Best OnlyFans tip menu prices for new creators, and the daily cap nobody prices against

The tip menus circulating in creator groups mostly come from accounts that have been running for a year or more. Copying one looks like a shortcut and is actually the most expensive thing a new creator can do, for a reason that has nothing to do with taste.

OnlyFans publishes the tip ceiling in two places, once for creators and once for fans, and it is not a single number. To creators: "The minimum tip amount is $3. The maximum tip amount is $100 for new users, and $200 for users who have been on the platform for at least 4 months." To fans: "For new users the maximum tip you can pay is $100. After 4 months the maximum tip amount is increased to $200." We read both from the OnlyFans Help Center on 24 August 2026.

Read that against who actually subscribes to a new account. Your fans came from a promo post you made last week. They opened their OnlyFans accounts to subscribe to you, or shortly before. Practically all of them are inside the four month window, which means the $200 line at the top of the menu you copied is a line none of your audience can pay. An established creator can run that line because a chunk of their audience has been on the platform for years. You cannot, yet.

What makes this worse than an ordinary pricing mistake is that it fails silently. The fan taps the amount, the payment is refused, and almost nobody sends a message to tell you the tip did not go through. They assume something is broken, or that they did something wrong, and they go quiet. You see no error and no revenue, so the natural conclusion is that your menu is too expensive, and the natural response is to cut every price. The real problem was one line, and the fix was one line.

Five lines, every one payable by a fan who opened their account this morning, with the net beside it after the published 20% fee. OnlyFans states the fee applies to tips explicitly: creators receive 80% of any Fan Payment "including subscriptions, paid messages, and tips".

The whole ladder is $195 and nets $156. That is deliberate: a single fan who bought every line would still be inside their daily spending limit, which matters more than it sounds and is the subject of the next section.

Notice the gaps. The steps are roughly $10, $10, $25 and $50, which get wider as they climb. Even spacing looks tidier and converts worse, because a fan choosing between $40 and $50 is comparing two nearly identical things and will often pick neither. Wide gaps at the top make the choice about what they want rather than about arithmetic.

Here is the figure almost nobody prices against, published in the same Help Center article as the tip ceiling: "New users may spend up to $500 per day on the platform. This will be increased for users who have been on the platform for a long time in good standing."

That is not a per creator limit. It is everything a new fan can spend on OnlyFans in a day, across every account they subscribe to, every unlock they open and every tip they send. Your subscription price, your welcome message unlock and your pinned tip menu are all drawing on the same $500, and so is every other creator that fan subscribed to on the same evening.

The practical consequence is about order, not about price. A new subscriber typically meets your pricing three times in the first ten minutes: the subscription itself, the pay to unlock message most creators send on signup, and the pinned menu they scroll to next. If the subscription is $15, the welcome unlock is $45 and the menu opens with a $100 line, you have asked for $160 of a $500 allowance before the fan has decided whether they like your work. The ask is not unreasonable in total. It is unreasonable in that sequence.

Sequencing it the other way costs nothing. Let the welcome unlock be the cheap one, keep the menu visible but let the fan reach it themselves, and put the expensive line at the bottom of the menu rather than the top. The money is the same. The difference is whether the fan spends it with you on day one or spends it elsewhere because you asked for too much of it too early. Our page on OnlyFans PPV pricing covers the unlock half of that budget, and the OnlyFans tip menu maker flags any line that sits above what a new fan can send.

Sooner or later a fan wants something worth more than $100, and a menu with no answer for that loses the sale. The money exists. It just cannot arrive as one tip.

Three routes work, and all three are inside the published rules. The first is splitting: two tips of $100, one on agreement and one on delivery, which also protects both sides on a piece of work that takes real time. The second is a pay to unlock message, which OnlyFans caps at $3 to $100, so it does not raise the ceiling but it does give you a second $100 surface in the same conversation. The third is a bundle, the only place on OnlyFans where a single payment reaches $250, though it buys months of access rather than a custom file.

What matters more than the route is that the menu says one is available. A line reading "anything bigger than $100, message me and we will set it up" converts the fans who would otherwise have tapped a dead button and gone quiet. It costs one sentence, it is honest, and it is the single highest value line on a new creator's menu because it captures the buyers with the most money and the least patience.

Deciding what those bigger items actually are is harder than pricing them, and it is the part most menus dodge with a vague "custom video" line. Working outward from one theme you already film into a specific list of deliverables, rather than waiting for a request to arrive, is a job an idea generation tool does well, and having the list written down before a fan asks is the difference between quoting confidently and quoting low.

• A $1 or $2 line at the bottom. The published minimum tip is $3. A $1 line cannot be sent at all, and its only effect is teaching a fan that your cheapest option is broken.
• Pricing before the tip button exists. OnlyFans publishes that you get a tip button by completing creator onboarding and then posting: "Once you have begun actively posting on OnlyFans we will activate the tip feature." No timeframe is given anywhere. A menu pinned on day one is pointing at a payment route your fans cannot use, which is why so many new creators conclude their prices are wrong when the feature simply was not on.
• Reading a slow week as a pricing signal. Tips are non refundable unless there has been a Terms violation, so unlike a subscription there is nothing to claw back and nothing to reconcile. That makes tip revenue unusually clean data, but only across enough posts to mean something. Changing every price after four quiet days destroys the only comparison you had.

None of the three is a judgement call. They are all mechanical, they are all published, and they are the reasons a perfectly reasonable menu earns nothing.

Run the ladder against a realistic month rather than a hopeful one. Say you have 80 subscribers, which is a normal figure for a few months in, and say 12% of them send at least one tip in a month, which is on the optimistic side of typical but not fantastical. That is roughly 10 tipping fans.

If those ten split across the ladder the way menus usually go, weighted toward the bottom, you might see six at $5, two at $15, one at $25 and one at $50. Gross is $135. After the published 20% fee you keep $108. That is not life changing, and it is not meant to be: the point of the menu at this stage is that it turns readers into people who have paid you, and the second tip from somebody who already tipped once is far more likely than the first tip from somebody who never has.

The number worth watching is not the total, it is how many distinct fans tipped. A month with ten tippers at $5 is worth more than a month with two tippers at $50, because the ten are next month's $25 and $50 lines. If you want the same arithmetic run against every platform that publishes a rate, our OnlyFans earnings calculator does it, and how the OnlyFans commission works explains why the 80% you keep is gross receipts rather than income once tax is in the picture.