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Etsy fee calculator

Stack up Etsy’s listing, transaction and Etsy Payments fees on your own sale, and see what the same order keeps on ByteSell. Updated for 2026.

Calculate your Etsy fees

What you pay Etsy

$3,120

a year, or $260 a month, on $2,500 of sales

On every $50 sale

Listing fee (per item, renews every 4 months)
$0.20
Transaction fee
$3.25
3% of the sale
$1.50
Flat fee, per sale
$0.25
Etsy takes
10.4%$5.20

You would keep more on ByteSell

ByteSell takes 0% of sales on every plan and the buyer pays you directly. Never 9.5% + $0.45 a sale.

$3,120more a year, kept

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How Etsy’s fees work

There is no single Etsy fee; a digital sale collects a stack of separate charges on its way to you, and these four decide how tall the stack gets.

Several charges land on one sale

The listing fee, the transaction fee and Etsy Payments each take their own share of the same order. Any one of them looks small; the calculator above is where they meet.

The listing fee never finishes

It is charged whether the item sells or not, again when the listing expires after four months, and again after each unit of a digital listing sells. It compounds quietly.

Offsite Ads becomes permanent

Below a trailing-sales threshold, Etsy’s ad fee is optional. Once your shop crosses it, enrolment is mandatory for the lifetime of the shop, even if sales later fall away.

The stack buys you a marketplace

Etsy comes with buyers attached. People already searching it with money in hand can find a brand-new shop on its first day, which no standalone storefront can honestly promise.

What Etsy charges on a sale

Every rate the calculator uses, linked to the Etsy page it came from. The Etsy alternatives list quotes the same charges in Etsy’s own words, with the dates each one was read, and says where its sellers go.

Etsy (standard)free

Etsy Plus$10.00 a month

Etsy fee questions

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Three separate charges apply to every order: a listing fee for putting the item up, a transaction fee taken as a percentage of the price, and Etsy Payments, Etsy’s own charge for handling the money, part percentage and part flat. Enter your own price above and the calculator stacks them for you.

Yes. It is charged when you list, whether or not the item ever sells, and again every four months when the listing expires. For a multi-quantity digital listing it is also charged again after each unit sells, so for a shop that sells steadily it behaves like a running cost rather than a one-off.

No. Where Etsy Payments operates, sellers are required to sign up for it, and Etsy’s policies prohibit moving a transaction off the platform, including pointing buyers at a checkout you run somewhere else. That is why the Etsy Payments charge is included in the figures above: it is money you cannot route around.

Etsy advertises listings across the web and charges a percentage of any order those ads bring in, capped per order. Smaller shops can opt out. Once a shop’s trailing-year sales pass Etsy’s threshold, participation becomes mandatory at a lower rate for the lifetime of the shop, and it stays mandatory even if sales later drop back under the line.

Sales are paid into your Etsy payment account rather than directly to you, and when Etsy perceives financial risk it can place a reserve on that balance, holding back a percentage of your funds on a rolling basis, in some cases for months. Newer and lower-volume shops are the most exposed. The policy is quoted in the breakdown below.

Nothing per sale, on every plan including the free one. Payments go straight from the buyer to accounts you control, so there is no listing fee to renew, no mandatory payment charge, and no balance anyone can place a reserve on. The free plan gives up headroom rather than rates: 500 MB of storage, files up to 50 MB, and a custom domain only once you upgrade to Pro.

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