Mercari Fee Calculator

A free Mercari fee calculator that shows every fee line, your net payout and your actual profit. Enter what the buyer pays.

Correction: The widely repeated claim that Mercari charges sellers nothing is out of date. A 10% selling fee came back on 2025-01-06.

Every Mercari seller fee, in one table

What a Mercari sale actually costs, at several price points

These are not illustrative figures. Every row below was produced by the Mercari fee calculator on this page, at default settings, with the buyer paying nothing towards shipping.

The effective rate barely moves as the sale price rises, because Mercari charges essentially one percentage and little or nothing fixed. What you pay scales cleanly with what you sell.

Add shipping the buyer pays and the numbers move again — on most platforms the selling fee is charged on that too. Put your real figures into the calculator above rather than reading a number off this table.

How the Mercari fee is worked out, step by step

If you would rather do this on paper than trust a box on a web page, here is the whole calculation.

1. Apply the selling fee

10% on the item price plus any shipping the buyer pays. One percentage, no tiers, no thresholds — Mercari is the simplest of the four to work out and the easiest to get wrong, because the figure most often repeated is the old one.

2. Do not add payment processing

There is no separate payment processing fee — it was removed and folded into the 10% selling fee. This is a real zero, not a missing number. If a calculator adds a processing fee on top of the 10%, it is charging you twice.

3. Understand the fee the buyer sees

The buyer pays this, calculated on the item price plus the shipping they pay. It does not come out of your payout, but it does raise the price they see — so it affects how competitive your listing looks. It is 3.6%. It never touches your payout, but it sits between your price and what the buyer agrees to pay, so it belongs in your pricing even though it is absent from your fee bill.

4. Subtract your own costs to reach real profit

Fees give you the net payout. Profit is what survives after what the item cost you and what shipping cost you. A sale can clear Mercari's fees comfortably and still lose money once the label is paid for — the last two boxes in the calculator exist for exactly that reason.

What this Mercari fee calculator deliberately leaves out

These are real Mercari costs that we do not fold into the figure above, because they follow from choices you make rather than from the sale itself. Ignoring them is how a listing that looked profitable turns out not to have been.

• Shipping labels — Mercari's rates are usually good, but if you are covering postage rather than the buyer, that cost decides whether the sale was worth making.
• Promotions and offers to likers — Discounting to shift stock lowers the sale price, and the selling fee is charged on whatever the item finally sells for.

Everything we do include carries a source link in the section above. Where a rate could not be confirmed from Mercari itself, it is named here as a gap rather than filled in with a guess.

The same $100 sale, across every platform we cover

Identical sale, identical settings, all of them run through the same engine as the calculator above. The spread between cheapest and dearest is $10.02 on a single $100 order — 10.0% of the sale.

Read this as a fee comparison, not a recommendation. eBay settles through its own managed payments now, so eBay sales no longer run through PayPal. This page is for the other cases — your own store, selling direct on social, or invoicing a client. And a marketplace charging more that actually puts your listing in front of buyers can still be the better place to sell — fees are one input to that decision, not the decision itself.

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