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Creator Monetization Platforms compared on fees, payouts and the splits nobody publishes

Every platform that pays content creators, in one table. What each one takes, whether that number is published by the company or merely reported by review sites, whether adult content is allowed, and who each one genuinely suits. Where a platform refuses to state its cut, we say so instead of guessing.

โœ“ Published vs reported, labelled on every row โœ“ Arithmetic on a real $1,000 month โœ“ No invented averages

Last updated July 2026

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Platforms in the table
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With no published cut
0% to 40%
The full range of platform cuts
20%
The most common flat fee

The short answer

Most creator monetization platforms take 20%, and the flat 20% at OnlyFans, Fansly, LoyalFans and JustForFans is the price of admission in this market. A few take less: Patreon publishes a 10% platform fee, Fanvue charges 15% for your first 12 months, and the worn-items marketplaces All Things Worn and Pantydeal advertise no commission at all, charging a monthly plan instead. A few take much more: ManyVids and Clips4Sale keep 40% of every clip sale, and Arousr is reported to leave models around 35%.

Here is the part other comparisons skip. Plenty of these companies will not tell you their cut before you sign up, and five of the biggest publish no revenue split at all: FanCentro, Fanfix, IWantClips, SextPanther and Arousr. Every percentage you have read about those five came from a review site, and those sites contradict each other. SextPanther is the clearest case: one site reports 55% on messages, another reports 60%, and neither cites the company. And then there is Passes, which manages something stranger: it publishes its split twice and the two numbers disagree, marketing "just 10%" on its homepage while its own Creator Terms say "We take a 20% fee of all credit/debit Sales." We print the reported range, label it reported, print both of the Passes numbers, and leave every gap where it is. An honest gap beats a plausible guess.

The master table

Every creator platform we cover, and what it really takes

Read the fourth column before you read the third. A published number is a number you can plan around. A reported number is a rumor with a decimal point.

Platform What creators sell there Platform take (published or reported) Split published by the platform? Adult content allowed? Best for
OnlyFans Subscriptions, pay-per-view messages, tips 20% flat, published in the terms: "Our Fee is calculated as 20% of the total Fan Payment" Yes Yes The largest ready-made buyer base
Slushy Subscriptions, paid posts, messages Not published. Three sources report three incompatible models (80/20 in 2022, a 75/25 or 100% discovery split in 2025, a 50/50 with the first $19.99 per new customer retained in 2026) No Yes Creators without a following who want algorithmic discovery, if they accept an unpublished rate
Fansly Tiered subscriptions, a free follower tier, PPV, tips 20% flat, published Yes Yes Tiered pricing and niche or fetish content
Fanvue Subscriptions, PPV, messages 15% for the first month, then 20%. Published (the discount used to run 12 months, and most articles still say so) Yes Yes Brand-new creators who want a first-year discount
LoyalFans Subscriptions, video store, live streams, video calls, paid audio 20% standard, published Yes Yes Live, voice and video selling in one place
JustForFans Subscriptions, PPV, live streams, a content store 20% standard, or 15% for Exclusive Performers. Published Yes Yes Creators willing to go exclusive for an 85% payout
FanCentro Subscriptions, PPV clips, paid chat, referrals Reported at about 25% (described as roughly 10% processing plus 15% platform). Sources cite anywhere from 20% to 30% No Yes Creators who want a strong referral program
Fanfix Subscriptions, lockable posts, monetized DMs, 1:1 video calls Reported at 20% (an 80/20 split in your favor). Fanfix does not state it on its own site No No. Strictly safe for work Mainstream creators who need a brand-safe page
Patreon Memberships, tiers, paid posts 10% platform fee, published, plus processing (2.9% + $0.30), a 2.5% currency conversion fee and a $0.25 payout fee. Real net: 77% to 86% Yes, every layer Nudity behind an 18+ paywall, yes. Sexual activity by real people, no Erotica, art, audio and illustrated NSFW
ManyVids Clips, customs, physical Store Items, VIP Fan Club, paid chat and calls 40% on Videos, Membership and contest votes. 20% on customs, Store Items, VIP Fan Club, tips and services. Published rate card Yes Yes Selling clips and customs to marketplace traffic
Clips4Sale Fetish and kink clips, tips, tributes 40% on clip sales, 20% on tips and tributes. Published Yes Yes Deep fetish catalogues and category search traffic
IWantClips Clips, custom videos, tributes Sellers commonly report keeping around 60% on clips. No complete public rate card exists No Yes Custom orders and femdom-leaning fetish buyers
NiteFlirt Pay-per-minute phone calls, paid chat, recorded Goodies You keep 70% on live calls, 66% per paid chat message, 50% on recorded Goodies, 70% on gifts and tributes. Published fee schedule Yes Yes Phone work where you set an uncapped per-minute rate
Phrendly Flirty texts, phone calls, video calls, gifts $0.35 per text reply, 70% on phone and video, 90% on gifts. Phrendly takes a 20% platform cut and drinks cost buyers $10 each. Published Yes No. Flirty only, no nudity Softer, conversational paid chat with a $10 payout minimum
SextPanther Texts, photo and video messages, calls, unlocks, tips Nothing is published. Reported at roughly 55% to 60% on messages (one review site says 55%, another says 60%), about 75% on calls and about 80% on tips No. Not on the site, the apply pages, the FAQ or the terms Yes Established creators with a following, US and Canada only
Arousr Sexting, voice calls, video calls, photo and video sales, tips Model keep commonly reported around 35%, and it varies. No clear public rate card No Yes Sexting-first work with weekly payouts
FeetFinder Feet photos, videos and custom sets About 15% per sale on the $4.99 Basic plan, about 10% on the $14.99 Premium plan. The monthly plan is charged whether you sell or not Yes Yes, within the feet niche The largest dedicated feet buyer base
Feetify Feet photos, videos, custom requests Free to join and list. Free accounts are commonly reported at 20% commission. Feetify says premium models keep 100%, but does not publish the premium price No. The premium price is not on the site and reviews disagree Yes, within the feet niche A free second shop window with no monthly bill
FunWithFeet Feet photos and videos A paid seller subscription plus a service fee. Reputable 2026 sources disagree on the exact figures, so we quote none No Yes, within the feet niche A second feet storefront, once you verify the current price
Instafeet Nothing of its own any more Not applicable. instafeet.com now loads a FeetFinder signup page, so you are applying to FeetFinder under FeetFinder terms and fees Not applicable See FeetFinder Nobody. Read this before you upload an ID to that domain
All Things Worn Worn panties, socks and other intimates No commission. You keep 100% of the sale price. Premium is commonly reported around $15 a month, and withdrawals route through a third-party e-wallet with a hold and a small wallet fee Yes on the 0% commission. No on the membership price, which is a reported figure Yes Keeping the full sale price on worn items
Pantydeal Worn panties and intimates Pantydeal advertises no transaction fees, so no commission. The seller plan is commonly reported around $19 a month, and Pantydeal points to its own fee page for the live number Yes on 0% commission. No on the monthly plan price Yes The biggest buyer pool in the worn-items niche
Snifffr Worn underwear, socks and scented items Free seller tier, with premium plans from about $10.95 a month. Reported fee details vary between sources No Yes Starting free, but read the direct-payment warning first
Scented Pansy Scented and worn intimates A monthly seller subscription, widely described by sellers as one of the cheaper fees in the niche. Reported figures differ, so we quote none No Yes A focused scented-items audience, small but on-intent
Passes Memberships, paid DMs, 1:1 video calls, livestreams, group chats, a Shop (merch and digital downloads), tips and PPV posts 10% marketed on the homepage, 20% in its own Creator Terms. Also published: 0% on Shop and marketplace sales for up to one year, and 10% on DMs and Exclusive Content (blog, August 26, 2025) Yes, twice, and the two numbers disagree No, explicitly. Its Community Guidelines state: "We do not allow explicit adult content, nudity, or pornography" Brand-safe creators who already have a following. Application and review, not open signup

Three things fall out of that table once you sit with it. First, 20% is the market rate, and almost nobody beats it by much, so a creator switching platforms to save five points is chasing a rounding error. Second, the steepest cuts in the whole market are on clip sales: 40% at both ManyVids and Clips4Sale, which is exactly the product most new sellers upload first.

Third, and this is the one worth arguing about: the platforms that will not publish a split are not obscure. Fanfix announced more than $300 million paid out to creators in June 2026 and still does not state its cut on its own site. SextPanther has been running for years with nothing on the homepage, the apply pages, the FAQ or the terms. FanCentro has no single public rate card, and the reported figures range from 20% to 30% depending on who you read. Sign up anyway if the platform fits, but sign up with your eyes open and confirm your real split in the dashboard before you budget on it.

The honest math

Why the headline percentage is not what you keep

A take rate is a marketing number. What lands in your bank account is a take rate plus payment processing, plus fixed per-transaction costs, plus monthly plans, minus chargebacks. Here is $1,000 of gross sales, run through several real fee structures.

Patreon is the clearest example, because it publishes every layer. The platform fee is 10%. Payment processing is 2.9% plus $0.30 on a US card. Currency conversion is 2.5% if a fan pays in a currency other than your payout currency. A direct deposit payout costs $0.25. That fixed $0.30 per payment is the part that quietly destroys low-priced tiers, because $0.30 on a $3 pledge is 10% of the pledge on its own, while $0.30 on a $50 pledge is six tenths of one percent. Same platform, same published fee, two completely different outcomes.

$1,000 of gross sales, run through Platform cut Everything else You take home Effective rate
Patreon, $10 tier x 100 members $100.00 platform fee (10%) $59.00 processing, plus a $0.25 payout fee $840.75 84.1%
Patreon, $3 tier x 333 members ($999 gross) $99.90 platform fee (10%) $128.87 processing, plus a $0.25 payout fee $769.98 77.1%
FeetFinder, Basic plan $150.00 service fee (15%) $4.99 monthly plan, charged either way $845.01 84.5%
FeetFinder, Premium plan $100.00 service fee (10%) $14.99 monthly plan, charged either way $885.01 88.5%
ManyVids, 100% clip sales $400.00 platform cut (40%) None disclosed on top $600.00 60.0%
ManyVids, half clips and half customs, tips and fan club $300.00 platform cut (blended) None disclosed on top $700.00 70.0%
OnlyFans, subscriptions and PPV $200.00 platform fee (20%) None disclosed on top $800.00 80.0%

The fixed cost per transaction

A flat $0.30 per payment is invisible on a $50 sale and brutal on a $3 one. Two Patreon creators grossing the same $1,000 keep $769.98 and $840.75 purely because of tier price. Nobody advertises that.

The monthly plan you pay either way

FeetFinder charges $4.99 or $14.99 a month whether you sell or not. The Premium plan cuts the service fee from about 15% to about 10%, which only wins above roughly $200 a month in sales.

The cut that changes by product

ManyVids takes 40% of a clip and 20% of a custom, a tip or a fan club subscription. Your blended rate is a decision, not a fee. Sell only clips and you keep $600 of $1,000. Sell half clips, half everything else, and you keep $700.

Payout fees and thresholds

A $0.25 direct deposit is nothing. A 1% PayPal payout fee, a $150 international minimum on Clips4Sale, or a third-party e-wallet fee on All Things Worn all quietly shave the number that reaches your bank.

Chargebacks

A reversed payment takes back the sale and can take a fee with it. It is the one cost nobody models, and it lands hardest on high-priced pay-per-view. Our guide to OnlyFans chargebacks covers how to keep them rare.

Tax, which is not a platform fee at all

You are an independent contractor everywhere on this list. Nothing is withheld. Income tax and US self-employment tax come out of what is left, so the number in the last column is still not the number you keep.

Run the arithmetic and the ranking gets uncomfortable for the platforms with the friendliest headline. Patreon's published 10% is the lowest platform fee in this comparison, and a US creator on $3 tiers still keeps only 77.1% of gross, which is worse than the flat 80% at OnlyFans that everyone complains about. Meanwhile FeetFinder's Premium plan, which looks expensive at $14.99 a month, returns 88.5% on a $1,000 month, the best effective rate in the table. Headline percentages are a poor guide. Do the multiplication on your own numbers. For the full layer-by-layer breakdown, read how much Patreon takes and how to shrink those fees, and see OnlyFans chargebacks for the cost that never shows up on a rate card.

Match the platform to the product

Which content creator platform is best for what you sell

Nobody is best at everything. Pick by what you actually sell, then argue about the percentage.

Best for adult and explicit

OnlyFans still has the biggest buyer base and a published flat 20%. Fansly matches the split and adds tiers plus a free follower page. Fanvue charges 15% for your first year. LoyalFans builds in a video store and calls. JustForFans pays 85% if you go exclusive. The full field is in our OnlyFans alternatives roundup.

Best for brand-safe and SFW

Three real options, each with a catch. Fanfix is strictly safe for work and invite-only, and the 80/20 split everyone quotes is reported rather than published. Passes markets 10% but writes 20% into its own Creator Terms, bans nudity outright, and will not let you link to a NSFW platform from your bio. Patreon publishes a 10% platform fee and allows nudity behind an 18+ paywall, but bans sexual activity by real people. None of the three will get your public Instagram limited.

Best for feet content

FeetFinder has the largest dedicated buyer base and the clearest fee structure of the three, at $4.99 or $14.99 a month plus roughly 10% to 15% per sale. Feetify is free to list on, which makes it a sensible second shop window. Read the Instafeet review before you touch that domain, because it is now a FeetFinder signup page.

Best for worn items

This corner of the market runs on monthly plans and zero commission, which flips the usual arithmetic. Pantydeal has the biggest buyer pool. All Things Worn takes no cut at all. Scented Pansy is cheap and focused. Snifffr is free to start, but often has you settle payment directly with the buyer, which moves the risk onto you.

Best for phone, chat and texting

NiteFlirt is the only one here with a published fee schedule you can read before signing up: 70% on live calls, 66% per paid chat message, 50% on recorded Goodies. Phrendly publishes its rates too, but bans nudity. SextPanther and Arousr publish nothing at all. Compare them in SextPanther vs NiteFlirt.

Best for clips

All three clip marketplaces take a heavy cut, so choose on traffic and payout speed. ManyVids pays weekly and lets you climb to an 80% blended rate through customs and tips. Clips4Sale owns fetish search but pays monthly on the 7th. IWantClips leans on custom orders and publishes no complete rate card. Start with selling videos online.

People also ask

Platforms that pay content creators, answered

Direct answers first. No hedging, no invented numbers.

What platform pays creators the most?

On the published percentage alone, All Things Worn and Pantydeal, because both advertise zero commission on sales, though both charge a monthly plan. Among subscription platforms, JustForFans pays 85% to Exclusive Performers and Fanvue pays 85% for your first 12 months. After that, most of the market sits at a flat 20%.

Which creator platforms actually publish their revenue split?

OnlyFans, Fansly, Fanvue, LoyalFans, JustForFans, Patreon, ManyVids, Clips4Sale, NiteFlirt and Phrendly all publish their cut, so you can read it before you sign up. FanCentro, Fanfix, IWantClips, SextPanther and Arousr do not. For those five, every number you see online is a third-party estimate.

What is the best paying platform for content creators?

There is no single answer, because the best paying platform is the one that matches what you sell. A phone creator earns 70% on NiteFlirt. A clip seller keeps 60% on ManyVids and Clips4Sale. A worn-items seller keeps 100% of the sale price on All Things Worn. Match the platform to your product first.

Do content creators pay taxes?

Yes. In the US you are an independent contractor on every one of these platforms, not an employee. Nothing is withheld from your payouts, and you owe income tax plus self-employment tax on your net earnings. Set aside a slice of every payout and keep records of platform fees, which are deductible business expenses.

Why do some platforms hide their revenue split?

They rarely explain it. The practical effect is that the split can vary by creator, by plan or by activity without anyone being able to hold up a published rate and object. Our position is simple: if a platform will not state its cut before you sign up, treat every quoted figure as unverified and confirm it in your own dashboard.

Is a lower platform fee worth switching for?

Usually not on its own. Five percentage points on $1,000 a month is $50. Doubling your traffic on the platform you already use is worth $1,000. Fees decide the margin, promotion decides the size of the number the margin applies to, and creators lose far more to an unpromoted page than to any platform cut.

Can you use more than one creator platform at once?

Yes, and most earning creators do. A subscription page for recurring income, a clip marketplace for search traffic, and a niche site for feet or worn items is a common shape. The one exception is exclusivity deals: JustForFans only pays its 85% Exclusive Performer rate if your paid content stays on JFF.

Which platforms allow explicit adult content?

OnlyFans, Fansly, Fanvue, LoyalFans, JustForFans, FanCentro, ManyVids, Clips4Sale, IWantClips, NiteFlirt, SextPanther and Arousr all allow explicit content. Fanfix, Phrendly and Passes do not, and the Passes Community Guidelines also prohibit linking to a NSFW platform from your bio or captions. Patreon sits in between: nudity is permitted behind an 18+ paywall, sexual activity by real people is banned whether it is paywalled or not.

The question underneath all eight: does the platform decide your income? It does not. A page earning $200 a month and a page earning $8,000 a month are usually on the same platform, paying the same percentage, and the difference is who is sending buyers and who is answering them. Every company in that table takes its cut and then leaves the promotion, the pricing and the messages entirely to you. If you are still choosing, OnlyFans alternatives compares the subscription field, and creator taxes covers the deduction that arrives after all of them.

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