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How Many OnlyFans Creators Are There in 2026?

October 6, 2026 · 8 min read · By Exclu Team

How Many OnlyFans Creators Are There in 2026?

Key takeaways

• 5.06 million registered creator accounts closed OnlyFans's fiscal 2025 (year ended 30 November 2025) - Fenix International's audited UK Companies House filing, released 2026.

• About 2.5 million of those accounts were active during that same fiscal year - the same Fenix FY2025 filing, as reported by Adult Industry News in August 2026.

• Roughly 10.5 million creator applications have been submitted since 2016 - OnlyMonster's 2025 compilation.

• 437.1 million registered fan accounts exist, of which only ~132 million were active (Fenix FY2025 filing).

• These figures don't contradict each other. They count three different things - submissions, registrations, and activity - and mixing them is why the internet can't agree on an answer.

So how many OnlyFans creators are there? If you want one sentence: about 5 million creator accounts exist, roughly 2.5 million were active in the last reported year, and only a fraction of those earn meaningful money. Everything else is definitions.

Registered vs active vs submitted: the three numbers behind the question

Every credible figure you've seen on this topic describes one of three states.

Registered creator accounts are the cumulative total of accounts that exist on the platform - including ones opened in 2019 and never touched since. Fenix International, OnlyFans's parent company, reported 4.634 million of them for the fiscal year ended 30 November 2024 (filing published at Companies House on 27 August 2025, covered by Business Insider that same week). For fiscal 2025, ended 30 November 2025, the audited filing puts the number at 5.06 million, a 9% increase (released 2026).

Active creators are accounts that actually posted, promoted, or earned during the period. This is the number you want if you're judging competition, and it's the newest data point: of the ~5 million registered creator accounts, approximately 2.5 million were active during fiscal 2025 (Fenix FY2025 filing, reported by Adult Industry News, August 2026). That's roughly half of registered.

Submitted applications are the cumulative count of people who ever applied to become a creator - including the majority who are rejected or never finish onboarding. Third-party compilations put this at about 10.5 million since 2016 (OnlyMonster, 2025). Every month adds more: OnlyFans's own Transparency Center logged 147,756 new creator applications in June 2026, of which 42,873 (~29%) were approved.

Here's the reconciliation table. Print it, because it ends about 90% of the confusion.

Note what happened to "4.1 million." A lot of articles label it as the number of active creators. It isn't - it's Fenix's registered-account total for fiscal 2023. The label got lost somewhere between blogs and became its own fact.

How many OnlyFans accounts have been submitted?

Pull this apart and it stops being mysterious. The 10.5 million cumulative figure is applications, not creators or even accounts. Applications get filtered hard, and the rejection rate is brutal.

In June 2026 alone, OnlyFans received 147,756 creator applications and approved 42,873 - about 29% (OnlyFans Transparency Center, June 2026). Stack that against the removals: 26,901 creator accounts were deactivated in June 2026, 18,762 of them for fraud prevention (same source). The platform adds supply and strips supply every single month.

So "how many OnlyFans accounts are there" - if you mean the headline account count - is 5.06 million creator accounts plus 437.1 million fan accounts, or roughly 442 million accounts total at FY2025 close (Fenix International, 2026). If you mean "how many accounts have been submitted," it's about 10.5 million applications ever filed (OnlyMonster, 2025). Same platform, two different questions.

And because accounts aren't people - one creator can run several, one fan can hold multiple logins - none of these totals is a headcount of humans.

OnlyFans creators by country: the US and UK lead

OnlyFans does not publish creator-country data. Every geographic figure is a third-party estimate, and they disagree with each other - which is exactly why you should read them as ranges, not facts.

The most-cited estimates put roughly 1.1 million creators in the United States and about 280,000 in the United Kingdom (SimpleBeen, 2025). Those are the two largest single markets on the supply side, and they line up broadly with share-based estimates: one analysis puts the US at ~30–40% of all creators and the UK at ~10–14% (onlyfansstatistics.com, 21 August 2026).

Run the math and the two methods don't agree. Applied to a 5.06M base, a 35% US share would imply closer to 1.8 million US creators - not 1.1 million. That gap is real and it's worth understanding: directory-based counts only see profiles they've indexed, while language-analysis estimates infer creators they can't directly count. Neither is wrong; they're counting different populations.

A few directional points hold across sources:

• The US is the largest creator supply base, but it's smaller than its share of fan traffic - the US generates around half of platform demand but a lower share of supply.

• The UK is over-represented relative to its fan share (~6%), roughly 2× its weight, partly because Fenix International is domiciled in the UK (onlyfansstatistics.com, 21 August 2026).

• Italy, Spain, Brazil, and Mexico are the fastest-growing creator markets as of 2024–2025.

So, how many OnlyFans creators are there in the US? Somewhere between 1.1 million and 1.8 million, depending on the method and the base year. Anyone quoting a single precise number for [how many onlyfans creators are there in the us] is overselling their data.

Creators vs users: how many users does OnlyFans have?

If you ask how many users does OnlyFans have, the honest range is wide - and the reason is the same registered-vs-active trap.

Registered fan accounts: 437.1 million at FY2025 close, up 16% from 377.456 million a year earlier (Fenix International, 2026). Active fan accounts: approximately 132 million during fiscal 2025 (same filing, reported by Adult Industry News, August 2026).

That's a 3.3-to-1 gap between cumulative and active. Independent traffic panels sit in-between-ish: Similarweb recorded 360.2 million monthly visits in June 2026, while some analysts estimate the monthly active base at 210–260 million (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026). The discrepancies come from what each method can see - logins, unique devices, visits, or simply an account that exists.

The cleanest way to compare the two sides is the fan-to-creator ratio: 86.3:1 (Fenix FY2025). Roughly 86 fan accounts for every creator account, up from 81.6:1 the year before, because fans grew faster (+16%) than creators (+9%). That ratio has held inside a 74:1–87:1 band since 2021 - supply and demand scaled together rather than one swamping the other.

OnlyFans popularity and the 2019–2026 growth trend

OnlyFans's popularity is easy to describe in one line: it went from 348,000 creator accounts in 2019 to 5.06 million by fiscal 2025 - a fourteen-fold expansion in six years (Fenix International filings, 2026).

Every figure is a registered-account total from Fenix International's annual Companies House filings (2019–2025, most recently released 2026). Fiscal 2026 ends 30 November 2026, so its filing won't land until roughly August 2027 - anyone quoting a hard 2026 creator count today is estimating.

Two things stand out. First, the pandemic spike is over and the curve has flattened to single-digit annual growth. Second, "declining" is the wrong word for the trend. Revenue rose about 10% to $1.55 billion in FY2025, creator payouts climbed to roughly $6.3 billion, and pre-tax profit hit ~$715 million (Fenix FY2025 filing via Adult Industry News, August 2026). Slower growth isn't shrinkage.

Why is OnlyFans so popular? Because the mechanics stayed attractive while scale grew: creators keep 80% of what fans spend, the platform has paid out more than $30 billion since 2016, and 5,076 creators have earned over $1 million each (Fenix FY2025 filing, August 2026). That combination - a high split, no gatekeeping on niche, and a fan base of hundreds of millions - is a real pull. It's also why the middle of the market is now crowded.

What this means for new creators

The "5 million creators" headline is not the number that should worry you. The 2.5 million active creators should - that's who you're actually competing against, and it's double what the platform had five years ago.

But competition and opportunity aren't opposites here, and the distribution tells the real story:

• The median creator earns roughly $180 a year; the arithmetic mean per account is about $1,242–$1,253 - a mean running 7× the median means a small elite pulls the curve up (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026).

• The top 1% capture roughly a third of all payouts and hold 35.5% of all likes; the top 10% hold 82% of likes (100,200-profile dataset, June 2026).

• 50.8% of profiles have under 1,000 total likes - half the platform is barely visible.

So the honest read: the platform is huge and growing, the money is real, and most accounts never reach it. If you're treating this as a business, that means two levers matter more than the creator count - the share you keep and the audience you bring, not the size of the catalogue you're competing with. A creator on an 80% split keeps $800 of every $1,000; on a 0% commission arrangement, the same $1,000 stays whole.

Frequently asked questions

How many OnlyFans creators are there in 2025 and 2026? About 5.06 million registered creator accounts at FY2025 close (Fenix International filing, released 2026), of which ~2.5 million were active that year (same filing, via Adult Industry News, August 2026). No official FY2026 figure exists yet - that filing is due around August 2027.

How many OnlyFans models are there? "Models" and "creators" describe the same population. There are roughly 5.06 million registered creator accounts and about 2.5 million active creators (Fenix FY2025, 2026). The word "models" is marketing shorthand, not a separate category.

How many OnlyFans accounts are there in total? About 442 million - 5.06 million creator accounts plus 437.1 million fan accounts at FY2025 close (Fenix International, 2026). Cumulative applications submitted since 2016 are a separate figure, around 10.5 million (OnlyMonster, 2025).

How many users does OnlyFans have?437.1 million registered fan accounts, with approximately 132 million active during FY2025 (Fenix International, 2026). Third-party panels estimate the monthly active base at 210–260 million (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026).

How many people do OnlyFans for a living? Nobody publishes this precisely. The closest proxy is that ~2.5 million creators were active in FY2025 (Fenix, August 2026), but with a median annual income near $180 and half of accounts earning under $1,000 in likes lifetime, genuinely full-time earners are a small slice of that.

How many OnlyFans creators are in the US? Estimates run from about 1.1 million (SimpleBeen, 2025) to 1.8 million when applying a ~35% US share to a 5.06M base (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026). The UK sits second at roughly 280,000 (SimpleBeen, 2025).

Why is OnlyFans so popular? An 80/20 split in creators' favour, no niche gatekeeping, and a fan base of hundreds of millions - plus $30 billion+ paid out since 2016 and 5,076 million-dollar creators (Fenix FY2025, August 2026).

Where to go from here

The creator count is the easy part. What decides whether the numbers work for you is how much of each fan dollar you keep.

Exclu runs on a 0% commission model - you keep what your fans pay, instead of handing over the standard 20% every other platform retains. If you're weighing the platform against the data above, that difference is the one line in the spreadsheet you control.

For the full dataset behind this article - revenue, fans, earnings distribution, and yearly filings - see our broader data hub at OnlyFans statistics.

Sources

• Fenix International Limited - filing history, UK Companies House (FY2025 filing released 2026; FY2024 filed 27 August 2025)

• Business Insider - "6 OnlyFans stats that show how massive the platform has become," Madeline Berg (22 August 2025)

• Adult Industry News - "Is OnlyFans on the Decline? What the Latest 2026 Numbers Actually Say" (August 2026)

• onlyfansstatistics.com - Creator statistics, creator-country split, and account counts (last updated 28 September 2026)

• OnlyFans Transparency Center - monthly application and deactivation data (June 2026 figures)

• OnlyMonster - "How Many OnlyFans Creators Are There in 2025?" (2025)

• SimpleBeen - "OnlyFans Statistics 2025" (2025)