Market intelligence
The OnlyFans economy
Platform-level numbers are sourced from Fenix International's Companies House filings (FY2024). OFM industry figures are either explicit press-reported estimates or clearly labelled derivations.
OnlyFans platform · FY2024
Variety · FY2024 filingGross revenue
What fans paid
Net revenue
OnlyFans-retained
Pre-tax profit
Paid to creators
80% of fan payments
Creator accounts
Fan accounts
Owner's dividend
To Leonid Radvinsky · FY2024
Avg creator / month
Mean. Median is far lower.
Revenue
Gross revenue, 2019–2024
OnlyFans grew ~19× in five years. The COVID surge in 2020 alone added more revenue than the entire prior history.
Supply side
Creator accounts, 2019–2024
Total registered creators. 2024 figure of 4.634M includes inactive accounts.
Economics
Where the money flows
For every $100 a managed creator earns from fans, this is approximately how it splits between platform, agency and creator (typical mid-tier agency commission).
Breakdown
OnlyFans platform fee · 20%
Flat 20% taken by the platform on all payments. Confirmed in OnlyFans' filings.
Agency commission (typical mid) · 30%
Industry-typical full-service commission. Range: 20–50%.
Net to creator · 50%
What the creator actually keeps in this mid-commission scenario.
OFM industry
The OFM industry has no audited sizing
No body publishes verified agency revenues, headcounts or commissions. What follows is a transparent derivation from platform-level disclosures.
Low estimate
$261M
15% of creator payouts under agency mgmt × 30% commission
Mid estimate
$507.5M
25% of payouts × 35% commission
High estimate
$928M
40% of payouts × 40% commission
Derived estimate. There is no authoritative public sizing of the OFM industry. Computed as: (creator payouts) × (estimated agency-managed share, 15–40%) × (typical commission, 30–40%).