Comparison
Unlockable vs Fanvue
A 20% creator fee, inside a subscription platform.
What each one costs
Unlockable
10% + 10% buyer fee
10% of your list price, plus a 10% privacy & security fee added to the buyer total. Card processing is covered, so £40 of content pays you £36 and the buyer pays £44.
- Platform fee
- 10% creator-side + 10% buyer-side
- Card processing
- Covered by Unlockable
Fanvue
20%
An 80/20 creator/platform split, combining subscriptions with pay-to-view, standalone content sales, tips, voice calls and voice notes.
- Platform fee
- 20%
- Card processing
- Not stated on the pages we could reach
On Unlockable a £40.00 sale pays you £36.00: the buyer covers the privacy & security fee, and card processing comes out of our share. Platform fee and processing are shown separately for Fanvue because a percentage that excludes processing is not comparable to one that includes it.
When Fanvue is the better choice
Fanvue charges 20% from the creator, where we charge 10% from you and add 10% to the buyer’s total. It bundles subscriptions, pay-to-view, voice calls and voice notes, plus AI-assisted messaging to manage a large fanbase. It has a discovery surface and a built-in audience relationship model. If your income depends on ongoing fan relationships at scale, it is built for a job we do not attempt.
When Unlockable is the better choice
The headline percentages are not the same: Fanvue takes 20% from you, while we take 10% and add 10% to the buyer’s total. That makes this a question of whether you want a subscription platform with a fanbase and messaging tools, or a payment link you send yourself. If you want the platform to help you keep fans engaged, Fanvue does that. If you want one sale, one link and no account to maintain, ours is less machinery.
- You keep £36.00 on a £40.00 sale — processing is our cost, not yours
- The buyer pays the fee, so your listed price is what you intended to charge
- No monthly fee and no membership: nothing is charged until something sells
- Expiring links, view caps and unlock caps, for a drop rather than a download
- A voice note on the link, so a sale arrives with a person attached
Where the two actually differ
Only the rows with a different answer. Everything else is the same on both.
Limited or expiring content
- Unlockable
- Yes
- Fanvue
- Partly
Recurring memberships
- Unlockable
- No
- Fanvue
- Yes
Courses
- Unlockable
- No
- Fanvue
- Partly
Coaching / calls
- Unlockable
- No
- Fanvue
- Yes
Community features
- Unlockable
- No
- Fanvue
- Yes
Physical products
- Unlockable
- No
- Fanvue
- Partly
yes · partly · no
The link goes wherever you already post
You send it yourself — we do not connect to these accounts or post on your behalf, and your buyer does not need an account to pay.
- TikTok
- X
- Telegram
- Discord
- Bluesky
- YouTube
Where these figures come from
Fanvue’s fees were read from www.fanvue.com/ on 26 September 2026. Pricing changes without notice, so check the source before making a decision on it. Unlockable’s own figures are our published 10% creator-side and 10% buyer-side fee, and Stripe’s UK card rate.
Try it on one piece of content
No monthly fee, no membership. Upload something, set a price, share one link.