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Ranking method v1

How the charts are ranked

BestCreators ranks OnlyFans creators by the public likes their profiles gained between two of our own dated readings. This page explains where the numbers come from, who is counted, how the window is measured and what we leave out on purpose.

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The method in one paragraph

We read an account's public profile counters each time one of our directory searches returns it, and we keep every reading, dated. Where we hold two readings of the same accounts a day (or seven days) apart, a board ranks them by likes gained: the later count minus the earlier one. Otherwise the board ranks by total likes in the latest reading. Both readings are always ours and always dated, and each board prints how many accounts it was drawn from and the exact time range its readings cover. Nothing on a board is estimated, interpolated, voted on or paid for.

Where the data comes from

We read public OnlyFans profile data through OnlyFansAPI (onlyfansapi.com), a third-party data service. We use two of its public endpoints: profile search, to discover accounts, and profile details, to read an account's public counters. We do not use media, messaging or download endpoints, and we never connect to anyone's OnlyFans account. We host no OnlyFans posts or videos. Profile photos load from OnlyFans; our image CDN keeps short-lived resized copies of some, which a removal purges. BestCreators is independent and is not affiliated with OnlyFans.

From each public profile we read:

  • username, display name and bio;
  • links to the profile photo and header image;
  • the subscription price, and whether the account is free;
  • the public likes count, and the numbers of posts, photos and videos;
  • the subscriber count, only when the profile itself shows it;
  • join date, location text and website link, when present;
  • whether OnlyFans shows its checkmark on the account, which we print as “Verified by OnlyFans”. It is OnlyFans' mark, not ours.

Every reading carries the time the data service says it read the profile. If the service only has a cached copy, we use that copy's time, not ours. If we cannot tell how old a reading is, we do not store it. Profile pages print this as “Public OnlyFans profile data, read {date} UTC”.

Who is in the pool

We find accounts through the data service's profile search: searches by name, niche keyword, language and location, run continuously. Each search result carries that account's full public profile, so an account is read when we first find it and read again whenever a later search returns it.

We do not poll accounts on a fixed schedule. Our budget goes to covering more of the platform rather than re-reading the accounts we already list, so the figures on a profile are the ones from the last time a search returned it. Every profile page and every board prints the date of the reading it shows, so you can see exactly how old a number is; we never estimate a figure between readings.

A likes-gained board therefore only appears when we actually hold two dated readings of the same accounts the right distance apart. When we do not, the board you see is Most liked, which ranks accounts by the total public likes in their latest reading and states that reading's date. An account counts as eligible when it is a creator account with at least one post, was active in the last 90 days, and passes every safety gate below. The directory lists women creators: accounts our data source labels as female with high confidence or, when it gives no confident label, whose own name, username or bio clearly reads as a woman's. Accounts it labels as male are never shown. We never display anyone's gender.

How a board is ranked

Likes gained = likes in the latest reading − likes in the baseline reading. A reading is made for a calendar day; its target time is 01:00 UTC, the middle of the tier A reading window. A pair of readings only counts when both readings are close to their target time and the gap between them is the right length:

Measurement windows
BoardBaselineEach reading withinGap between readings
Day1 day earlier±3 h of target24 h ±3 h
Week7 days earlier±12 h of target168 h ±12 h
  • Negative changes (an account lost likes) are measured but not ranked.
  • Unusual jumps are held out. If an account gains more than 5× its usual daily gain (the median of its last 7 daily gains) per day of the window, and more than 2,000 likes per day, while its post count did not change, it sits out that run. Held-out accounts are counted, never shown, and come back on the next run if their gains look normal.
  • Order: likes gained, then posts gained. Accounts that are equal on both share a rank and the board prints it as “=4”; the username only decides the order in which tied rows are listed.
  • Missed readings: if the daily reading lands too late, no new day board is built that day and the previous board stays up with its own dates. An empty build never replaces a board.
  • Before the first window: a likes-gained board needs two daily readings about a day apart (today) or seven days apart (this week). Until we hold them, those pages show the Most likedboard instead (total public likes at each account's latest reading, with its read date, pool and size) and say when movement will first appear. No gains are shown until they can be measured.

The rankings are rebuilt once a day after the tier A readings finish. Boards say “today” and “this week” for the latest completed window, and always print that window's exact dates.

What each board shows

  • Top today: likes gained over one day, tier A.
  • This week: likes gained over seven days, tier A.
  • All-time: total public likes from each account's most recent reading. This is a total, not a gain, and the board prints the date range of the readings it used.
  • Free OnlyFans accounts: the day and week method, limited to accounts with a $0 subscription price at the latest reading.
  • OnlyFans accounts under $10: paid accounts priced under $10. OnlyFans' minimum paid price is $4.99, so free accounts have their own board.
  • Niche boards: the same method, limited to accounts tagged with that niche. A niche page is only offered to search engines once at least 12 eligible creators carry the tag.
  • Monthly and growth-rate boards are not computed by method v1. Their pages say so instead of showing a placeholder ranking.

Award flags (biggest gainer, new entry, most liked, free and rising) are read off the board itself. They are never stored separately and never sold.

The label on every board

Every board prints, next to its title:

  • the pool, for example “among the 500 most-liked accounts we refresh daily”, with the real count of that run;
  • the measured window: the earliest and the latest reading time among the ranked rows, computed from the readings, never from a schedule;
  • how many accounts were ranked, and the method version.

The current boards

Top today
Ranked by public likes gained between our snapshots, among the 1,989 most-liked accounts we refresh daily; measured 06 Oct 2026, 00:00 to 07 Oct 2026, 01:10 UTC; 1,884 ranked; method v1.
This week
Ranked by public likes gained between our snapshots, among the 500 most-liked accounts we refresh daily; measured 07 Oct 2026, 00:00 to 14 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC; 4 ranked; method v1.

Movement, NEW, RE and peak

The chart is the top 100 of a board. Arrows compare a row with the previous run of the same board and say the date of that run (“up 3 places since 04 Oct”).

  • NEW: first time ever in this board's top 100.
  • RE: back in the top 100 after dropping out.
  • LW: position on the run seven days earlier. Peak: best top-100 position on this board. Runs in the top 100 counts this one.
  • Downward moves are shown in grey, not red: a lower position is not a judgement.

How niches are assigned

A niche tag comes only from the creator's own words: keywords in their bio or display name. We never tag an account because of the search we used to find it, and we never infer appearance, ethnicity or body type from photos. Synonyms (such as “ginger” for redhead) point to one page. Age-coded and explicit words are never used as niches or search filters.

Safety gates

Every reading passes these checks, in this order, before anything about an account can appear:

  1. Blocklist and removals. Usernames on our blocklist, and accounts removed at the creator's request, are never read again.
  2. Minors. The bio, display name and username are checked, with the usual spelling tricks undone, for a stated age under 18 (in any of the languages we read), wording that presents someone as a minor in a sexual way (including age-play terms and cosplay or anime terms for characters under 18), and age-coded words used as a selling point in a username or display name. Each match is read in context: an adult age such as 18 or 19, a mention of the creator's own past, a teacher, or someone else's age (a child or a pet) is not a match. A match hides the account and blocklists every username it has used, with no review first.
  3. People who became famous as minors are never shown, on any page, chart, search result, share image or sitemap, even as adults. Other public figures with an OnlyFans account are listed like any other creator. An account with no posts and no public likes has no page.
  4. Explicit wording. If a bio uses explicit words, the bio is not shown. If a display name or username uses them, the account is not listed on any chart, niche page or search result; its stats page stays reachable by link, shows the handle only, and is kept out of search engines.
  5. Images. Profile photos and headers are shown as OnlyFans serves them publicly, loaded from OnlyFans' own image servers; we do not run our own image check on them. Any other image source is replaced by the creator's initials, and any photo can be taken down on request.

To report an account, use the removal and report form. An account reported as a possible minor is taken off the site as soon as the report arrives and reviewed first. When we change these checks, every stored account is checked again within a day, not only when it is next refreshed.

What we never publish

  • rankings by subscriber count, which most profiles hide;
  • earnings estimates, star ratings, reviews or scores;
  • our own “verified” badge;
  • claims that a chart is updating as you watch: every number has a reading date;
  • history lines drawn between readings we do not have;
  • creator photos inside share images: those are text only.

Images

Small profile photos load directly from OnlyFans' image servers, and your browser sends no referrer with them. Larger photos on the most-viewed cards pass through our image CDN, which keeps a resized cached copy; a removal purges that copy. When a photo cannot be shown we show the creator's initials instead.

Method versions and corrections

This is method v1, printed on every board. If the method changes, the version number changes, the change is described here with its date, and older boards keep the version they were built with.

Found a wrong number, or want a profile removed? Use the form. All times on the site are UTC and written like 05 Oct 2026, 01:00 UTC.