Depop charges sellers 0% in the US, UK and AU since July 2024. Buyers pay up to 5% + $1 — which changes your demand curve, not your payout math.
Until July 2024, Depop charged US sellers a flat 10% commission on every sale — the same headline rate Mercari uses today. That fee is gone. Depop now charges sellers 0% in the US, UK, and Australia: no commission, no listing fee, no payment processing line, no subscription. Whatever you list is what lands in your payout, and shipping that the buyer funds never passes through your account at all.
A lot of published information has not caught up. Fee calculators and marketplace roundups still model the 10% seller commission, which overstates your cost by exactly 10% of the item price — $3.00 on a $30 sale, $15.00 on a $150 coat. If a tool shows a "Depop selling fee" line today, it is describing the 2023 schedule, not the 2026 one.
The commission did not vanish — it moved across the checkout. Depop buyers in the US pay a marketplace fee of up to 5% of the item price plus up to $1, added at payment alongside shipping. On a $30 listing, that is $1.50 + $1.00 = $2.50, so the buyer pays $32.50 before postage. Your payout is unaffected: $30.00, all of it.
| Listing price | Seller fee | Buyer marketplace fee | Buyer pays (pre-shipping) | Seller nets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15 | $0.00 | up to $1.75 | up to $16.75 | $15.00 |
| $30 | $0.00 | up to $2.50 | up to $32.50 | $30.00 |
| $60 | $0.00 | up to $4.00 | up to $64.00 | $60.00 |
| $120 | $0.00 | up to $7.00 | up to $127.00 | $120.00 |
Because the fee lands on the buyer, it changes your demand curve rather than your payout math. Two listings for the same jacket — $30 on Depop versus $30 on Mercari — cost the buyer $32.50 and $30.00 respectively before shipping. Price-sensitive shoppers compare final checkout totals, not your payout statement, and the platform with the invisible-at-listing fee loses those comparisons. In effect, Depop has moved the 10% from your income statement to your conversion rate.
You can price against it. Lowering the listing to $27.50 puts the buyer's checkout at $27.50 + $2.38 = $29.88 — nearly the same $30 total a buyer would face on a marketplace with no buyer fee, while you still keep every cent of the $27.50. That is the concrete form of "absorbing" the fee: you give up 8.3% of your price to win the checkout comparison, which is cheaper than the old 10% commission only if your sell-through actually improves. The Metriova Depop fee calculator shows both sides — your untouched payout and the buyer's inflated total — so the trade-off is visible instead of theoretical.
Against the other zero-commission apps, Depop's buyer fee is the heaviest: Vinted charges US buyers 5% + $0.70, so a $30 sale costs $32.20 there versus $32.50 on Depop — close, but Vinted's fixed dollar component is smaller. Against percentage platforms the gap is dramatic. The same $30 organic sale costs the seller $3.00 on Mercari (10%), $3.39 on Etsy (listing + transaction + processing + regulatory), and $6.00 on Poshmark (20%). Depop's $0.00 is unmatched on the seller side at every price point.
What Depop does not give you is the demand guarantee. Its audience skews toward streetwear, vintage, and archive fashion, and its discovery is feed-driven rather than search-driven — which is a real cost channel that never appears in a fee table. For items that fit the platform's taste graph, 0% plus a buyer fee of up to $2.50-$4.00 is the best seller-side structure in e-commerce; for items outside it, the fee advantage cannot buy visibility.
Depop is the platform where the fee table is shortest and the demand modeling matters most. Run the calculator for the payout you will keep and the total your buyer will see — the gap between those two numbers is where Depop's entire pricing strategy lives.
Depop Fee Calculator — 0% Seller Fees & the Buyer-Side Cost
Put the numbers from this guide to work. The calculation runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.
Depop's 0% seller fee is outside the comparison engine's percentage columns — run your price through the three marketplaces that do charge sellers, and see the gap for yourself.
Rates verified 2026-10-09 · Sourced from official seller fee schedules