How to Compare OnlyFans Agency Proposals

A common input sheet is the same set of assumptions handed to every provider, so each offer prices an identical month.

Include expected receipts after platform deductions, refund assumptions, the coverage you want, the assets you will supply and your paid-promotion budget. The platform keeps 20% of every fan payment, per the OnlyFans terms, so state the basis explicitly and ask each provider to price on it. Send one sheet, get one worked invoice back per provider, and refuse to compare anything else until you have both. Keep the remainder honest by remembering it is before tax — the IRS generally expects self-employed people to pay self-employment tax as well as income tax, filing annually and paying estimated taxes quarterly.

Two proposals can quote 20% and 30% and still be identical, or reversed, depending on the revenue basis.

A percentage of gross receipts, a percentage of proceeds after the platform's share, and a percentage after refunds are three different prices for the same work. Ask each provider to write the basis into the proposal, and recompute both onto the same basis before comparing. If a provider will not name its basis, that is an unresolved question, not a detail.

Extras flip comparisons: the proposal with the higher percentage can be the cheaper service once required add-ons are priced in.

Consider two fictional offers applied to $8,000 after platform deductions. One charges 20% plus $1,000 of required extras; the other charges 30% with those same services included. These figures demonstrate the comparison only and are not Aura prices or market benchmarks — for the wider context, see the guide to what agencies typically charge.

Every line of the input sheet's scope needs a price or an explicit exclusion, line by line.

Ask each provider to mark each scope item as included, excluded or billed separately, with the price attached. A slightly cheaper service that omits your actual bottleneck is not a saving; a broader service should justify the extra responsibility with a named owner and a delivery plan. The result is two scoping documents you can actually compare.

Your own hours are part of the price: approvals, asset delivery, briefings and report reviews stay with you in most arrangements.

Estimate those hours per week and attach a value to them, because a cheap proposal that costs you ten approval hours is not as cheap as it looks. Ask each provider to list what it needs from you and by when. If the retained workload keeps growing after a trial, that is a finding about the arrangement, not about you.

Term length, exclusivity, content rights and exit handling change the real cost of a proposal, so read them beside the invoice.

Mark where each sales commitment appears in the written agreement and note the gaps. Exclusivity, licensing and disputed obligations are legal questions for a qualified adviser familiar with your jurisdiction. Where two proposals price identically, these terms usually decide it — the contract checklist for OnlyFans agency agreements lists what to read first.

Finish by ranking the offers on total cost, evidence of delivery and unresolved questions, in that order, on one page.

Put each provider's remainder, its scorecard evidence and its open questions side by side, then set a decision date. Scorecard evidence comes from the same method used to shortlist the right provider for your account. Keep unresolved questions unresolved on paper; a confident verbal answer is not a verified fact, and the provider that closes its own gaps in writing has usually earned the decision.