Depop Fees Calculator

What this computes

Depop is unusual among resale marketplaces in 2026: for US sellers, the selling commission is zero. That changes the pricing math from "how much does the platform take" to "what's left after payment processing" — a much smaller, flatter number. This calculator takes your item price, buyer-paid shipping, what the item cost you, any shipping label you cover, and whether the sale came through a boost, then returns each fee line, your net payout, net profit, margin, the effective fee rate, and the breakeven price.

How Depop fees work (June 2026)

Depop removed its 10% seller fee for US sellers on July 15, 2024. What remains is a single transaction charge plus one optional promotion fee:

• Selling fee: 0%. No commission, no listing fee, no subscription.
• Payment processing: 3.3% of the total transaction amount (item + buyer-paid shipping) plus a flat $0.45 per order. This is the only fee on a standard sale.
• Boost fee: an optional 8%, charged only when an item sells through a Boosted Listing. More on that below.

Because the percentage is small and the flat fee is fixed, Depop's take is gentlest on higher-priced items and proportionally heavier on cheap ones — the opposite worry from a 20% commission platform, where the percentage dominates.

The math

Order total      = Item price + Buyer-paid shipping
Processing fee   = 3.3% × Order total + $0.45
Boost fee        = 8% × Order total   (only if sold via boost)
Net payout       = Order total − Fees − Your shipping cost
Net profit       = Net payout − Item cost
Breakeven price  = (0.45 + your shipping + cost) / (1 − rate) − shipping

where rate is 0.033, or 0.113 if the sale is boosted.

A worked example

You sell a vintage jacket for $50 with $5 buyer-paid shipping. It cost you $20 and the buyer covers the label, so your shipping cost is $0.

• Order total: $50 + $5 = $55.00
• Processing: 3.3% × $55 + $0.45 = $2.27
• Net payout: $55 − $2.27 = $52.73
• Net profit: $52.73 − $20 = $32.73
• Margin: $32.73 / $50 = 65.5%
• Effective fee rate: $2.27 / $55 = 4.1%

That 4.1% take is roughly a third of what Poshmark or eBay would keep on the same order — the headline advantage of Depop's no-seller-fee model.

With a 0% selling fee, your only cost is processing — under $3 on a $55 order.

The boost fee — the one variable cost

Boosted Listings are Depop's paid promotion. Turn one on and, if the item sells through the boosted tile, Depop charges an extra 8% of the order on top of processing. The fee is performance-based: nothing is charged unless a boosted item actually sells. On the $55 example, the boost adds $4.40, lifting total fees to $6.67 (12.1% of the order) and dropping net profit from $32.73 to $28.33.

The practical question is whether the boost surfaces enough extra sales to outweigh 8% on the ones that would have sold anyway. Toggle it in the calculator to see the exact dollar cost before deciding — on thin-margin items, 8% can erase most of the profit a 0% selling fee just handed you.

Depop vs other marketplaces

Here is the same $50 item (no buyer shipping, $20 cost) across the marketplaces this site models, to put Depop's take in context:

Only Vinted (which charges sellers nothing) beats Depop on fees, and the gap is the flat processing charge. The real decision is rarely the fee — it's where your particular items find buyers. Depop skews toward Gen-Z streetwear and vintage; the fee advantage just means more of each sale survives.

What this calculator doesn't model

• Refunds and disputes. A refunded order returns the item value; processing fees may or may not be returned depending on the case. Portfolio-level math should haircut profit a few percent.
• Currency conversion. Cross-border sales can carry a conversion spread not modeled here. The figures assume a US seller paid in USD.
• Your time. Sourcing, photographing, and shipping are unpaid hours the per-item number hides. Run monthly profit through the True Hourly Wage calculator to see what reselling pays per hour.
• Tax. Net profit here is pre-tax. Resale profit is generally taxable; 1099-K thresholds change — check current IRS guidance rather than folklore.