For patreon creators
Patreon Income Tracker: What You Keep After the 10% Fee and Processing
Patreon shows you pledged revenue, which is not the number that reaches your bank. Between the platform fee, payment processing, and payout timing, real take-home lands well below the headline, and Earnly shows you exactly where the difference goes.
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In short
A patreon income tracker shows what your pledges actually pay after Patreon's cut. As published, creators who joined after August 4, 2025 pay a flat 10% platform fee on gross pledges, while creators from before that date keep their legacy rates of 5%, 8%, or about 12%. Payment processing comes out on top: roughly 2.9% plus $0.30 on a standard pledge, and about 5% plus $0.10 on micropledges of $3 or less, which is why small tiers lose a much bigger share than large ones. Currency conversion adds around 2.5% when a patron pays in a currency other than your payout currency. Stack those and a new creator often keeps somewhere in the low-to-mid 80s percent of gross, not 90%. Earnly breaks every month into gross pledges, platform fee, processing, and take-home, and marks the payout date: Patreon initiates automatic payouts on the 5th of each month, with direct deposit typically landing 3 to 7 business days later. Put YouTube, Twitch, and sponsor invoices on the same board and you see how much of your income really depends on one platform. Figures follow published schedules and can change; confirm against your Patreon payout dashboard. Creator at $32 per month billed yearly is the most popular plan for multi-source creators.
What changes
Three things you stop doing by hand
Micropledges cost more than you think
A $3 pledge carries about 5% plus $0.10 in processing on top of the platform fee, so a wall of small tiers keeps a far smaller share than one big tier. The fee breakdown shows it per tier band.
Know your real rate, not the sticker rate
Platform fee, processing, and currency conversion are split out separately, so you see the true all-in percentage Patreon costs you rather than the 10% headline.
Plan around the 5th
The payout calendar marks the monthly payout initiation on the 5th plus bank transit time, so the gap between a strong pledge month and money in hand stops being a surprise.
Who this fits
Patreon creators, especially those on the post-August-2025 10% platform fee or running many low-priced tiers, who want honest take-home and want Patreon sitting next to their other income sources.
The pieces doing the work here: the revenue dashboard, platform fees calculator, payout calendar . Plans start at $12 per month billed yearly on income tracker pricing.