Depop has spent three years deleting fees, and most guides have not caught up. If you sell from the UK, the US or Australia, there is no selling fee. The platform's cut on a typical sale is the payment processing fee — a few percent — which makes it the cheapest of the big resale marketplaces for small sellers, and changes what pricing advice should look like.
What actually gets charged
In the three home markets, only Depop Payments processing applies, charged on the item price plus the shipping the buyer pays and any taxes: 3.3% + $0.45 in the US, 2.9% + £0.30 in the UK, 2.6% + A$0.30 in Australia. On a $30 item with $5 shipping, the US fee is about $1.61 — under 5%, where Etsy takes about 11% and eBay around 15%. Australia was the last market to drop its seller fee, closing the loop on 22 July 2026.
The 10% lives everywhere else
Outside the UK, US and Australia, the old model stands: a 10% selling fee on the item price — plus the shipping cost when you arrange shipping yourself rather than using a Depop label — and processing via PayPal, whose fee depends on your country and account setup. That is the arrangement most older articles describe, which is why "Depop takes 10%" advice still circulates.
Boosting: pay when it works
Boosted Listings charge nothing upfront. The fee applies only when a buyer interacted with your boosted placement — viewed, clicked or liked it — and then bought within 28 days; a sale from organic discovery pays nothing. The rate is 12% in the UK and US for listings from 23 March 2026, and 8% in Australia and the rest of the world, calculated on the item price plus self-arranged shipping. A $100 boosted sale at 12% costs $12, which is steep as a per-sale fee and cheap as a customer-acquisition cost — the honest test is whether the boost actually drove the sale. The Depop fee calculator shows the boosted and unboosted versions of the same sale side by side.
The buyer-side fee
Since 2024 in the UK and US, and since 22 July 2026 in Australia, buyers pay a Marketplace fee of up to 5% of the item price plus up to £/$1 (A$1 in Australia), shown at checkout. It is not your cost and not deducted from your payout, but it is part of the number your buyer sees. A $25 item can show as roughly $27 at checkout, and if your pricing strategy assumes round-number appeal, that gap is worth knowing about.
Pricing on Depop
With fees this low, the money leaks elsewhere: shipping labels, packaging, and the cost of sourcing. Price from the effective rate the calculator prints — around 4-6% for a plain sale — and add a deliberate allowance for boosted sales if you plan to run them, because a boosted week can move your blended rate into double digits. Refunds credit fees back, so there is no reason to pad prices for the refund case.
One structural note: eBay completed its acquisition of Depop in 2026. No fee changes accompanied the move, but a platform inside a larger platform tends to get its policies refreshed eventually — the fee model is worth re-checking when new announcements land.