OnlyFans does not publish what a typical creator earns, but the audited accounts of Fenix International, the company that runs it, give the totals: in its financial year to 30 November 2025 it paid out $6.2bn to creators across about 5.06 million creator accounts, according to its filings at Companies House. Simple division of those filed totals gives about $1,225 per account for the year, which is not what a typical creator earns, so this page sets out what the filings show and how to read them.
What Fenix International's accounts report
OnlyFans is run by Fenix International Limited, a UK company that files audited group accounts at Companies House every year. Those filings are audited and public, which makes them the firmest starting point for any OnlyFans earnings figure. The table takes the figures straight from the strategic reports in the two most recent filings: the accounts for the year ended 30 November 2025, filed on 20 September 2026, and the accounts for the year ended 30 November 2024, which include the 2023 comparatives.
| Year to 30 November | Gross payments by fans | Paid out to creators | OnlyFans revenue | Profit before tax | Creator accounts | Fan accounts | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $7.8bn | $6.2bn | $1.553bn | $0.715bn | 5,063,000 | 437,133,000 | 2025 group accounts |
| 2024 | $7.2bn | $5.7bn | $1.413bn | $0.684bn | 4,634,000 | 377,456,000 | 2024 group accounts; payout from the 2025 filing |
| 2023 | $6.6bn | Not stated in the strategic report | $1.307bn | $0.658bn | 4,118,000 | 305,066,000 | Comparatives in the 2024 group accounts |
The 2025 filing describes the split as “$4 for every $1 retained”, the same 80/20 division set out in OnlyFans' Terms of Use, and defines gross payments as fan payments net of sales taxes, refunds and contract liabilities. It also defines the account totals carefully: they count accounts created on OnlyFans that have not been deleted or deactivated, which is not the same as accounts that earned anything that year. The full list of filings is on the Companies House filing history for company 10354575.
More creators, a flat average
Read across the years and one pattern stands out. Between the 2024 and 2025 financial years, the amount paid out to creators rose from $5.7bn to $6.2bn, about 9%, while creator accounts rose from about 4.63 million to about 5.06 million, which the 2025 filing itself reports as 9% growth. With money and accounts growing at almost the same pace, the payout per account barely moved: about $1,230 in 2024 and about $1,225 in 2025.
- The pool grows, and so does the queue. Each year's extra payouts have been shared across a matching rise in creator accounts, so platform growth has not, on average, meant more money per account.
- Fans grew faster than creators. Fan accounts went from about 305 million in 2023 to about 437 million in 2025 across the two filings, about 74 fan accounts per creator account in 2023 and about 86 in 2025.
- Active figures tell a tighter story. Using the company's statement of 132 million active fans and 2.5 million active creators, as reported by the BBC, there were about 53 active fans for every active creator in 2025.
For someone starting out, the practical reading is that attention is as contested as the money. The total keeps rising, but so does the number of pages competing for each fan.
What OnlyFans said alongside the 2025 accounts
When the 2025 results were released in August 2026, the company added figures that are not in the strategic report. They come from company statements reported by the press, so they carry less weight than the audited numbers, but they fill an important gap: how many accounts were actually active.
- Active accounts. Variety reported that of the 5 million creator accounts, 2.5 million were active in the year, and that 132 million of the 437 million registered fan accounts were active.
- Seven-figure earners. The company said 5,076 creators have made more than $1 million on the platform since it launched in 2016, according to the same Variety report.
- Lifetime payouts. OnlyFans said it has paid more than $30 billion to creators since launch, a figure the BBC also reported alongside the 2.5 million active creators.
- A rounding difference. Variety gave 2025 creator payouts as $6.3 billion, while the filed strategic report says $6.2bn. This page uses the filed figure.
The average, worked three ways
Averages built from the filings come from one of these divisions, and the choice of denominator roughly doubles or halves the answer. The inputs are the filed payouts and account totals above, plus the company's active-account figure.
| Measure | Arithmetic | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025, every creator account | $6.2bn paid out divided by about 5.06 million accounts (2025 filing) | About $1,225 | About $102 |
| 2025, active creator accounts only | $6.2bn divided by the 2.5 million active accounts the company reported | About $2,480 | About $207 |
| 2024, every creator account | $5.7bn paid out divided by about 4.63 million accounts (2025 and 2024 filings) | About $1,230 | About $103 |
All three are simple divisions of filed totals, not what a typical creator earns, and all three come before the creator's own costs, tax and any management fees. The step from a payout to take-home pay, with a worked example, is on the average OnlyFans income page.
Why the average misleads
An average describes a typical creator only when earnings are spread fairly evenly, and on creator platforms they are not. A small number of very large earners can lift the mean far above what most accounts receive. Whether an account like yours can earn comes down to the factors set out in can you make money on OnlyFans.
Illustrative example, not real data: ten accounts, of which nine earn nothing in a year and one earns $10,000. The mean is $1,000 per account, yet the middle account, the median, earns $0. Neither number describes the one account that did well.
The public figures point the same way. Because the company says 5,076 creators have each earned more than $1 million since 2016, together they have received more than $5 billion of the more than $30 billion it says it has paid to all creators (both figures from the Variety report). Set against the roughly 5.06 million creator accounts in the 2025 filing, that is about one account in a thousand, although the two numbers cover different populations: one counts everyone since launch, the other only accounts still open.
- Half the accounts were not active. If 2.5 million of about 5 million accounts were active, the per-account average spreads the payout over millions of accounts the company did not count as active that year.
- No median is published. Neither strategic report gives a median, percentiles or any distribution of earnings per creator, so any median you see quoted is someone's estimate.
- Accounts are not people. OnlyFans' account limits article allows up to three creator accounts linked to one creator profile, so the account count can exceed the number of creators.
The reported fortunes at the very top are covered, with their own caveats about self-reported figures, in the highest-paid OnlyFans creator breakdown.
Breakdowns nobody has published
Many earnings articles slice income by percentile, niche, career stage or management model. None of those cuts comes from OnlyFans or from the filed accounts, and it is worth knowing what each one rests on before you plan around it.
| Breakdown you will see | Published by OnlyFans? | What to check before trusting it |
|---|---|---|
| Shares earned by the top earners | No | Whether the analyst explains the model and the totals it starts from |
| Income by niche | No | Sample size, how creators were chosen, and whether the publisher sells to that niche |
| Income by month or career stage | No | Whether creators who stopped posting are counted, or only those who stayed |
| Managed versus solo creators | No | Whether the figures come from a business that sells management, and whether a method is given |
| Country splits of creators or spending | No | Whether it measures website visits rather than earnings |
Treat any of them as an estimate rather than a fact about the platform. Other platform-wide figures, each with its own source, are gathered on the OnlyFans statistics page.
What the totals leave out
- Costs and tax. “Paid out to creators” is money leaving OnlyFans, not money a creator keeps. Equipment, promotion, helpers, management fees and income tax all come afterwards.
- Currency. The accounts are in US dollars, and OnlyFans' bank fees article says a creator's bank or e-wallet may charge conversion fees on receipt, so the same payout is worth different amounts in different countries.
- Refunds and chargebacks. Gross payments are stated net of refunds, and OnlyFans removes successful chargebacks from a creator's income, so individual months can be revised downwards.
- Timing. The financial year ends on 30 November, so a “2025” figure covers December 2024 to November 2025 and is filed in the second half of the following year.
- Referral income. The strategic report does not say whether referral payments, which OnlyFans funds itself, sit inside the paid-out figure.
How to read an earnings statistic
Most earnings numbers online are true of something; the question is what. Run any statistic through these checks before it shapes a decision. Individual success stories and screenshots need a different test, covered on the OnlyFans success stories page.
| Check | Question to ask |
|---|---|
| Source | Does it trace back to a Fenix filing or company statement, or to a model, survey or seller? |
| Year | Which financial year, and is a newer filing available? |
| Population | Every account, active accounts, or only creators who chose to share their numbers? |
| Measure | A mean, a median, a percentile, or one example? |
| Money | What fans paid, what OnlyFans paid out, or what the creator kept after costs? |
| Interest | Does the publisher sell courses, tools or management to the people reading it? |
To test your own expectations, put your planned prices and audience into the OnlyFans earnings calculator; it uses your inputs rather than platform averages. More guides on pricing and income streams sit in the monetization hub.
The limitations here are real: the filings give totals rather than a distribution, the active-account and millionaire figures are company statements rather than audited numbers, and none of it can tell you what one particular page will earn.
What to do with these numbers
Use the filed totals as context, not as a forecast, and build any plan from your own audience, prices and hours. If you would like a creator management agency to look at your plans with you, you can apply to SirenCY; the terms of any work together are set out in each creator's written proposal or agreement.
Sources
Reviewed 2 October 2026. Figures on this page come from the filings and reports below, checked against the original documents.
- Fenix International Limited, group accounts for the year ended 30 November 2025, strategic report: payouts, gross payments, revenue, profit and account totals for 2025 and 2024.
- Fenix International Limited, group accounts for the year ended 30 November 2024, strategic report: the 2023 comparatives.
- Companies House, filing history for company 10354575: filing dates for both sets of accounts.
- Variety, report on the 2025 results, 25 August 2026: active accounts, lifetime payouts and creators past $1 million, as stated by the company.
- BBC News, report on the 2025 results, 25 August 2026: active creators and the more than $30bn paid since launch.
- OnlyFans Help Centre, creator account limits and bank fees: why accounts are not people and why payouts shrink in conversion.
What the OnlyFans Earnings Data Shows
What the filings show
Fenix International's audited accounts give totals, not individual earnings: $6.2bn paid out to creators and about 5.06 million creator accounts in its financial year to 30 November 2025, per its Companies House filings.
Half the accounts were active
The company said 2.5 million creator accounts were active that year, as Variety reported, so an average per account and an average per active account differ by about double.
The top is a small group
OnlyFans says 5,076 creators have earned more than $1 million since 2016, against more than five million accounts open today (company figures reported by Variety), which is why averages say little about a typical page.
No median, no percentiles
Neither filed strategic report includes a median or any distribution of earnings, so percentile, niche and stage figures quoted online are estimates made outside the company.
Payouts are not take-home pay
The paid-out figure comes before creators' own costs, management fees and tax; the average income page works through each deduction.
Top earners are outliers
Fortunes reported at the very top are self-reported or press-reported and describe a handful of accounts; the highest-paid creator breakdown explains how to read them.
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