FBA Revenue Calculator (2026 Rates)

How Amazon FBA fees work

Amazon's fee stack has more layers than any marketplace on this site, but three of them decide whether a product makes money: the referral fee (Amazon's commission), the FBA fulfillment fee (pick, pack, ship), and your selling plan. This FBA revenue calculator computes the first and third exactly, and takes the second as a manual input — for a reason explained below that's about accuracy, not laziness. If you were hunting for an Amazon FBA calculator that shows its work, every line here shows its arithmetic.

The referral fee: 8% to 45%, mostly 15%

Amazon's commission is category-based, and it's the biggest single fee on nearly every sale. Most categories charge 15% of the total sales price (item plus shipping plus gift wrap), with a $0.30 minimum. The exceptions matter: computers and consumer electronics are 8%, jewelry is 20% up to $250 then 5%, clothing swings from 5% to 17% depending on the price point, and Amazon device accessories top the table at 45%. Several categories are tiered — small appliances take 15% on the first $300 of an order and 8% above it — so the effective rate drops as ticket size grows. The calculator's category selector applies the full 37-row official table, tiers included.

The FBA fulfillment fee — and why we ask you to paste it

FBA's per-unit fulfillment fee depends on your product's size tier and shipping weight, and Amazon publishes the current rate card only inside Seller Central, behind the seller login. Any calculator that auto-fills it is either using scraped numbers that go stale (the table updates yearly, plus peak surcharges October–January) or rounding you into a "typical" tier that may not be yours. So this calculator does the honest thing: open Seller Central → your product → fee preview, copy the fulfillment fee, paste it into the field above. Referral, plan, and profit math stay exact; the one number Amazon hides comes from the only source that's always current.

Individual vs Professional: the 40-sale crossover

The Individual plan charges $0.99 per item sold on top of everything else. The Professional plan charges $39.99/month instead. The breakeven is exactly 40 sales a month — below it, Individual is cheaper; above it, Professional wins before you even count the extras it unlocks (advertising, buy-box eligibility, bulk tools). Use the monthly-sales input in the advanced section to see the Professional plan amortized per order.

The fees people forget

• Monthly storage fees — per cubic foot, and they balloon in Q4. Slow movers pay this quietly every month.
• Closing fee — media items (books, DVDs, music, software, video) pay an extra $1.80 per sale on top of referral.
• Inbound placement and low-inventory fees — newer charges that hit the supply side rather than the sale. They don't fit per-order math, but they belong in your product's P&L.

FBA vs FBM in one paragraph

Fulfilled by Merchant skips the fulfillment fee (you pay your own postage instead) and keeps referral + plan identical. The calculator models FBM simply by leaving the fulfillment field at zero and entering your real shipping cost — then compare the two net payouts. The right answer usually depends on weight and turnover speed more than on fees alone.

Amazon fees vs other channels

A $50 item in a 15% category with a $4.25 fulfillment fee nets about $38.25 on Amazon FBA — versus roughly $42.80 on eBay and $45.00 on Mercari, before you count Amazon's unmatched buyer traffic and conversion. Fees alone never pick the channel; the comparison strip under your result shows the same item across marketplaces, and the all-platform comparator runs the full table.