How much commission does an OnlyFans agency typically take?

The range is wide, and the percentage on its own tells you very little. Two offers quoting the same rate can leave you with noticeably different amounts, depending on what the rate is calculated on and what it includes.

The common ranges

In practice rates usually sit between twenty and fifty percent. Roughly speaking:

• Below twenty percent rarely covers more than a single part of the work
• Twenty to thirty percent is common where the creator handles a lot themselves
• Thirty to fifty percent is common for full service including messaging around the clock

A high rate is not automatically bad and a low one is not automatically good. What matters is the relationship between what is delivered and what it costs.

What the rate is calculated on

This is the most important point and the most frequently overlooked.

Is commission calculated on gross revenue, or on the amount left after the platform takes its twenty percent? The difference is substantial. Thirty percent of gross equals roughly thirty seven percent of what actually reaches you.

Ask explicitly, and get the answer in writing.

What should be included

Before signing, clarify which services the rate covers and which cost extra. Common points of dispute are advertising budgets, collaboration costs, software, and protection against leaks.

If advertising costs are charged separately, the contract should state who approves them and up to what amount.

Structures to avoid

Upfront payments. An agency asking for money in advance for onboarding, training or equipment earns from you rather than with you.

Commission on all income, indefinitely. Clauses that keep paying the agency after the contract ends are common and rarely in your interest.

Account transfer. If the account is registered to the agency, or you no longer hold your own access, you have handed over your business rather than outsourced part of it.

Open ended terms with no way out. A clean contract has a notice period you can actually use.

The calculation that counts

The percentage does not decide this. The amount left with you after everything does. Sixty percent of tripled revenue beats one hundred percent of what you have now.

The reverse holds too. Fifty percent of revenue that barely moves is simply a halving.

How to assess an offer

Ask them to walk you through which specific measures are planned and over what period they are expected to work. Ask for references and how many creators they manage. And ask what happens if results do not materialise.

A good answer to that last question contains an exit, not an excuse.

A worked example

Say you currently make two thousand euros a month and keep sixteen hundred after the platform fee. An offer at thirty percent of that amount costs you four hundred and eighty euros.

For you to be better off net, revenue therefore has to rise by more than thirty percent, not just a little. If it doubled to four thousand, you would keep roughly two thousand two hundred after platform fee and commission, against sixteen hundred before.

Run this with your real numbers and have the provider explain which measures are meant to produce the increase. If the answer stays vague, so will the number.

Where we stand

We name our rate openly in conversation, calculated on the amount after the platform fee, and set out what it covers. If the numbers do not work for you, that is a legitimate outcome of a first conversation.