OnlyFans Statistics 2026: Users, Creators & Revenue Data
October 5, 2026 · 10 min read · By Exclu Team
OnlyFans Statistics 2026: The Numbers Behind the Platform
Key takeaways
OnlyFans closed fiscal 2025 (year ended 30 November 2025) with 5,063,000 registered creator accounts and 437,133,000 registered fan accounts - the audited figures from parent company Fenix International's UK Companies House filing, released 27 September 2026.
Fans spent $7.84 billion on the platform that year; $6.29 billion reached creators, and Fenix booked $715 million in pre-tax profit with 47 employees.
The fan-to-creator ratio hit 86.3:1, up from 81.6:1 a year earlier.
Roughly 132 million active fan accounts (reported, not audited) and 2.5 million active creators (reported, not audited) used the platform during the year.
Most "OnlyFans statistics" online quietly mix three different counts - registered, active, and submitted. This page keeps them apart.
OnlyFans publishes almost nothing itself. The one audited window into its business is the annual group accounts its parent, Fenix International Ltd, files at UK Companies House. The latest set - for the year ended 30 November 2025 - was registered on 20 September 2026, twenty days late, and released on 27 September 2026. Every money figure below comes from that document unless it says otherwise. Where a number is reported rather than audited, it's flagged.
Key OnlyFans Statistics at a Glance
Metric | FY2025 (to 30 Nov 2025) | FY2024 (to 30 Nov 2024) | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
Registered creator accounts | 5,063,000 | 4,634,000 | +9.3% |
Registered fan accounts | 437,133,000 | 377,456,000 | +15.8% |
Fan-to-creator ratio | 86.3:1 | 81.6:1 | - |
Active creators (reported, not audited) | ~2.5 million | - | - |
Active fan accounts (reported, not audited) | ~132 million | - | - |
Gross fan payments | $7.84B | $7.22B | +8.7% |
Paid out to creators | $6.29B | $5.80B | +8.4% |
Platform net revenue | $1.55B | $1.41B | +9.9% |
Pre-tax profit | $715M | $684M | +4.6% |
Employees (monthly average) | 47 | 46 | +1 |
Source: Fenix International Ltd audited group accounts, UK Companies House, financial years ended 30 November 2025 and 30 November 2024 (FY2025 filed 20 September 2026 and released 27 September 2026; FY2024 filed 27 August 2025).
A note on the "$1.6 billion revenue" line. You'll see $1.6 billion quoted as OnlyFans' annual revenue. That figure is derived, not a reported line item: it's the platform's roughly 20% cut of gross fan payments ($7.84B × 20% ≈ $1.57B, rounded up). Fenix's own audited platform net revenue for FY2025 was $1.55 billion. Both are defensible - just know which is which before you quote one.
Registered vs active vs submitted: why the sources disagree
Every credible number on this topic describes one of three states, and mixing them is why the internet can't agree on a single answer.
Registered accounts are cumulative - every account that has ever existed, including ones opened in 2019 and abandoned. Fenix's 5,063,000 creators and 437,133,000 fans are registered counts.
Active accounts are the ones that actually posted, paid, or logged in during the period. Fenix reports about 2.5 million active creators (reported, not audited) and about 132 million active fan accounts (reported, not audited) for FY2025.
Submitted applications are the cumulative number of people who ever applied to be a creator, including the majority who never finish onboarding or get rejected - roughly 10.5 million since 2016 (OnlyMonster, 2025).
The 4× gap between "5 million," "2.5 million," and "10.5 million" isn't a contradiction. It's three questions wearing the same coat.
How Many OnlyFans Creators Are There?
If you want a single number: 5,063,000 registered creator accounts existed at fiscal 2025 close (Fenix International audited filing, FY2025). That's up 9.3% from 4,634,000 a year earlier.
If you want the number that actually matters for competition, it's smaller. About 2.5 million creators were active during FY2025 (reported, not audited - Fenix FY2025 filing, as reported by Adult Industry News in August 2026). Roughly half of registered accounts do something in a given year; the other half are dormant.
Step back and the curve is striking. OnlyFans went from 348,000 creator accounts in 2019 to 5.06 million by fiscal 2025 - a fourteen-fold expansion in six years (Fenix filings, 2019–2025). But the pace has cooled to single digits: +13% in FY2024, +9.3% in FY2025. No FY2026 figure exists yet - that filing is due around August 2027, so anyone quoting a hard 2026 creator count today is estimating.
How Many OnlyFans Accounts Have Been Submitted?
This is the number that trips people up. About 10.5 million creator applications have been submitted since 2016 (OnlyMonster compilation, 2025) - a cumulative total, not a live count.
Applications get filtered hard. In June 2026 alone, OnlyFans received 147,756 new creator applications and approved 42,873 - roughly 29% (OnlyFans Transparency Center, June 2026). In the same month, 26,901 creator accounts were deactivated, 18,762 of them for fraud prevention (same source). The platform adds supply and strips supply every month.
So "how many OnlyFans accounts are there" depends entirely on which count you mean:
Creator accounts: 5,063,000 (Fenix, FY2025)
Fan accounts: 437,133,000 (Fenix, FY2025)
Total accounts: roughly 442 million at FY2025 close
Applications ever submitted: ~10.5 million (OnlyMonster, 2025)
And remember: accounts aren't people. One creator can run several profiles and one fan can hold multiple logins, so none of these is a human headcount. For the deeper breakdown of that question, see our guide to how many OnlyFans creators there are.
How Many OnlyFans Users Are There?
437,133,000 registered fan accounts closed FY2025, up 15.8% from 377,456,000 a year earlier (Fenix International audited filing, FY2025). That's the headline user number.
The active figure is far smaller: about 132 million active fan accounts during FY2025 (reported, not audited - Fenix FY2025 filing via Adult Industry News, August 2026). That's a 3.3-to-1 gap between cumulative and active, and it's the single most important caveat on this page: 437 million registered fans is not 437 million paying subscribers.
Third-party panels sit somewhere in between, and they measure yet another thing. Similarweb-logged traffic put the site at roughly 360 million monthly visits in June 2026, while some analysts estimate the monthly active base at 210–260 million (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026). Those numbers differ because each method sees a different slice - logins, unique devices, visits, or simply an account that exists.
The OnlyFans Fan-to-Creator Ratio
The cleanest way to compare the two sides is the ratio. At FY2025 close the platform carried 437,133,000 fan accounts against 5,063,000 creator accounts - a ratio of 86.3:1 (Fenix International audited filing, FY2025). In plain terms, about 86 fan accounts exist for every creator account.
A year earlier it was 81.6:1, from 377,456,000 fans and 4,634,000 creators (Fenix FY2024). It widened because demand outran supply: fan accounts grew +15.8% while creator accounts grew +9.3%.
That widening isn't a one-off. Since 2021 the ratio has held inside a 74:1–87:1 band (Fenix filings, FY2021–FY2025), which tells you supply and demand have scaled together rather than one side swamping the other. For a creator, a rising ratio means a growing addressable audience - not more competition.
Note the ratio is built from registered accounts, not active ones.
OnlyFans Revenue Statistics
Fenix measures two different things, and confusing them is the most common error in coverage of this platform.
Gross fan payments - the money fans actually spend - hit $7.84 billion in FY2025, up 8.7% from $7.22 billion (Fenix International audited filing, FY2025). OnlyFans keeps roughly 20% of that; $6.29 billion (up from $5.80 billion) was passed through to creators.
Platform net revenue - what Fenix books as its own - was $1.55 billion, up 9.9% from $1.41 billion. Inside that:
Revenue line | FY2025 | FY2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
Subscriptions | $422M | $470M | −10% |
Pay-per-view, tips & messages | $1.13B | $943M | +20% |
That split is the story of the year. Subscriptions shrank 10% while pay-per-view, tips and paid messages grew 20% - now 73% of platform revenue, up from 67%. Fans are paying more per interaction, not more for access.
Below the top line, pre-tax profit rose 5% to $715 million (FY2024: $684 million), from operating profit of $709 million, after $193 million of tax and $535 million of dividends. Cash held rose to $848 million, with no group debt.
For comparison, cumulative gross fan payments have climbed from $270 million in 2019 to $7.84 billion in 2025 (Fenix filings, FY2019–FY2025).
How Much Do OnlyFans Creators Make?
This is where averages lie. Divide the $6.29 billion paid to creators in FY2025 by 5,063,000 creator accounts and you get a mean of $1,242 per account per year, about $104 a month (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026).
But that mean sits above the estimated top-25% threshold. The distribution is a power law, and the typical creator earns far less:
Percentile | Estimated annual income |
|---|---|
Top 0.1% | ~$735,000 |
Top 1% | ~$49,000 |
Top 10% | ~$5,200 |
Median (50th) | ~$180 |
Bottom 50% | ~$50 |
Tiers are panel-derived estimates; the only audited number is the $6.29B aggregate payout (Fenix FY2025). Source: onlyfansstatistics.com Creator Income Distribution Report, 2026.
The top 1% of creators capture roughly 33% of all payouts; the top 10% hold 82% of all likes across a 100,200-profile dataset (June 2026). Half the platform is barely visible - 50.8% of profiles have under 1,000 total likes.
At the very top, OnlyFans has paid creators more than $30 billion since 2016, and 5,076 creators have each earned over $1 million (Fenix FY2025 filing via Adult Industry News, August 2026). A small elite pulls the average up; that's not what a new creator should plan around.
OnlyFans Statistics by Country
OnlyFans does not publish creator- or user-country data. Every geographic figure is a third-party estimate, and they disagree - so read them as ranges.
The United States is the largest market on both sides of the platform. It accounts for roughly 30–40% of all creators while generating about 50% of fan traffic (onlyfansstatistics.com, 21 August 2026). One 2026 traffic estimate puts the US at ~41% of visits (~136.5 million a month).
The UK is the outlier. It contributes roughly 10–14% of creators despite making up only about 6% of fan traffic - a 2× over-representation (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026). Three reasons: Fenix is UK-domiciled, the UK has the densest cluster of OnlyFans-focused agencies and accountants, and sustained mainstream press coverage normalises creator-side adoption.
Country / region | Est. creator share | Fan-traffic share |
|---|---|---|
United States | ~30–40% | ~50% |
United Kingdom | ~10–14% | ~6% |
Continental Europe | ~12–15% | - |
Latin America | ~10–12% | - |
Asia-Pacific | ~5–8% | - |
The fastest-growing creator markets since 2023 are Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines, driven by mobile-payment maturity and local talent agencies. All country figures are estimates - treat a precise "number of OnlyFans creators in X country" as a red flag.
OnlyFans Payouts and Fees
OnlyFans runs a flat 80/20 split, and it's creator-favourable: creators keep 80 cents of every fan dollar across subscriptions, pay-per-view, tips and DMs, with no engagement tiers and no payout minimums.
In practice, $6.29 billion reached creators in FY2025 (up from $5.80 billion), part of more than $30 billion paid out since 2016 (Fenix FY2025). Keep in mind that the platform's own revenue is roughly the mirror image of the split - the ~$1.6 billion often quoted as "revenue" is the platform's 20% cut of gross fan payments, a derived figure rather than a reported line; Fenix's audited platform net revenue was $1.55 billion.
What actually lands in a creator's bank account is less than 80%. From the $0.80:
Payment processing (typically 2.9% + ~$0.30 per transaction), often passed through to creators
Currency conversion on non-USD payments, usually a 1–3% spread
Local tax - income and self-employment tax in the US, VAT obligations in parts of the EU and UK
Real take-home for a US-resident creator typically lands at 65–72% of the original fan payment; international creators with VAT and FX exposure can drop to 55–62% (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026).
What These Numbers Mean for Creators
The "5 million creators" headline isn't the number that should worry you. The 2.5 million active creators (reported, not audited) is - that's who you're competing against, and it's roughly 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 around $180 a year while the mean runs 7× higher, because a small elite pulls the curve. Half the platform collects almost no attention. That means two levers decide your outcome more than the size of the catalogue you're up against:
The share you keep. A creator on an 80% split keeps $800 of every $1,000; on a 0% commission arrangement, the same $1,000 stays whole.
The audience you bring. With 437 million registered fans but only ~132 million active (reported, not audited), discovery is the bottleneck - not the fan base.
The platform is huge and still growing. The money is real. Most accounts never reach it.
FAQ
How many OnlyFans creators are there in 2026? About 5,063,000 registered creator accounts at FY2025 close (Fenix International audited filing, released 2026), of which approximately 2.5 million were active that year (reported, not audited). No official FY2026 figure exists yet - that filing is due around August 2027.
How many OnlyFans users are there?437,133,000 registered fan accounts, with approximately 132 million active during FY2025 (reported, not audited - Fenix FY2025). Third-party panels estimate the monthly active base at 210–260 million.
How much money did OnlyFans make in 2025? Fenix International reported $1.55 billion in platform net revenue and $715 million in pre-tax profit for FY2025, on $7.84 billion in gross fan payments (audited UK Companies House filing, 2026).
What is the fan-to-creator ratio on OnlyFans?86.3:1 at FY2025 close - about 86 registered fan accounts for every creator account, up from 81.6:1 a year earlier (Fenix filings, FY2024–FY2025).
How many OnlyFans creators are active? Approximately 2.5 million active creators during FY2025, versus 5,063,000 registered accounts (reported, not audited - Fenix FY2025).
How many OnlyFans accounts have been submitted? Roughly 10.5 million creator applications since 2016 (OnlyMonster, 2025) - a cumulative total that includes rejected and abandoned applications.
How much do OnlyFans creators make on average? The arithmetic mean is about $1,242 per account per year, but the median is closer to $180 and the bottom half earn around $50 (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026). The average is distorted by a top 1% that captures about a third of all payouts.
Which country has the most OnlyFans creators? The United States, at an estimated 30–40% of all creators, followed by the UK at 10–14% (onlyfansstatistics.com, 2026). OnlyFans publishes no country data, so these are estimates.
Sources
Fenix International Limited - filing history, UK Companies House (FY2025 accounts filed 20 September 2026, released 27 September 2026; FY2024 filed 27 August 2025)
Fenix International Limited - company overview, UK Companies House
onlyfansstatistics.com - "OnlyFans Annual Report 2025: Fenix Filing Tracker" (updated 28 September 2026)
onlyfansstatistics.com - "OnlyFans Creator Income Distribution Report 2026" (updated 27 September 2026)
onlyfansstatistics.com - "OnlyFans creators by country" (updated 21 August 2026)
Adult Industry News - "Is OnlyFans on the Decline? What the Latest 2026 Numbers Actually Say" (August 2026)
BBC - "OnlyFans owner was paid over $700m before his death" (2026)
OnlyFans Transparency Center - monthly application, approval and deactivation data (June 2026 figures)
OnlyMonster - "How Many OnlyFans Creators Are There?" (2025)
Tubefilter - "As OnlyFans celebrates its tenth birthday, it counts more than 5,000 seven-figure earners" (26 August 2026)
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