Passes markets a 10% take and contracts for 20% in its own Terms, both live right now. Here is the honest breakdown: the real fees, the payout minimum, the clauses the marketing skips, and how it compares to OnlyFans and Fansly.
Last updated July 2026
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Passes publishes two different take rates at the same time. Its homepage says "Passes takes just 10%. You keep 90% of everything you earn". Its Creator Terms of Service say "We take a 20% fee of all credit/debit Sales". Both are live in July 2026. On the marketed rate Passes is half of OnlyFans; on its own Terms the two are identical at 20%.
We are not going to resolve that by picking whichever number suits the story. The marketed rate is 10%, the contractual rate in the document you actually agree to is 20%, and until Passes reconciles them a creator cannot know in advance which governs. The safe way to plan is to budget for 20% and treat 10% as the best case. And remember Passes is brand-safe only: it bans explicit content, so for adult creators the fee question never comes up. For the fuller platform picture, read our full Passes review.
Each line is quoted from Passes' own published sources or clearly labelled as reported. Terms change, so confirm the current figures before you sign.
| What you sell | Passes takes | The detail |
|---|---|---|
| Subscriptions and paid content | 10% marketed, 20% in the Creator Terms | The homepage says "Passes takes just 10%". The Creator Terms of Service say "We take a 20% fee of all credit/debit Sales". Both are live right now. |
| Paid DMs and exclusive locked content | 10% (published) | Passes publishes a 10% rate specifically on DMs and exclusive content. |
| Shop and marketplace sales | 0% for up to one year | Published on the company blog, August 26, 2025. Creators keep 100% of digital product revenue during the promotion. |
| Payment and transaction processing | Deducted, amount not stated | The Terms define "Net Consideration" as the total "less any fees, taxes, and third-party expenses (e.g. any gas or other payment or transaction processing fees)". |
| Content leak penalty | $50 per leaked item, per site | The Creator Terms allow a "leaking fee of $50 per site, platform or medium" for each leaked piece, collectible through your payment method. |
On $1,000 gross it gets concrete. At the marketed 10%, Passes leaves you $900. At the 20% in its Terms, it leaves you $800, the same as OnlyFans. The entire advantage, $100 a month on $1,000, rests on which of Passes' own two numbers turns out to apply. That is not a question a creator should have to guess at before signing.
Then there is the "Net Consideration" clause. Your payout is defined as the total received less fees, taxes and third-party expenses such as payment or transaction processing fees. Passes does not state those amounts, so we will not compute a blended effective rate, because any figure we produced would be invented. We are telling you the clause exists and it sits awkwardly next to the "No Hidden Fees" line on the homepage. Read our Passes vs OnlyFans breakdown for the full quote-by-quote comparison.
Passes publishes a $50 minimum payout, paid by ACH bank transfer or PayPal. Automatic payouts are free and land 3 to 5 business days after your schedule. Instant options carry extra fees whose amounts are not published in text, so we will not guess them. One honest line: the Terms commit only to paying bi-weekly within thirty days, far slower than the "Instant Payouts" the marketing promises.
And one clause to read before you sign: the Creator Terms allow a "leaking fee of $50 per site, platform or medium" for each leaked piece of content, collectible through your payment method. Leaks are not always in your control, and this puts the cost of one on you. None of this makes Passes a bad platform, it is a real, funded company that pays creators, but you should know the full price before you commit, not after.
Published take rates as of July 2026. Content policy, not the percentage, decides most of these.
| Platform | Take rate | Explicit allowed? | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passes | 10% marketed / 20% in Terms | No | Application with review, brand-safe only |
| OnlyFans | 20% flat, published | Yes | Open signup, ID verification |
| Fansly | 20% flat, published | Yes | Open signup, ID verification |
| Patreon | 10% flat for pages after Aug 4, 2025 | Nudity behind a paywall, no real sex acts | Open signup |
| Fanvue | 15% for the first year, then 20% | Yes | Open signup |
If you are brand-safe and already have a following, Passes is a genuine option worth applying to, and Patreon's flat 10% is the other cheap choice. If you are explicit, none of this applies: Passes bans it, and the real decision is Fansly or OnlyFans at a published 20%. See how much Fansly takes, how much OnlyFans takes and how much Patreon takes.
For a brand-safe creator with an existing audience, a marketed 10% is a genuinely competitive rate, and the 0% on Shop and marketplace sales is a real perk while it lasts. Passes also leans into higher-value formats, livestreams, 1:1 calls and event ticketing, that price your time rather than your feed, which suits creators who can sell access rather than volume.
But the take rate is rarely the number that moves your income. Passes has no discovery feed that hands you subscribers, so ten percent of an audience you never build is still nothing. The variable that changes your earnings by an order of magnitude is how many of the right people see your link, and that is decided on Instagram, TikTok, X and Reddit, not in a fee table. Read how to promote a creator page: the funnel is the same wherever the checkout lives.
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Passes publishes two different take rates at once. Its homepage says "Passes takes just 10%. You keep 90% of everything you earn". Its Creator Terms of Service say "We take a 20% fee of all credit/debit Sales". On the marketed rate Passes is half of OnlyFans, and on its own Terms the two are identical at 20%. Until Passes reconciles the two, a creator cannot know in advance which one governs, so budget for 20% and treat 10% as the best case.
Both numbers are published by Passes right now. The 10% is the marketing figure on the homepage and on paid DMs and exclusive content. The 20% is the contractual figure in the Creator Terms of Service you actually agree to. We do not pick one for you: the marketed rate is 10%, the rate in the document you sign is 20%, and both are live in July 2026.
Yes. The Terms define your payout as "Net Consideration", the total received less fees, taxes and third-party expenses such as payment or transaction processing fees, whose amounts are not stated. There is also a "leaking fee of $50 per site, platform or medium" for each leaked piece of content, collectible through your payment method. Neither sits comfortably next to the "No Hidden Fees" line on the homepage.
Passes publishes a $50 minimum payout, paid by ACH bank transfer or PayPal. Automatic payouts are free and land 3 to 5 business days after your schedule. Instant options carry extra fees whose amounts are not published. One honest caveat: the Terms commit only to paying bi-weekly within thirty days, slower than the instant payouts the marketing promises.
On the marketed 10% rate, yes, by half. On the 20% in its own Creator Terms, no, they are identical. But the take rate is rarely what decides your income. OnlyFans has a far larger base of buyers already used to paying, and a better percentage of a smaller audience nets less money. If you are explicit, Passes is not an option at any rate, because it bans explicit content outright.
No. Passes prohibits explicit content, and it also prohibits linking or pointing fans to an NSFW platform from your page. That makes the fee question moot for explicit creators: Passes is a brand-safe platform only, and Fansly or OnlyFans are the real choices for adult content at a published 20%. We break down the policy in our guide to whether Passes allows NSFW content.
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