How Many OnlyFans Creators Are There?
There were 4.63 million registered OnlyFans creator accounts as of 30 November 2024, alongside 377.5 million registered fan accounts. Creator accounts grew 13% that year and fan accounts grew 24%. Both figures come from the audited accounts that Fenix International Ltd, the company that owns OnlyFans, filed with UK Companies House and which were reported in August 2025.
That is the whole verifiable answer, and it is worth knowing exactly what it means before you repeat it. The number counts registered accounts, cumulatively, since the platform launched. It does not count people, and it does not count creators who actually post. Those are three different things, and only one of them has ever been published.
How many OnlyFans creators are there right now?
Nobody outside the company knows. The most recent official figure is 4.63 million registered creator accounts at the close of the 2024 financial year. OnlyFans has not published a figure since, and it has never published an active-creator count at all. If a page tells you how many creators post monthly, that number was estimated by someone with no access to the data.
Here is what the filings actually contain, year by year, as reported when each set of accounts was published.
| Metric | FY2024 figure | Growth on prior year |
|---|---|---|
| Registered creator accounts | 4.63 million | Up 13% |
| Registered fan accounts | 377.5 million | Up 24% |
| Gross fan spending | $7.22 billion | Up about 9% |
| Paid out to creators | $5.80 billion | Up 9% |
Fenix International Ltd statutory accounts, year ended 30 November 2024, filed at UK Companies House.
What does "registered creator account" actually count?
It counts every creator account ever opened and not deleted. That includes accounts opened and abandoned in a week, accounts opened by people who never posted anything, and multiple accounts belonging to the same person. A creator who runs a main page and a free page holds two of those 4.63 million.
Compare that with how a social network reports monthly active users, and you can see why the two are not comparable. An MAU figure is a measure of activity in a window. A cumulative registration figure only ever goes up. OnlyFans reports the second kind, so the count of creators who are genuinely working the platform this month is meaningfully smaller than 4.63 million, and nobody has said by how much.
How many fans are there per creator?
Divide 377.5 million fan accounts by 4.63 million creator accounts and you get about 81 registered fan accounts for every registered creator account. Both sides of that ratio are inflated by dormant sign-ups, since a fan account is free to create and is never purged. Still, the direction is informative: fan registrations grew nearly twice as fast as creator registrations in 2024, which is the opposite of the "the platform is saturated" story you often hear.
Saturation is not really about the ratio anyway. It is about discovery. OnlyFans has no meaningful discovery feed, so no fan is going to browse their way to your page. Every subscriber arrives from somewhere else, which is why creators lean on Reddit, X and directories where fans actively go looking. Being listed somewhere fans browse when they want to find a new creator is one of the few ways a page gets found without an existing audience.
How much does the average creator earn across those accounts?
About $1,252 a year, or roughly $104 a month, if you divide the $5.80 billion paid to creators by the 4.63 million registered creator accounts. That is honest arithmetic on two published totals, and it is also close to useless as a personal forecast.
The reason is the denominator. It includes every dormant and abandoned account, which drags the mean far below what an active creator earns. It is also a mean, not a median, so a small number of very large earners pull it upward at the same time. The two distortions run in opposite directions and nobody can tell you the net effect, because the underlying distribution has never been released. Treat $104 as a fact about the platform’s payout spread, not about your prospects. The full OnlyFans revenue and statistics breakdown shows the derivation.
Why you should not trust the "median creator earns $180" statistic
Because it is one study from April 2020, repeated endlessly. Every version of that claim, along with "the top 1% earn 33% of all revenue" and the Gini coefficient of 0.83, traces to a single analysis by the data scientist Thomas Hollands, published on his own website six years ago.
Its author was candid about the limits. He sampled roughly 1,000 accounts. Subscriber counts were inferred from likes per post, which he said undercounts. Tips and pay-per-view sales were excluded entirely, and those are the majority of income for many creators. Prices were normalized to the $4.99 minimum. And it describes a platform with a small fraction of today’s creator base. The number of pages that repeat it makes it look corroborated. It has never been replicated.
Is OnlyFans still growing?
Yes, on every published measure. Creator accounts up 13%, fan accounts up 24%, gross fan spending up about 9% to $7.22 billion, and payouts to creators up 9% to $5.80 billion, all in the 2024 financial year. Growth in spending is slower than growth in accounts, which is what you would expect as the account base widens faster than paying behavior deepens.
The corporate picture changed sharply in 2026. Sole owner Leonid Radvinsky died in March, control passed to his widow Yekaterina Chudnovsky, and in May the company sold roughly a 16% stake to Architect Capital for $535 million, implying a valuation near $3.15 billion. Reports in 2025 of an $8 billion sale never resulted in a deal.
What the count means for a new creator
Two practical conclusions. The market is enormous and real: fans handed over $7.22 billion in one year and creators kept $5.80 billion of it. And it is crowded enough that nobody will find you by accident. Promotion is the job, not an afterthought, which is why it pays to have a promotion plan before you have a page.
The one number you fully control is the fee. Of the $7.22 billion fans spent, $1.41 billion never reached a creator. That is the 20% platform cut. HerFans charges a flat 10% and pays out 90%, which on the same content and the same fans is the single easiest raise a creator can give herself. See exactly how much OnlyFans takes, or model your own numbers with the earnings calculator.