eBay Fee Calculator: Final Value Fees, Profit & Margin

For eBay sellers comparing the profit on items before listing them. Enter your item price, category and cost, such as a used camera, adult sneakers or a trading card. $0.002 per calculated item: 100 items cost about $0.20, plus the small Actor start charge. No login is needed.

For US-registered sellers on eBay.com, in USD. Rates are a versioned snapshot checked 14 October 2026. Listing URLs and account settings are not read.

What you get

Example output:

Profit $34.31 per sale (41% margin, 114% ROI) at $75.00 plus $8.00 shipping: final value fee $11.29, per-order $0.40.

That camera scenario uses a $30 purchase cost, $7 actual shipping cost, no Store subscription, no advertising and zero buyer sales tax. Its estimated break-even item price is $35.29. The three-item cloud example passed in 3.35 seconds on 14 October 2026. Verdict percentages are rounded; numeric fields keep two decimal places.

Output field	Meaning
verdict	Plain-English profit or loss, margin, ROI and main fees
status, recordType	Successful calculation or a free input note
itemId, name, inputIndex	Your reference and original zero-based position
categoryInput, category, categoryName	Entered category and the exact fee group used
price, shippingCharged, handlingCharged	Seller revenue inputs, in USD
salesTax, totalSaleAmount	Buyer tax and the sale total including it
finalValueFeeBase	Amount used for the percentage final value fee
finalValueFeeBeforeDiscount, topRatedDiscount	Percentage fee and eligible discount
finalValueFee, perOrderFee	Discounted percentage fee and separate order charge
internationalFee, promotedListingFee	Conditional international and General campaign fees
additionalFinalValueFee, insertionFee	Optional entered surcharges and insertion cost
totalEbayFees	Sum of the eBay fee lines modeled here
paymentProcessingIncluded	True: payment processing is included in eBay's fee
costPerUnit, shippingCost, otherCosts	Your purchase, postage and other costs
revenue, netProfit	Revenue excluding buyer tax, then profit after modeled costs
marginPercent, roiPercent	Profit divided by revenue, or by item purchase cost
breakEvenPrice, breakEvenNote	Lowest modeled item price, or a reason it is unavailable
feeRule	Marginal tiers or whole-sale rate bands used
feeTableVersion, feeTableCheckedAt	Version and review date of the bundled rates
feeSourceUrl, sourceUrls	Official eBay fee, discount and advertising references
feeScheduleEffectiveDate	Null where no single effective date is stated for all rates
calculatedAt, notes	Calculation timestamp and explicit assumptions

Dataset views show profit, fees and sources. The Output tab links to SUMMARY counts and warnings and REPORT.html. Summary profit adds scenarios; it is not a sales forecast.

Exact repeated item objects are skipped free. Give different scenarios distinct IDs or prices. Different objects are calculated separately.

How to use it

1. Add items with price, a supported plain category, and cost. Enter actual shippingCost separately from the amount charged to the buyer.
2. Set sellerType for your Store level, eligible Top Rated Plus discount, advertising and international-sale assumptions. An item's own sellerType overrides common options.
3. Start the Actor and inspect the verdict, fee lines, category match and notes. Download JSON, CSV or Excel from the dataset, or open the report.

{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "camera",
      "name": "Used camera",
      "price": 75,
      "category": "camera",
      "cost": 30,
      "shippingCharged": 8,
      "shippingCost": 7,
      "salesTaxRate": 0
    }
  ],
  "marketplace": "US",
  "sellerType": {
    "storeLevel": "none",
    "topRatedPlus": false,
    "promotedListingRate": 0,
    "internationalSale": false,
    "ebayInternationalShipping": false
  }
}

Inputs and defaults

Input	Default and behavior
items	Array of up to 10,000 manual item objects; empty input produces a free note
costPerUnit	Optional shared purchase cost; missing cost is never guessed
costPerUnitById	Optional cost map such as {"camera":30}; overrides the shared cost
marketplace	US; other marketplaces produce free notes
sellerType.storeLevel	none; also starter, basic, premium, anchor, enterprise
sellerType.topRatedPlus	False; set true only for a qualifying US listing
sellerType.promotedListingRate	0; otherwise enter a percent from 2 through 100
sellerType.internationalSale	False; true means buyer registration or delivery is outside the US
sellerType.ebayInternationalShipping	False; true assumes the eligible international-fee exemption

Each item requires a positive price and a supported category. Its own cost takes precedence over costPerUnitById and the shared costPerUnit; the item alias costPerUnit also works. Explicit zero cost is allowed, but ROI is then null because dividing by zero has no meaning.

Optional item amounts are shippingCharged, shippingCost, handlingCharged, insertionFee and otherCosts, all defaulting to zero. Use otherCosts for packaging, allocated subscription expense, expected returns or optional listing upgrades you want included in profit. It does not become part of totalEbayFees, because you decide what it contains.

Use either salesTaxRate, a percentage up to 30, or salesTaxAmount, a fixed USD amount. Do not enter both. With neither provided, the calculation uses zero tax and says so. Missing postage also receives an explicit note. Individual monetary inputs are capped at $1,000,000.

feeShippingCharged optionally replaces shipping in the final value fee base where eBay's shipping exceptions apply. It cannot exceed seller-received shippingCharged. Other percentage fees still use the actual sale total. For authentication shipping paid directly to eBay, do not include that amount in your seller revenue.

additionalFinalValueFeeRate is an optional percentage surcharge, default zero, applied without the Top Rated discount. Use your actual applicable surcharge; account performance and eligibility are not looked up. Refunds, taxes on seller fees, foreign exchange, donations and subscription charges are not automatically calculated.

Categories and rate logic

Plain names map to explicit fee groups. Supported examples include general, books, cards, coins, bullion, handbags, jewelry, watches, sneakers, guitars, heavy equipment, nft, camera, electronics, laptop, musical instruments, pro audio, auto parts, tires, motors_apparel, motors_electronics, stamps and consoles.

Common aliases include pokemon cards, comic books, used camera, lens, smartphone, ssd, brake pads, vinyl records, lego and home and garden. Unknown category text produces a free note instead of silently receiving a guessed rate. Use a specific category where an exception exists. general is your deliberate choice for the most-categories schedule, not a product classifier.

Non-Store and Starter schedules share the standard category rates. Basic, Premium, Anchor and Enterprise share the higher-Store final value fee schedule. Store subscription payments themselves differ and are not allocated automatically. The calculator distinguishes marginal rates above thresholds from a new percentage applied to the entire sale. This matters especially for handbags, jewelry and bullion.

Adult athletic shoes have a separate threshold and qualifying sales have no per-order fee. Books, cards, watches, guitars, electronics, computers and vehicle parts have their own rules. Accessories can belong to different fee groups from the main product: for example, use camera accessories for the general accessory group and memory cards for the applicable equipment group. Full eBay numeric category IDs are not supported.

How profit and break-even work

Revenue is item price plus seller-received shipping and handling. Buyer sales tax is excluded from revenue but included in applicable percentage-fee bases. Profit subtracts modeled eBay fees, purchase cost, actual postage and other costs. Margin divides that profit by revenue. ROI divides it by the item purchase cost only; it is not annualized.

The 10% Top Rated Plus reduction applies to the percentage final value fee, not the per-order charge, advertising or international fee. General campaign advertising assumes the sale is attributed at your entered rate. Set the rate to zero for an organic scenario. Eligible eBay International Shipping scenarios suppress the US international fee.

Break-even holds your entered costs, shipping income and handling fixed, and checks the applicable fee bands up to a $1,000,000 item price. A tax percentage changes with the candidate price; an entered tax amount stays fixed. The search accounts for whole-sale rate drops, the sneaker threshold, per-order changes and cent rounding. Extreme rates can make break-even unavailable, in which case the field is null and a note explains why. A low break-even price does not mean there is market demand at that price.

Price and spending limits

Calculated items	Base item charges
3 sample items	$0.006
100 items	$0.20
1,000 items	$2.00
10,000 items	$20.00

The Actor start charge is $0.00005 at the default 128 MB, in addition to those figures. Per-item prices are $0.0019 on Bronze, $0.0018 on Silver and $0.0016 on Gold and higher tiers. You do not separately pay platform compute or proxies for this pay-per-event Actor.

Only successful calculations incur an item charge. Invalid objects, unsupported categories, duplicates and summary records are free; the start charge still applies. The Actor checks your maximum charge before the next calculation and stops cleanly when it cannot charge another item. The summary reports unprocessed entries. There are no external AI or data-service charges and no separate free-plan item cap.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect an agent to https://mcp.apify.com and ask it to find an eBay fee calculator. A useful request is: "Calculate fees, profit, margin and break-even for these manual eBay items using my prices, categories and costs." Have it inspect the input schema and pass the item array to moggedhq/ebay-fee-calculator.

Give agents prices, categories and costs. Check the returned category, rate date and notes. Listing URLs alone are insufficient.

API and integrations

Use your own Apify token in your environment and send the same input JSON:

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("moggedhq/ebay-fee-calculator").call(
    run_input={"items": [{"price": 75, "category": "camera", "cost": 30,
                          "shippingCharged": 8, "shippingCost": 7}]}
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["verdict"])

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('moggedhq/ebay-fee-calculator').call({
  items: [{ price: 75, category: 'camera', cost: 30 }]
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

curl -X POST \
  'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/moggedhq~ebay-fee-calculator/run-sync-get-dataset-items' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"items":[{"price":75,"category":"camera","cost":30}]}'

Apify tasks, Make, Zapier and n8n can connect spreadsheet rows to profit estimates. Scheduled runs reuse supplied values; they do not refresh listing prices or fee tables. Keep tokens in secret settings.

Limits and FAQ

Does it scrape listings? No. Enter manual prices and categories. URL and item-ID fetching is not offered.

Are these live account fees? No. They are estimates from a dated public table snapshot. Account exceptions, promotions and subsequent fee changes may differ. Review the source links and your seller statement.

Why is the effective date null? The source does not give one start date for every rate. The checked date identifies when this version was reviewed without inventing an effective date.

Can I calculate a multi-item order? Each row models one item in one order. It therefore has its own per-order fee. Combined orders require allocation that this version does not perform; quantity values other than one produce a free note.

Are monthly Store payments included? No. Allocate the amount per expected sale in otherCosts if you want it in profit.

Why is payment processing zero? eBay includes processing in its final value fee. Adding a second processing percentage would count it twice.

Can it handle UK sellers or vehicle sales? This version supports US sellers and ordinary US item sales, including specified vehicle parts. It does not calculate UK, foreign-seller, motor vehicle, real-estate or eBay Live fees.

How are failures charged? Unsupported or invalid items return explanatory note rows with no item charge. The small run start charge remains. A completed run can contain notes, so check status as well as the run status.

Where do the rules come from? eBay selling fees, Store selling fees, Top Rated Plus requirements and General campaign fees. This independent calculator is not affiliated with eBay.