What do athlete fan subscriptions cost?

Why the price per payment matters

For Patreon standard USD web credit-card memberships in this model, nominal transaction deductions are 18.9% at $5, 15.9% at $10, 14.4% at $20 and 13.5% at $50. The fixed $0.30 processing component alone represents 6% of a $5 payment and 0.6% of a $50 payment.

Gameplan.io launch community subscriptions use a 10% deduction in the model, with standard processing covered from that fee. These are formula results before transaction rounding, not measured payouts or a claim that the products offer equivalent features.

Eight monthly-payment scenarios

All amounts are USD. Each member makes one successful payment. Deductions include only the platform and standard processing components modeled here; the downloads include each component and the balance before excluded costs.

Sources and eligibility

• Gameplan.io launch pricing: 10% on paid community subscriptions, with standard processing covered from that fee. The separate course pilot is excluded.
• Patreon Creator fees overview: standard platform fee of 10%, plus 2.9% and $0.30 per payment for the USD web credit-card case with USD payout currency. The standard plan applies to newly published creator profiles after August 4, 2025, and qualifying republications; legacy terms and app-store purchases are excluded.

Public source review is not account-specific certification. Gameplan.io pricing was read directly; the Patreon web retrieval reported a same-day crawl, while a separate direct fetch returned an access restriction. The public source ledger records that limit. Confirm the terms and country/account eligibility that apply to your offer.

Formulas and rounding

Let N be successful monthly payments and P the price in USD. Gross = N × P. Gameplan.io modeled deductions = 0.10 × N × P. Patreon standard modeled deductions = 0.10 × N × P + N × (0.029 × P + 0.30). Its nominal effective percentage is 12.9 + 30 / P.

For 100 payments at $10, gross payments are $1,000. Modeled deductions are $100 for Gameplan.io and $159 for Patreon standard. The remaining $900 and $841 are balances before excluded costs, not profit, bank payouts or take-home income.

The script uses unrounded Decimal rate formulas. Aggregate deductions are displayed half-up to cents; the displayed balance subtracts that rounded total so each row balances. Effective rates use the unrounded deductions. Actual provider per-transaction rounding can differ: the model does not reproduce provider billing rules.

Reproduce the analysis

Download the files together and run the Python script locally with Python 3. It uses only the standard library, needs no account or network, and writes both CSV files beside itself. Inputs and model data are public; no customer records are included.

• All 16 provider rows (CSV)
• 100-payment scenarios (CSV)
• Calculation script (Python)
• Methodology and assumptions (JSON)
• Attributed source inputs (JSON)

What the model leaves out

Assumptions: one successful monthly payment per member; no discounts, annual prepayment, mixed tiers, sales tax or currency mismatch; the published launch/standard terms apply, with no legacy or negotiated deal.

Fixed plan charges, optional add-ons, taxes and tax-on-fees, payout charges, FX and bank costs, refunds, disputes, chargebacks, app-store fees, labour, marketing, fulfilment and retention costs are outside this model. Exclusion does not mean those costs do not exist.

Fees do not measure demand, conversion, retention, service quality or suitability. No expected earnings, best-platform recommendation or savings guarantee follows from these scenarios.

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