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Patreon Fee Calculator
See roughly how much a creator actually keeps from Patreon membership income once platform and payment processing fees are subtracted.
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estimated take-home / month
Payment processing
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Total fees
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Patreon's fee model has changed over time (membership vs monthly aggregation) and varies by creator plan, country and currency. Treat this as an estimate and always check Patreon's current fee page.
Fee model note
Patreon earns a platform fee on membership income and separate payment processing fees may apply per charge. Whether processing fees are passed to members depends on the creator's settings and plan. Defaults above (10% + 2.9% + $0.30, the rate for creators who joined from August 2025) are common approximations — edit them to match your situation.
How Patreon fees work
A creator sees the membership money before fees; Patreon deducts its platform percentage and, where applicable, payment processing per transaction before the payout lands. Actual take-home therefore varies with your plan, the members' card networks, currency conversion and your country.
Frequently asked questions
What percentage does Patreon take?
Patreon charges new creators a 10% platform fee, plus payment processing of about 2.9% + $0.30 per pledge. Creators who joined before August 2025 keep legacy rates of roughly 5%, 8% or 12% depending on plan, so check your own dashboard before relying on a single number.
Do creators pay for payment processing?
It depends on plan and settings — some creators pass processing to members, some absorb it. Adjust the editable fields to reflect your setup.
Last updated — rates and figures change over time, so always confirm with the current source.
Figures are estimates for general information, not financial advice — see our disclaimer.
How to verify this calculator
- Last verified
- — the calculation logic and the automated regression suite were re-run on this date. Fee and rate fields are editable estimates; confirm current values against the official schedule before relying on them.
- Official / methodology source
- This is a platform fee estimator. Its calculation is documented in the project source; we could not confirm the platform's official pricing/help page was reachable on 2026-11-08, so we do not publish an unverified link. Current fees: confirm the live rate on the platform's own pricing or help page before relying on this estimate. We deliberately do not link to a page we could not confirm as reachable on 2026-11-08.
- Method & testing
- All arithmetic runs locally in your browser — no input is uploaded. Calculation behaviour is exercised by the repository's regression suite: 39/39 checks passed (run 2026-11-08). Source & tests on GitHub.
- Maintained by
- Jim (Maoming, Guangdong, China) · eyetoolkit. Report a wrong result through the contact page.
- Changelog
- 2026-11-08 — Added this verification panel (last verified date, official or methodology source, test coverage, named maintainer, changelog). Calculator logic and default rates are unchanged.