ofapis vs OnlyFansAPI.com

You are picking a vendor for a messaging, mass-DM or agency tool and these two are the finalists. They are two bets, diverging on two axes: the shape of the endpoint surface, and the unit you are billed in. One side is granular and priced against your roster; the other is wrapped and priced against your call volume. Which is cheaper is not opinion — it is arithmetic you can do with your own numbers, and the second half of this page does it three times.

Everything stated here about ofapis is checkable against the live API. Figures about the other product are left as they stand or pointed back at their own site.

At a glance

Breadth versus shape

A granular API mirrors the platform one call at a time: you get reach, and you assemble the workflow. A wrapped API collapses a workflow into one operation and hands back a durable record of it. Both are defensible; they fail differently.

A mass DM on a wrapped surface is POST /accounts/{id}/mailings, then /preview, /trigger, then poll /runs/{runId}. The preview returns recipientCount and estimatedCost before you spend anything, dispatch throttles at 500 ms per message, the run survives a process restart, and skipped recipients are refunded when it completes. On a granular surface that campaign is your loop, your rate limiter, your retry state and your partial-failure accounting — see the mass DM API.

The cost of being wrapped is that the surface ends where it ends. The published ofapis route list is /me, /subscribers, /following, /users/by-username/{username}, /users/{targetUserId}, /chats, /chats/users, /chats/{chatId}/messages, /accounts/{id}/mailings and its sub-resources, /accounts/{id}/lists, /accounts/{id}/scheduled/posts and /messages, /accounts/{id}/media, /vault/media, /notifications, /notifications/count and /mentions. There is no /statistics namespace, no top-level /posts, no /transactions, no /segments, no tracking-links route. If your product is a revenue dashboard, that is a hard stop today.

Two more shape details bite during a port. A subscriber record is {id, username, name, avatar, subscribedOn} — and subscribedOn is a boolean, not a date — so "top spender" logic has no source here; what the fans API does and does not return is the field-by-field version. And chatId is the fan's OnlyFans user id, so a conversation id is a handle you already hold from a webhook payload.

The billing model is the real difference

Per-connected-account pricing is linear in roster size and flat in usage. Metered pricing is linear in work and flat in roster. Neither is universally cheaper; they cross over at a volume you can calculate.

The ofapis side uses published numbers only: Free is $0 for 250 credits and 1 account at 60 requests per minute; Starter is $39 for 30,000 credits and 1 account at 100 rpm; Pro is $159 for 120,000 credits and 5 accounts at 500 rpm. Weights are not uniform — default 1, a send on a single-account route 1, a send on an account-scoped route (POST /accounts/{id}/chats/{chatId}/messages) 2, scheduled post and message creation 3 each, a media upload 5. A mailing trigger costs 0 at the call; the run then debits recipientCount × perRecipientWeight, and that weight is 1 today.

W = {"read": 1, "send": 1, "send_scoped": 2, "scheduled": 3, "media": 5, "recipient": 1}

def monthly(creators, subs, mailings, replies_day, posts, uploads, scoped):
    send = W["send_scoped"] if scoped else W["send"]
    sync_calls = -(-subs // 100)          # /subscribers pages at limit=100
    return creators * (
        mailings * subs * W["recipient"]
        + replies_day * 30 * send
        + sync_calls * 30 * W["read"]
        + posts * W["scheduled"]
        + uploads * W["media"]
    )

solo   = monthly(1,  1200, 2, 45, 20, 20, scoped=False)   # 4,270  of 30,000  (Starter)
agency = monthly(3,  1800, 4, 50, 30, 30, scoped=True)    # 32,940 of 120,000 (Pro)
roster = monthly(50, 1800, 4, 50, 30, 30, scoped=True)    # 549,000 — off the published grid

Solo creator. 1,200 subscribers, two mailings a month, 45 replies a day, twenty scheduled posts with media: 2,400 credits of mailing, 1,350 of replies, 360 of daily subscriber syncs, 60 of scheduling, 100 of uploads — 4,270 credits, about 14% of Starter's allowance. Seven times that workload still fits in $39, and 100 rpm is nowhere near binding.

Three-creator agency. 1,800 subscribers each, four mailings a month, 50 replies a day per creator, all on account-scoped routes so sends cost 2. That is 21,600 + 9,000 + 1,620 + 270 + 450 = 32,940 credits, roughly 27% of Pro's 120,000 for $159 — about $53 per creator per month, with room to roughly triple the volume before the tier runs out. This is where metering wins, because the per-creator volume is modest and you are paying for work rather than for seats.

Fifty-creator roster. The same per-creator load is about 10,980 credits, so fifty creators need roughly 549,000 credits a month — more than four times the Pro allowance — and Pro tops out at five connected accounts anyway. The published grid does not reach this; Enterprise is quote-based. Throughput binds too: 500 rpm per token, and dispatch runs at 500 ms per message, so one mailing run moves two messages a second whatever your plan. See rate limits and multi-account management.

That last scenario is the honest one: at fifty accounts a per-connected-account price is a number you read off a page and multiply, and it does not move in a busy campaign month.

Where OnlyFansAPI.com leads

It is the older product, and breadth is where that shows. ofapis has no earnings or revenue routes, no transactions, no top-level posts or feed control and no tracking links — if any of those decide your product, ofapis is out today and the incumbent is the candidate to price. It also publishes a track record and proxy infrastructure that a newer API cannot match on paper; read those figures on their own site rather than here.

Two more cases point the same way. If spend has to be forecastable to the dollar before the month starts, a flat per-account fee is easier to defend than a metered bill. And if your team builds in Make or Zapier rather than in code, ask each vendor which no-code connectors they publish and maintain — buying one beats wiring it yourself, and if that is your whole stack then a finished tool in the right category may beat either API.

We do not independently verify the other vendor's figures, and neither should you take them from us. Put four questions to them on their own page before you sign: what one connected account costs at your roster size and whether the price steps, which status codes are billed and which are refunded, the full list of webhook event types by name rather than "webhooks: yes", and how the uptime figure is measured and where the status history lives.

When ofapis is the better choice

Pick it when the roster is small, per-creator volume is real, and the workflow is messaging, mailings, scheduling and list management. One Bearer token against https://api.ofapis.com/api/public/v1, no request signing, a {"data": ...} envelope on success, X-RateLimit-* headers on every response, Idempotency-Key on every POST — a replay returns the original response with Idempotency-Replayed: true and is not charged twice — and a ledger you can reconcile line by line. Errors are thinner than the rest: only the five gate rejections (401, 402, 403, 429, 409) carry a JSON error.code, everything past the gate returns a plain-text message, so retry logic branches on the HTTP status — see error handling.

Migrating from a per-account provider

Most concepts port cleanly; four details usually bite.

• Re-estimate from call volume, not roster size. A spreadsheet keyed on connected accounts will be wrong by a multiple in either direction.
• Multi-account routes are scoped by id — /accounts/{id}/mailings, /accounts/{id}/lists — and the scoped message route carries the heavier weight of 2.
• GET /accounts/{id}/scheduled/posts requires publishDate and publishDateEnd; omit the window and it fails rather than returning everything.
• Adding list members is POST /accounts/{id}/lists/{listId}/users with {"userIds":[...]}; /users/{targetUserId} exists only as a DELETE. Pagination defaults to limit=20 (clamped 1–100), except /lists and /lists/{listId}/users, which default to 10 — see the lists API.

Generate a typed client from the OpenAPI spec rather than adapting an old SDK. If you would rather see the calls before generating anything, the Python quickstart walks the first authenticated read and a send end to end.

FAQ

Is ofapis a drop-in replacement for OnlyFansAPI.com?

For messaging, mass DM, scheduling, lists, vault and profile workflows, yes. If you rely on earnings analytics, full posts/feed control or transaction data, check that specific coverage first — those namespaces do not exist on ofapis today, and that breadth is where the incumbent currently leads.

How does the pricing actually differ?

OnlyFansAPI.com prices per connected account; ofapis prices per API call in weighted credits, with a 250-credit free tier. The examples above put a solo creator at about 14% of a $39 tier and a three-creator agency at about 27% of a $159 tier, so small rosters with real volume come out ahead on metering — and large rosters do not.

Does ofapis support multiple creator accounts?

Yes, each addressed by id under scoped routes such as /accounts/{id}/mailings. The published ceiling is 5 accounts on Pro; beyond that, Enterprise is quote-based rather than a listed tier, so a fifty-creator roster is a conversation and not a checkout. The operational side of running that roster — staffing, access and routing — is in running an OnlyFans agency.

Which one is more reliable?

OnlyFansAPI.com publishes a longer track record and an uptime figure — their numbers, on their site, worth asking them to stand behind. ofapis is newer and publishes no uptime figure; what it does commit to is encrypted sessions kept alive server-side and tiered egress — a shared proxy pool on Free, dedicated per account on Starter, dedicated per creator on Pro.

What happens to credits when a call fails?

It depends where it fails. Requests refused before metering — 401, 402, 403 and 429 — cost nothing, and 409, 424 and 5xx responses are debited then refunded automatically. Requests that reach the handler and fail on your input — 400, 404, 413, 415 and 422 — are charged at the endpoint's weight and not refunded, so a buggy integration spends real credits.

Put your own roster and reply volume through the function above, check the result against the worksheets on API cost and the tiers on pricing, then spend the 250 free credits on your busiest single workflow and reconcile the ledger: start free. Still shortlisting? See all alternatives.