Male OnlyFans statistics: what is known, and what is not
Written bySophia Brecht, CEO & Founder, Bunny Agency · Updated · 5min read
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Almost no statistics exist about male OnlyFans creators, because OnlyFans publishes nothing by gender. This study collects every figure we could source, grades each one and re-checks the numbers quoted most often. One of them, a widely repeated median, does not survive its own code.
What is actually known about male OnlyFans creators?
Less than the internet suggests. We checked OnlyFans' filings and help pages, the terms of six other platforms, peer-reviewed studies, press interviews and the statistics sites that most answers online repeat. This is what survives:
| Question | Best available answer | How strong |
|---|---|---|
| How many creators on OnlyFans are men? | No public data exists; OnlyFans publishes no gender split | Confirmed gap |
| What do male creators earn? | No public figure. The only gender-split creator data comes from a live-cam site, where 53% of male-labeled streamers got no tips in two weeks, against 3.4% of female-labeled ones | Strong, but a different platform |
| What does OnlyFans pay creators on average? | About $104 a month per account in its last audited year, all genders, dormant accounts included | Strong (audited filing) |
| How unequal are earnings? | 94% of creators earn less from subscriptions than their country's average income | Strong (peer-reviewed) |
| Who pays male creators? | Mostly men, by every account; no published split of male creators' revenue by who pays | Direction moderate, split unknown |
Individual results vary. These figures describe specific creators or a stated sample, not a typical or guaranteed outcome. What you earn depends on your audience, the time you put in and the content you choose to make.
The rest of this page shows the evidence behind each line, and the full fact base is at the end to download.
How much does OnlyFans pay per creator, year by year?
OnlyFans' operator files audited accounts in the UK every year. Taking what fans paid, minus what OnlyFans kept as its fee, divided by the number of creator accounts, gives the average paid per account:
| Fiscal year (to 30 November) | Creator accounts | Average paid per account |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2,161,000 | about $149 a month |
| 2022 | 3,182,000 | about $117 a month |
| 2023 | 4,118,000 | about $108 a month |
| 2024 | 4,634,000 | about $104 a month |
| 2025 | 5 million, 2.5 million of them active | Not calculated: the filing is not yet readable and OnlyFans has not defined active |
Individual results vary. These figures describe specific creators or a stated sample, not a typical or guaranteed outcome. What you earn depends on your audience, the time you put in and the content you choose to make.
Total payouts rose every year, to $6.3bn in fiscal 2025, while the average per account fell. The reason is in OnlyFans' own definition: the count includes every account that has not been deleted or deactivated, so dormant accounts pile up in the denominator. The falling average says little about working creators; it does say that most accounts earn little or nothing.
Does the most-quoted OnlyFans median hold up?
No. The median most often quoted for OnlyFans comes from a 2020 analysis of 803 creator accounts, which estimated subscription revenue from public pages and found a median of $179.82 a month. The author published his data and code, so we re-ran them.
The published figure reproduces exactly. But the analysis estimates fans from likes per post, and in its code the photo counts never convert to numbers, so photo posts drop out and accounts that post mostly photos look as if they had far more fans than they do. Counting photos, as the article itself describes, changes the result:
| Measure | As published | With photo posts counted |
|---|---|---|
| Median monthly subscription revenue | $179.82 | $49.90 |
| Share of all money made by the top 1% of accounts | 33.2% | 42.6% |
| Share made by the top 10% | 73.3% | 84.9% |
Individual results vary. These figures describe specific creators or a stated sample, not a typical or guaranteed outcome. What you earn depends on your audience, the time you put in and the content you choose to make.
The analysis also gave accounts without a readable price the platform's lowest price, $4.99. If those 365 accounts were free pages instead, the median becomes $0. Either way, no reliable median for OnlyFans exists, and nobody should quote one as what a typical creator earns.
Who pays male creators?
Every source that addresses it says mostly men, and none says otherwise. None measures it either:
| Source | Finding | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Four straight UK creators, interviewed in 2020 | Their subscribers were about 90% to 97% men, by their own estimates | Anecdotal |
| JustFor.Fans' founder, 2018 | More than 1,500 of roughly 2,000 performers were men making content for men | A statement, no data |
| One straight creator, 2024 | Mostly male audience, of which he estimates about 15% identifies as gay | One estimate |
| Two US panels of OnlyFans users | Women were 36.9% and 45.6% of users, across creators of every gender | Panels, not spending on men |
| A free video site's own analytics, 2026 | Women were 49.7% of viewers of gay male content | Viewing, not paying |
The figure repeated most often online, a precise share of gay subscribers among male creators' audiences, traces to a statistics aggregator that cites no source for it. We leave it out, and so does every page on this site.
What does the only gender-split earnings data show?
It comes from Chaturbate, a live-cam site, not from OnlyFans. Researchers recorded every public tip over two weeks in 2022. Among performers labeled male, 53% got no tips at all, against 3.4% of those labeled female, and the median male-labeled performer earned $0 an hour. Across all performers, over 69% of all tips went to the top 10%.
Individual results vary. These figures describe specific creators or a stated sample, not a typical or guaranteed outcome. What you earn depends on your audience, the time you put in and the content you choose to make.
The authors note that the male label includes many people who were not streaming to earn, and camming is a different business from subscriptions. We include it because it is the only large dataset that splits creator earnings by gender, not because it describes OnlyFans.
How do the platforms' terms compare?
Creator terms, from each platform's own pages:
| Platform | Creator's share | Minimum payout |
|---|---|---|
| OnlyFans | 80% | $20 for most methods |
| JustFor.Fans | 80%; 85% on some sales for exclusive performers | $50 |
| Fansly | 80% of subscriptions, sales and tips | $20 to $100, depending on the method |
| Fanvue | 80% | $20, higher in some regions |
| LoyalFans | 80% | $50 |
| ManyVids | 80% or 60%, depending on the product | $50 |
| Privacy (Brazil) | 80% | R$30 |
The split is close to identical across the market. What differs is the audience each platform brings, and OnlyFans vs JustForFans compares the two that matter most to male creators.
How was this study made, and how can you use it?
We read every source ourselves in September 2026, saved a copy, and recorded a short quote with each figure. Filings count as strong, peer-reviewed studies as strong for what they measure, press interviews as anecdotal, and statistics sites without a named source are excluded. Where we did our own arithmetic, the method sits next to the figure.
The whole fact base, every platform and market figure on this site with its source, quote and date, is free to download as male-onlyfans-facts.csv under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Cite it as "Bunny Agency for Men, Male OnlyFans statistics, 2026", with a link to this page.
What does nobody know yet?
How many OnlyFans creators are men, what they earn, how long accounts take to earn, and how the money splits between gay, bi and straight fans, men and women. The only source that could answer part of it is an agency's own data, for the creators it manages. We will add ours to this study when it can be published with the number of creators, the period and the median.