We continue with adult content platforms, which have been causing quite a stir lately due to famous artists posting erotic or sexual content—something that generates a lot of buzz and gives these sites much more visibility. If celebrities dare to publish this kind of videos or photos, more and more “regular” people—those not known in show-business circles—join the movement. It’s a very good way not only to obtain financial returns, but to monetize content in order to truly make the work we do as models or influencers pay off.

The platforms operate in a very simple way: users who upload content create their account and set a price for their profile, and those who will act as viewers subscribe to whichever profiles they want, paying a monthly subscription to access the posts.

Within the field, the most famous of all is Onlyfans, which was born in 2016 but in 2018 took an incredible turn that revolutionized everything: before then it only connected fashion influencers with their followers, and at that point it began to be used for adult content. This process accelerated even more with the arrival of the pandemic, as the market opened up much more and the platform achieved incredible expansion in a very short time.

However, in recent times several alternatives have begun to emerge looking to take at least a small slice of Onlyfans’ (seemingly huge) market, and one of the best known across various countries (with Latin America as the strongest region) is DivasPlay. It became popular thanks to the involvement of several very famous artists, such as Florencia Peña, Adabel Guerrero, Silvina Luna, and Cristian Sancho.

It has very original features that may allow the user to gain more visibility than on Onlyfans, in addition to other tools. That’s why in this article we’ll make clear what its qualities are, as well as provide a comparison between DivasPlay and Onlyfans that will detail the issues to keep in mind when leaning toward one option or the other.

What is DivasPlay?

Many people on social networks ask what DivasPlay is and why its name has become so well known in recent months. In that sense, we can define it as an adult-content platform that offers certain conveniences for both the artist user and the fan. It’s a tool that connects fans with their favorite models or influencers, especially for erotic content. Those videos or photos that Instagram or Facebook censor can be posted without issue on these sites, but to access them users must pay a monthly subscription for each profile they want to view.

For that reason, it’s a tool that gives models the chance to monetize content to get more out of it, and fans the ability to access that content by paying a monthly subscription. In other words, it’s a private social network where we simply enter our details and wait for approval to start participating.

Many experts wonder how DivasPlay managed to achieve its popularity in such a short time, given that it took Onlyfans many years to reach high levels of exposure and subscriptions. The truth is that the presence on the platform of highly renowned artists such as Florencia Peña and Silvina Luna greatly helped fans begin to join, and some experts even maintain that they were hired by the company itself in order to spread the brand more quickly.

However, it should be clarified that the famous or “big-name” people you can find on DivasPlay are a minority, because the vast majority are artists who are just beginning their careers or who still don’t have a large number of followers on their social networks. Even the number of followers within the platform affects the monthly fee charged as commission, which makes profile promotion a very important part of the business.

How much money can I make with DivasPlay?

Although monthly subscriptions depend on various factors, information has leaked that DivasPlay pays its most successful artists between USD 3,000 and USD 10,000 per month—an amount truly incredible that we likely never thought we’d reach. However, it isn’t far-fetched, since the number of fans subscribing to profiles increases day by day and doesn’t seem to have a ceiling, giving celebrities and the company itself unimaginable earnings.

To be concrete, each subscription can cost between 10 and 30 dollars (this amount is set by the user who has the artist profile). Of those monthly amounts, the company keeps 50% if you have fewer than 30 followers, whereas if you have more than that number it keeps 40% and grants you an additional 10%.

By way of an estimate, an artist who charges 30 dollars per subscription and has just 100 followers takes home approximately 1,800 dollars in earnings per month—no small amount.

Differences between Onlyfans and DivasPlay

We’ve already talked quite a bit about DivasPlay and its qualities, but what many people specifically wonder is whether it can be a good option compared to Onlyfans, or whether the latter is more feasible because it’s better known. To reach that kind of conclusion, we need to analyze several factors that can be taken into account, since they will affect our day-to-day use of the tool. In this section we’ll differentiate those points and then move on to conclusions.

Payments

This is usually the first data point artist users want to know before subscribing to a platform of this kind, and it refers specifically to how payments work. First, consider the minimum and maximum amounts set for subscriptions, which is what brings the most money to models. On DivasPlay there are only three subscription price options a person (model) can choose: USD 10, USD 20, or USD 30. On Onlyfans, by contrast, this is much more flexible, since only a minimum and a maximum are set and the influencer can choose the exact price. The minimum is 5 dollars, while the maximum is 50 dollars. That’s why in this specific aspect Onlyfans has an advantage, mainly because it gives the artist more decision-making power and also the possibility of earning more money if they charge more than 30 dollars.

The other point to consider within payments is the commission retained by the site, and the profit percentage left to each user. On Onlyfans, there’s a fixed percentage: 80% of earnings for the user, while the remaining 20% goes to the company. In contrast, on DivasPlay it’s different and everything depends on the number of followers. Accounts with fewer than 30 followers receive only a 50% commission, meaning the company keeps half the earnings. If you have more than 30 followers, the take rises to 60% of the total, so adding subscribers is important. However, these figures don’t come close to Onlyfans’, which also seems better in this regard.

Content diversity

A very important aspect to consider—and one that can end up impacting payments—is the diversity of content that can be produced, since some sites only offer photos and videos up front, while others allow us to interact in different ways with users to get the most out of them.

In this regard, while Onlyfans falls short compared to some other platforms, DivasPlay doesn’t offer many alternatives to models either. It still has yet to implement a chat feature to make interaction much more fluid, and as of today, if artists want to talk privately with users to offer other types of personalized content, they have to do so via other social networks.

Beyond monthly subscriptions, Onlyfans offers a few additional ways to receive money: referral programs, one-off pay-per-message, tips, or creating custom content for fans.

For that reason, on this point as well the more established platform seems to have an advantage.

Possibility of being promoted

This aspect is more important to consider on DivasPlay than on Onlyfans, because while having more followers obviously can earn us more money, on the former the commission percentage even changes if we have more subscriptions to our profile. On this site we need to surpass 30 followers for the profit percentage to change from 50% to 60%—a difference that ends up being quite significant.

That’s why referral programs available on the platform are very important, although Onlyfans has them too and even grants us 5% of earnings during the first year for each celebrity we recommend to the platform. It’s also worth noting that neither platform has a search function, which makes it harder to be discovered. The only way we can appear is via the site’s algorithm showing us on its home page. This will likely change as DivasPlay begins to have an even larger number of models in its roster.

Dashboard

This is also a very important factor to consider, as we’ve come across some websites that are very hard to navigate and not intuitive at all. In this respect, we should highlight DivasPlay, which receives very good feedback from experts and has a very user-friendly interface. On the home page we find featured artists, and if we enter any of them we can view their profile (although the content is restricted) and easily subscribe if we want to.

On Onlyfans, navigation isn’t cumbersome, but it doesn’t stand out as much as DivasPlay’s or FanCentro’s.

Conclusions

When we make this kind of comparison, it’s very hard to determine whether one platform is truly better than another—except in cases where the differences are very large. In the vast majority of cases, everything is highly subjective and depends on each user’s expectations for a platform of this kind.

Regarding the points we analyzed above, we should mention that Onlyfans may have an edge in terms of payments—something most artists prioritize. You could also say it’s better in terms of content diversity, and when it comes to discoverability they’re quite similar.

Beyond that, everything depends on the kind of artist you are. While DivasPlay features several celebrities, they’re in the minority, and it can be a very good option for those who are just starting out and need a site with less competition. On Onlyfans, by contrast, you’ll find a higher percentage of established artists, so the competition for subscribers there may be stronger.

In summary, we can say that if we’re only interested in payments, Onlyfans is the better option, but if we want to start small by getting our name out there and earning smaller returns, DivasPlay is a more reliable alternative.