under a week once the pending period is counted, so budget for ten to twelve days and treat anything faster as a bonus. We compare the real end-to-end timings in our guide to the creator platforms with the fastest payouts.

Third, once money starts moving, check that what arrives matches what the dashboard promised. Platform statements, processor fees and chargebacks rarely line up on the first pass, and if you sell on more than one site it is worth being able to match every payout statement against what actually cleared your bank rather than trusting each dashboard in isolation. Creators discover underpayments this way far more often than they discover them by reading terms. It is also the record you will want at tax time, when your 1099-K reports gross payments before the platform’s cut and your actual deposits were 20% lower.

Where HerFans stands

We charge a flat 20%, so you keep 80%, and it is on our pricing page in writing. We are obviously not a neutral party here, which is exactly why we would rather be judged on the same test we applied to everyone else: can you read our number without asking us? You can. So can you read Fansly’s, OnlyFans’s, Fanvue’s, Patreon’s, ManyVids’s and, in its terms, LoyalFans’s. If the platform you are considering is not on that list, ask why before you build on it. Our comparison of creator payout percentages keeps the full table current, and our roundup of the best OnlyFans alternatives covers who each platform actually suits.