Patreon Fee Calculator
Estimate the platform fee, payment processing, total monthly fees, and creator take-home from Patreon revenue. Current Standard is 10% for pages published after August 4, 2025. Eligible legacy pricing depends on your account history, so use the rate shown in Patreon Plan Details. Processing rates vary by payout currency, payment method, and member location, and remain editable here.
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Estimate what Patreon keeps from each sale before you set a price or list a product. It covers Patreon platform and payment-processing fees separately, using the 10% Current Standard rate or a confirmed eligible legacy rate.
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Earnings
Gross Patreon revenue for the modeled month.
Patreon fees
Current Standard is 10% for pages published after August 4, 2025. Eligible Legacy applies only to pages published on or before that date that have remained continuously published. Unpublishing and republishing moves a page to Standard. Confirm your rate in Patreon Plan Details.
Processing
Prefilled with the 2.9% USD example for applicable payment methods only. Processing varies by payout currency, payment method, and member location. Enter the rate for your Patreon account and payment mix.
Count successful charges in this modeled month, not only patrons. For one successful charge per patron, enter the number of patrons whose charges succeeded.
Prefilled with the $0.30 USD example for applicable methods only. Enter the fixed amount matching your Patreon account. The total uses one fixed fee for each successful monthly charge above.
Results
Live estimates based on your inputs and editable fee assumptions.
Patreon platform fee
$100.00
Selected platform rate applied to gross earnings.
Payment processing fee
$59.00
Entered percentage plus a fixed fee per successful charge.
Total Patreon fees
$159.00
Platform fee plus payment processing.
Net earnings
$841.00
Gross earnings minus modeled fees.
Effective fee rate
15.9%
Total fees as a share of gross earnings.
You keep
84.1%
Net earnings as a share of gross.
What this means
Modeled fees are $159.00 on $1,000.00 gross: the Current Standard platform fee is $100.00 and processing is $59.00. Estimated net is $841.00. You keep 84.1%, with an effective fee rate of 15.9%.
Patreon fee breakdown
Interactive breakdown of fees, costs, and remaining profit.
Distribution
- Platform fee$100.0010.0%
- Processing fee$59.005.9%
- Net earnings$841.0084.1%
Total $1,000.00 · 3 segments · interactive
Line-item breakdown
Dollar amounts, share of revenue, and visual proportion.
- Monthly earnings before fees
- $1,000.00
- Platform fee rate
- 10.0%
- Platform fee
- $100.00
- Successful monthly charges
- 100
- Fixed fee per charge
- $0.30
- Processing fee
- $59.00
- Total fees
- $159.00
- Net earnings
- $841.00
- Effective fee rate
- 15.9%
- You keep
- 84.1%
Assumptions used
- • Platform: Current Standard at 10.0% × $1,000.00 = $100.00
- • Processing: $1,000.00 × 2.9% + 100 × $0.30 = $59.00
- • The fixed charge count represents successful charges in the modeled month. Use one charge per patron when each patron was successfully charged once.
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Generated 10/26/2026, 7:51:57 PM · Currency USD
Inputs
- Monthly earnings before fees: 1000
- Platform fee basis: standard
- Confirmed legacy platform fee %:
- Payment processing %: 2.9
- Successful monthly charges (for fixed fees): 100
- Fixed fee per successful charge: 0.3
Results
- Monthly earnings before fees: $1,000.00
- Platform fee rate: 10.0%
- Platform fee: $100.00
- Successful monthly charges: 100
- Fixed fee per charge: $0.30
- Processing fee: $59.00
- Total fees: $159.00
- Net earnings: $841.00
- Effective fee rate: 15.9%
- You keep: 84.1%
Interpretation
Modeled fees are $159.00 on $1,000.00 gross: the Current Standard platform fee is $100.00 and processing is $59.00. Estimated net is $841.00. You keep 84.1%, with an effective fee rate of 15.9%.
How it works
Methodology & formulas
This calculator is transparent by design. Review the steps and formulas so you can trust the estimate and adjust assumptions when your dashboard differs.
Calculation steps
- 1Use 10% for Current Standard or the confirmed entered platform rate for Eligible Legacy.
- 2Calculate the platform fee as monthly earnings × selected platform rate.
- 3Calculate processing separately as monthly earnings × processing percentage + successful monthly charges × fixed fee.
- 4Add platform and processing charges to estimate total fees, then subtract total fees from gross earnings.
- 5Divide total fees by gross earnings to estimate the effective fee rate when gross is above zero.
Formulas
- PlatformFee = gross × 10% (Current Standard) or confirmed legacy rate
- Processing = gross × processing% + successful monthly charges × fixed fee
- TotalFees = platform fee + processing
- Net = gross − total fees
- EffectiveFee% = total fees ÷ gross × 100
Important assumptions
- Current Standard platform fee is 10%; Eligible Legacy uses the confirmed account rate entered from Patreon Plan Details.
- Platform fee = monthly earnings × selected platform rate.
- Processing = monthly earnings × entered percentage + successful monthly charges × entered fixed fee.
- The fixed charge count represents successful charges in the modeled month. One successful charge per patron is a simple modeling assumption, not a universal billing pattern.
- The 2.9% + $0.30 defaults are a USD example for applicable payment methods, not a universal Patreon processing rate. Rates vary by payout currency, payment method, and member location.
- This estimate does not include taxes or other costs outside the entered fee assumptions.
Sources & review
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Use these official references to locate the policy, plan, or help details behind the editable inputs.
Official references
Use the current terms
These official references are starting points for published policies, pricing, or help. They do not validate every default in this calculator. Rates, plans, eligibility, regions, and account terms can change, so compare the editable fields with your account before relying on the result.
Defaults are editable estimates. Match them to your current account, provider statement, official authority, lender, or adviser before making a pricing or investment decision.
Calculator model reviewed: August 9, 2026. This date covers the page and calculator guidance, not a guarantee that every live platform rate or term was re-audited on that date.
Worked example
$1,000 monthly earnings with 100 successful charges
Monthly earnings of $1,000, Current Standard at 10%, 100 successful monthly charges, and the USD example processing inputs of 2.9% + $0.30 for applicable methods.
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