What we measure
SearchOnly tracks 2,416,311 OnlyFans creator profiles. For each one we record the public profile data OnlyFans shows to any visitor: subscription price, like count, post and media counts, and whether the account is still available. We do not access paid content, private messages, subscriber lists or earnings, and we never estimate what a creator earns.
How often
Every profile is re-checked in a continuous cycle, oldest check first, so the whole index is refreshed roughly daily. New creators are discovered as they appear. We keep at most one data point per creator per day, plus a weekly point even when nothing changed, which gives every creator a comparable time series.
Definitions
- Free accounts: the share of live creators whose subscription price is $0.
- Median and average paid price: computed over creators with a price above $0, in US dollars per month.
- Rising creators: likes gained per day between two data points. Accounts with fewer than 1,000 likes at the start are left out to avoid noise.
- Growth in percent: likes gained divided by likes at the start, for accounts that started with at least 10,000 likes.
- Posted new content: the share of creators whose media count increased during the window.
- Accounts gone: accounts OnlyFans now reports as not found. We keep them in our statistics as gone rather than deleting them, so the churn is measurable.
- Segments (countries, cities, niches): based on the location and category tags on our creator pages. A segment gets its own chart once it has at least 500 live creators.
Windows are always labelled
Every figure states the period it covers, for example “last 7 days” or “since January 2026”. We only use a 7-day or 30-day figure when the two data points really are that far apart; until enough daily history exists, reports compare against the first observation and say so.
Limitations
- Likes are public, cumulative and a proxy for popularity, not for revenue or subscriber count. Most creators hide their subscriber count.
- Location and niche tags cover only part of the creators, so segment figures describe tagged creators.
- A temporary error on OnlyFans’ side can look like a missing account for a day; a creator is counted as gone only while OnlyFans keeps reporting it as not found.
Privacy and removals
We only publish public profile data and link to each creator’s official OnlyFans page. We never host or link to leaked content. Creators can ask us to remove their profile on our removal page; removed creators disappear from search and from every report.
Open data
The daily market figures are a free dataset: one row per day since 2026-10-01 — profiles, live and new accounts, the free share, median and average prices, weekly price changes. Aggregates only, no creator names or identifiers. Licence CC BY 4.0.
- market-daily.csv (updated daily)
- The dataset on GitHub, with column definitions and monthly versions
- The dataset on Kaggle, with an example notebook
How to cite
You are welcome to quote our figures with attribution and a link: “Source: SearchOnly creator economy index, searchonly.me/reports”. Monthly and weekly reports are never changed after publication, so a citation always points to the same numbers.