Comparison

Websites like Model Mayhem, but adult work is allowed

Model Mayhem is the default model and photographer network, and it is a genuinely useful one. It is also a portfolio site with an inbox, and its rules do not accommodate explicit adult work. Here is what carries over and what does not.

What a portfolio network is for

Model Mayhem, Purpleport and AdultFolio all solve the same first problem well: they let a model publish a body of work and let a photographer find them. That is not a small thing, and for time-for-print, testing and portfolio building it is often all you need. The audience is large, membership is the whole commercial model, and nobody is taking a cut of a booking.

What they are not is a transaction layer. There is no booking object, so there is no rate agreed in the system, no dated release, no usage licence and no record that ties an identity check to a specific shoot. When a photographer and a model on a portfolio network agree a paid job, everything that makes it a paid job happens somewhere else.

The adult-work problem is a policy problem

Mainstream networks and casting platforms exclude explicit adult work as a matter of policy, and the exclusion is enforced by removing accounts. This is rarely squeamishness on the platform's part. It is downstream pressure from payment processors, app stores and advertisers, and it is why the pattern repeats across otherwise unrelated services. The result for a working model is that the portfolio representing your actual paid work is the portfolio you cannot publish.

The practical consequence is fragmentation: a sanitised portfolio on the mainstream site, the real work on a platform with worse tooling, and clients reached through neither. Our guide on where models can post adult work goes through the landscape platform by platform.

Capability comparison

Capability comparison
Capability	Portfolio network	Maxgirls
Publish a portfolio	Yes, this is the core product	Yes
Explicit adult work permitted	Against the rules on mainstream networks	Yes, it is the category
Identity and age verified before listing	Self-declared	Government ID and liveness, every profile
A booking exists as a record	No, contact is an inbox	Yes, with dates, rate and usage
Model release	You bring your own	Generated by the booking, dated
Usage licence	Not provided	Territory, term and exclusivity attached
Record-keeping entry	None	Retained and exportable
Commission on bookings	None, but nothing is booked	None
Pricing model	Membership tiers, set by each network	Flat monthly subscription, $19 model side

Publish a portfolio: Portfolio network Yes, this is the core product; Maxgirls Yes
Explicit adult work permitted: Portfolio network Against the rules on mainstream networks; Maxgirls Yes, it is the category
Identity and age verified before listing: Portfolio network Self-declared; Maxgirls Government ID and liveness, every profile
A booking exists as a record: Portfolio network No, contact is an inbox; Maxgirls Yes, with dates, rate and usage
Model release: Portfolio network You bring your own; Maxgirls Generated by the booking, dated
Usage licence: Portfolio network Not provided; Maxgirls Territory, term and exclusivity attached
Record-keeping entry: Portfolio network None; Maxgirls Retained and exportable
Commission on bookings: Portfolio network None, but nothing is booked; Maxgirls None
Pricing model: Portfolio network Membership tiers, set by each network; Maxgirls Flat monthly subscription, $19 model side

Capabilities only. We do not publish competitor prices: they change, and a stale figure printed on our site becomes our false claim.

Which one you actually need

If you are building a book, testing, and shooting non-explicit work, a portfolio network is the right tool for the job. If your paid work is adult, if you need the shoot documented before it happens, or if you have been removed from a mainstream network for posting the work you do, the missing piece is not another gallery. It is verification and the paperwork, which is what this is. Pricing is flat and there is no commission either way.

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Two things. Adult work is permitted here, so an account does not get removed for doing the work it exists to do. And a booking is a transaction that produces documents: a dated model release and a usage licence carrying territory, term and exclusivity. A portfolio network gives you a gallery and an inbox. Websites like Model Mayhem compares the categories capability by capability.

A flat monthly subscription and zero commission. Models pay $19 a month. Bookers start at $49 and the Studio tier is $199. Nothing you agree with a model on this platform is taken a percentage of. Pricing has the full table, including annual pricing at two months free.

No. Adult work is the category this platform exists for. What does get an account removed is the same short list you would expect anywhere: anyone who is not verifiably 18 or over, anyone posting someone else's images, and anything outside what the terms permit. Adult modeling jobs explains what a model account gets.

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