A paid page tells you what it costs before you join. A free one does not, and the bill lands later in pieces. Here is how to pick between them.
This gets argued about a lot and usually without numbers. We have numbers for one half of it.
The one thing free does not settle
Free entry does not mean a busier page. The typical free profile in our catalog collects about a third fewer likes than the typical paid one, and the engagement numbers behind that go through why.
For choosing between the two, though, engagement is the side issue. Cost is the thing that will actually surprise you.
Cost is the real difference
A paid page has a known price. $10 median, $23 at the 90th percentile, and if the creator does not push paid messages, that is your entire spend.
A free page has no known price. It might cost nothing all month. It might cost $40 in unlocked messages by the second week. The variance is the point, both for the creator and against you.
When free is the right choice
- You want to see the tone of a page before committing to anything.
- You are exploring a niche you have not tried.
- You have the discipline to leave locked messages locked.
When paid is the right choice
- You want a predictable monthly number.
- You already know the creator from somewhere else and know what you are buying.
- You have learned that you do not, in fact, leave locked messages locked.
The pages that promise both
No PPV Couple and No PPV Trans collect creators claiming free entry with no paid extras: 5,626 profiles between them. Free Asian is 99.3% free across 4,673 profiles.
These tags record what the creator says. We cannot audit whether the messages stay free, so treat them as a filter for finding candidates rather than a guarantee.
The practical route
Start in the free section, sort by likes, and pick from the top of that list rather than the top of the whole catalog. You get the free-entry benefit without the abandoned-page problem.
Figures pulled from the OnlyLocus catalog on August 19, 2026, covering all 182,191 published profiles.
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Getting started
Turning off auto-renew takes about fifteen seconds and does not cut your access short. Do it the day you subscribe, not the day before it renews.
Getting started
Pay-per-view is the real business on most free pages. There is no cap on it, no refund for it, and a locked message tells you almost nothing about what is behind it.
Getting started
A subscription buys you the feed and nothing else. It renews by itself, it is charged in dollars wherever you live, and the $10 on the button is rarely the whole number.
