In July 2024 Depop quietly did something its competitors never have: it removed its main selling fee for US and US sellers. The 10% commission that defined the platform for years was dropped overnight, leaving only payment processing (2.9% + $0.30 per order). The change wasn’t widely publicised, and a lot of advice you’ll find online — even from 2025 — still quotes the obsolete 10% rate.
For 2026, the actual fee structure is simple:
On every sale: 2.9% of (item + shipping) + $0.30. That’s it. Optionally: 8% Boost fee, but only on sales attributed to a Boost-promoted listing. Off by default.
No transaction fee. No regulatory operating fee. No state sales tax added to (varies) Depop’s fee for sellers in states with sales tax (Depop Payments is structured differently to Etsy and eBay’s commission models).
Where margin actually leaks
If Depop’s fees are this low, where does seller profit go? Three places:
Sourcing cost — what you paid to acquire the item, if reselling. Charity-shop bargains aside, sourcing is usually the biggest cost line for active resellers.
Postage — the buyer pays for shipping at the standard Depop label price, but if you offer “free shipping” to drive sales, you absorb that cost. The calculator above lets you split “shipping charged to buyer” from “your actual postage cost” so you can see the impact of free-shipping promotions.
Boost — opt-in promoted listings. 8% on top of processing if a sale is attributed to a Boost. The calculator shows what happens to your margin with and without Boost; if you’re considering it, run the maths first.
Boost: when it earns its 8%
Boost is worth it on items that aren’t moving. It’s not worth it on items that would have sold anyway. The honest test: enable it on a stagnant item for a week, see if it moves. If it does, your 8% bought you a sale you wouldn’t have had. If you Boost a fast-moving listing, the 8% is pure margin sacrifice — Depop charges you for traffic you’d have got anyway.
The calculator above shows exact dollar values for boost vs no-boost on the same sale price. Run both scenarios and compare against your conversion rate from your Depop dashboard.
Tax + reporting still apply
Lower fees don’t change the tax framework. Depop reports to IRS under the same 1099-K reporting as Mercari, Etsy and eBay ($20,000 in sales AND 200 transactions per calendar year). Once you cross either threshold, Depop shares your details with IRS at year end. See the IRS reporting checker for what that means.
Whether you owe tax on Depop income depends on the same reselling-vs-personal-items test as every other marketplace: selling your own used belongings for less than you paid for them is generally not taxable at all, since there's no gain. Buying items with intent to resell for profit, or selling personal items for more than you paid, is taxable — and once it's regular and profit-motivated, the IRS treats it as a trade or business regardless of dollar amount, with no minimum threshold exempting small sellers. The self-employment tax calculator handles what you actually owe once you're over the $400 self-employment threshold; the 1099-K checker covers when Depop is required to report your sales to the IRS, which is a separate question from whether you owe tax.
Depop vs Poshmark vs Vinted — the wider resale fee landscape
Depop's zero-commission move in 2024 put real pressure on the resale category's fee structures generally. Poshmark still charges a flat 20% commission on sales of $15 or more (a flat $2.95 fee below that), making it meaningfully more expensive than Depop's 2.9% + $0.30 for anything beyond the smallest sales. Vinted charges sellers nothing at all — buyers pay a "buyer protection fee" instead — which undercuts Depop entirely on seller-side cost, though Vinted's buyer-pays-fee model can mean lower realized sale prices if buyers factor the extra cost into their offers. For a seller cross-listing the same item across platforms, the real comparison isn't just headline fee percentage — Depop's fashion-forward, younger audience and strong search/discovery algorithm can drive a higher realized sale price than a lower-fee platform with less matching buyer intent, which is worth weighing against the raw fee gap.
Bundle deals and offers — how they interact with the fee structure
Depop's bundle and offer features let sellers combine multiple items into one discounted sale, and because Depop's fee applies to the final transaction total (not each item separately), bundling doesn't change the effective 2.9% + $0.30 rate — but it does change the fixed-fee impact. Three $10 items sold separately incur three $0.30 fixed fees ($0.90 total); the same three items bundled into one $27 sale (a small bundle discount) incur one $0.30 fixed fee. For sellers moving smaller, lower-value items, actively encouraging bundle purchases through Depop's built-in bundle discount tool is a legitimate way to reduce the proportional drag of the fixed $0.30 fee, on top of whatever conversion benefit bundling itself provides.