Depop fees explained: what Depop takes per sale

Selling fee                          $0.00
Payment processing (3.3% × $55 + 45¢) $2.27
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Total Depop fees                     $2.27   → 4.1% of a $55 order

For years Depop charged sellers a 10% commission on top of payment processing — the same ballpark as Mercari. Then, on July 15, 2024, it scrapped the seller fee entirely for US sellers. That single change makes Depop one of the cheapest places to resell, and it flips the usual pricing question. The worry isn’t “how much does the platform take” — it’s the small, flat processing charge, and the one optional fee that can quietly undo the savings.

The one fee on every sale

Payment processing — 3.3% + $0.45

Every US sale runs through Depop Payments, which charges 3.3% of the total transaction amount plus a flat $0.45. “Total transaction amount” means item price plus any shipping the buyer pays — not the item alone.

On a $50 item with $5 buyer-paid shipping, the base is $55: 3.3% × $55 + $0.45 = $2.27, or 4.1% of the order. Because the percentage is small and the $0.45 is fixed, the take is gentlest on expensive items and proportionally heaviest on cheap ones — the opposite of a 20%-commission platform, where the percentage dominates everywhere.

That’s the whole standard fee. No listing fee, no monthly subscription, no seller commission.

The boost fee — the one variable to watch

Depop’s only other seller charge is the Boosted Listing fee. Promote an item, and if it sells through the boosted tile, Depop takes an extra 8% of the order on top of processing. It’s performance-based: you’re not billed up front, only when a boosted item actually sells.

That 8% is large relative to the 3.3% base. On the $55 order it adds $4.40, pushing total fees to $6.67 — from 4.1% to 12.1% of the order. The honest question is whether boosting surfaces enough extra sales to justify 8% on the ones that would have sold anyway. On thin-margin items, the boost can erase most of the profit the 0% selling fee just handed you.

A full worked example

A vintage jacket sold for $50, $5 buyer-paid shipping, $20 to source, buyer covers the label.

Margin — net profit ÷ item price — is $32.73 ÷ $50 = 65.5%. Boost the same listing and fees rise to $6.67, net profit falls to $28.33, and margin drops to 56.7%. One toggle costs nearly nine points of margin.

How Depop compares

The same $50 item (no buyer shipping, $20 cost) across the marketplaces this site models:

Only Vinted, which charges sellers nothing, beats Depop — and only by the flat processing charge. Against Poshmark, Depop keeps an extra $7.90 of a $50 sale in your pocket.

Run your own numbers

Prefer the full page? The standalone Depop fee calculator runs the same math — every fee line, net payout, profit, margin, effective fee rate, and the breakeven price for your costs.

When the fee isn’t the whole story

A 4% take is excellent, but fees are only one input. Depop’s audience skews toward Gen-Z streetwear, vintage, and Y2K fashion; an item that flies there might sit on eBay, and vice versa. The right read is: pick the platform where your items actually sell, then let Depop’s low fee mean more of each sale survives. And whatever you net, run a month of sales through the true hourly wage calculator — sourcing, shooting, and shipping are the real cost of reselling, and they don’t show up in any fee table.

Go deeper:

• Depop fee calculator — the standalone version of the calculator above.
• Vinted fees explained — the other no-seller-fee marketplace, and when 0% actually wins.
• Poshmark fees, Mercari fees, and eBay profit margin — the same item on fee-charging platforms.

Educational content, not financial advice. Fee rates verified for US sellers as of June 23, 2026; Depop revises its fee schedule periodically — check your seller dashboard for the rates applied to your account.