Mercari vs Poshmark: which one should you sell on?
Von Oleksandr Shaniuk · Gründer von Sellura · Aktualisiert 1. November 2026
Mercari leaves you more of every sale, and Poshmark takes the postage off your hands. Mercari charges a 10% selling fee on the item price and on any shipping the buyer pays you, with no payment processing fee and free listing. Poshmark takes a flat $2.95 on sales under $15 and 20% from $15, and the buyer pays a flat $6.49 for Poshmark's prepaid label (both help centres, read 1 November 2026). Pick Mercari to keep more of each sale and to set your own shipping. Pick Poshmark when you want one flat shipping price the buyer pays and no parcel to price.
- Mercari selling fee
- 10%
- of the price + buyer-paid shipping
- Poshmark commission
- 20%
- flat $2.95 under $15
- Poshmark shipping, paid by the buyer
- $6.49
- flat, bundles up to 5 lb
- Title length
- 80 vs 80
- Mercari's form; Poshmark's help
In money: a $25 sale leaves you $22.50 on Mercari and $20.00 on Poshmark, a $60 sale $54.00 against $48.00, and a $10 sale $9.00 against $7.05 (our calculation, before shipping). The catch on Mercari is postage: you choose who pays it, and when the buyer does, the 10% applies to that shipping too. Below, run your own price through both, then compare shipping, the two listing forms, getting paid, and how to list on both without selling one item twice.
The short answer, by what you sell
Mercari costs less at every price we ran, so the real question is whether Poshmark's flat, buyer-paid shipping is worth 10 more points of commission for the item in front of you. For a light piece of clothing it often is not; for a seller who never wants to weigh a parcel or price a label, it can be.
| If you sell | Lean to | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Items under $15 | Lean toMercari | WhyA $10 sale costs $1.00 on Mercari and a flat $2.95 on Poshmark |
| Items from $15 to a few hundred dollars | Lean toMercari, on fees | Why10% against 20%: you keep $6 more at $60 and $25 more at $250 |
| Clothes and shoes you'd rather not price postage for | Lean toPoshmark | WhyThe buyer pays $6.49 for Poshmark's label, and a bundle up to 5 lb ships for the same price |
| Items where you want to set the shipping yourself | Lean toMercari | WhyYou choose who pays it; Poshmark's price is flat and the buyer's |
| Items you want to update rather than relist | Lean toMercari | WhyIts search help says it favours genuine updates over listings deleted and relisted |
Our read, not a rule. Fee figures are our calculation from each marketplace's published rates, read 1 November 2026: US seller, before shipping and sales tax.
Sources: Mercari Help: Fees on Mercari (updated 23 October 2026), checked 1 November 2026 · Poshmark Help: What are the fees for selling on Poshmark?, checked 1 November 2026 · Poshmark Help: What are the shipping rates on Poshmark?, checked 1 November 2026 · Mercari Help: How Mercari search spotlights your items, checked 1 November 2026
What one sale costs on each
Mercari's fee is one line: 10% of the item price plus any shipping the buyer pays, on every listing created or updated since 6 January 2025. Listing is free, there is no separate payment processing fee for the seller, and the buyer pays a 3.6% Buyer Protection fee on top, which never comes out of your money. Poshmark's is one line too: a flat $2.95 under $15 and 20% from $15, with free listing and the shipping paid by the buyer.
The $15 line matters on Poshmark: at $14 its flat fee is 21% of the sale, at $10 it is 29.5%. Mercari has no flat fee, so a cheap item costs the same 10% as an expensive one.
Run your own numbers
The postage label is left out on purpose: when you buy it yourself, it costs the same whichever marketplace the order came from, so including it would only subtract one number from every row. Each marketplace's own calculator takes the real label cost. On Poshmark the buyer pays Poshmark for the label, so its row counts neither the shipping nor a label.
| Marketplace | Fees | Take rate | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercariA listing created or updated since 6 January 2025: 10% of the price and the shipping the buyer pays. The buyer's 3.6% Buyer Protection is not in this row: it is charged on top of your price. Rates verified 2026-10-22. | $4.00 | 10.0% | $24.0060.0% margin |
| PoshmarkCommission on the order price. The buyer pays Poshmark for the prepaid label, so the shipping in this sale is the buyer's payment to Poshmark, not your revenue. Texas sellers also pay tax on part of the fee (not modelled). Rates verified 2026-10-19. | $8.00 | 20.0% | $20.0050.0% margin |
The spread between the cheapest and the dearest row on this sale is $4.00. That is the fee difference and nothing else: it does not say the item will sell on any of them.
| Item price | Mercari fee | Mercari: you keep | Poshmark fee | Poshmark: you keep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10 | Mercari fee$1.00 | Mercari: you keep$9.00 | Poshmark fee$2.95 (flat) | Poshmark: you keep$7.05 |
| $14 | Mercari fee$1.40 | Mercari: you keep$12.60 | Poshmark fee$2.95 (flat) | Poshmark: you keep$11.05 |
| $25 | Mercari fee$2.50 | Mercari: you keep$22.50 | Poshmark fee$5.00 | Poshmark: you keep$20.00 |
| $60 | Mercari fee$6.00 | Mercari: you keep$54.00 | Poshmark fee$12.00 | Poshmark: you keep$48.00 |
| $120 | Mercari fee$12.00 | Mercari: you keep$108.00 | Poshmark fee$24.00 | Poshmark: you keep$96.00 |
| $250 | Mercari fee$25.00 | Mercari: you keep$225.00 | Poshmark fee$50.00 | Poshmark: you keep$200.00 |
Our calculation from Mercari's and Poshmark's published rates, read 1 November 2026, run through the same fee functions as the calculator above: US seller, no buyer-paid shipping on Mercari, before sales tax. Mercari's Instant Pay costs $3 per cash-out, not per sale, so it is not in the table.
- Buyer-paid shipping on Mercari is part of the fee base: $8 of shipping on a $25 sale adds $0.80 to the fee.
- Mercari listings created before 6 January 2025 and never updated still run the old schedule until you edit them.
- Sellers in Texas pay Texas Seller Fee Tax on Poshmark's fee, taken from earnings since 1 October 2025.
- To keep $100 from a sale with no shipping, list at $111.11 on Mercari and $125 on Poshmark.
Free Mercari fee calculator, with buyer-paid shipping → · Free Poshmark fee calculator →
Sources: Mercari Help: Fees on Mercari (updated 23 October 2026), checked 1 November 2026 · Poshmark Help: What are the fees for selling on Poshmark?, checked 1 November 2026
Shipping: who pays, and what the fee touches
On Poshmark the shipping is settled before you list. The buyer pays a flat $6.49, you get a prepaid USPS Ground Advantage label by email and must use it, and a bundle from your closet ships for the same $6.49 as long as it stays under 5 lb. Over 5 lb, Poshmark says the overweight cost is yours.
On Mercari you decide: pay for shipping yourself, or have the buyer pay. If the buyer pays, that shipping is part of the sale and part of the 10%; if you ship free, the label is your cost and nothing is charged on it. Either way, the price you set has to carry the postage you chose.
| Mercari | Poshmark | |
|---|---|---|
| Who pays the postage | MercariYou choose: you, or the buyer | PoshmarkThe buyer, a flat $6.49 |
| Bundles | MercariPriced by you | PoshmarkOne $6.49 fee up to 5 lb; overweight is the seller's |
| Fee on the shipping | MercariYes, 10% of buyer-paid shipping | PoshmarkNo, the commission is on the item |
| Label | MercariYour choice of how to ship | PoshmarkPoshmark's prepaid label, required |
US sellers. From Mercari's Creating a Listing and Fees pages and Poshmark's shipping rates page, read 1 November 2026.
Sources: Mercari Help: Creating a Listing (up to 12 photos, $1 to $2,000, who pays shipping), checked 1 November 2026 · Mercari Help: Fees on Mercari (updated 23 October 2026), checked 1 November 2026 · Poshmark Help: What are the shipping rates on Poshmark?, checked 1 November 2026 · Poshmark Help: When do I get paid for a shipped order? (the prepaid label is required), checked 1 November 2026
The two listing forms
Both forms stop a title at 80 characters, but only Poshmark says so: its help prints “80 characters max” and asks for the brand, style name, category, size and colour. Mercari's help prints no title length; 80 is where its listing form's code cuts the field, and the same code stops a description at 1,000 characters. Mercari's help asks for clear, accurate keywords a buyer would use, the brand stated clearly, and no brand names or hashtags that aren't the item's.
The biggest difference is tags. Poshmark gives you up to three style tags of up to 25 characters, words buyers browse by. Mercari has no tags field: every searched word goes in the title or the description.
| Mercari | Poshmark | |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Mercari80 characters in the form; Mercari's help prints no number | Poshmark80 characters max, Poshmark's own rule |
| Description | Mercari1,000 characters and at least 5 words, in the form's code | Poshmark1,500 characters, in Poshmark's bulk upload template |
| Tags | MercariNone; no unrelated brands or hashtags | PoshmarkUp to 3 style tags, 25 characters each |
| Photos | MercariUp to 12 | PoshmarkUp to 16, sized 1000 × 1000 |
| Price | Mercari$1 to $2,000, up to $5,000 if eligible for authentication | PoshmarkYour listing price, with an original price beside it |
From Mercari's Creating a Listing and search pages and its /sell form code (build r-v3.106.4), and Poshmark's How to list and Bulk Upload Templates pages, all read 1 November 2026.
Sources: Poshmark Help: How to list (title 80 characters, up to 16 photos), checked 1 November 2026 · Poshmark Help: How to use Bulk Upload Templates (description 1,500, style tags), checked 1 November 2026 · Mercari Help: Creating a Listing (up to 12 photos, $1 to $2,000, who pays shipping), checked 1 November 2026 · Mercari Help: How Mercari search spotlights your items, checked 1 November 2026 · Mercari /sell form code, build r-v3.106.4 (title 80, description 1,000; not stated in Mercari's help), checked 1 November 2026
Check your own listing
Already listed on Mercari? Score your listing
Paste the link for a 0–100 score and the top fixes to the title and description, then rewrite it with your own words already filled in.
Free, no sign-up.
Mercari description template: five blocks inside 1,000 characters → · Poshmark SEO: title, style tags and description →
Getting paid
Both pay after delivery, on a three-day clock. Poshmark releases the money to your Poshmark balance within 3 days of delivery, and marks the order received on its own if the buyer doesn't. Mercari pays when the transaction is rated: the buyer has 3 days from confirmed delivery, after which Mercari rates it 5 stars for them, unless the buyer has raised an issue.
| Mercari | Poshmark | |
|---|---|---|
| Money released | MercariWhen the transaction is rated, at most 3 days after delivery unless there's an issue | PoshmarkWithin 3 days of delivery |
| Ways to cash out | MercariDirect deposit or Instant Pay | PoshmarkInstant Transfer, PayPal, Venmo, direct deposit or a check |
| Cash-out fees we read | MercariDirect deposit free ($2 if it fails); Instant Pay $3 per withdrawal, up to $600 a month | PoshmarkNot stated on the pages we read |
From Mercari's Getting Paid, Ratings for Sellers and Fees pages and Poshmark's When do I get paid page, read 1 November 2026.
Sources: Mercari Help: Ratings for Sellers (3 days after delivery, then you're paid), checked 1 November 2026 · Mercari Help: Getting Paid (direct deposit and Instant Pay), checked 1 November 2026 · Poshmark Help: When do I get paid for a shipped order?, checked 1 November 2026
Listing on both without selling one item twice
Nothing on the pages we read from either marketplace stops you listing the same item on both. What has to change is the listing: Poshmark's three style tags have no place on Mercari, where those words belong in the description, and Mercari's shipping choice has no place on Poshmark, where the buyer's $6.49 is fixed.
Price each for its own fee too, and remember Mercari's search help: it favours genuine updates over listings that are deleted and relisted, so refresh a slow Mercari listing with new photos, information or a price change rather than starting it again.
Write each listing for its own form
On Poshmark: brand, style name, item, size and colour in the title, then three style tags. On Mercari: the words a buyer types in the title, and the rest in a description of up to 1,000 characters.
Price each for its own fee
Run the price through both calculators. On Poshmark, check which side of $15 it lands; on Mercari, decide who pays the shipping before you set the price.
End the other listing the moment one sells
Take the other one down as soon as an order comes in, so you never have to cancel on a buyer.
Cross-listing SEO: what to rewrite for each marketplace → · Depop vs Poshmark: the same item and the same sale on both →
Source: Mercari Help: How Mercari search spotlights your items, checked 1 November 2026
What Sellura does here, and what it doesn't
Sellura writes both sides. Choose Mercari and it returns a title inside the 80 characters the form takes, a description that opens with what the item is, then condition and flaws, measurements and what's included, and the search phrases worked into the text, since Mercari has no tags. Choose Poshmark and it returns an 80-character title, three style tags and a description. Each comes back scored 0–100: the same listing always gets the same number, and each weak factor comes with one concrete fix.
The score and the title preview are free on every generation, with no card, and so are the Mercari and Poshmark fee calculators and the title checker. A credit unlocks one finished listing: Starter is $15 a month for 25 credits or $150 a year, and Pro is $24 a month for 65 credits plus bulk, or $240 a year. Sellura doesn't post to Mercari or Poshmark, has no keyword database, doesn't track where a listing ranks, and is not affiliated with either marketplace.
Write the Mercari listing, with the score and title free → · Write the Poshmark listing, with the score and title free → · Plans and credits →
FAQ
Is it better to sell on Mercari or Poshmark?
Which has lower fees, Mercari or Poshmark?
What are Mercari's fees in 2026?
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Who pays shipping on Mercari and Poshmark?
Can I list the same item on Mercari and Poshmark?
Run your price through both before you choose: Mercari takes 10% of the sale and any shipping the buyer pays, Poshmark a flat $2.95 under $15 and 20% from $15, with the buyer paying $6.49 for its label. Pick Mercari to keep more of each sale and set your own shipping, Poshmark to never price postage. Then write each listing for its own form, three style tags on Poshmark and the searched words in the description on Mercari, and let Sellura draft both: the score and the title preview are free, and a credit buys the finished listing.
Öffnet den Generator für Mercari.