Marketplace fee calculator: the same sale on 19 marketplaces

The table sorts by what the marketplace takes, because that is the only part of this that is arithmetic. It is not a recommendation, and most of the rows are telling you less than the whole truth unless you read the note underneath them.

Shopify normally sits at the top because it charges 0% commission — but a Shopify row leaves out the monthly plan, and, more importantly, leaves out the fact that no shopper is standing there. On a marketplace the fee buys you a place in somebody else's search results. On your own store the equivalent cost is whatever it takes to get found on Google, and that cost does not appear in any fee calculator.

Depop looks close to free because its selling fee in the US and UK really is 0% — until you boost. A boosted sale adds 12%, which lands Depop next to eBay. Etsy's row looks mild because the comparison assumes the order did not come through an Offsite Ad; if it did, add 15% of the order, capped at $100. Poshmark's row is missing the shipping on purpose: its buyer pays Poshmark for the label, so the 20% is charged on the item alone, and the cheap end of its scale is the expensive one, because under $15 the fee is a flat $2.95. Vinted's row reads zero for a different reason: Vinted takes nothing from the seller and charges its fee to the buyer, so your Vinted price competes with that fee added on top. Mercari's row includes the shipping, because its 10% is charged on the price and the shipping the buyer pays, and it leaves out the 3.6% Buyer Protection its buyer pays on top. Facebook Marketplace's row is a shipped order through checkout with no sales tax entered: the same item picked up and paid in person pays nothing, and a buyer's sales tax adds a tenth of itself to the fee. Bonanza's row leaves the reference shipping out of the base, because it is under $10.00, and adds $0.25 for a seller without a membership. Grailed's row is a sale well under $120, so it pays the reduced 6%: from $120 the whole sale pays 9%, and payment processing is a line of its own. Whatnot's row is a new seller in the Standard tier: its buyer pays Whatnot for the shipping, so the commission is on the item alone while the processing counts the shipping too, and a seller with $15,000 or more of sales in the last four weeks pays a lower commission than the row shows.

And Walmart's row is only one of 36. Jewelry is charged 20% up to $250 · 5% over $250 (per portion) while a personal computer is charged 6% — the same sale price, decided by a field in your item setup. The row in the table above is the catch-all category, which is where most makers land, not where everyone lands.

19 fee models, 19 shapes. The differences are not cosmetic — each of these marketplaces charges in a way that is simply false for the other 18, which is why one universal calculator would have to lie somewhere. Each line below links to that marketplace's own calculator, where the options it alone has (Offsite Ads, boosting, category rows, plan rates) are switches you can flip.

First, shipping. Every marketplace here that charges a commission, except Poshmark, Shopee, Folksy, Bonanza and Whatnot, charges it on the item plus the shipping you collect — Etsy on 6.5% of the two together, eBay on the total amount of the sale, Amazon on item plus shipping plus gift wrap, Walmart on the total sales price, Mercari on the price plus the shipping the buyer pays, TikTok Shop on everything the buyer pays, shipping included, except tax, Facebook Marketplace on the item, the shipping and the sales tax together. On those, raising the item price and shipping free, or dropping the price and charging postage, produces the same fee; the choice is a merchandising one, not a tax one. Shopee splits it: the commission is on the item, the transaction fee on everything the buyer pays. Whatnot splits it the same way: its commission is on the item price alone, its 2.9% + $0.30 processing on the price, the shipping and the tax. Folksy leaves the postage out of its 6% + VAT commission altogether, and only Stripe's or PayPal's processing fee touches it. Bonanza draws a line instead: its fee counts the item and only the part of the shipping above $10.00, so the first $10.00 of shipping you charge is outside the base. Grailed counts the shipping you charge unless the order ships on a Grailed Label, and because its rate depends on the sale price, the shipping can also decide whether a sale pays 6% or 9%. The exceptions at the other end are Poshmark, Vinted and Whatnot, where the buyer pays the marketplace for shipping at checkout and there is no shipping price for you to set at all.

Second, category. On Walmart the category is the fee outright, and on Shopee each market has its own category table. On eBay most categories sit at 13.6%, but a handful run lower and a store subscription discounts many of them. Amazon Handmade is the exception that proves it: 15% in every Handmade category, with no category question to get wrong. TikTok Shop adds a question no other row asks, the item's condition: 6% in most categories, 5% for fine jewelry, and 5% for the same item listed pre-owned. Whatnot sets its rate by category as well, by the show's category for a live sale and by the product's outside one.

Third, promotion. Offsite Ads on Etsy, Boosted Listings on Depop, sponsored placements on Walmart and eBay — all of them are charged on top of the base fee, and all of them are optional in a way the base fee is not. Bonanza is the exception that works the other way: an advertising level you opt into replaces its 11% rather than adding to it, up to 30%. Model the promoted case before you switch it on, because a promoted sale on a low-fee platform can cost more than an unpromoted sale on a high-fee one.

Fourth, volume. eBay's first 250 listings a month are free and the rest are $0.35 each; Etsy charges $0.20 for all of them, including the renewal after every sale; Amazon Handmade charges nothing to list and waives the $39.99 monthly Professional plan for approved sellers. Folksy charges £0.18 for every unit you list on a Basic account, or nothing on Folksy Plus at £7.50 a month. Bonanza charges $0.03 a month for each active listing above 50, $20.00 a month at most. Whatnot is the one where volume moves the commission itself: your sales over the last four weeks set your tier, and from $15,000 the rate falls, category by category. At ten listings a month none of this matters. At four hundred it is the whole difference.

Every number on this page and on the 19 calculators behind it is read off the marketplace's own fee page — not off another calculator, not off a review post, not off a blog that has been quietly re-dated since 2023. Each row above prints its verification date, and each individual calculator links the exact pages it was checked against.

That discipline is not decoration. Depop raised the Boosted Listings fee for UK and US sellers from 8% to 12% on new listings from 23 March 2026, and a great many fee posts and calculators still print the old rate. If you had priced a boosted item off one of those, you would be four points of margin short and would not know why.

The rates and the arithmetic come from the same source file, so the table under the calculator and the number the calculator produces are the same fact rendered twice. If a marketplace changes a rate, the constant and the date on this page move together or the build fails — that is a test, not a promise.

Fulfilment. Amazon's FBA fees and Walmart Fulfillment Services both replace your postage cost with their own rate card, priced by size and weight; both have their own official calculators, and guessing at them here would be worse than leaving them out.

Taxes, refunds and currency. Sales tax and VAT are collected and remitted by the marketplace in most jurisdictions and are not seller revenue, so they are not in the base. Facebook Marketplace is the exception: its fee is charged on the sales tax too, so its own calculator has a box for the rate, and its row here leaves it at zero. Refunds return some fees and not others, in rules that differ per platform. Cross-border payouts carry a conversion spread that your payment provider sets, not the marketplace.

Subscriptions and advertising. Shopify's plan, eBay's store tiers, Etsy Plus, and every on-platform ad budget are fixed or discretionary costs, not per-sale fees. They belong in a monthly spreadsheet divided by orders, which is a different calculation from this one and would make the 19 rows incomparable if it were folded in.

Anything about how often an item sells. We can see published fee schedules; we cannot see your views, your position in anyone's search results, or your orders. This page shows arithmetic and stops there.

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.