How Much Money Do You Actually Keep on Patreon?

Patreon says they take 10% from creators — but that's not the number that hits your bank account. If you're building a Patreon membership or are already running a Patreon Channel, and are looking for Patreon videos on YouTube, here's what the Patreon fee structure actually looks like in 2026 before you commit to your pricing. Here's the real math on Patreon explained! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S IN THIS VIDEO: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What Patreon's pricing page shows — and what it leaves out The fee layer most Patreon creators overlook completely Why your effective fee rate depends heavily on how your supporters pay A specific situation where Patreon fees get significantly higher than advertised — and the 2026 deadline attached to it Why your tier prices matter more than you think for what you actually keep How to calculate your real Patreon fee rate based on your specific situation Three things worth checking in your Patreon account today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — Do you know your real Patreon fee rate? 00:38 — What Patreon's pricing page actually tells you 01:42 — The second fee layer most creators miss 03:11 — The situation where fees get dramatically worse 05:01 — The 2026 deadline every Patreon creator needs to know 06:13 — How your tier prices affect what you keep 07:47 — What your real effective fee rate actually is 09:14 — Three things to check in your account right now ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LINKS MENTIONED: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Patreon creator fees overview:   / 11111747095181   → Patreon iOS billing change explained:   / 36426991446797   → My full Patreon playlist:    • Patreon Tutorials for Creators   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE ON PATREON & CREATOR MONETIZATION: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Subscribe for honest creator business breakdowns: http://bit.ly/youtubeyestotech → Join the email list for early drops + extras by signing up for any FREE resource: https://www.yestotech.com/resources ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Some links in this description may be affiliate links. If you purchase through them I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. #Patreon #MakeMoneyOnline #ContentCreator