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How Many Followers Do You Need to Get Paid on Facebook?

As of 2026-09-18, you need 10,000 followers or 250 return viewers, plus 50,000 post engagements or 180,000 watch minutes in the last 60 days, to get paid via Facebook Subscriptions, checked across 10 public Pages via the SocialCrawl API. Facebook Stars is a separate path at 500 followers held for 30 consecutive days, age 18 or older, in an eligible country. Hitting 10,000 followers is not automatic payment: Subscriptions are set up in Meta Business Suite and are not fully available for professional-mode profiles. Facebook Content Monetization, the ad-revenue program that replaced in-stream ads, is invite-only and publishes no follower floor. Across those 10 Pages the median was 84 million followers, far above the payout floor.

Last updated September 18, 2026

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The numbers, right now

Last updated September 18, 2026

10,000

Followers to get paid

500

Followers for Stars

84,000,000

Median (top creators)

10

Creators sampled

Facebook monetization requirements

ProgramFollowers required
Facebook Stars500
Facebook Subscriptions10,000

How we compute this

The follower thresholds on this page are Facebook's own published monetization requirements, cited from Meta Business Help, Eligibility requirements for Facebook Subscriptions (2026) (model version 2026-09-18): 10,000 followers or 250 return viewers, plus 50,000 post engagements or 180,000 watch minutes in the last 60 days for Subscriptions; and from Meta Business Help, How to check if you're eligible to earn money from Facebook Stars (2026): 500 followers held for 30 consecutive days, age 18 or older, in an eligible country, for Facebook Stars. Hitting either floor is not automatic payment. Subscriptions are set up in Meta Business Suite and are not fully available for professional-mode profiles. Facebook Content Monetization, which replaced in-stream ads, ads on Reels, and the Performance Bonus Program after 31 August 2025, is invite-only and publishes no follower floor (Meta Business Help, About Facebook Content Monetization for creators (2026)), so this page does not invent one or treat the ended in-stream ads thresholds as current. Facebook publishes no per-view or per-1,000-views rate. Brand deals have no official Facebook follower floor. To show where earning Pages actually sit, SocialCrawl reads the live follower count for a curated basket of well-known public Facebook Pages via the API endpoint /v1/facebook/profile and takes the median: 10 Pages sampled on 2026-09-18, a median of 84 million followers. Facebook reports followers as a rounded public display figure. The thresholds are official published facts, never fabricated; the median is read live from real Pages, so the number a creator actually needs is the published floor, not this basket median.

Source endpoints
/v1/facebook/profile
Sample size
10
Computed
2026-09-18

Run this yourself

One API call returns the same live feed we sampled. Drop in your key and go.

curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMeta" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_your_api_key_here"
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How many followers do you need to get paid on Facebook?
You need 10,000 followers or 250 return viewers, plus 50,000 post engagements or 180,000 watch minutes in the last 60 days, to offer Facebook Subscriptions as of 2026-09-18. Facebook Stars is a separate path at 500 followers held for 30 consecutive days. Hitting either number is not automatic payment: Subscriptions are set up in Meta Business Suite and are not fully available for professional-mode profiles. Source: Meta Business Help, Eligibility requirements for Facebook Subscriptions (2026).
How many Facebook followers do you need for Subscriptions?
Facebook Subscriptions need 10,000 followers or 250 return viewers, plus 50,000 post engagements or 180,000 watch minutes in the last 60 days, as of 2026-09-18. Those two follower and viewer tracks are alternatives; the engagements and watch-minutes tracks are also alternatives; the plus still applies. Setup is in Meta Business Suite. Source: Meta Business Help, Eligibility requirements for Facebook Subscriptions (2026).
How many followers for Facebook Stars?
Facebook Stars need 500 followers held for 30 consecutive days, age 18 or older, an eligible country, and Facebook partner monetization policies, as of 2026-09-18. That is the published Facebook Stars monetization floor, not a guarantee of payment. Source: Meta Business Help, How to check if you're eligible to earn money from Facebook Stars (2026).
Does hitting 10,000 Facebook followers automatically enable Subscriptions?
No, hitting 10,000 followers is not automatic payment. Subscriptions are set up in Meta Business Suite, also need 50,000 post engagements or 180,000 watch minutes in the last 60 days, and are not fully available for professional-mode profiles. This reflects Facebook's published monetization requirements as of 2026-09-18.
Can you get paid on Facebook with 500 followers?
Yes, from Facebook Stars, if you hold 500 followers for 30 consecutive days, are age 18 or older, live in an eligible country, and stay within Facebook partner monetization policies, as of 2026-09-18. That is not a guarantee of payment. Subscriptions still need 10,000 followers or 250 return viewers, plus the 60-day engagements or watch-minutes track. Source: Meta Business Help, How to check if you're eligible to earn money from Facebook Stars (2026).
Does Facebook Content Monetization have a follower requirement?
No. Facebook Content Monetization is invite-only and publishes no follower floor. In-stream ads, ads on Reels, and the Performance Bonus Program ended on 31 August 2025 and were replaced by this program. This page does not invent a follower number or treat the ended in-stream ads thresholds as current Facebook monetization policies. Verified as of 2026-09-18. Source: Meta Business Help, About Facebook Content Monetization for creators (2026).
Did Facebook in-stream ads end?
Yes. In-stream ads, ads on Reels, and the Performance Bonus Program ended on 31 August 2025, so those older Facebook Reels monetization and in-stream ads follower counts are not current. Facebook replaced them with Content Monetization, which is invite-only and publishes no follower floor. Checked 2026-09-18.
How much does Facebook pay per view?
Facebook does not publish a per-view or per-1,000-views rate for Subscriptions, Stars, or Content Monetization, as of 2026-09-18. This page reports the published follower floors, not an earnings-per-view figure Facebook does not give.
Do brand deals on Facebook require a follower minimum?
Brand deals have no official Facebook follower floor. A brand can pay a creator at any size; that money does not come from Facebook. Native Facebook-paid paths still start at 500 followers for Stars and 10,000 for Subscriptions, as of 2026-09-18.
What are the Facebook monetization requirements?
The published native paths as of 2026-09-18 are Facebook Subscriptions at 10,000 followers or 250 return viewers, plus 50,000 post engagements or 180,000 watch minutes in the last 60 days, and Facebook Stars at 500 followers held for 30 consecutive days. How to get monetization on Facebook still depends on Meta Business Suite setup; Content Monetization stays invite-only with no follower floor. Source: Meta Business Help, Eligibility requirements for Facebook Subscriptions (2026).
How many followers do Facebook Pages that get paid actually have?
Far more than the floor. Across 10 well-known Facebook Pages SocialCrawl sampled on 2026-09-18, the median was 84 million followers. The 10,000-follower Subscriptions minimum is where that program begins, not where top Pages sit, and Facebook reports those counts as rounded public display figures.

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