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What exclusivity clauses cost you
The best-looking revenue share on any platform usually has a string attached: to earn it, you agree not to post that work anywhere else. Exclusivity isn't automatically a bad deal — but it's a real cost, paid in reach and in the risk of tying your income to one company. Here is what each platform's clause actually says, and where the fine print hides.
What the trade actually costs
JustForFansis the clearest example: you can earn 85% instead of 80% — but only on its exclusive tier, which means that content can't live on any other platform. The extra five points are real; so is losing the ability to cross-post to an audience you already have elsewhere.
iWantClipshas no platform-wide lock, but requires each upload to be exclusive to the store — a per-file rule that's easy to miss. Fanvue has no exclusivity clause we could find, but restricts taking payment off-platform, which is a different kind of leash on the same instinct. Clips4Sale published no exclusivity clause we could find at all.
Fanslyis the honest gap here: we could not confirm its exclusivity terms, because the relevant page renders client-side only and our reader couldn't open it. So the row above says “not verified,” not “none” — those are different facts, and we won't blur them. See what we tried →
The rule of thumb: an exclusivity clause is worth it only if the platform is already where your audience is. Trading reach you have for a few points you might earn is the trap.
Every clause links to the exact terms page it was read from.
See the full sourced comparison →Terms read from primary documentation on 2026-07-29; see our sourcing methodology. This guide cites /platforms; the numbers live there, once.