Mercari Fee Calculator — The 10% Seller Fee and What You Keep (2026)
On a $45.00 item with $8.00 of postage collected, Mercari takes $5.30 and pays you $47.70. The selling fee is 10% — charged on the item price plus the postage you collect, so the fee base here is $53.00, not $45.00. Mercari reinstated this fee on 6 January 2025; the zero-seller-fee period that a lot of still-circulating advice was written during ran for ten months and is over.
| Sale price | $45.00 |
|---|---|
| Postage charged to buyer | $8.00 |
| Commission (10.0%) | −$5.30 |
| Postage you pay | −$8.00 |
| What the item cost you | −$12.00 |
| You keep | $27.70 |
Mercari charges its fee on the postage you collect as well as the item price, so the $8.00 of delivery is part of the fee base.
What Mercari charges, and on what
One fee, one rate, no thresholds. Mercari is the simplest fee schedule on this site — and the simplicity hides the one detail that actually decides your payout, which is what the percentage is applied to.
There is no listing fee, no renewal fee, no subscription, no minimum, and — since the 2025 change — no separate payment processing charge on the seller side either. A listing that never sells costs nothing.
The fee came back in January 2025
Between March 2024 and January 2025 Mercari charged sellers nothing at all. It was a real policy, it lasted ten months, and an enormous amount of "Mercari is free for sellers" advice was written during it. That advice is still circulating and it is now wrong: the 10% selling fee was reinstated on 6 January 2025.
What did change permanently is the processing fee — sellers are no longer charged one separately, so the 10% is genuinely the whole seller-side charge rather than a headline with card fees underneath it. Comparing it against a platform that quotes commission and charges processing on top understates that platform by roughly three points.
A worked example with real numbers
A $45.00 item with $8.00 postage, costing you $12.00
| Item price | $45.00 |
|---|---|
| Postage collected | $8.00 |
| Fee is charged on | $53.00 |
| Commission (10.0%) | −$5.30 |
| Mercari pays you | $47.70 |
| Postage you pay | −$8.00 |
| What the item cost you | −$12.00 |
| You keep | $27.70 |
The fee is $5.30 rather than the $4.50 that 10% of the item price alone would have been. The difference is the 10% charged on the $8.00 of postage — $0.80 on this one sale.
Does "free shipping" cost you anything here?
The usual advice is to fold delivery into the item price so the listing shows free shipping. On a platform that charges its fee on the item price alone, that would raise your fee. On Mercari it changes nothing, because the postage was already in the base:
| Item + postage split | Delivery folded in | |
|---|---|---|
| Buyer pays | $53.00 | $53.00 |
| Fee charged on | $53.00 | $53.00 |
| Selling fee | −$5.30 | −$5.30 |
| You keep | $27.70 | $27.70 |
Identical, to the cent. So on Mercari the decision is purely a marketing one — free shipping may sell better, and it costs you nothing extra to offer as long as you have priced the postage in. What it does not do is dodge the fee, which is the reason the tactic is usually recommended.
What Mercari keeps at every common price
Item price only, no postage, so these are the clean per-item figures. Computed by the same engine as the calculator above:
| Item price | Selling fee | Effective rate | Mercari pays you |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | −$0.50 | 10.0% | $4.50 |
| $10.00 | −$1.00 | 10.0% | $9.00 |
| $15.00 | −$1.50 | 10.0% | $13.50 |
| $25.00 | −$2.50 | 10.0% | $22.50 |
| $45.00 | −$4.50 | 10.0% | $40.50 |
| $100.00 | −$10.00 | 10.0% | $90.00 |
| $250.00 | −$25.00 | 10.0% | $225.00 |
| $500.00 | −$50.00 | 10.0% | $450.00 |
The effective rate is flat all the way down the column, which almost nothing else on this site manages. No fixed fee means no penalty on cheap items: a $5 sale is charged the same 10% as a $500 one. On eBay the same $5 sale pays over 19% once the per-order fee is counted, and on Poshmark it pays 59%. If you sell a lot of low-value items, that is the comparison that matters and it is the one Mercari wins comfortably.
What this does not account for
- The Buyer Protection fee. Charged to the buyer on top of your price, so it does not reduce your payout — but it does raise what the buyer sees. Not modelled; no structured figure for it.
- Promoted listings and Smart Offers. Both reduce your realised payout and neither is included here.
- Mercari Local. Different mechanics and different costs.
- Sales tax. Mercari's published fee base is the item plus postage with no tax term. This site does not model a tax component for it, which is stated rather than assumed to be zero.
- Sell-through. The biggest omission on any of these pages.
- Income tax. These are payout figures — see the self-employment tax calculator.
Who this is for
Mercari sellers pricing an item, and anyone who read that Mercari is free for sellers and wants to know what it actually costs now. To compare it against the alternatives, the eBay vs Mercari page takes the closest rival head-on and the reseller fee calculator ranks nine platforms on the same sale.
Questions people actually ask about this
Does Mercari charge sellers a fee in 2026?
Yes — 10% of the item price plus the postage you collect. This is the single most out-of-date thing circulating about Mercari, and the confusion is understandable: it genuinely charged sellers nothing between March 2024 and January 2025.
That window was ten months long and produced a great deal of advice that is still repeated as current. The fee came back on 6 January 2025 and has applied since.
What does Mercari charge its fee on?
The item price and the postage you collect, together. On the example above that makes the fee base $53.00 rather than $45.00, and the fee $5.30 rather than $4.50.
The practical consequence: folding delivery into the item price to advertise "free shipping" does not reduce your fee. The base is the same either way, because it was already counting the postage.
Sellers are no longer charged a separate payment processing fee on top — the 10% is the whole seller-side charge.
What is the Buyer Protection fee, and does it come out of my money?
No. Mercari charges the buyer a protection fee on top of your asking price; it does not touch your proceeds and it does not appear in the calculator above, which models your payout only.
It does still matter to you, for a reason that has nothing to do with fees: the buyer sees a higher total than your listed price. Against the identical item listed at the identical price on a platform with no buyer-side fee, yours looks more expensive at checkout. This site has no structured figure for that fee, so it is described here rather than computed — a number in a table would imply a precision the data does not have.
Is Mercari cheaper than eBay?
On fees, yes — at every price this site has been able to test. eBay's final value fee is higher, it adds a per-order fee Mercari does not have, and it charges on the sales tax it collects on your behalf, which Mercari's published base does not include.
Whether that makes it the better place to list is a different question, and it usually comes down to whether your item sells. The eBay vs Mercari page works the gap out per sale and per year, and is honest about what eBay's higher fee is buying.
What is the cheapest way to sell on Mercari?
There is no rate to optimise — one percentage, no thresholds, no tiers, no minimum, no subscription. That is genuinely unusual and it makes Mercari the most predictable platform on this site: the fee is the same share of every sale at every price.
The only lever is the fee base. Because postage you collect is part of it, the cheaper the label you can buy, the smaller the fee — so the arithmetic rewards accurate postage rather than padded postage. Padding delivery to make the item look cheap costs you 10% of the padding.
How current is this figure?
It reflects Mercari's published fee page as of 2026-08-21, last checked 2026-08-22. This is the fastest-moving category on the site — Mercari alone has changed its fee model more than once in three years — so re-check before making a pricing decision on it. If you find a figure that has moved, tell us and it gets fixed.
Where these numbers come from
Rates last checked against the sources below on .
Rate schedule version 2026.2, effective .
- Poshmark — Fee Policy retrieved 2026-08-21
- Mercari — Fees on Mercari retrieved 2026-08-21
- Depop — Seller fees and charges retrieved 2026-08-21
- Vinted — Is selling on Vinted free? retrieved 2026-08-22
- StockX — Seller fees retrieved 2026-08-22
- Grailed — Selling fees retrieved 2026-08-22
- Meta Business Help — About fees for sales using checkout retrieved 2026-08-22
- Grailed — Does Grailed charge a payment processing fee? retrieved 2026-08-22