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OnlyFans recorded $7.22 billion of gross fan spending in its 2024 financial year, paid $5.80 billion of that to creators, and kept $1.41 billion as net revenue, delivering roughly $684 million in pre-tax profit. The platform reported 4.63 million registered creator accounts and 377.5 million registered fan accounts. Those figures come from the audited accounts that owner Fenix International Ltd filed with UK Companies House, covering the year to 30 November 2024 and published in August 2025.
Almost every "OnlyFans statistics" page you will find recycles numbers from other statistics pages, and the trail usually ends at a single blog post with no source. This page does the opposite. Each figure below is labeled with the exact period it covers and the organization that published it. Where a widely repeated statistic cannot be verified, we say so plainly and explain why we are not printing it. Where a number is our own arithmetic on published totals, we show the division.
OnlyFans made $1.41 billion in net revenue in its 2024 financial year, its own share of the $7.22 billion that fans spent on the platform. Pre-tax profit was about $684 million. The gap between the two revenue figures is the money that flows straight through to creators, $5.80 billion of it. The table below is the headline set from the Companies House filing, reported simultaneously by Bloomberg, Forbes, Variety and RTÉ on 22 August 2025.
| Metric (FY ended 30 Nov 2024) | Figure | Change on prior year |
|---|---|---|
| Gross fan spending (GMV) | $7.22 billion | Up about 9% |
| Paid out to creators | $5.80 billion | Up 9% |
| OnlyFans net revenue | $1.41 billion | Up 8% |
| Pre-tax profit | About $684 million | Up 4% |
| Registered creator accounts | 4.63 million | Up 13% |
| Registered fan accounts | 377.5 million | Up 24% |
| Dividend paid to the owner, in-year | $497 million | Up from $472 million |
Source: Fenix International Ltd statutory accounts filed at UK Companies House, year ended 30 November 2024, filed August 2025. Counting the $204 million paid between December 2024 and April 2025, total dividends to the owner reached a record $701 million.
Note the shape of this business. OnlyFans keeps under a fifth of the money and books a 48% pre-tax margin on what it keeps. It is a payment and hosting layer with a famously small headcount, not a studio. The creators carry the production cost, the audience risk and the tax bill.
There were 4.63 million registered OnlyFans creator accounts as of 30 November 2024, up 13% year on year. That is the number the company filed, and it is the most reliable creator count in existence. It is worth being precise about what it counts: registered accounts, cumulatively, not unique people and not monthly active creators. One person can hold several accounts, and an account opened in 2021 and abandoned still sits in the total.
OnlyFans has never published an active-creator figure, so anyone quoting one is estimating. If you see a claim that "2 million creators post monthly," ask where it came from. The honest statement is that 4.63 million accounts have been registered and nobody outside the company knows how many are alive.
Adding both sides, OnlyFans reported 377.5 million registered fan accounts and 4.63 million registered creator accounts, roughly 382 million accounts in total as of the end of its 2024 financial year. Fan accounts grew 24% that year, nearly twice the creator growth rate. That works out to about 81 registered fan accounts for every registered creator account.
Again, registered is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Fan accounts are free to create, duplicates and dormant sign-ups are never purged from a cumulative total, and the figure is not comparable to a monthly-active-user number from a social network.
Divide the $5.80 billion paid to creators by the 4.63 million registered creator accounts and you get about $1,252 per account per year, or roughly $104 a month. That is arithmetic on two published totals, and it is the only average that can be honestly derived. It is not what a working creator earns. It is the mean across every registered account, including the millions that are dormant, abandoned, or never posted at all, and a mean is dragged upward by the top of a very skewed distribution.
| Derived figure (FY2024) | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Fan spend per creator account, per year | $7.22bn ÷ 4.63m | About $1,559 |
| Paid to creator, per account, per year | $5.80bn ÷ 4.63m | About $1,252 |
| Paid to creator, per account, per month | $1,252 ÷ 12 | About $104 |
| Fan accounts per creator account | 377.5m ÷ 4.63m | About 81 |
| Effective platform take rate | $1.41bn ÷ $7.22bn | 19.5%, consistent with the stated 20% |
Our arithmetic on the FY2024 filed totals above. Means across all registered accounts, not earnings of active creators.
Treat the $104 a month as a denominator fact, not a forecast. It tells you that the platform’s payouts spread thinly across a very large number of accounts. It tells you nothing about what you would make, which depends on your niche, your traffic and how you sell. You can model your own numbers with the OnlyFans earnings calculator, and see the range of realistic outcomes in how much money you can make on OnlyFans.
No, and this is the most important thing to understand about OnlyFans statistics. Nearly every earnings-distribution stat in circulation, the "median creator makes $180 a month," the "top 1% take 33% of the money," the Gini coefficient of 0.83, traces back to one source: a 2020 analysis by the data scientist Thomas Hollands, published on his own site. Thousands of pages repeat it, which makes it look corroborated. It is not. It is one study, cited over and over.
Its own author documented the limits. The sample was around 1,000 accounts. Subscriber counts were estimated from likes per post, which he noted undercounts. Tips and pay-per-view sales, which are the majority of many creators’ income, were excluded entirely. Prices were normalized to the $4.99 minimum. And it was published in April 2020, when the platform had a small fraction of today’s 4.63 million creator accounts. Six years later it describes a website that no longer exists.
So we do not print a median. If you see one presented as current fact, you have found a page that did not check. The verifiable statements are the filed totals above and the arithmetic you can do on them.
OnlyFans takes 20% of everything a fan pays you, and the creator keeps 80%. That applies to subscriptions, tips, pay-per-view messages and paid posts alike. The company’s own financials confirm the rate holds in aggregate: $1.41 billion of net revenue on $7.22 billion of fan spending is an effective take of 19.5%.
The 20% is deducted before the money reaches your payout balance, so a $10 subscription arrives as $8. Payment processing is included in that cut, but your own income taxes are not, and neither is any agency commission, which stacks on top. The table compares the two platform fees creators most often weigh.
| On $10,000 of fan spending | OnlyFans (20%) | HerFans (10%) |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | $2,000 | $1,000 |
| You keep | $8,000 | $9,000 |
| Difference over a year at that rate | Baseline | $12,000 more |
See the full breakdown in how much OnlyFans takes, including what happens when an agency commission sits on top of the platform fee.
OnlyFans is owned by Fenix International Ltd, and control passed to Yekaterina "Katie" Chudnovsky in March 2026 after the death of her husband Leonid Radvinsky, who had owned the company since 2018. Radvinsky died of cancer on 20 March 2026 at the age of 43, which the company confirmed on 23 March. He never held a public operating role and had taken more than $1.3 billion out of the business in dividends across the preceding years.
In May 2026 Fenix sold roughly a 16% stake for $535 million to Architect Capital, a San Francisco investment firm, with co-investors reported to include James Packer and Sam Lessin. That transaction valued OnlyFans at about $3.15 billion.
The only transaction-backed valuation is about $3.15 billion, implied by the May 2026 sale of a roughly 16% stake for $535 million. You will still see "$8 billion" quoted widely. That number came from Reuters reporting in May 2025 that the owner was exploring a sale to an investor group at an $8 billion valuation. Those talks were non-exclusive and no deal was ever completed, so $8 billion is a price that was discussed, not a price anyone paid. Quote the $3.15 billion.
The biggest change is age verification. On 27 June 2025 the US Supreme Court decided Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, upholding a Texas law that requires sites where more than a third of the content is sexual material harmful to minors to verify that visitors are adults. Around half of US states now have some form of adult-site age-verification law on the books, and the exact count keeps moving as legislatures act.
For creators the practical effect is on the fan side. OnlyFans has always required government ID from creators before payout. What is newer is fans in covered states being asked to prove their age before they can view content, which adds friction to the top of your funnel. It is one more reason to own an audience you can reach directly rather than renting one.
Three things fall out of the filings. First, the money is real: fans spent $7.22 billion in a single year and $5.80 billion of it reached creators. This is not a market anyone needs to talk you into. Second, it is crowded: 4.63 million registered creator accounts, growing 13% a year, and fan accounts growing faster than creators can convert them. Getting found is now the hard part, not signing up. Third, the platform fee is the one variable you control by choosing where you build.
That last point compounds. A 20% fee versus a 10% fee is not a rounding difference at scale, it is a tenth of your gross revenue every month for as long as you publish. On $100,000 of lifetime fan spending it is $10,000. HerFans charges a flat 10% and pays out 90%, which is the same content, the same fans, and twice as much of the fee back in your pocket.
OnlyFans kept $1.41 billion of the $7.22 billion its fans spent. A flat 10% fee halves that deduction on every dollar you earn, every month.
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