The short answer
Nobody knows exactly how much trans creators earn. No fan platform publishes data on gender identity, so most figures you find online come from agencies and marketing sites, not from the platforms themselves.
What is official is the bigger picture. OnlyFans paid $5.80 billion to 4.63 million creator accounts in its 2024 financial year, which works out to about $104 per account per month. How many of those creators are trans is unknown: published estimates range from 1% to 15%.
Agency earnings guides report a few hundred dollars a month for new trans creators, rising to five figures for a small top group. Those numbers are not audited and come from businesses that sign creators, so read them as a best case. And there is a cost most guides leave out: banks in the US, the UK and Canada have closed accounts linked to adult creator income.
What is official: the OnlyFans numbers
The only hard numbers come from the annual accounts of Fenix International, the company behind OnlyFans. For the year to 30 November 2024 they reported these figures.
per creator account, per month, on average. $5.80 billion in payouts divided by 4.63 million accounts. Our calculation, and it includes every inactive account.
creator accounts on OnlyFans
fan accounts on OnlyFans
paid by fans in total in 2024
paid out to creators in 2024 (the 80% share)
Source: Variety, reporting on the OnlyFans 2024 accounts.
That works out to about $1,250 a year per account. It is an average over every account, including the many that are inactive or barely post. Active creators earn more than this. Most still earn far less than the stories online suggest, because a small share of accounts takes most of the money.
Fansly, Fanvue, LoyalFans, FanCentro, KNKY and F2F do not publish comparable figures. What each of them keeps from your income is in our guide to platform fees.
How many trans creators are there?
Estimates for the share of trans creators on fan platforms range from about 1% to 15%. That is a fifteen-fold difference, and it tells you more about the sources than about creators.
Published estimates of the share of trans creators. The shaded zone is everything the sources disagree about.
Why the numbers disagree so much:
- No platform asks. OnlyFans does not record gender identity in any public way, so every count is a guess from outside.
- Different definitions. Some counts lump trans, nonbinary and "other" together. Others count only creators who tag themselves as trans.
- Weak sources. Many statistics sites publish neat percentages without explaining where they come from. Some of them copy each other.
What is consistent: every directory and ranking site treats trans as one of the biggest identity categories after cis women, and platforms like Fansly have trans tags fans actively browse. Search demand backs that up. "Trans OnlyFans" alone gets around 7,600 searches a month in the US (Ahrefs, September 2026), see our trends page.
What trans creators earn: the estimates
These ranges are rounded from earnings guides that creator agencies published in 2026, such as those by SirenCY and X Creator Management. None of them publishes audited data, and they earn money by signing creators. SirenCY itself calls its trans creator revenue stages "planning examples rather than audited SirenCY outcomes". Treat the top of each range as a best case, not a promise.
Reported monthly income, by stage
Log scale, so each step is ten times the one before. Gradient bars are estimates, the blue bar is official.
| Stage | Monthly income | Label |
|---|---|---|
| First 6 months | $200 to $1,500 | Estimate |
| 6 to 18 months | $1,500 to $5,000 | Estimate |
| Established, 18 months or more | $5,000 to $20,000 | Estimate |
| Top creators | $20,000 and more | Estimate |
| Average OnlyFans account, all niches | about $104 | Official |
A widely shared claim, attributed to a creator agency, says active trans creators earn about eight times the platform average. That comparison mixes two different things: an average of active creators against an average of all accounts, including empty ones. Active creators in almost any niche will beat that average, so the multiplier says little.
A more useful way to think about it: income depends far more on how many fans you can bring in and keep than on your niche. Our first 30 days plan is built around exactly that.
Why the trans niche can pay well per fan
This is reported by agencies and creators, and it matches how the platforms work. Agencies and creators report that trans creators earn a larger share of their income from pay-per-view messages, custom content and tips, and less from the subscription price alone. A loyal fan who buys customs is worth many times a fan who subscribes once and leaves.
What that means in practice:
- Price the subscription to get people in. SirenCY, a creator agency, suggests $15 to $25 a month for the trans niche, with pay-per-view messages from about $5 to $75 on top. Most of the real earnings come from messages.
- Make messages a product. Clear prices for customs and PPV, and a reply rhythm fans can rely on.
- Keep fans, not just get them. Retention is where this niche is said to be strong. Our guide on starting an OnlyFans as a trans creator covers pricing and first posts.
Some sources also claim trans women earn about 20% more than trans men. We found no solid basis for that number, so we do not use it. What is clear is that trans men and nonbinary creators are underrepresented in every list. Our guide for trans men and nonbinary creators explains how to stand out.
Where trans creators come from
Directory and ranking sites report that Latin American creators, with Brazil and Colombia standing out, are among the most viewed trans creators, and that Thailand has a large trans creator scene.
That last point needs a warning. Making or selling adult content is illegal in Thailand and the Philippines, and people have been arrested there for OnlyFans content. Popularity does not make it safe. Read our page on fan platforms in Thailand and the Philippines before you start there. For an overview of creators by region, see trans creators by region.
The hidden cost: banks and payments
Earning the money is one thing. Being allowed to keep a bank account for it is another. Adult creators, and trans creators within that group, regularly run into banks and payment providers that close accounts or block transfers.
- In 2021, the founder of OnlyFans named Bank of New York Mellon, JPMorgan Chase and the UK's Metro Bank as banks that refused payments or closed accounts linked to OnlyFans or its creators (Fortune).
- Canadian adult creators have reported losing bank accounts once their bank saw where deposits came from (CBC). Researchers describe this as financial discrimination against sex workers and adult creators in Canada, the US, the UK and Australia (Policy Options).
Practical steps: keep creator income in a separate account, keep records of every payout, and know your backup payout options before you need them. Our guide on getting paid as a creator walks through payout methods, ID checks with an old name and saving for tax.
How we checked these numbers
We started from a broad search of what is published about trans creator earnings, then sorted every figure by where it really comes from.
| Type of source | Examples | How we use it |
|---|---|---|
| Platform accounts | OnlyFans annual figures | Official |
| News and research | Variety, Fortune, CBC, Policy Options | Documented |
| Creator agencies and earnings guides | SirenCY, X Creator Management and other agency earnings guides (not linked) | Estimate |
| Statistics aggregator sites | Sites with lists of OnlyFans "statistics" | Not used: no traceable method |
| AI chatbot answers | Answers from AI assistants | Not used |
We also leave out income claims about named creators. Those are rarely confirmed by the creators themselves, and how much someone earns is their business.
Are you a trans creator and willing to share what you earn, anonymously? We would like to publish the first independent numbers. Get in touch through our get featured page and mention earnings in your message.
What this means if you are starting out
Plan for the beginner numbers, not the headlines. A realistic first goal is a few hundred dollars a month from a small group of fans who stay, then growing from there. Creators who reach the higher ranges almost always have a steady way to bring in new fans, usually from X, Reddit or a platform with discovery like Fansly.
- Protect your identity first: our safety guide.
- Pick one platform that suits you: compare the platforms.
- Launch with a plan: start earning step by step.
No agency needed. Agencies often take 40 to 60% of what is left after the platform fee, which makes those big income claims look very different once you do the maths:
Example: $100 paid by fans, with an agency taking 50% after the platform's 20%. On your own, you keep $80.