Creator TL;DR
- 4.63M creator accounts at FY2024 close — up from 348k in 2019
- +13× creator base in five years (1,222% expansion)
- $5.80B total payouts to creators in 2024 (80% of $7.22B gross)
- $1,253 average / ~$180 median annual income — power-law distribution
- ~27k accounts deactivated in June 2026 alone (routine moderation)
Creator account growth
OnlyFans creator accounts grew from 348,000 in 2019 to 4.63 million by FY2024 — a thirteen-fold expansion in five years. The steepest single-year growth was 2019→2020 (+360%, COVID-driven), but the platform has sustained double-digit YoY growth in every year since.
| Year | Creator accounts | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 348,000 | — |
| 2020 | 1,600,000 | +360% |
| 2021 | 2,100,000 | +31% |
| 2022 | 3,100,000 | +48% |
| 2023 | 4,100,000 | +32% |
| 2024 | 4,634,000 | +13% |
Creator economics — 80/20 split
OnlyFans uses a flat 80/20 creator-favorable split with no tiers. Every dollar a fan spends — subscriptions, pay-per-view, tips, DMs — sees 80 cents flow to the creator before any other deductions. There are no engagement-based throttles, no carve-outs for top creators, and no minimum thresholds before payouts start.
Real take-home is lower than 80% once payment processing (~3%), currency conversion (1–3% for non-USD fans), and tax obligations are accounted for. US-resident creators typically net 65–72% of the original fan payment; international creators with VAT obligations land closer to 55–62%.
Earnings distribution
OnlyFans's creator earnings distribution is one of the steepest power laws in the consumer internet. Splitting $5.80B in payouts across 4.63M creators gives an arithmetic mean of $1,253/year — but the median creator earns closer to $180/year, and the top 1% capture approximately 33% of all platform payouts.
| Percentile | Estimated annual income | Share of payouts |
|---|---|---|
| Top 0.1% | $300k+ | ~13% |
| Top 1% | $50k+ | ~33% |
| Top 10% | $5,000+ | ~73% |
| Median | ~$180 | — |
| Bottom 50% | < $180 | ~3% |
Distribution figures are panel-based estimates. Fenix International does not publish per-creator earnings breakdowns.
Account moderation and removals
OnlyFans actively moderates the creator base. In June 2026 alone, 26,901 creator accounts were deactivated — 18,762 for fraud prevention, 2,998 for terms-of-service violations, and 5,141 for other reasons (OnlyFans Transparency Center, June 2026). Monthly deactivations have held in a steady 26k–29k band through 2026 (Feb 26,214 · Mar 28,929 · Apr 27,319 · May 27,641 · Jun 26,901). The platform also filed 30 NCMEC CyberTipline reports covering 162 pieces of suspect media in the same month; NCMEC's official by-ESP data records 388 CyberTipline reports from Fenix International across calendar 2025.
The inflow side is equally active: 147,756 new creator applications were submitted in June 2026, of which 42,873 (~29%) were approved (OnlyFans Transparency Center, June 2026).
Both numbers are an order of magnitude higher than what comparable adult creator platforms publish — partly because OnlyFans actively scans uploaded content with proactive reporting, partly because the platform's scale makes absolute volumes large even when relative rates are not.
Fan-to-creator ratio — supply/demand health
With 377.5M cumulative fan accounts and 4.63M creators, the platform-wide fan-to-creator ratio sits at 81.6:1. This ratio has held remarkably steady within a 74:1 to 87:1 band since 2021, even as both sides scaled by an order of magnitude. Stable ratio = supply-side and demand-side scaled together rather than oversaturating each other.
From the 100,200-profile creator dataset
The sections below come from our June-2026 creator dataset — 100,200 public profiles across 401,727 directory listings, collected and analyzed by our sister site bestonlyfansreviews.com (disclosure). Pricing findings from the same dataset live on the dedicated OnlyFans price statistics page; raw JSON/CSV downloads are there too.
Engagement concentration: a steep power law
The median profile has 906 total likes; the mean is 25,705. When a mean runs ~28× the median, a small elite is doing the pulling: the top 1% of creators hold 35.5% of all likes, and the top 10% hold 82%. The 99th-percentile profile has ~428,780 likes — about 473× the median.
Like concentration (Lorenz curve)
Notably, attention is more concentrated than money: our earnings analysis puts the top 1% at roughly 33% of payouts — similar at the very top — but likes fall off much faster below that. Engagement is a winner-take-most market even by creator-economy standards.
Reach: half the platform sits under 1,000 likes
Bucketing the sample by total likes shows how thin the middle is: 50,917 profiles (50.8%) have under 1,000 total likes, while just 231 profiles (0.2%) crossed one million.
Creator reach distribution
| Total likes | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 0–1K | 50,917 | 50.8% |
| 1K–10K | 23,872 | 23.8% |
| 10K–100K | 19,921 | 19.9% |
| 100K–1M | 5,259 | 5.2% |
| 1M+ | 231 | 0.2% |
How old are OnlyFans creators?
Among 5,525 profiles with self-stated ages, the median creator is 23 and the mean is 24.9. Roughly 63% state an age under 25; the 45+ segment is just 3.4% — a mirror image of the fan-side age curve, where 25–34 dominates and 45+ makes up ~22%. Caveat: these are marketing-facing profile ages and may be understated; treat the skew, not the decimals, as the finding.
Creator age distribution
Full deep-dive — complete bucket table, creator-vs-fan age comparison and methodology notes — in average age of OnlyFans creators.
FAQ
How old is the average OnlyFans creator?
In a subsample of 5,525 profiles with self-stated ages (June 2026), the median OnlyFans creator age is 23 and the mean is 24.9. About 63% state an age under 25; only 3.4% state 45 or older. Self-stated profile ages may be understated for marketing.
Do most OnlyFans creators get engagement?
No — attention is extremely concentrated. The median profile has 906 total likes, while the average is 25,705 because a small elite pulls the mean up. The top 10% of creators hold 82% of all likes, and the top 1% hold 35.5%. Roughly half of all profiles have under 1,000 total likes (100,200 profiles, June 2026).
Sources
- [FENIX-2024] Fenix International Ltd — UK Companies House FY2024 filing for creator account totals.
- [OF-TRANS-2026] OnlyFans Transparency Center — June 2026 account deactivation, application, and CyberTipline reporting volumes.
- [NCMEC-2025] NCMEC — CyberTipline by-ESP data: 388 reports filed by Fenix International in CY2025.
- [PANEL-2024] Third-party panel analyses for distribution percentile estimates.
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