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What do you actually keep?
Put in your price and how much you sell a month. We'll show what each platform takes and what lands in your account.
That is $725 of sales a month before anyone takes anything. Between the best and worst option here, the difference is $180.45 a month — $2165.40 a year.
Every rate is read from the platform’s own pricing or help page, with the date it was checked on each row. Monthly billing is used throughout, and figures assume a US Stripe account with domestic customers — international cards, currency conversion and annual plans all move these numbers. Confirm anything you are about to build a business on.
Why the fee you were quoted is never the fee you pay
Creator platforms charge you in two separate places, and most pricing pages only show one of them. There is the platform's own cut (a percentage of each sale, or a monthly subscription, or both), and on top of that the payment processor's fee — usually around 2.9% plus 30¢ per transaction — which almost every platform passes on to you. A $20 sale is never $20. This calculator applies both, on real published rates, so you can see the number that reaches your bank.
The second thing pricing pages hide is the shape of the cost. A percentage scales with what you sell; a monthly plan does not. At low volume a free plan with a 9% cut beats a $30 plan with no cut. Cross a few hundred dollars a month and it flips. That crossover point is different for every platform, which is the whole reason this page takes your numbers rather than printing a league table.
One thing this table deliberately does not measure: what you get for the money. A pure payment processor will always look cheaper here than a platform that also hosts your page, builds your forms, sells your tickets and takes your bookings — it is doing less. Read the column for what it is, a cost, and decide the rest yourself. We would rather rank ourselves honestly against a cheaper tool than publish a table nobody can check.
Where our numbers come from
Every rate was read from the platform’s own pricing or help page, and each row in the table carries the date it was checked, a verbatim quote and a link to the source. Nothing here is estimated. Where a platform does not publish a number — Linktree and Beacons both take an unpublished share of affiliate commissions, for instance — we leave it out and say so rather than guess.
- Patreon
- Ko-fi
- Buy Me a Coffee
- Stan Store
- Beacons
- Linktree
- Gumroad
- Payhip
- Sellfy
- Podia
- Kajabi
- Teachable
- Substack
- Lemon Squeezy
- Whop
- Thinkific
- Skool
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<iframe src="https://onesol.io/tools/creator-fee-calculator/embed" width="100%" height="760" style="border:0;max-width:100%" loading="lazy" title="Creator fee calculator"></iframe>Questions people ask about platform fees
Why is my payout smaller than the platform's advertised fee?+
Because the advertised fee is usually only the platform's cut. The payment processor — Stripe or PayPal — charges separately, typically about 2.9% plus 30¢ per transaction, and nearly every creator platform passes that straight through to you. On a $5 sale that fixed 30¢ alone is 6%, which is why small prices lose a much bigger share than big ones.
Do monthly subscription plans work out cheaper?+
Only above a certain volume. A plan that removes a 10% cut but costs $29 a month only pays for itself once 10% of your sales exceeds $29 — around $290 of monthly sales. Below that you are paying for the privilege of a lower rate you never use. The calculator works this out for you at the volume you enter.
What does OneSol charge on sales?+
Nothing. OneSol takes 0% of your sales because the money never passes through us — you connect your own Stripe or PayPal account and customers pay you directly. You still pay your processor's own fee, because that is their charge, not ours. OneSol Pro is a flat $9 a month regardless of how much you sell.
Are these fees current?+
Every rate in the table was read from the platform's own published pricing or help page, and each row shows the date it was checked. Platforms change pricing without much notice, so treat the table as a well-sourced starting point and confirm anything you are about to build a business on.
Does a higher price always mean I keep a bigger share?+
As a share, yes, almost always — the fixed per-transaction charge stops mattering as the price grows. In cash terms the percentage cuts grow with the price, so a platform taking 10% costs you $1 on a $10 product and $50 on a $500 one. The calculator shows both the percentage and the cash, because which one matters depends on what you sell.
Or keep the whole thing
OneSol takes 0% of your sales. Customers pay into your own Stripe, PayPal or Razorpay account, so the money never passes through us — there is nothing for us to take a cut of and nothing to wait for. Pro is a flat $9 a month whether you sell $10 or $10,000.
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