Mercado Libre fee calculator

Rates verified 2026-10-19 against the official pages: Mercado Libre Ayuda (MX): Costos de vender · Mercado Libre Ayuda (AR): Costos de vender · Mercado Libre Ayuda (CO): Costos de vender · Mercado Libre Ayuda (CL): Costos de vender. If a rate changes upstream, we update the constant and this date together. Estimates, not tax or accounting advice.

Mexico: a Clásica listing pays 8–17% of the price and a Premium listing 11–21.5%, by category, in the table on Mercado Libre's selling-costs page. The same page's introduction gives a different upper figure; we quote the table. Argentina: 11.62–17.75%, plus a fixed cost per unit on lower-priced items shipped with Flex, acuerdo or retiro. Colombia: 8–22%. Chile: 8–17% for Clásica and 11–21% for Premium.

Since 2026 the fixed part of the fee depends on how the item ships, and Mercado Libre sets it per country. We found the Argentine amounts published and the Mexican threshold not, so the calculator models Argentina's fixed cost and leaves Mexico's out rather than guess it.

A range is the honest public answer, and it is too wide to price with: on a Mexican Premium listing the gap between the bottom and the top of the range is more than ten points of the price. Any calculator that fills in one number for you has picked a category for you, and the category is the one thing it cannot know.

Your account shows the exact rate when you list an item in its category, and Mercado Libre's own simulator inside the account does the same. Copy the percentage into the box above and the rest of the arithmetic is the same for every country. The box starts at the bottom of the range for the site and listing type you pick, a placeholder rather than a guess at your category.

In Mexico and Chile a listing is Clásica or Premium, and Premium sits higher in the range: in Mexico 11–21.5% against 8–17%. The listing type is your choice per listing, and so is the fee that comes with it.

Compare the two on your own price before you choose. On a MX$1,000 item in a category charged 13% as Clásica and 17% as Premium, the fee is MX$130 or MX$170, and the MX$40 between them is the price of the listing type, item by item.

In Argentina, items under AR$33.000 shipped with Flex, acuerdo or retiro also pay a fixed cost per unit: AR$1.330 up to AR$14.999, AR$2.740 from AR$15.000 to AR$23.999, and AR$3.320 from AR$24.000 to AR$32.999.

On a cheap item that fixed cost is a larger share than the percentage. Tick the box above when it applies and the calculator adds the right band for your price.

The waterfall above runs the reference sale used across all 19 calculators, a 40 item with 6 of shipping and 12 of materials, read here as Mexican pesos on a Clásica listing at the bottom of the Mexican range. It shows the shape of the fee, one percentage of the price, not a real Mexican sale, which would be priced in hundreds of pesos.

For your own sale, type your category's rate and your price in pesos above. The hub compares each marketplace's fee shape on the same numbers, so read Mercado Libre's row there as the bottom of its range, not as your rate.

The fee is set by the category and the listing type; whether buyers find the item is set by the listing. Mercado Libre sets the title limit per category, 60 characters in most of them, and asks for the product, the brand, the model and a few specifications, with no colour, condition, shipping or instalments in the title. The ficha técnica, the category's attributes, has to be complete: Mercado Libre marks a listing with incomplete technical specs and it loses positions.

Mercado Libre also gives sellers its own help: a 0 to 100 "Calidad de la publicación" score and a "Sugerir un título" button that writes a title with AI. Sellura writes the title, the ficha técnica and a plain-text description in Spanish from your description of the item, and scores the result from 0 to 100 with a fix for each weak point.

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.