# 2fans API (formerly Dropfans API)

> Pay-per-view for CRMs, agencies and Telegram sellers, including 18+ content. A turnkey PPV API for chat CRMs: connect 2fans and send pay-per-view drops, tips and subscriptions in Telegram or any chat. Creators keep 85%, and approved apps earn 5% of the sales they bring in.

2fans was called Dropfans until October 2026, so the API host is still www.dropfans.io and keys still start with dpfn_.

## Rules for agents

- Setting a person up: follow https://2fans.dev/docs/ai/agent-setup.md. The person passes the ID check, generates the key and submits the app application; you do the rest.
- Keep API keys in the environment. Never ask for one in chat, log it or send it to a frontend.
- Base URL: https://www.dropfans.io/api/external/v1. Auth: Authorization: Bearer dpfn_....
- Buyers always pay on the 2fans checkout, and content has to be hosted on 2fans. 2fans can't take payments for other businesses or for your own products.
- More rules: https://2fans.dev/docs/ai/machine-files.md

## Overview

- [The facts, who it's for and how to start](https://2fans.dev/index.md): Fee, payouts, content rules and limits on one page.
- [Docs start page](https://2fans.dev/docs.md): Guides for the 2fans API: add pay-per-view drops, tips and subscriptions to your CRM, and see how moderation and payouts are handled.

## When it fits

- CRMs and chat tools for creators and agencies
- Agencies and chat teams selling pay-per-view
- Telegram, WhatsApp and DM sellers who need a paid link to send
- Telegram channels with paying subscribers

## When it doesn't

- Taking payments for other businesses, your own products or anything not hosted on 2fans: buyers always pay on the 2fans checkout, and the content lives on 2fans
- Selling credits for your own app or AI chat product
- Gambling, physical goods or services

## Do you need your own processing contract?

**Adding pay-per-view for creators to your CRM: no.** Integrate the 2fans API and creators sell through 2fans links, on a checkout already set up for 18+ content. Providers advertise days or weeks for your own contract; in our experience it takes 6 to 12 months. Here you can be selling today, once the ID check and content are approved. Connecting other people's creators also takes an app review, usually a few business days.

**Selling your own products on your own checkout: yes.** 2fans can't take payments for those. Adult billers such as CCBill, Segpay and Verotel are the usual route.

**Want your own contract later?** Start here and you build real sales numbers first, with reports from the API. They aren't processing history on an account of your own, so each provider decides what they count for, but you'll apply knowing what sells.

## Already integrated

- [KVIQA](https://kviqa.com): a CRM for Telegram and WhatsApp sellers
- [Telestars](https://telestars.io): a Telegram sales CRM
- [CRMChat](https://crmchat.ai): a Telegram CRM and outreach platform

## Build

- [Quickstart: your first pay-per-view link](https://2fans.dev/docs/build/quickstart.md): Get a key, check it, pick content from the vault, create a drop and find out when it sells.
- [Sell on Telegram and in chats](https://2fans.dev/docs/build/telegram.md): Create one drop, give each fan a personal pay-per-view link and match every sale back to the right chat.
- [Connect other people’s creators](https://2fans.dev/docs/build/connect-creators.md): Get your app approved, send creators a connect link, then validate and store the key they give you.
- [Webhooks](https://2fans.dev/docs/build/webhooks.md): Set one signed endpoint for your app and react to sales, refunds, subscriptions, payouts and ID-check results.
- [Sign creators up from your own page](https://2fans.dev/docs/build/creator-signup.md): Approved apps can create creator accounts by API, send each creator through the ID check and start working with the returned key.
- [White label 2fans](https://2fans.dev/docs/build/white-label.md): Put your CRM’s brand on the creator side: your chat, dashboards and sign-up, your brand on creator pages and emails, with pay-per-view links and content on 2fans.
- [Earnings, balances and payouts](https://2fans.dev/docs/build/payouts.md): Show earnings and balances in your product, set up crypto, bank or Paxum payouts, and request them through the API without sending creators to 2fans.

## How it’s handled

- [Who handles what](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/overview.md): What 2fans runs for you and what stays with your app: checkout, moderation, creator checks, payouts, refunds and complaints.
- [How buyers pay](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/checkout.md): How buyers pay for a pay-per-view: a hosted 2fans checkout with cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, no buyer account, charged in USD.
- [How moderation works](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/moderation.md): Content moderation is automated and handled by 2fans infrastructure. What each status means, what the checks look for and how to build around them.
- [Creator verification](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/verification.md): How creators are verified: an ID document, face match and liveness check through Didit, with records kept by 2fans and status available in the API.
- [How payouts work](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/payouts.md): Earnings land in the creator’s 2fans balance. From $20 they can request a payout as crypto, a bank transfer or to a card through MassPay, or to Paxum, all included with the API.
- [Refunds and chargebacks](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/chargebacks.md): Who deals with disputes, what a reversal does to access and earnings, and the webhook events your app gets.
- [Compliance and content rules](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/compliance.md): Who is responsible for records, age checks, AI disclosure, reports and takedowns, and where the policies live.
- [Fees and limits](https://2fans.dev/docs/handled/fees.md): 15% of each sale with no monthly, setup or listing fee, a $5 to $750 price range, a $20 payout minimum and the API rate limits.

## AI tools

- [Let your AI set it up](https://2fans.dev/docs/ai/agent-setup.md): A coding agent opens each page, you do the sign-up and ID check, and it continues with your key, your first drop and your app application.
- [Files for agents](https://2fans.dev/docs/ai/machine-files.md): Every page here and in the API docs comes in Markdown, with llms.txt indexes and an OpenAPI 3.1 spec for agents and client generators.

## Common questions

- [PPV API for creator CRMs and agencies](https://2fans.dev/ppv-api-for-crms.md): A turnkey pay-per-view API for chat CRMs: send paid links and locked media from your inbox, act for many creators, get signed webhooks and earn 5% on sales through your links.
- [Do I need a merchant account to add PPV to my CRM?](https://2fans.dev/do-i-need-a-merchant-account-for-ppv.md): Not if you’re adding pay-per-view for creators: integrate the 2fans API and be selling today, without waiting 6 to 12 months for your own contract. Your own products still need one.
- [No processing history? Sell first, apply later](https://2fans.dev/no-processing-history.md): With no processing history, you can start selling PPV through 2fans and build real sales numbers before you apply for your own adult merchant account.
- [Telegram Stars alternative for PPV](https://2fans.dev/telegram-stars-alternative.md): Stars pays developers about $0.013 per Star after a hold. For PPV and subscriptions, send a 2fans link in the chat instead: creators keep 85%, and the buyer pays on the web checkout.
- [PPV links for WhatsApp, iMessage and SMS](https://2fans.dev/ppv-whatsapp-imessage-sms.md): A 2fans pay-per-view link is a normal URL, so it works in WhatsApp, iMessage, SMS and DMs. The buyer taps it, pays on the 2fans checkout and unlocks the content.
- [White-label PPV API for creator CRMs](https://2fans.dev/white-label-ppv-api.md): Keep your CRM’s look: your chat, dashboards and sign-up, with your brand on creator pages and emails. PPV links, the checkout and the content stay on 2fans.
- [PPV link API: create paid links with one call](https://2fans.dev/ppv-link-api.md): Create pay-per-view links with one API call. POST /drops returns a buyUrl; buyers need no account, and 18+ content is allowed.
- [Telegram PPV links with card checkout](https://2fans.dev/telegram-ppv-links.md): Create a pay-per-view link with the 2fans API and send it in a Telegram chat: buyers need no account, they pay on the 2fans checkout, and your CRM gets told about the sale.
- [Paid subscriptions for Telegram](https://2fans.dev/telegram-subscriptions.md): Sell weekly or monthly subscriptions in Telegram with the 2fans API: send a subscribe link in the chat, and webhooks tell your CRM or bot who is paying.
- [Sell PPV on Telegram for less than OnlyFans’ 20%](https://2fans.dev/telegram-ppv-lower-fees.md): Sell pay-per-view content on Telegram with links at 15% per sale, compared with OnlyFans’ 20% and with what Telegram Stars pays out.
- [Whop alternative for adult creators](https://2fans.dev/whop-alternative-adult-creators.md): Whop’s guidelines prohibit adult content. The 2fans API covers pay-per-view links, subscriptions, tips and creator payouts for 18+ creators.
- [Add pay-per-view to a Next.js app](https://2fans.dev/nextjs-pay-per-view.md): Next.js route handlers to create a pay-per-view link with the 2fans API, send the buyer to it and verify the signed webhook when they pay.
- [Creator payout options: crypto, bank transfer and Paxum](https://2fans.dev/creator-payout-options.md): How creators get paid through the 2fans API: funds land in a 2fans balance and can be requested as crypto, a bank transfer, to a card, or to Paxum.
- [From nothing to a first pay-per-view link](https://2fans.dev/quickstart.md): The exact steps to a working 2fans API key and a first pay-per-view link: sign up, verify, upload, generate a key, then create a drop.

## Comparisons

- [All comparisons](https://2fans.dev/vs.md): Factual, sourced comparisons of the 2fans API with the creator platforms that CRMs and agencies ask about, including where each one is the better choice.
- [2fans API vs Whop API](https://2fans.dev/vs/whop.md): Whop prohibits adult content and has a sandbox, SDKs and an MCP server. 2fans allows 18+ content and includes creator checks, moderation and payouts at 15%.
- [2fans API vs Fangate](https://2fans.dev/vs/fangate.md): Fangate charges 12.5% + 0.25 on each side of a paid link and has no subscriptions. 2fans charges creators 15%, covers subscriptions and tips, and pays approved apps 5%.
- [2fans API vs Fanvue API](https://2fans.dev/vs/fanvue.md): Fanvue Checkout Links cost 9.7% against our 15%, but need approval per creator. 2fans links work once a creator is verified and pay approved apps a 5% commission.
- [2fans API vs OnlyFansAPI](https://2fans.dev/vs/onlyfansapi.md): OnlyFansAPI is an unofficial API for managing OnlyFans accounts. The 2fans API is official and sells pay-per-view through its own links.

## Full API reference (on 2fans.io)

- [Docs index](https://2fans.io/developers/llms.txt): every API docs page, with Markdown copies.
- [Complete docs in one file](https://2fans.io/developers/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI 3.1 spec](https://2fans.io/developers/openapi.json)
- [Apply for app access](https://2fans.io/developers/apply): needs a 2fans login.

## Optional

- [Everything on this site in one file](https://2fans.dev/llms-full.txt)