Mercari fee calculator

Rates verified 2026-10-22 against the official pages: Mercari Help: Fees on Mercari (updated 23 October 2026) · Mercari Help: Getting Paid (direct deposit and Instant Pay). If a rate changes upstream, we update the constant and this date together. Estimates, not tax or accounting advice.

One line per sale. Mercari's fee page says that from 6 January 2025 a selling fee of 10% applies to the item price and the shipping the buyer pays, on listings created or updated since that date. There is no separate payment-processing fee on those listings, and listing costs $0.00: Mercari's help says listing an item is always free. So on a current listing you keep 90% of the price and the buyer-paid shipping, before your own costs.

The other charges are not per sale. Cashing out by direct deposit costs $0.00 per completed deposit, and only a failed deposit request costs $2. Instant Pay costs $3.00 per cash-out, up to $600 a month and once a day to an eligible debit card. A seller who cancels often can be charged a cancelation fee of 5% of the item price, at most $25. None of these belongs in a per-sale breakdown, so the calculator above leaves them out.

On a listing created or updated since 6 January 2025, the buyer pays a Buyer Protection fee of 3.6% of the item price and the shipping they pay. It is charged at checkout, on top of your price, so it never comes out of your payout. On a $40 item with $6 of shipping, the buyer pays $47.66 in all.

It still matters to you, as any fee on the buyer does: a buyer comparing two listings of the same item compares what each costs them in the end. The processing fee buyers used to pay is gone on new and updated listings, so Buyer Protection is the one Mercari line a buyer sees on top of your price and the shipping.

Mercari did not move old listings to the new schedule. A listing created before 6 January 2025 and not updated since pays no selling fee; its buyer pays a buyer fee of 10 per cent instead, as before. The moment the listing is updated, it moves to the current fees: 10% from you and 3.6% Buyer Protection from the buyer.

So before you edit an old listing that hasn't sold, run its price through the calculator. The same price will now pay you 90% of it plus the buyer's shipping, while the buyer's total falls, because Buyer Protection is smaller than the old buyer fee. Mercari's help on search favors genuine updates over deleting and relisting, so the edit is usually worth making; price it knowing the fee is now yours.

Mercari charges its 10% on the price plus the shipping the buyer pays. When a buyer pays $6 for shipping on a $40 item, the fee is $4.60, not $4.00, and the $6 itself goes on the label. Mercari's listing help lets you choose either way: the buyer pays the shipping, or you offer free shipping and pay for the label yourself.

Free shipping takes the shipping out of the fee base, but the label then comes out of your side, which is why the calculator asks for both: leave the shipping you charge at zero when you ship free, and put the real label in your costs. Mercari's prepaid labels come with tracking and Shipping Protection, and you choose the label by the item's weight; picking the wrong weight class can bring a surcharge, which no calculator can see coming.

The waterfall above runs the reference sale used across all 19 calculators: a $40 item, $6 of shipping charged and $12 of materials. Mercari's fee is 10% of the $46, which is $4.60, so $41.40 reaches you, or $29.40 after the materials. Like every row on the hub, it leaves the label at zero so the rows stay comparable.

In real life the buyer's $6 pays for the label, so what you keep from the item is $35.40, or $23.40 after the materials, and the buyer pays $47.66 with Buyer Protection. Held against the other rows on the hub, Mercari sits with the marketplaces that charge on shipping as well as on price, with no processing line added on top.

With the fee set, the listing is what you control. Mercari's help on search says it prioritizes listings with clear, relevant and accurate keywords that buyers would genuinely use. Its help prints no title or description length; its listing form stops the title at 80 characters and the description at 1,000, which we read in the code of that form on 22 October 2026, so treat both as the form's limits rather than a published rule.

Search also weighs the seller, Mercari's help says: smooth sales with few cancellations, verified contact details and ID, and quick replies, and it favors updating a listing over deleting and relisting it. Price against sold listings for the same item, which Mercari's listing help suggests checking before you set a price between $1 and $2,000.

The fee is the marketplace's decision and it does not move. What the listing says is yours, and that is the part this site was built to write.