Mercari takes 10% of the item price plus any shipping the buyer paid. No separate seller processing fee — that 10% is the whole platform cost. The 3.6% Buyer Protection fee is paid by your buyer, not deducted from you. Enter your numbers below for the real profit.

Mercari Fee & Profit Calculator

See what Mercari's 10% selling fee takes out of a sale and what you actually keep: fee, net payout, profit, margin, and return on what you paid for the item.

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Mercari's fees, and the one people get wrong

Mercari's fee structure is refreshingly simple once you know which fee belongs to whom. As a seller you pay one thing: a 10% selling fee calculated on the item price plus whatever shipping the buyer paid. There is no separate payment-processing charge stacked on top, which is what makes it cheaper per sale than most marketplaces.

The part that trips people up is the 3.6% Buyer Protection fee. It is charged to the buyer at checkout, not to you, and it does not come out of your payout. Plenty of fee calculators and forum posts subtract it from the seller's side anyway, which makes every deal look worse than it is. This calculator keeps the two strictly separate: your fees are your 10%, and the buyer's fee is shown underneath purely as context, because it does change what your listing costs someone at checkout.

Fee table — verified 2026-07-30

Fee	Who pays	Amount
Selling fee	Seller	10% of item + buyer-paid shipping
Payment processing	Seller	None
Buyer Protection fee	Buyer	3.6% of item + buyer-paid shipping

Current schedule effective 2025-01-06. Verified 2026-07-30 against Mercari's own Fees on Mercari help page. Mercari has changed this structure more than once, so much of the advice online describes an older model — check the date on any figure you are relying on, including this one.

How this calculator works

It builds the fee base first: sale total = item price + shipping you charged the buyer. It takes 10% of that as Mercari's selling fee, and nothing else, because sellers are not charged processing. What is left is your payout. Then it subtracts your side: what you paid for the item, your shipping label, and any other costs you entered.

Profit is the payout minus those costs. Margin expresses that profit as a share of the sale — how much of what the buyer paid you kept. ROI expresses it against what the sale cost you, which is the number that matters most if you source cheaply: a $6 item that clears $26.50 is a 58.9% margin but a 442% return on cost. Money is rounded to the cent, and the same function that runs in your browser is the one the unit tests assert against the worked examples below.

Worked examples

Thrifted top: sold $45, paid $6, $8 label, free shipping to buyer You keep $26.50 on a $45.00 sale — a 58.9% margin after Mercari fees of $4.50.
Low-value item that loses money: sold $12, paid $8, $5 label You LOSE $2.20 on a $12.00 sale — Mercari fees of $1.20 plus $13.00 of costs exceed what the buyer pays.

Mercari fee questions, answered

How much does Mercari take from a sale?: Mercari charges sellers a 10% selling fee on the item price plus any shipping the buyer paid. On a $45 sale with free shipping that is $4.50, leaving a $40.50 payout. There is no separate payment-processing fee charged to the seller, so the 10% is the whole platform cost of the sale. That makes Mercari noticeably cheaper per sale than eBay, which charges 13.6% in most categories plus a per-order fee.
What is the 3.6% Buyer Protection fee — does it come out of my payout?: No, and this is the most commonly misread part of Mercari's fee structure. The 3.6% Buyer Protection fee is charged to the BUYER on the item price plus buyer-paid shipping, on top of what they pay you for. It does not reduce your payout, so this calculator does not deduct it from your proceeds — it shows it separately as context, because it does affect what your listing costs a buyer at checkout and therefore how competitive your price looks.
Does Mercari charge its fee on shipping?: Yes, when the buyer pays the shipping. The selling fee applies to the item price plus buyer-paid shipping, so moving part of your price into the shipping charge does not reduce the fee. That is why the calculator asks for the shipping you charged the buyer separately from the label cost you actually pay: the first raises the fee base, the second is a straight cost to you.
Has Mercari's fee structure changed?: Yes, more than once, which is why the numbers here carry a date. The current schedule — a 10% seller fee with the 3.6% Buyer Protection fee on the buyer — took effect 2025-01-06. Earlier models included a roughly 10% fee plus a separate payment-processing charge, and a period during which sellers paid no selling fee at all. A great deal of advice still online describes those older structures. The figures on this page were verified 2026-07-30 against Mercari's own fee page, linked below.
Is Mercari cheaper than eBay for resellers?: On headline fees, yes. A $50 sale costs about $5.00 on Mercari against roughly $7.20 on eBay in most categories once the per-order fee is included. Fees are only one side of it, though: eBay's buyer traffic is far larger in most categories, so a lower fee on a slower sale is not automatically the better outcome. Run the same item through both calculators and weigh the fee difference against how fast each platform actually moves your category.
What does this calculator not include?: It covers the seller's selling fee, your item cost, your shipping label, and any other costs you enter. It does not model promotional or coupon costs you opt into, Mercari Local, or an optional instant-transfer fee on withdrawing your balance. It is a planning estimate — reconcile against your actual Mercari sale record before relying on a number.