This article is superseded by the 03.11 study: Free vs Paid OnlyFans Statistics 2026.
424 profiles published in the current catalog. Research figures below describe their dated snapshots.
Free vs paid OnlyFans page — what 1,363 profiles show
Almost half the OnlyFans pages in our catalog are free. 1,363 profiles show what paid pages charge, how the two differ, and where trials fit.
Every creator makes the same first decision before posting anything: charge a monthly subscription, or open the page for free and earn from messages and tips. Advice on that choice is easy to find. Numbers are not, because OnlyFans does not publish a breakdown of how its creators price their pages.
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We read public OnlyFans profiles for our catalog, and the subscription price is one of the fields we record. Below is what that field looks like across every profile where we know it: 1,363 of them, counted on 17 October 2026 at 02:51 UTC. Each table names its own base, and every average says whether free pages are in it.
How many OnlyFans pages are free?
Just under half. The split barely moves whether you count only the profiles a visitor can browse today or every profile we have read a price for.
| Profiles with a known price | Free | Paid | Free share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live in the catalog | 396 | 416 | 48.8% |
| All statuses, including paused and not yet published | 664 | 699 | 48.7% |
OnlyLookup catalog, measured 17 October 2026, 02:51 UTC. Free means no subscription price. Profiles marked as a free trial would sit in neither column; there are 0 today, explained further down.
The base deserves a sentence of its own, because it is smaller than our catalog. We hold 11,163 profile rows, and 9,800 of them carry no price yet: almost all are entries we have found but not yet read in full, and a price we have not read is unknown, not zero. Counting those rows as free would put the free share at 93.7%; leaving them silently in the denominator would put it at 5.9%. Both numbers would be wrong. The rest of this article uses the 812 live profiles unless a table says otherwise, since those are the pages anyone can check against our listings.
What do paid OnlyFans pages charge?
The middle of the market is $10. Half of the 416 live paid pages charge between about $9.99 and $15.99 a month, and 2 price points, $9.99 and $10.00, cover 94 of them between them.
| Monthly price | Live paid pages | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under $5 | 20 | 4.8% |
| $5 to $9.99 | 133 | 32.0% |
| $10 to $14.99 | 122 | 29.3% |
| $15 to $19.99 | 57 | 13.7% |
| $20 to $29.99 | 57 | 13.7% |
| $30 and over | 27 | 6.5% |
OnlyLookup catalog, 416 live profiles with a paid subscription, measured 17 October 2026, 02:51 UTC. All 20 pages in the first row charge exactly $4.99, the lowest price in the set.
| Most common prices among live paid pages | Pages |
|---|---|
| $9.99 | 48 |
| $10.00 | 46 |
| $15.00 | 33 |
| $20.00 | 22 |
| $4.99 | 20 |
| $25.00 | 20 |
Same base and time as above.
2 numbers summarise the paid side, and they are not interchangeable:
- Median price across paid pages: $10.99. Half charge less, half charge more.
- Average price across paid pages: $14.13. Pulled up by the 84 pages at $20 and over, with a top price of $50.00.
The way creators write the price is close to a coin toss too. Of the 416, 211 charge a round dollar amount and 183 end in .99; the other 22 use some other ending. Nothing in our data says either style converts better, and we would distrust anyone who said they knew.
What is the average OnlyFans price if free pages count?
$7.24. That is the average across all 812 live profiles with a known price, with every free page entered as $0. It answers a different question from the $14.13 above: not "what does a paid page cost" but "what does the average page cost to follow".
| Average monthly price | Base | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Paid pages only | 416 live profiles | $14.13 |
| All pages, free counted as $0 | 812 live profiles | $7.24 |
| Paid pages only | 699 profiles, all statuses | $13.92 |
| All pages, free counted as $0 | 1,363 profiles, all statuses | $7.14 |
OnlyLookup catalog, measured 17 October 2026, 02:51 UTC.
When a guide quotes an "average OnlyFans price" without saying which of these it means, the number cannot be checked. The 2 versions differ by a factor of about 2 because free pages make up about half of every base we have.
Do free and paid pages look different?
Yes, in ways a visitor can see on the profile itself. We compared the public counters both kinds of page display.
| Median, live profiles | Free (396) | Paid (416) |
|---|---|---|
| Posts | 172 | 805 |
| Total likes | 28,859 | 96,921 |
| Likes per post | 154 | 103 |
| Videos as a share of photos and videos | 8.6% | 13.9% |
OnlyLookup catalog, public profile counters for 812 live profiles with a known price, measured 17 October 2026, 02:51 UTC. Medians are taken separately for each row, so the likes per post figure is not the ratio of the 2 rows above it. 5 paid profiles show 0 posts and are left out of the per-post row. Photo and video counters are shown on 170 free and 194 paid profiles; the video-share row uses only those.
Read the table as a description, not a recipe. Paid pages in our catalog have posted far more: a median of 805 posts against 172. They also carry about 3 times the total likes. Free pages earn more likes on each post they publish, which fits a model where the page is a shop window and posts are there to be seen by as many people as possible.
What the table cannot tell you is which way any of it runs. A creator with a large archive may move to a paid page because the archive is worth paying for, and a creator who starts free may simply be newer. We hold one reading of each profile, not its history, so we cannot separate those stories, and nobody working from public profiles can.
One counter we deliberately left out is fans. Showing the subscriber count is optional, and only 34 of the 812 profiles display it: 26 free and 8 paid. Any comparison of audience size built on public profiles rests on a sample that small, whatever the headline says.
Where does a free trial fit?
Outside both columns. A free trial is a paid page that lets new subscribers in at no cost for a limited period, after which the subscription price applies. A visitor sees a price on the page and a free way in; the creator still runs a paid page. Counting trials as free pages would overstate the free share, and counting them as paid would hide the offer, so we keep trial as its own category.
We have to be candid about where that category stands in our data. It was introduced on 17 October 2026, and 0 profiles are marked as a trial today. Before then a trial could only show up in our data as a page carrying both a free flag and a price: 21 profiles looked like that on 16 October. When the categories were split, those 21 were filed as free. Trial is set by an editor after checking the live profile, and until each of the 21 has been checked, it counts as free. That makes the free share above slightly high; at most 21 of the 664 free pages are affected.
If you want to browse pages that run a trial today, our free trial category lists them by how creators describe their own pages.
Free or paid: what should a creator take from this?
4 points, none of them a promise about revenue.
- There is no default. The split is 48.8% free across live profiles. Whichever model you choose, about half the pages a visitor compares you with chose the other one.
- If you charge, know where the crowd sits. About $10 is the middle of the market. A page at $25 is among the most expensive 15% of our paid set, and should look like it on the profile: archive size, posting rhythm, what the subscription includes.
- If you go free, the page has to work as a preview. Free pages here post less but earn more likes per post. What earns money on a free page happens after the follow, in paid messages and tips, and none of that is visible from outside.
- Treat a trial as a paid page with a door. It is a tool for getting first subscribers through, and it should be described as one in your bio rather than as a free page.
OnlyFans keeps 20% of creator earnings under both models, so the choice changes how you earn rather than what share you keep.
The honest limit on all of this: these are our numbers about the public profiles we have read, measured on one day. They describe our catalog, not OnlyFans, and they say nothing about earnings, which no public profile shows. Our methodology page explains which fields we read, how often we re-read them and how to be removed. Any figure here older than 90 days gets re-measured or deleted.
Want to see what free pages look like in practice? Browse free OnlyFans pages, or start from the category hub.
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Frequently asked questions
Is a free OnlyFans page better than a paid one?
Neither wins on the numbers we hold. Measured 17 October 2026 across 812 live profiles with a known price, 396 are free and 416 are paid, an almost even split. Paid pages in that set show more posts and more total likes; free pages show more likes per post. Those are differences between the pages that exist today, not proof that switching models would move your own numbers.
How much does a paid OnlyFans subscription cost?
Across 416 live paid profiles in our catalog, measured 17 October 2026, the median monthly price is $10.99 and the average is $14.13. The two most common prices are $9.99 (48 pages) and $10.00 (46 pages). The cheapest is $4.99 and the most expensive is $50.00.
What is the average OnlyFans price if you count free pages?
$7.24 across 812 live profiles with a known price, counting each free page as $0, measured 17 October 2026. That is a different number from the $14.13 average across paid pages only, and any price figure you read should say which of the two it is.
Is a free trial the same as a free OnlyFans page?
No. A free trial is a paid page that lets a new subscriber in at no cost for a limited period, after which the normal price applies. A free page has no subscription price at all. We keep the two as separate categories in our data and do not count trials as free pages.
Why do so few OnlyFans pages show a fan count?
Showing the subscriber count is optional, and most creators turn it off. Of 812 live profiles with a known price in our catalog, 34 display one: 26 free pages and 8 paid pages. A sample that small is not a basis for comparing audience size between the two models, so we do not.