OnlyFans vs Fansly: Which Should You Actually Use?
OnlyFans and Fansly both take a 20% commission, so the fee is not the deciding factor. OnlyFans has by far the larger paying audience — 377.5 million registered fan accounts, per Fenix International's FY2024 filing — while Fansly offers built-in discovery and tiered subscriptions that OnlyFans lacks. Most professional creators run OnlyFans as the primary platform and Fansly as the diversification layer, not one instead of the other.
By Sophia Brecht, CEO & FounderData reviewed by the Bunny Agency operations teamOnlyFans vs Fansly: the facts side by side
| OnlyFans | Fansly | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission | 20% | 20% |
| Payouts | 7-day rolling hold; $20 minimum (not officially published) | 7-day rolling hold; 1–5 business days; minimum varies by method |
| Built-in discovery | None — no browse or explore feed; username search only | Yes — Explore feed, hashtag pages, suggested accounts |
| Content policy | Explicit allowed; Acceptable Use Policy applies | Explicit allowed; alcohol in adult content prohibited |
| Fan base size | 377.5M registered fan accounts (FY2024) | Far smaller, but growing |
| Subscription tiers | Single price | Multiple tiers per creator |
| Marketing burden | Entirely on you | Partly on the platform |
Facts as published by each provider, last checked against their own sources on 2026-07-12. “—” means the provider does not publish that figure — we do not fill the gap with a guess. Both entries are also in the OFM Toolbox, which is where these facts are maintained: OnlyFans · Fansly.
Which pays creators more, OnlyFans or Fansly?
Neither — both take a 20% commission and leave the creator 80%. The percentage is identical, so the platform that pays you more is simply the one where more fans buy from you. For almost every creator with an existing audience that is OnlyFans, because that is where the buyers already are. What changes the answer is discovery: if Fansly's feed sends you fans you would never otherwise have reached, those fans are additive income at the same 20% rate.
Which has more traffic, OnlyFans or Fansly?
OnlyFans, by a very wide margin. Fenix International's FY2024 filing puts OnlyFans at 377.5 million registered fan accounts. Fansly does not publish comparable figures, and every credible estimate places it an order of magnitude smaller. This is the single most important asymmetry between the two, and it is why 'switch to Fansly' is bad advice for anyone already earning on OnlyFans.
Which is easier to start on with no audience?
Fansly, because it has a discovery feed and OnlyFans has nothing of the kind. On OnlyFans, a creator with no external audience is invisible: there is no browse, no explore, no algorithm that will ever surface you to a fan. On Fansly a fan can stumble onto you. That does not make Fansly the better platform overall — it makes it the better first platform for someone who has not yet built an audience elsewhere.
Can you run OnlyFans and Fansly at the same time?
Yes, and most professional creators do. Neither platform requires exclusivity, and the same content library serves both — the extra work is marketing, not production. Running both also removes the single biggest structural risk in this business: one platform's policy change ending your entire income overnight.
Who is each one actually for?
OnlyFans
Creators who can drive their own traffic. OnlyFans has the money and the buyers; what it does not have is any way for a fan to find you by accident. If you are already marketing on Reddit, TikTok, or X, OnlyFans converts that traffic best.
Fansly
Creators without a large existing audience, and anyone diversifying. Fansly's discovery feed means a fan can stumble onto you — a genuinely different acquisition channel — and tiered subscriptions let you price a soft tier and a premium tier separately.
Our verdict
Not an either/or. Run OnlyFans as the primary revenue platform because that is where the paying audience is, and add Fansly as your second platform for discovery and resilience against a single-platform policy change. Repurposing your existing content library to Fansly costs almost no extra production time — the work is the marketing, and you are already doing that.
We manage 400+ creators and use tools in this category daily. We are not a neutral reviewer — we run an agency — so where our own service is the honest answer we say so plainly, and where it is not, we say that too. Nothing on this page is a paid placement.
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CEO & Founder, Bunny Agency
Sophia Brecht founded Bunny Agency in 2019, bringing the standards of traditional talent management to the creator economy. The agency now employs 112+ people across six international studios and has managed 400+ creators, generating $35M+ in creator revenue. Every reference page on this site is written and reviewed against Bunny Agency's own operating data — and any figure we cannot source, we do not publish. More about Sophia.
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