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OnlyFans vs Fansly vs Fanvue: who actually pays more

Short answer: on the headline number, they barely differ. Fansly and Fanvue both pay 80%, and the 80% everyone quotes for OnlyFans is one we couldn'tconfirm at the source — its terms are blocked to us. So “who pays more” is the wrong question. The money is decided by the payout minimum, how fast you can withdraw, and — the part most comparisons miss — the referral programme.

OnlyFans Full terms →

Creator share: Not verified
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Payout minimum: Not verified
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Creator referral: Not verified
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Fansly Full terms →

Creator share: 80% — flat across subscriptions, media, messages and tips source
Payout minimum: $20 (Paxum, Cosmopayment, local bank) · $50 SEPA · $100 wire or crypto source
Creator referral: 5% of the referred creator’s earnings in year one, then 1.5% ongoing — no stated cap source

Fanvue Full terms →

Creator share: 80% standard source
Payout minimum: $20, varying $20–$50 by region source
Creator referral: 5% for 12 months, capped at $50,000 — paid by Fanvue, not deducted from the referred creator source

JustForFans Full terms →

Creator share: 80%, or 85% on the exclusive tier source
Payout minimum: $50 source
Creator referral: Not verified
No current published source

Where the real difference is

The referral terms are the widest gap and the least understood. Fanvue pays 5% for 12 months, capped at $50,000, out of Fanvue's own share— it doesn't come off the person you referred. Fansly pays 5% in year one, then 1.5% ongoing with no stated cap. Those are different bets: Fanvue front-loads and caps; Fansly is smaller but never stops. This is also the only side of these platforms that pays for traffic at all — referring creators earns; referring fans earns nothing.

On OnlyFans, we couldn't read the payout minimum, the schedule or a referral programme at the primary source — its documentation is blocked at the domain level. That's worth knowing before you build a business on numbers you can only find repeated second-hand. See exactly what we tried →

JustForFans is the one that genuinely pays a higher share— 85% — but only on its exclusive tier, which means you can't post that work anywhere else. Whether that trade is worth it is the subject of a separate guide.

We publish no “creators earn $X/month” figures — no platform publishes per-creator data, so any such number is invented.

Every figure above is read from each platform's own documentation, linked and dated, on one page.

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Figures read from primary documentation on 2026-07-29 and re-checked on a cadence described in our sourcing methodology. This guide cites /platforms; the numbers live there, once.