Depop fee calculator
Depop stopped charging US sellers a selling fee on 18 July 2024, which makes it, with Vinted, one of the two cheapest platforms here to sell on, and the most misunderstood. The money did not vanish, it moved to the buyer, who now pays a marketplace fee of up to 5% plus up to $1 at checkout. What you still pay is payment processing: 3.3% plus $0.45, charged on the item price plus shipping plus tax. And if you boost a listing, that costs 12%, which is more than several platforms charge to sell at all.
Rates read from Depop's own fee page on 2026-08-18, which states they took effect on 2024-07-18. US sellers only.
Your sale
Remitted by the marketplace, never paid to you. It still counts toward the fee on some platforms.
Depop keeps $2.13
5.3% of the item price
| Payment processing3.3% of the item price plus shipping plus sales tax plus $0.45 | $2.13 |
|---|
- Paid out to you
- $45.87
- Profit after your costs
- $27.37
The buyer also pays a marketplace fee, up to 5% plus $1.00, about $3.00 on this sale. That is not your cost, but it is on the screen when they decide.
The same sale on all 7 platforms
Your numbers, run through every fee schedule. eBay is modeled as apparel with no Store and good standing; its full model has more levers than that.
| Platform | Fees | Payout | Profit | Charged on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinted | $0.00 | $40.00 | $28.00 | the item price only |
| Depop | $2.13 | $45.87 | $27.37 | the item price only |
| MercariDepop vs Mercari | $4.80 | $43.20 | $24.70 | the item price plus shipping |
| Whatnot | $4.98 | $43.02 | $24.52 | the item price only |
| Etsy | $5.01 | $42.99 | $24.49 | the item price plus shipping |
| eBayDepop vs eBay | $7.34 | $40.66 | $22.16 | the item price plus shipping plus sales tax |
| PoshmarkDepop vs Poshmark | $8.00 | $40.00 | $21.50 | the item price only |
On these numbers Vinted leaves you the most, $28.00, and Poshmark the least, $21.50. That spread is $6.50 on one item. Where an item sells fastest still matters more than where it nets a dollar more.
Ranked by profit, not payout. Vinted buyers pay for the shipping label themselves, so the payout there leaves out shipping and so does the postage you pay.
What each platform actually charges on
Headline rates are not comparable, because these platforms charge them on different bases. This is the part that decides who is really cheapest.
- eBay, 13.6% on the item price plus shipping plus sales tax
- The fee is charged on sales tax as well as shipping, so eBay takes a cut of money you never touch.
- Poshmark, 20% on the item price only
- 20% is the highest headline rate here, but it is charged on the item price alone and there is no processing fee under it. Below $15 the flat $2.95 is worse than 20% would have been: on a $10 sale it is 29.5%.
- Mercari, 10% on the item price plus shipping
- Mercari ran a zero-seller-fee experiment and ended it on 2025-01-06. The 10% now applies to buyer-paid shipping too, and the old 2.9% + $0.50 processing fee is gone rather than hidden.
- Depop, no selling fee for US sellers
- There is no selling fee for US sellers, which makes Depop look free and it nearly is. The cost moved to the buyer: up to 5% plus up to $1 at checkout. Boosting a listing costs 12%, which is more than most platforms charge to sell at all.
- Etsy, 6.5% on the item price plus shipping
- The 6.5% is the smallest headline rate here and it is not the whole cost: add 3% + $0.25 processing and $0.20 a listing, charged again every four months whether it sells or not. Pass $10,000 in a rolling year and Offsite Ads become mandatory at 12%, with no opt-out for the life of the shop.
- Whatnot, 8% on the item price only
- The 8% is the Fashion rate for sellers under $15,000 in a 28-day period; it steps down to 4.5% with volume, but the tier you earn applies to the NEXT period. The 2.9% + $0.30 processing is charged on everything the buyer pays, shipping and tax included, and no tier reduces it.
- Vinted, no selling fee for US sellers
- Vinted charges US sellers nothing at all: no commission, no processing, no listing fee. The buyer pays about 5% plus $0.70 on top of your price, and you are paid only once the buyer confirms the order or two days pass after delivery.
The fee no schedule prints is the item that comes back
A return on used clothing costs you both shipping legs, the refund and the sale, which is larger than the gap between any two platforms on this page. Most of those returns are condition disputes: the buyer expected one thing and opened another. A standardized grade sets that expectation before they buy, and documents what you described if they argue after.
You compared seven platforms. You can list on all of them
The spread between the best and worst platform on one item is real money, and the answer changes item by item. FlipDesk builds the listing once and publishes it to eBay and Shopify by API, and to Poshmark, Mercari and Grailed through the browser extension.
Common questions
- How much does Depop take from a $100 sale?
- $3.75 for a US seller on a $100 item with no shipping or tax: there is no selling fee, only payment processing of 3.3% plus $0.45. Shipping and tax are included in what that 3.3% is charged on, so the real figure rises a little with them.
- How much does Depop take from a $30 sale?
- $1.44 for a US seller on a $30 item with no shipping or tax, which is 3.3% plus $0.45. That flat $0.45 is why the percentage climbs on cheap items: it is about 4.8% of a $30 sale and 3.75% of a $100 one.
- Does Depop still charge a selling fee?
- Not for sellers based in the US, the UK or Australia. The 10% selling fee was removed for US sellers on 18 July 2024 and has not come back. Sellers outside those three countries still pay 10%. What every US seller still pays is the payment processing fee.
- What does Depop actually cost me per sale?
- 3.3% plus $0.45, charged on the item price plus shipping plus any applicable tax. On a $40 item with $8 shipping and $3 tax that is $2.13, or about 5.3% of the item price. That is roughly a third of what the same sale costs on Poshmark.
- Is boosting a Depop listing worth it?
- It costs 12% of the item price plus shipping, charged only when the boosted item sells. Look at that number against what the platform charges to sell without it, which is zero. Boosting turns Depop from one of the cheapest platforms in this comparison into one that costs more than Mercari. It can still pay for itself, but it has to earn that 12%, not just spend it.
- What does the buyer pay on Depop?
- Up to 5% of the item price plus up to $1, excluding taxes and postage, introduced the same day the seller fee was removed. It is not your cost, but it is on the screen when someone decides whether to buy, so a $40 listing looks like roughly $43 to them.
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