We’re increasing our prices for new creators. Existing creators will not see any increase.
We're updating our pricing plan for creators who publish a new Patreon page after August 4, 2025.
If you’re already a creator on Patreon with a published page: your pricing is not increasing. And if you're thinking about joining or starting a new page: now is the time to lock in a lower rate.
Our prices are increasing for creators who publish a new Patreon page after August 4, 2025. We’re consolidating our Pro (8%) and Premium (12%) plans into one standard (10%) plan. Check out our Help Center article for full details on the new plan.
Since we last updated our prices six years ago, Patreon has expanded beyond just payments to include media hosting, community, and discovery. Chat messages between creators and their fans are growing 63% year over year, in the past year fans viewed over 80 million hours of Patreon video, creators are going live daily, and Patreon’s discovery ecosystem is driving over $200 million to creators per year. We’re updating our pricing for new creators to continue offering even more tools to help you grow and connect.
Here’s a breakdown of what this means for you:
For creators with published Patreon pages: Your pricing won’t increase.
For the creators who’ve been with us on this journey, we want to honor your commitment and the massive role you’ve played in our transformation. We also want to minimize any impact to your business, which is why prices are not increasing for you or anyone with a published Patreon page that launches on or before August 4th.
If you want to find out what platform plan you’re on, head to your settings.
For creators not yet on Patreon: Now’s the time to launch!
If you publish a new Patreon creator page before or on August 4th, you’ll lock in the lower, 8% platform plan.
For new creators that launch after August 4th, you will pay a new, standard platform rate of 10% on all earnings + applicable fees and taxes.
Why we’re updating our pricing:
Over the last few years, the creator economy has taken off — creators are now building diversified, multimedia businesses. And we’ve evolved too, working harder to give creators the tools they need not only to build strong communities with their existing members, but also to get discovered by new fans so they can grow their businesses.
Since we last updated our prices six years ago, we’ve transformed in some pretty huge ways. We’re helping creators:
Grow your audience: Our discovery ecosystem now drives over $200M to creators per year through tools like creator recommendations and our updated Explore page. We also built out free memberships in addition to paid memberships, the total of which have climbed past 100M, so creators have more ways to welcome fans into their communities.
Build tighter communities: We introduced tools for community building between fans and creators like chats, live, and Patreon video. With Patreon video in particular, creators are bringing more of their media to Patreon. Video viewing has grown 41%, totaling 80M hours in the past year alone.
Make more money for your business: Patreon is where casual fans become core fans — with more ways to engage with and earn from your fans. Even if a fan starts out with a free membership, over 700K free memberships are upgraded into paid memberships monthly. We’ve also rolled out more revenue options including one-time payments, which has increased by 4X since last year.
Next Up:
We’re releasing even more tools to help creators grow and engage with their biggest fans more directly, including better discovery to help creators grow and rolling out livestreaming to more creators.
Video is the second highest earning category on Patreon, and we get that it’s an important way for creators to connect with their community and offer more interactive media. We’ve learned from the product’s early access period, and we’ve changed our pricing approach to Patreon video for eligible creators: instead of our initial plan to begin charging creators when they use more video, we're going to offer 100 hours per month of video for free (up from 100 total lifetime hours per account). This additional storage will be available to all eligible creators later this summer.
We’re proud to continue delivering more value to creators as we build out the best platform for creators to grow their businesses and communities.
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