“Where should I sell?” is really three questions wearing one coat: what commission will I pay, when and how do I actually get paid, and what am I allowed to publish. Most roundups answer none of them and rank the options by vibe.
This is a comparison of the realistic destinations for selling adult content in 2026, judged on those three things: commission, payout terms and content rules. It includes the costs platforms tend to leave out of their marketing, like sliding-scale payouts and per-transaction charges that only show up at volume.
Two related questions have their own guides, and this page defers to both. For whether to build on a platform at all or run your own site, read custom adult website vs creator platforms. For setting up a clip store specifically, read how to set up an adult creator clip store.
Option 1: Revenue-Share Platforms (OnlyFans, Fansly, LoyalFans, FanCentro)
The fastest way to start selling adult content is through an established platform. You create an account, upload content, and the platform handles payments, hosting, and some discovery.
In exchange, the platform takes a cut of everything you earn, forever.
OnlyFans
Commission: 20% of all earnings, subscriptions, tips, PPV messages, everything.
What you own: Nothing. Your subscriber list belongs to OnlyFans. Your domain belongs to OnlyFans. Your payment relationship is entirely through OnlyFans.
Payment model: OnlyFans holds all fan payments and pays out to you. There is no direct payment relationship between you and the acquiring bank.
Custom domain: No.
Data portability: Limited, you cannot export subscriber emails or contact your audience outside the platform.
The real cost at scale:
- At £2,000/month earnings → £400/month to OnlyFans
- At £5,000/month earnings → £1,000/month to OnlyFans
- At £10,000/month earnings → £2,000/month to OnlyFans, every month, with no upper limit
The 2021 near-ban demonstrated the structural risk: OnlyFans almost banned explicit content entirely, not because creators did anything wrong, but because one policy threat from a payment network nearly collapsed the entire platform’s merchant account. Compliant creators were collateral damage.
Fansly
Commission: 20%, structurally identical to OnlyFans.
Positioned as: "The OnlyFans backup." Fansly grew significantly after the 2021 OnlyFans scare.
What you own: Nothing additional. Same creator dependency model as OnlyFans.
Using both OnlyFans and Fansly diversifies your platform risk but not your data ownership risk. You still cannot export your subscriber list from either.
LoyalFans
Commission: 20% confirmed.
Payment model: Platform-intermediated via CCBill (platform’s own merchant account, not yours).
Payout: Bi-monthly or weekly, $50 minimum.
Distinctive feature: Referral commission programme, live call income.
FanCentro
Commission: 20% confirmed, processed via CentroBill Ltd (US) and Eurobill Tech Ltd (Cyprus).
Payout: Monthly, $100 minimum.
The shared problem with all revenue-share platforms: Your income is a percentage of whatever they decide to pay you, distributed on their schedule, through their payment accounts, with no contractual privity between you and the money. When Unfiltrd shut down in 2025, creators lost $2,000–$3,000 each in unpaid balances. That cannot happen when money goes directly to your own payment account.
Option 2: White-Label SaaS Platforms (Flat Fee + Creator-Owned Processor)
A step up from revenue-share platforms: you pay a monthly fee for the technology, bring your own payment processor, and keep 100% of revenue less processor fees.
mymember.site
Two distinct products:
Standard Plan: No monthly fee, but takes a two-step cut, 10% processing fee from all gross earnings, then pays you 80–95% of what remains depending on your monthly revenue. True effective take at most earning levels: 25–28%: worse than OnlyFans in practice.
Plus Plan: $199/month base + $0.25 per active subscriber + $0.10 per transaction + infrastructure fees. Creator brings their own payment processor (CCBill, Segpay, TantumPay, or Vendo). At 500 subscribers: ~$340–380/month before Visa and Mastercard’s $1,950/year high-risk registration fees, which fall directly on the creator.
Scrile Connect
Pricing: $79/month (Solo, one creator page only) or $500/month (Pro, unlimited pages).
Commission: 0%, you connect your own payment processor.
Hidden cost: Key features, push notifications ($1,500), text posts ($1,000), tipping ($100), file purchase gallery ($750), are sold as one-time add-ons. A full-featured setup costs $3,350+ in one-time payments on top of the monthly fee.
These platforms are genuinely good products, particularly for agencies or studios. For a solo creator, the total cost of ownership is significantly higher than the headline price suggests.
Option 3: Your Own Website (Complete Ownership)
The third destination is not a marketplace at all: you sell from your own site, through your own adult-approved processor, and no one takes a share of revenue.
On the three criteria this page compares:
- Commission: none. You pay processing fees, typically in the region of 10 to 14% for adult through a processor such as CCBill, plus hosting. There is no revenue share on top.
- Payouts: set by your processor rather than a platform, and generally weekly once the account is established. The money settles to your own bank account.
- Content rules: your processor’s acceptable-use policy and the law, rather than a platform’s terms of service, which is a materially wider space and one that does not change without notice.
The trade is that you are now responsible for the things a platform was doing for you: getting approved by a processor, running the site, and finding your own traffic. A marketplace supplies discovery; your own site does not.
That decision has real arguments on both sides and is covered properly in the dedicated comparison rather than being settled here: custom adult website vs creator platforms. For what the processing side involves, see adult creator payment processor setup.
Which Option Is Right for You?
Choose a revenue-share platform if:
- You are just starting and need to test your content before investing in infrastructure
- Discovery (built-in audience) is more valuable to you right now than ownership
- You are comfortable with the platform risk in exchange for simplicity
Choose a white-label SaaS if:
- You are running a multi-creator operation or agency
- You have technical resources to manage the setup
- You want full feature control and can absorb the higher cost structure
Choose your own website if:
- You are earning consistently and the 20% platform cut is costing you real money
- You want to own your audience relationship long-term
- You want your payments to go directly to your account, never through a third party
- You are thinking about building a business that survives any single platform change
Most successful creators use both: platforms for discovery and top-of-funnel reach, their own website as the destination where paying fans are converted and retained.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best site to sell adult content?
For pure speed and built-in discovery: OnlyFans or Fansly. For long-term revenue ownership and business sustainability: your own website with a direct CCBill merchant account.
Can I sell adult content without a platform?
Yes. You need a website, a CCBill merchant account, age verification, and 2257-compliant record-keeping. Automate Horizon builds and manages the website and the payment setup around it, from $39/month for a website and $69/month with a merch store, which is roughly £30 and £54, plus a setup fee paid once. Age assurance is a separate question: a simple 18+ confirmation is part of the build, while document-based age verification, where your jurisdiction requires it, is a third-party service billed by that provider.
How do I get paid for selling adult content online?
Through a specialist adult payment processor, CCBill, Epoch, or Segpay. Stripe, PayPal, and Cash App do not support adult content and will freeze your account.
Is it legal to sell adult content online?
In the UK and US, yes, subject to compliance with age verification laws, 2257 record-keeping requirements, and content legality rules. An adult creator’s legal obligations are manageable but specific. → Navigate legal risks for adult creators
What percentage do adult content platforms take?
OnlyFans, Fansly, LoyalFans, and FanCentro all take 20%. mymember.site’s Standard plan effectively takes 25–28% once all fees are calculated. A flat-fee website takes nothing, you pay a fixed monthly fee regardless of revenue.
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