Content creation is becoming a full-time career due to the creator economy’s emergence and the reach of online content creation platforms. The Internet and Smartphone have made it easy for content creators to reach out to their audience and make an extra income.Patron and Only Fans are very famous content creator platforms (especially for content) and making money. Both are subscription-based platforms where users need to subscribe to their favourite content creator by paying a fee to unlock their content.In this blog, we will compare both platforms on different parameters to decide which one is better, Patreon or OnlyFans.
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What is Patron
Patron is an content creator platform that offers business tools for content creators to run subscriptions for their content services. It helps creators and models earn a monthly income by offering exclusive content to their subscribers.Patron allows creators to build multiple membership tiers, which encourages fans to pay a low rate, as little as $1 per month, and it can go upwards to $10- $20 per month. Higher tier fees grant users access to premium and exclusive content.What is OnlyFans
OnlyFans is a subscription-based platform for content creators of all niches to monetize their content. However, the platform is popular for its content, accepts subscriptions, receives tips, sells pay-per-view (PPV) videos, and sends mass messages to their fans for a price. The platform is simple to use and offers a wide range of features and tools for content creators to make money by selling their content.Patron or Only Fans- Commons and Differences
While OnlyFans has been gaining momentum and becoming more popular, Patreon is an old player that has hosted celebrities and popular influencers even before OnlyFans was created. While it’s unclear, it is probable that OnlyFans might be inspired from Patreon. While both are subscription-based content creation platforms, there are many differences between the two. Let’s get started.Organic traffic and promotion
It doesn’t matter how good you are in terms of content creation; any content creation platform works based on its marketing. If the service has a good reputation among people, you will get good traffic and hence revenue.OnlyFans is an already popular platform with a vast target audience. The biggest advantage of OnlyFans is its geographical reach. The platform already has over 50 million users and 1 million content creators. The numbers clearly show the platform’s demand among its target audience.Patron is also popular but not as famous as OnlyFans. And the target audience of Patreon is the general public. Patreon hosts content creators of all types to entertain the general public, including podcasters, Comedians, You tubers, and more.Patreon also supports content, but it has stricter guidelines, due to which most creators choose OnlyFans. Since its inception in 2013, the platform is hosting around 6 million users and 200,000 creators from different parts of the globe.Who is better?
When comparing Patreon and OnlyFans based on the traffic, OnlyFans is the clear winner. Due to its popularity, it gets more organic traffic. However, if you are a YouTube creator or blogger, Patreon must be your best choice. Whereas your focus is on content and Pornography is your work area, OnlyFans will work best for you.Payment percentage and payout frequency
Patreon and OnlyFans are two different content creation platforms with varying payment and payout frequency percentages. OnlyFans take a 20% commission from the total earnings of creators and allow them to keep 80% of the money. This amount includes a payment processing fee too.Content creators can choose the subscription fee, which mainly ranges from $4.99 to $499.99. Creators can also make money by receiving tips and through live streams and pay-per-view content that is locked behind the paywall.The payment from the fans goes to the creator’s earning balance which becomes eligible after 8 days after earning. Minima withdrawal amount is $20, meaning creators can withdraw the money when there is a $20 balance.When it comes to Patreon, it deducts a $5%-12% commission from the creator’s earnings and allows creators to keep the rest. Besides this, the platform deducts a payment processing fee of around 3%.Both Patreon supports both manual and automatic payment, which can be done monthly.Patreon has tiered pricing called Lite, Pro, and premium.- Lite deducts a 5% commission.
- Pro deducts 8% commission.
- Premium deducts a 12% commission
