OnlyFans Statistics in 2026: Number of Creators & Top Earners

Search for OnlyFans numbers and you will mostly find recycled figures, copied from site to site and quietly eighteen months out of date. That is a problem if you need data you can cite, whether you are a journalist, an analyst, or building a career in content creation.

This OnlyFans statistics 2026 roundup fixes that: every figure traces to a named source, led by Fenix International's audited accounts filed with UK Companies House, and every estimate is labeled as one. We also cover the story no competitor has: the ownership shakeup that halved the company's valuation this spring.

OnlyFans Stats 2026: Key Numbers at a Glance

All financial figures come from Fenix International's annual report for the fiscal year ending 30 November 2024, the most recent audited accounts on file; 2025 figures were not yet public at the time of writing.

Thirteenfold creator growth since 2019 — but the growth curve is flattening fast.

How Many OnlyFans Creators Are There in 2026?

There are roughly 4.63 million creators on OnlyFans, up about 13 percent year over year per the company's own FY2024 filing, making it one of the largest paid platforms in the creator economy.

OnlyFans grew more than thirteenfold since 2019, with the biggest jump in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic pushed performers and audiences online. The telling story now is deceleration: from +365 percent in 2020 to +13 percent in 2024, with projections near 7 percent this year. That is a maturing market, which changes the math for anyone planning to start a page without an existing audience.

The headline count hides churn. Per figures reported by Statista, roughly 180,000 new creators apply to join OnlyFans monthly, about a third are approved, and tens of thousands of creator accounts are removed each month for policy violations, with reports filed to NCMEC whenever moderation flags suspected child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans. The 4.63 million figure is a heavily filtered snapshot.

OnlyFans User Statistics: Subscriber Growth Since 2023

The user base hit a new high in FY2024: just over 377 million registered fan accounts, up roughly 24 percent from fiscal 2023.

That is a 28-fold climb from 13.48 million users in 2019. With subscriber growth outpacing creator growth, the fan-to-creator ratio keeps improving: roughly 82 fans per creator, versus around 39 in 2019.

OnlyFans Revenue: Where $7.22 Billion Actually Goes

The distinction most articles miss: gross site volume is what fans spent, not what the company earned. Of the $7.22 billion paid in FY2024, $5.78 billion flowed to creators, $1.41 billion in annual revenue stayed with the platform, and pre-tax profit was $684 million, per the Companies House filing. OnlyFans takes 20 percent of every subscription, tip, and unlock, creator-friendly next to the 30 to 50 percent cuts common elsewhere.

Where the money comes from is the standout finding. Nearly all content on the platform is paywalled, yet a study by OnlyGuider and OnlyTraffic covering 1,003,855 OnlyFans subscribers and 58.9 million transactions found paid messages and pay-per-view unlocks drive 69.74 percent of creator revenue, while subscriptions account for just 4.11 percent. Fans are not buying a feed of exclusive content; they are buying conversation. That is how creators monetize now, and spending is remarkably concentrated:

• Only 4.2 percent of subscribers spend money on the platform; 95.8 percent never pay a cent
• Paying fans average $48.52 per creator, roughly $2.06 of revenue per subscriber across all sign-ups
• The top 0.01 percent of fans, the whales, generate 20.2 percent of all revenue
• 83 percent of payments land within 48 hours of subscribing, then spending drops sharply

That last line defines a fan's lifetime value: most of it is captured, or lost, within two days.

Average OnlyFans Income: What Creators Actually Earn

The average OnlyFans creator earns roughly $131 per month, about $1,570 a year, after the platform's cut: $5.78 billion in payouts divided by 4.63 million accounts. The mean is misleading, because what creators make follows a brutal power law.

Median sits far below mean, and for the vast majority of creators the page is side income, not a salary; pages where creators earn six figures are a rounding error. One analysis found accounts around the 71st percentile with as few as two active subscribers. Inequality among creators is the market structure, and the most successful creators build on a small paying core. To model your own numbers, try our creator payout calculator.

Top OnlyFans Earners in 2026

Self-reported beats estimated: Amouranth has discussed making around $1.5 million per month, and Corinna Kopf has said she earned over $67 million on OnlyFans. Bella Thorne, who opened an OnlyFans account in 2020, said she cleared $1 million on day one. Among the top 10, everything else is modeled from follower counts; treat it as directional.

OnlyFans Creator Statistics and User Demographics

Who Creates on OnlyFans

Roughly 84 percent of creators are women, per survey estimates, though male creators and couples are a growing minority, alongside a small share of non-binary creators. Most are 20 to 40. Adult content creators dominate: comedians and musicians post content too, but explicit content drives most spending, and most content on OnlyFans comes from independent performers, many under stage names (our anonymity guide covers how).

Who Subscribes

OnlyFans subscribers skew heavily male: estimates range from 78.9 to 87 percent men depending on the source, so treat any single figure with care. People who use OnlyFans are young too; per Similarweb, over 60 percent of visitors are 18 to 34.

The US is the largest market, but its traffic share is contested: Similarweb puts it near 49 percent, other trackers closer to 32 percent, with the UK, Canada, Germany, and France next. One uncontested number: about 84 percent of visits come from mobile.

What Changed in 2026: Ownership, Valuation, and a Failed Sale

No competing statistics page carries this yet. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported Fenix International had entered exclusive talks to sell a majority stake to Architect Capital; owner Leonid Radvinsky had earlier sought a valuation near $8 billion, while the January talks were reported around $5.5 billion including debt.

In late March, Radvinsky died at 43 after a cancer illness; his majority stake had been placed in a family trust in 2024, and his widow, Katie Chudnovsky, has since overseen the company. In May, Fenix sold a 16 percent stake to Architect Capital for $535 million, valuing OnlyFans at $3.15 billion, under half the figure sought in January. One marker for context: the platform says it has paid creators over $25 billion cumulatively since 2016.

What These OnlyFans Statistics Mean for Content Creators

Three threads braid into one argument. First, growth is slowing: creator count rose 13 percent against user growth of 24 percent, both far below lockdown-era rates; the years when users and creators doubled annually are over.

Second, almost nobody pays: with 4.2 percent of fans spending anything, a fan who finds your work free on a leak site was never going to convert, which is why winning the fans searching your name matters (our free OnlyFans Traffic Booster exists for that).

Third, at $131 a month, there is no revenue to spare. In a maturing creator economy, monetization depends on depth, not reach: the paying fans you have are worth more than the ones you have not found, and piracy attacks exactly that group.

The Statistic Nobody Publishes: How Much Piracy Costs Creators

Every number above is public. The one nobody publishes is how much of that $7.22 billion never reached a creator because the material was already free on a pirate site. No platform reports it. So we publish our own numbers instead.

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One toggle turns on automated DMCA takedowns: we file, follow up, and escalate to hosts and registrars, while pirated results are delisted from Google so a fan searching your name lands on your real page, not a leak site. Tie that to this page's own data: with paid messages driving nearly 70 percent of revenue, a fan who reaches your page and starts a conversation is worth far more than one who lands on a mirror. We also remove catfish and impersonation accounts on Instagram, X, and Reddit; see our OnlyFans DMCA guide for the full process.

The payoff is measurable: protected creators see an average revenue lift of 22 percent. Set that against the $131 average and do the arithmetic yourself.

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