Vinted charges sellers 0% in every market. US buyers pay 5% + $0.70; UK buyers pay 3-8% + £0.30-0.80. On a $5 item that structure is worth 59% of the price.
Vinted does not charge sellers a commission in any market — not a percentage, not a listing fee, not a payment processing line. You list free, you price in your currency, and when the item sells, the full sale price is yours. The platform monetizes entirely on the buyer side through a Buyer Protection fee added at checkout, which funds returns and payment handling and never passes through your payout.
This makes Vinted's seller math the simplest of any marketplace in this comparison: your net equals your listing price, in every scenario, at every price point. There is no cliff to dodge, no shipping fee base to split, no tier to optimize into. The only pricing question left is the demand one — and it is a serious one, because the buyer-side fee shapes who actually completes checkout.
| Market | Buyer Protection fee | Seller commission |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5% + $0.70 | 0% |
| United Kingdom | 3-8% + £0.30-0.80 (varies by order) | 0% |
In the US, the fee is deterministic: 5% of the item price plus $0.70. A $20 listing checks out at $20 + $1.00 + $0.70 = $21.70 before shipping; a $50 listing at $53.20. In the UK, Vinted publishes the fee as a range — 3-8% plus £0.30-0.80 — and the exact split varies per order, so a £15 listing checks out somewhere between £15.75 and £17.00. The variability is invisible to sellers (your payout is £15.00 either way) but real to buyers, which affects price perception in the UK more than in the US.
For sellers listing in both markets, the practical difference is small: the UK's midpoint (about 5.5% + £0.55) sits close to the US's 5% + $0.70. The structural difference that matters is currency — UK listings price in pounds, and the pound's conversion (about 1.35 to the dollar at the time of writing) changes what your item earns in absolute terms if you source inventory in dollars.
Every percentage fee has a floor problem: fixed components and minimums consume small sales. Vinted has neither on the seller side, so low-price items — the $3 tank top, the $5 accessory, the $8 paperback — keep essentially all of their price. The same $5 item across platforms makes the structure visible: Vinted and Depop pay out $5.00, Mercari keeps $4.50 (10%), Etsy keeps $4.06 after its four stacked lines, and Poshmark pays $2.05 because the flat $2.95 commission consumes 59% of the sale.
| $5 item, seller net (organic, no shipping charged) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vinted | $5.00 | 100% |
| Depop | $5.00 | 100% |
| Mercari | $4.50 | 90% |
| Etsy | $4.06 | 81.2% |
| Poshmark | $2.05 | 41.0% |
Below roughly $8, Poshmark's flat tier makes listing there irrational for anything but exposure; below $15 the gap between zero-commission apps and percentage platforms is the entire margin. If your inventory skews small and cheap — kids' clothing, accessories, books — Vinted and Depop are not marginally better platforms, they are the only ones where the math works at all.
The zero-commission advantage is largest in dollars at high prices — on a $150 coat you keep $150.00 versus $120.00 on Poshmark or $135.00 on Mercari — but the buyer-side fee scales up too: a US buyer pays $8.20 over list on that coat. At high price points the deciding factors shift from fee math to audience: Vinted's buyer base is value-driven and concentrated in everyday fashion, so luxury and high-ticket items often sell slower there than on platforms with fashion-literate audiences. The fee table says Vinted; the sell-through curve may say otherwise for a given item.
The honest framing is that Vinted's structure shifts every cost that other platforms put in fees into either the buyer's checkout or the seller's patience. For low-priced, high-turnover inventory that fits the platform's audience, that trade is decisively in your favor — the Metriova Vinted fee calculator quantifies both sides of it, your full payout and the buyer's checkout total, for any price and market.
Vinted is the purest expression of the seller-keeps-everything model, and its fee table is the shortest in this guide series. The strategy work moved from fee engineering to demand engineering — which is where the calculator's buyer-side numbers earn their place.
Vinted Fee Calculator — 0% Seller Commission & the Buyer Protection Fee
Put the numbers from this guide to work. The calculation runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.
Vinted's 0% commission sits outside the comparison engine's columns — run your price through the three percentage-fee marketplaces and hold the payouts against the full price you keep here.
Rates verified 2026-10-09 · Sourced from official seller fee schedules