Take rate by marketplace, August 2026
Fees as a share of the sale price on a plain item with no shipping charged and no promoted-listing spend, ordered by the $100 band. Depop is the cheapest of the ten at that price and Poshmark the most expensive, a gap of $16.25 on a single hundred-dollar sale.
| Marketplace | $25 sale | $100 sale | $500 sale | Fees on $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depop | 5.12% | 3.75% | 3.39% | $3.75 |
| TikTok Shop | 6.00% | 6.00% | 6.00% | $6.00 |
| Reverb | 10.16% | 8.68% | 8.29% | $8.68 |
| Discogs | 9.00% | 9.00% | 9.00% | $9.00 |
| Etsy | 11.32% | 9.95% | 9.59% | $9.95 |
| Mercari | 10.00% | 10.00% | 10.00% | $10.00 |
| Grailed | 15.36% | 10.47% | 12.69% | $10.47 |
| Whatnot | 12.12% | 11.20% | 10.96% | $11.20 |
| eBay | 15.20% | 14.00% | 13.68% | $14.00 |
| Poshmark | 20.00% | 20.00% | 20.00% | $20.00 |
How to read it
A take rate is not a fee schedule. It is what a schedule works out to once its percentage and its fixed per-order charge are applied to one particular sale, which makes marketplaces comparable in a way their published rate cards are not — one quotes a flat percentage, another a percentage plus thirty cents, another a different percentage below and above a price threshold.
The consequence is the shape of the table rather than any single number in it. Read across most rows and the rate falls as the price rises, because the fixed charge is being spread over more money. Read down the $25 column and the ordering is not the ordering of the $500 column. A seller whose typical item is under thirty dollars and a seller whose typical item is in the hundreds are looking at two different league tables, and a headline average serves neither of them on its own.
Grailed is the row that does not behave that way: its schedule charges a different percentage above a price threshold, so the rate falls until the threshold and then steps back up. A threshold is the one thing in a fee schedule that can make a more expensive item cost proportionally more to sell, and it is invisible in any published rate card quoted as a single number.
What moved this month
- TikTok Shop
TikTok Shop added: one referral fee of 6% on most categories, 5% on pre-owned goods, tapering above $10,000 on a sale.
Method
One rate per marketplace, taken from the schedule that applies to the widest set of sellers on it, on the default category where a marketplace publishes several. Fees are computed in whole cents by the same engines that power the individual calculators, so this page and those pages cannot disagree. The sale modelled is a single unit at the band price, no shipping charged to the buyer, no ad spend, no store subscription, and no international or currency-conversion surcharge.
Rates are transcribed by hand from each marketplace’s own published fee page and recorded with the sentence they were read from, an archived copy of that page, the person who checked it, and the date they did. Nothing is scraped at runtime and nothing is sourced from a third-party summary. The full evidence trail, including every change we have recorded, is public on the fee-changes page.
The index republishes whenever a schedule is re-verified, and the date at the top is the most recent verification behind any figure on it — not the day the page was built. A month with no movement leaves the previous date in place, which is the honest signal that nothing changed.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average marketplace fee in August 2026?
10.3% of the sale price, averaged across ten marketplaces on a $100 item with no shipping charged and no promoted-listing spend. The median is 10.0%. The range runs from Depop at 3.75% to Poshmark at 20.00% — a spread of 16.3 percentage points, or $16.25 on that one sale.
Why does the same marketplace show a different rate at each price?
Because most fee schedules are a percentage plus a fixed per-order charge. The percentage is constant, so the fixed part is the whole of the difference: it is a large share of a $25 sale and a rounding error on a $500 one. That is why this index publishes three price bands instead of one headline number, and why a marketplace can be the cheapest option in one band and the most expensive in another.
Can I cite these figures?
Yes, with attribution to Instica and the date on this page. Every rate is transcribed from the marketplace’s own published fee schedule, and the evidence — the source page, the sentence it was read from, an archived capture of that page, and the date a person last checked it — is public on the fee-changes record linked below. Figures from a third-party summary are not used.
What is excluded from these numbers?
Optional and situational costs, deliberately: promoted-listing or ad spend, store or seller subscriptions, shipping labels, international and currency-conversion surcharges, and category-specific rates where a marketplace publishes more than one. Each is a choice a seller makes rather than a cost of selling, and folding them in would make the marketplaces incomparable. The individual calculators model all of them.
Fee change alerts
Work it out for your own sale
The index models one plain sale so the ten marketplaces stay comparable. Your sale has a cost basis, a shipping charge, and possibly a category rate and an ad spend, all of which move the answer.