Guides
Practical guides to choosing, joining and earning on creator platforms — fees, payouts, referral terms and migration, all sourced and dated.
Choosing a platform
Which one, and why — including the honest case for the ones we do not recommend.
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OnlyFans alternatives — the three that are actually worth moving to
Most lists of OnlyFans alternatives are twenty platforms deep and useless. Three are worth your time, they win on different things, and which one is right for you depends on a single question.
Fees and payouts
What each platform actually takes, and when the money reaches you.
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What every creator platform actually takes
All four take 20%. One undercuts it for a year. The fee comparison everyone writes is over in a sentence — so here is the part that actually affects what reaches your bank account.
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How much does Fansly take? The full breakdown
Fansly takes 20% of everything. What that actually means for your take-home once payment processing, payout methods and currency conversion are accounted for is a different number.
Referral income
How the referral programs really work, and what happens when a platform changes them.
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Creator referral programs compared — all four pay 5%, and that tells you nothing
OnlyFans, Fanvue, Fansly and LoyalFans all pay 5% of a referred creator's earnings. Duration, cap and who funds the commission make the same headline rate worth ten times more on one platform than another.
Getting started
Onboarding, verification and the first month on a new platform.
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How to start on Fanvue — setup, verification and the first 30 days
Signing up takes twenty minutes. Getting paid takes rather longer, and the first month decides whether the account is worth keeping. Here is the sequence that works.
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Switching platforms without losing your subscribers
Most creators lose the majority of their paying subscribers when they move platform. Almost all of that loss comes from doing it as a switch rather than an overlap.