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eBay Profit Calculator

A free eBay profit calculator and fee calculator in one. Work out what a sale actually leaves you after eBay's cut, your ad spend, your postage and your cost of goods. It also returns the price you break even at, and the highest Promoted Listings ad rate the item can carry.

Your numbers

Nothing is sent anywhere. The maths runs in your browser.

What the buyer pays

Fees

Your costs

Net profit per sale
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Margin
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Return on cost
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Buyer pays0.00
Final value fee0.00
Ad fee0.00
Other fees0.00
Listing fee0.00
Total fees0.00
Cost of goods0.00
Postage0.00
Other costs0.00
Total costs0.00
Net profit0.00

Your break-even points

Break-even item price 0.00
Break-even ad rate 0.0%

Break-even ad rate is the highest Promoted Listings rate this item can carry before the sale stops making money. Anything above it is bought revenue you are paying for.

Fee rates last verified 18 August 2026, 38 days ago. eBay is the authority on its own fees, and they change. Check the current rate for your category before you rely on this, starting with eBay's fee page. Every rate above is editable, so your own figures always win.

No black box

Exactly how this is worked out

So you can check it against your own eBay invoice rather than taking our word for it.

Percentage fees run on the whole sale

The final value fee, the ad rate and any other percentage fee are applied to the item price plus the postage you charged the buyer, not to the item price on its own. If your fees work differently, change the rate and the result follows.

Net profit

What the buyer paid, minus every fee, minus your cost of goods, the postage you actually paid, and anything else you spent on the order. Margin is that figure as a share of what the buyer paid.

Break-even price

The item price at which net profit reaches zero, holding your postage charge, fee rates and costs where they are. Below it the sale costs you money.

Break-even ad rate

Profit before ad spend, as a share of the sale. It is the ceiling on what you can bid before Promoted Listings stops paying for itself, which is the number most sellers have never worked out.

What this does not cover

Tax, VAT and GST are left out, because how they apply depends on where you and your buyer are and on your own registration. Currency conversion is left out for the same reason. Refunds, returns and disputes are not modelled either. Treat the result as the profit on a clean sale that completes normally.

The number behind the number

A break-even ad rate is only useful if you act on it

Most stores we look at are bidding above break-even on some listings and far below it on others. That is the gap worth closing, and it is the same work behind the eBay accounts we have documented.

eBay Canada · 31 Days
+166%
Sales in 31 Days

An eBay Canada store took C$1,991.69 over 31 days, up 166% on the prior month. Promoted Listings produced 98.1% of it, which is the growth and the risk in the same number.

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eBay AU · 90 Days
829,607
Impressions in 90 Days

An eBay AU store went from being barely surfaced to 829,607 impressions and 109 units sold in 90 days. Promoted Listings carried two thirds of the visibility and 97% of the units.

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eBay AU · Jul to Aug
0.00%
Defect Rate

Negative feedback and late shipment flags were appealed on eBay's own evidence and removed, ratings included. The eBay AU account now reports a 0.00% transaction defect rate and a 0.00% late shipment rate.

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Every line on the invoice

What eBay actually charges on a sale

Most sellers budget for the final value fee and get caught by the other nine. These are the eBay seller fees that can land on a single order. Knowing which ones apply to you is most of the work, because any eBay calculator is only as good as the charges you remember to put into it. Use the list as a checklist before you calculate eBay fees, and the tool above turns into an eBay charges calculator rather than a final value fee sum.

Final value fee

The main eBay selling fee. A percentage of the total amount of the sale, charged once when the item sells. eBay states the total includes the item price, handling charges, postage collected from the buyer, sales tax and other applicable fees. Rates differ by category, and several are banded.

Per order fee

A flat charge on top of the percentage. On eBay US it is $0.30 on orders of $10.00 or less and $0.40 on orders above $10.00. An order means everything one buyer checks out with under the same postage method, so it is per order rather than per item.

Insertion fee

Charged when you list, once your monthly zero insertion fee allocation runs out. It is charged per listing and per category, so a second category costs a second insertion fee. It is nonrefundable if the item never sells, and Good Til Cancelled listings are charged again at every monthly renewal.

Listing upgrade fees

Optional extras such as a subtitle or a bold title. Small individually, and easy to forget once they are set as defaults on a listing template.

Promoted Listings ad fee

Not an eBay fee as such, but it comes out of the same sale. Standard campaigns charge an ad rate on the sale, Advanced campaigns charge per click. Enter it above and the calculator shows the ad rate at which the item stops paying for itself.

International fee

On eBay US, 1.65% of the total amount of the sale where the delivery address or the buyer registered address is outside the US, unless the item ships with eBay International Shipping. Deducted automatically.

Currency conversion charge

Where eBay converts your funds, it applies a conversion charge on top of the base exchange rate. On eBay US that charge is 3%. It is invisible on the invoice and very visible in the payout.

Dispute fee

On eBay US, $20.00 for each dispute you are found responsible for, such as a chargeback. Accept a payment dispute early and eBay waives it. Never more than one per order.

Below Standard surcharge

The fee most sellers never see coming. An account evaluated Below Standard in the US pays an extra 6% on its applicable final value fees the following calendar month, rising to 7% after four or more consecutive months.

Store subscription

A monthly charge for a Starter, Basic, Premium, Anchor or Enterprise Store. It buys lower final value fees and a bigger zero insertion fee allocation, so above a certain volume it pays for itself.

The amounts named above are eBay US figures published on its store selling fees page. Every marketplace sets its own, and eBay changes them. Take the rate that applies to your category and your country from your own invoice, then put that number into the calculator rather than ours.

Four steps

How to calculate eBay profit on an item

The calculator above does this in one pass. Here is the same arithmetic written out, so you can check it against a real order or run it on paper when you are away from the eBay profit calculator.

STEP 1

Start with what the buyer paid

Item price plus the postage you charged them. That combined figure is what eBay applies its percentage to, which is the step people get wrong when they calculate eBay profit by hand.

STEP 2

Take off every eBay charge

The final value fee percentage, the per order fee, your Promoted Listings ad rate, and any international or conversion charge that applies. This is where an eBay fees calculator earns its keep, because the percentage runs on the whole sale rather than the item price.

STEP 3

Take off what the order cost you

Cost of goods, the postage you actually paid, packaging, and anything else the order consumed. Your figures, not eBay figures.

STEP 4

Read the three answers

What is left is net profit. As a share of what the buyer paid, it is your margin. The price at which it reaches zero is your break-even price, and the ad rate at which it reaches zero is the highest bid the item can carry.

Working backwards to a price

Pricing an item is the same sum run in reverse. Put in your costs and the fee rates, then raise the item price until the margin reads what you need it to. The break-even price tells you the floor, and everything above it is the room you have to discount, absorb a return, or bid on Promoted Listings.

Calculator questions

Questions about eBay fees and profit

The arithmetic is exact on the numbers you enter. The only variable that can be wrong is the fee rate, which is why every rate on this page is editable and why we print the date ours were last checked. If you want certainty, take the final value fee rate from your own eBay invoice and type it in.
Because that is how eBay describes it. Its fee pages state that the total amount of the sale includes the item price, any handling charges, any postage collected from the buyer, sales tax and any other applicable fees. There are exceptions, including free domestic postage, so check your own invoice. If your fees work differently, change the rate and the result follows.
It is profit before ad spend, expressed as a share of the sale. Bid above it and the sale stops paying for itself. Most sellers set one ad rate across a whole catalogue without ever working out where that line sits per item, which is how ad spend quietly eats a margin that looked healthy.
No. Rates vary by category, and several are banded, meaning the rate changes once a sale passes a threshold. eBay uses two different shapes: sometimes the higher rate applies only to the portion above the threshold, and sometimes crossing the threshold changes the rate on the whole sale. Where we have a category loaded, this calculator applies the right one and tells you when a sale crosses a band.
Because it depends on where you are, where your buyer is, and whether you are registered. Any figure we picked would be wrong for most people using this. Work out your profit here, then apply your own tax position to it.
On several marketplaces, currently not. eBay UK and eBay Germany state that private sellers pay no final value fees on domestic sales, and eBay Australia offers free selling to sellers without a Pro plan below a trailing sales threshold. Business sellers are charged on a separate fee schedule. If you sell commercially, use your business seller rate rather than the private seller one.
No. The calculation runs in your browser and nothing is transmitted. The only time your figures leave the page is if you choose to send them to us using the form below.
Add the item price to the postage you charged, take off the final value fee percentage and the per order fee, take off any ad rate or international charge, then take off your cost of goods and the postage you actually paid. What remains is net profit. The eBay profit calculator above runs those four steps and also returns your margin, your break-even price and your break-even ad rate.
It is the fee eBay charges when your item sells, worked out as a percentage of the total amount of the sale plus a flat per order fee. eBay states the total includes the item price, handling charges, postage collected from the buyer, sales tax and any other applicable fees. The percentage varies by category and several categories are banded, so use this as an eBay final value fee calculator by entering the rate that applies to your own category.
A flat charge added to the percentage on every order. On eBay US it is $0.30 where the order comes to $10.00 or less and $0.40 above that. It is charged per order rather than per item, so a buyer taking three items in one checkout under one postage method pays it once.
The arithmetic never goes stale, and every rate on the page is editable, which is the part that matters. Rather than hard coding a fee table that quietly rots, we print the date our prefilled rates were last checked and link to eBay own fee page. Searching for an eBay fee calculator 2026 edition usually means you want rates you can trust, so take the rate from your latest invoice and type it in. That beats any published table, including ours.
Yes, and it works for any other marketplace too. Choose your currency, then enter the final value fee rate and per order fee that apply where you sell. Nothing here is hard wired to one country, because eBay publishes different rates, different international fees and different private seller rules in each of them.
Usually one of four reasons. The percentage runs on the postage you charged as well as the item price. The per order fee is easy to forget on low value items. Promoted Listings ad spend comes out of the same sale. And an account sitting Below Standard in the US pays an extra 6% on its applicable final value fees the following month, rising to 7% after four or more consecutive months, which is a surcharge most sellers never connect to their seller level.
There is no single line called a service charge. What sellers usually mean is the final value fee percentage combined with the per order fee, and sometimes the international fee or the currency conversion charge on top. Enter each one above and the calculator returns the total eBay takes rather than leaving you to add them up.
No, and that is worth being clear about. It is not a postage rate estimator, so it will not quote you a courier price. It handles postage from the profit side: what you charged the buyer, which eBay applies its percentage to, and what the label actually cost you, which comes out of your margin. For a rate quote, use the eBay shipping calculator or your carrier directly.
Yes. Enter your costs and fee rates, then move the item price until the margin reads what you need. The break-even price it returns is the floor below which the sale costs you money, so the gap between that figure and your asking price is the room you have to discount, absorb a return or raise your ad rate.
Yes. An eBay selling fees calculator has to account for more than the headline percentage, so there are fields here for the per order fee, insertion fees, listing upgrades, Promoted Listings and international charges. That is also what makes it an eBay seller fees calculator rather than a single sum: it shows the total eBay takes from the order, not just the one line most sellers remember.
Yes. eBay states that a Store subscription brings lower final value fees and a larger monthly allocation of zero insertion fee listings, across the Starter, Basic, Premium, Anchor and Enterprise packages. Whether it pays for itself is arithmetic: work out your current fees here, rerun them at the Store rate, then compare the difference against the monthly subscription.

Fee rules change. Always check the current rate for your category on eBay before you rely on any calculator, including this one.

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