Amazon Seller Fees by Marketplace (2026): 9 Countries Compared

Amazon's 15% referral fee is only the headline for Amazon.com. Each marketplace publishes its own rate card, its own minimum, its own subscription terms and, in Europe, a digital-services fee on top of Amazon's own fees. Amazon.in advertises a 0% referral fee that is not a free sale; Amazon.ae and Amazon.eg waive the subscription as a promotion; Amazon Mexico's subscription depends on how much you sell. The nine marketplaces we have verified are below, compared first and then one at a time.

Amazon fees at a glance: every market we track

Rates as published on Amazon's own page for each market and recorded in the Global Fee Index. Countries with a full section below are linked from the table of contents; the index also covers markets we have not written up yet.

What differs between marketplaces, and what does not

The referral percentage mostly does not. Most marketplaces charge 15% in most categories; the exceptions are category-level (electronics, apparel, grocery) and marketplace-level promotions such as India's 0% bands. The minimum does. The US charges at least $0.30 per item; Japan publishes no minimum; the UK and EU use a small local minimum.

The fees on the fees differ. Since 2025 Amazon charges a Digital Services Fee in Europe at the rate of the digital-services tax in the store where the sale happens — 2% of Amazon's fees for a UK-established seller selling in the UK, 3% in France, Italy and Spain — and it applies to referral and FBA fees, not to the item price. Most fee guides miss it entirely.

Subscriptions are the moving part. $39.99 a month in the US, £25 in the UK, waived 'for a limited time' in the UAE and Egypt, and tied to monthly sales in Mexico. A marketplace advertised as cheaper because the subscription is waived becomes more expensive the day the promotion ends.

Closing fees are the trap. India's per-order closing fee makes a ₹250 order cost about 10% even at a 0% referral rate; the US charges a $1.80 closing fee on media. Always compute the fee on a realistic order, not from the headline percentage.

Countries covered on this page

Australia · Canada · Egypt · India · Japan · Mexico · Saudi Arabia · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom

Amazon fees in Australia

Amazon Australia has one feature that no other Amazon marketplace we cover shares: there is no minimum referral fee. In the US, UK, Canada, and UAE a cheap item still carries a floor of 25 to 40 cents. In Australia a A$2 sale costs exactly the percentage — which quietly makes low-value selling viable here in a way it is not elsewhere.

The two plans and the exact break-even. The Professional plan costs A$49.95 a month excluding GST and allows unlimited listings. The Individual plan has no monthly cost but charges A$0.99 per unit sold.

A$49.95 ÷ A$0.99 gives a break-even of about 51 units a month. Below roughly 50 sales, Individual is cheaper; above it, Professional wins and the gap widens quickly — at 300 units a month Individual would cost A$297 against A$49.95.

Individual sellers also pay an extra A$1.00 closing fee on every media item sold, which pushes the break-even lower still for anyone selling books, DVDs, or games.

Referral fees run 6% to 15%. The referral fee is a percentage of the total the customer pays, and most categories fall between 6% and 15%:

The spread is the widest of any Amazon marketplace on this site, and the low end is genuinely low — 6% on video game consoles is below what TikTok Shop charges.

No minimum fee changes the low-price maths. Every other Amazon marketplace we have documented imposes a floor: £0.25 in the UK, CAD $0.40 in Canada, 1 AED in the UAE. Australia has none.

On a A$3 item in a 13% category, an Australian seller pays A$0.39. A Canadian seller listing the equivalent pays the CAD $0.40 minimum regardless of how cheap the item is — which on a A$3-equivalent sale is more than 13%.

For sellers of small accessories, spare parts, and consumables, this single structural difference is worth more than a percentage point or two on the headline rate.

GST and the true monthly cost. The A$49.95 subscription is quoted excluding GST, as is the A$0.99 per-unit fee. GST-registered businesses claim the credit back; sellers below the A$75,000 registration threshold do not, and for them the plan is effectively A$54.95.

For the rest of the picture — how Amazon prices the same structure in a market with minimums and a digital services fee — see Amazon UK seller fees, and run your own numbers in the Amazon fee calculator.

Source: Amazon Australia selling fees (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in Canada

Amazon Canada has the lowest subscription break-even of any Amazon marketplace we cover — twenty units a month — and two categories priced in tiers rather than a flat percentage, which changes what is worth listing. Here are the 2026 numbers.

Plans: the break-even is only 20 units. The Professional plan costs CAD $29.99 a month. The Individual plan costs nothing monthly but charges $1.49 per item sold.

$29.99 ÷ $1.49 = about 20 units a month. That is the lowest threshold of any Amazon marketplace on this site — the UK needs 34 units, Australia 51 — because Canada's per-item fee is comparatively high rather than because the subscription is cheap.

In practice it means almost any serious Canadian seller should be on the Professional plan from the start.

Referral fees, including two tiered categories. Most categories charge a flat percentage with a CAD $0.40 minimum per item. Two are priced in tiers, and both tiers matter:

Beauty and health charge 8% at or below $15 and 15% above it — so a $14.99 product pays $1.20 and a $15.01 product pays $2.25. Jewelry runs the other way: 20% up to $325 and only 5% on the portion above, which makes high-value pieces far cheaper proportionally than small ones.

The jewelry tier is worth doing the arithmetic on. Because the 20% band is capped at $325 and everything above it is charged at 5%, the effective rate falls as the price rises — the opposite of the beauty tier.

A $300 piece pays 20% flat: $60. A $1,000 piece pays $65 on the first $325 plus $33.75 on the remaining $675 — $98.75, an effective 9.9%. A $3,000 piece pays an effective 6.7%.

For a jewelry seller, that structure argues for higher-value inventory rather than volume in the $100–300 range, where the effective rate is at its worst.

The beauty cliff at $15. The reverse trap sits in beauty and health, where crossing $15 nearly doubles the fee: $1.20 at $14.99 against $2.25 at $15.01.

A product priced at $15.01 nets $12.76 while one at $14.99 nets $13.79. You would need to charge about $16.30 to match what $14.99 already returned — so if your price is drifting just over the line, it is usually worth pulling it back under.

Run either scenario in the Amazon fee calculator, and compare how the same platform prices the neighbouring market in Amazon UK seller fees.

Source: Amazon Canada selling fees (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in Egypt

Amazon Egypt currently waives the professional subscription, which makes it cheap to start on. What makes it worth studying is the fee table: some categories charge a lower percentage as the price rises, and others charge more. Getting that direction wrong on your own category is an expensive mistake. Here are the 2026 numbers.

The subscription is waived — for now. Amazon.eg is offering professional accounts with no monthly subscription fee, described on its own pricing page as a limited-time arrangement.

That is a real advantage for testing demand without a fixed cost. It is also, as with Amazon UAE, a promotion rather than a price — model your unit economics with a subscription line so your pricing does not have to move when it ends.

Referral fees run 4% to 19%, with a 5 EGP floor. The referral fee is a percentage of the total the customer pays, with a minimum of 5 EGP on most categories. The range across categories is one of the widest of any Amazon marketplace.

Read the tier direction carefully — it is not consistent between categories:

Some categories get cheaper as you go up, others dearer. Electronics accessories and jewelry are priced so that the high band is the cheap one: 15% below 1,000 EGP and 8% above it; 19% below 5,000 EGP and 5% above.

Grocery runs the opposite way — 4% below 250 EGP and 10% above.

The consequence is concrete. A 6,000 EGP piece of jewelry pays 5% on the amount above the threshold rather than 19% throughout, while a 300 EGP grocery order pays more than twice the rate a 200 EGP one does. Check which direction your own category runs before setting prices near a threshold.

Fulfilment and the 5 EGP floor. Amazon's fulfilment fee starts at 15.5 EGP per unit depending on size and weight. On a cheap item that is often larger than the referral fee itself — which is the argument against putting low-value goods into fulfilment anywhere, not only in Egypt.

The 5 EGP minimum referral fee has the same shape: on a 30 EGP book, 7% would be 2.10 EGP, so the floor applies instead and the effective rate is 16.7%.

Model both in the Amazon fee calculator and the FBA profit calculator. For the neighbouring markets, see Amazon UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Source: Amazon Egypt selling fees (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in India

Amazon India charges no monthly subscription and waives the referral fee entirely on many categories below ₹1,000. It reads like the cheapest marketplace in the world — until you notice the closing fee, which does not care that the referral fee was zero. Here is what a sale actually costs in 2026.

No subscription, and 0% referral under ₹1,000 in many categories. Amazon India does not charge a monthly subscription. On top of that, several major categories — apparel, home and kitchen, grocery, toys and baby — carry a 0% referral fee on items priced at or below ₹1,000.

Above ₹1,000 the rate jumps sharply and varies enormously by sub-category: 7.50% on small home appliances, 8.00% on herbs and spices, and as high as 23% on men's t-shirts or 30% on drones.

Electronics is priced differently again, with mobile phones at 5.00% and laptops at 6.00%.

The closing fee is the fee that never goes away. Amazon India charges a closing fee per order, banded by item price, and it applies whether or not a referral fee was charged. This is the number that makes 0% misleading.

On a ₹250 apparel item with a 0% referral fee, a ₹26 closing fee is still 10.4% of the sale. The referral fee was waived; the sale was not free.

The ₹1,000 cliff. Because the referral fee is 0% at ₹1,000 and can be 23% at ₹1,001, pricing across that line is one of the most consequential decisions an Indian seller makes.

A t-shirt at ₹999 in a 0%-under-₹1,000 category pays only the closing fee. The same t-shirt at ₹1,050 pays 23% — about ₹242 — plus a ₹72 closing fee. You would need to price at roughly ₹1,400 to net what ₹999 already gave you.

This is not a loophole to exploit so much as a cliff to be aware of: check where your specific sub-category's threshold sits before setting a price just above a round number.

Fulfilment costs. Using Amazon's fulfilment centres adds a pick-and-pack fee of ₹17 for standard items up to 1 kg, plus storage at ₹50 per cubic foot per month.

On a ₹250 item that already pays a ₹26 closing fee, another ₹17 takes total Amazon costs to ₹43 — 17.2% of the sale, on a listing whose referral fee was zero. Model it fully in the Amazon fee calculator before assuming a waived referral fee means a cheap channel.

For how the same platform prices a market with a conventional structure, see Amazon UK seller fees.

Source: Amazon India fees and pricing (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in Japan

Amazon Japan prices like no other Amazon marketplace we cover: most big categories are tiered by item price with rates from 5% to 15.4%, the minimum fee is a tiny ¥30, and the odd decimal in 15.4% is not a typo — it is consumption tax baked into the media rate. Here are the 2026 numbers.

The two plans. The professional plan (大口出品) costs ¥4,900 a month before consumption tax. The individual plan (小口出品) has no monthly fee but charges ¥100 per item sold.

¥4,900 ÷ ¥100 gives a break-even of 49 units a month — close to Australia's 51, far above Canada's 20. Below roughly 50 sales a month the individual plan is cheaper; above it, professional wins and unlocks the usual toolset.

Referral fees: tiered by price, not just category. Where the US and UK mostly charge one flat rate per category, Amazon Japan tiers several major categories by the item's price — cheaper items pay a lower percentage:

The consequence: a ¥2,000 fashion item and a ¥20,000 one can sit in different fee bands. Check where your price points fall before assuming the headline rate.

The ¥30 minimum is the smallest in the Amazon world. Thirty yen is roughly US$0.20 — below the UK's £0.25, Canada's C$0.40, and Egypt's 5 EGP in real terms, and second only to Australia's no-minimum policy.

On a ¥500 item in a 5% tier, the percentage (¥25) falls below the floor, so ¥30 applies — an effective 6%. The floor barely distorts anything: low-priced selling works on Amazon Japan in a way it does not in Canada or the UK.

Media at 15.4% — and why the odd number. Books, DVDs, music and software carry Amazon Japan's top rate, 15.4% — the 10% consumption tax folded into a 14% base. Japanese fee tables often quote tax-inclusive rates where other markets add tax on the invoice; when comparing to the US 15%, remember the American number has sales tax still to come.

Media is also where the individual plan's ¥100 per-item fee bites hardest: on a ¥800 used book, plan fee plus referral floor already take ¥223 — 28% — before shipping. Volume media sellers need the professional plan sooner than the 49-unit break-even suggests.

Model your own numbers in the Amazon fee calculator, and compare the structure with Amazon UK and Australia.

Source: Amazon Japan selling fees (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in Mexico

Amazon Mexico does something no other Amazon marketplace we cover does: the monthly subscription depends on how much you sell. Below MXN 26,000 a month it is MXN 75; above it, MXN 600. For a new seller that is unusually forgiving — and it creates a threshold worth understanding before you cross it.

A subscription that scales with your sales. Amazon Mexico waives the monthly fee entirely for the first year. After that, the professional plan costs MXN 75 a month for sellers under MXN 26,000 in monthly sales, and MXN 600 a month for those above it.

The jump is eightfold, and it lands at a revenue level many small sellers pass through rather than settle at. In percentage terms it is still modest — MXN 600 on MXN 26,000 of sales is 2.3%, falling as you grow — but it is a real step, not a gradient.

The first-year waiver is the more useful part: it removes fixed cost from exactly the period when a new seller has no idea whether the channel works.

Referral fees. The referral fee is a percentage of the total the customer pays, with a minimum of MXN 8.00 across nearly all categories.

Electronics and office supplies at 10% are the notable low end — lower than the 15% those categories often attract elsewhere in Latin America.

The MXN 8 floor and the toy threshold. Two details reshape low-price selling here. The MXN 8.00 minimum means a MXN 40 item in a 15% category pays MXN 8 rather than MXN 6 — an effective 20%.

And toys jump from 8% to 15% at MXN 300: a MXN 299 toy pays MXN 23.92, while a MXN 310 one pays MXN 46.50. You would need to price at about MXN 327 to net what MXN 299 already returned.

Whenever a category has a threshold, the money is usually in staying just under it rather than just over.

Getting paid. Fees are one side; settlement is the other. For Mexican sellers taking payment outside Amazon as well, Stripe charges 3.6% + MXN 3.00 and PayPal 3.95% + MXN 4.00 domestically — and PayPal's 3.50% conversion spread is where most cross-border money leaks.

Run the marketplace side in the Amazon fee calculator, and compare against the other marketplaces in compare.

Source: Amazon Mexico selling fees (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in Saudi Arabia

Amazon Saudi Arabia (amazon.sa) is the fastest-growing major marketplace in the region, and its fee structure mirrors amazon.com — with two regional differences: 15% Saudi VAT on every fee, and a fee update that took effect 1 August 2025 raising rates in 18 categories. Here is the real 2026 picture for KSA sellers.

Referral fees by category: 5%–15%. Like other Amazon marketplaces, amazon.sa charges a referral fee on each sale calculated as a percentage of the total price (item + shipping + gift wrap) or a minimum amount, whichever is greater. The range spans 5% to 15% by category, with most categories at 8–15%.

Examples (post-August 2025 update): Beauty 15%, Home & Kitchen 15%, Consumer Electronics 8%, Books 15%, Jewelry 20%, Mobile Phones 8%. Check the official Amazon Seller Central fee schedule for your exact category before pricing.

The August 2025 fee update. On 1 August 2025, Amazon raised referral fees in 18 product categories on amazon.sa — including Beauty, Home, and Video Games. Some categories went up by 1–2 percentage points; sellers who had not updated their pricing since mid-2025 are now paying more than they realise.

Check your category against the current fee schedule. The increase often crosses a price tier (e.g., the new rate kicks in above SAR 100), so the impact varies by your average order value.

FBA — Fulfilment by Amazon. Amazon.sa offers FBA across the Kingdom: storage, picking, packing, shipping, and customer service handled by Amazon. Fees vary by item size and weight tier, in SAR.

FBA is typically worth it for sellers shipping more than ~50 units a month — Amazon's per-unit fulfilment cost is hard to beat at small scale unless you have your own logistics.

15% Saudi VAT on Amazon fees. Saudi VAT (15% since July 2020) applies to every Amazon fee billed to KSA sellers: referral, FBA, monthly Professional subscription (SAR 165/month), advertising. A nominal SAR 15 referral fee actually costs you SAR 17.25.

If you are VAT-registered with ZATCA (turnover ≥ SAR 375,000), you reclaim it on your quarterly return. Below that threshold the VAT is a permanent extra cost — and it stacks on top of every Amazon fee.

Subscription and account costs. Professional seller account: SAR 165 / month (SAR 99 / month for the first three months under some promotions). Individual sellers pay SAR 5 per unit sold instead — cheaper below ~33 units/month, much more expensive above it.

Most serious KSA sellers move to Professional after the first month or two. If you also want to sell on amazon.ae (UAE), one Professional subscription covers both via Build International Listings.

Bottom line on a SAR 200 sale (Home category, 15% referral). Referral fee: SAR 30. Saudi VAT 15% on the fee: SAR 4.50. Total Amazon cost on a single sale: SAR 34.50 — about 17.3% of the gross — before FBA, advertising, your COGS, or the monthly subscription pro-rated per sale.

Use the Amazon fee calculator below to plug in your category and item to see your real net.

Source: Amazon.sa pricing (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in United Arab Emirates

Amazon.ae is the cheapest major Amazon marketplace to start on right now, because the professional subscription is being waived — a promotion, not a permanent price. Build your margins as if it will return, and the rest of the fee structure is straightforward. Here are the 2026 numbers.

The subscription is currently waived — treat that as temporary. Amazon.ae is currently offering professional selling accounts with no monthly subscription fee, described on its own pricing page as a limited-time arrangement.

That is a genuine advantage for testing the market: you can list, ship, and measure demand without a fixed monthly cost. It is also the single most dangerous number to build a business plan on. Model your unit economics with a subscription line included, so that when the promotion ends your prices do not have to move.

Referral fees by category. The referral fee is a percentage of the total the customer pays, with a minimum of 1 AED per item on every category except grocery, which has no minimum.

The spread is wide and worth checking before you choose what to list — mobile phones at 5% and consumer electronics at 7% are among the lowest referral rates Amazon charges anywhere, while apparel and books sit at the standard 15%.

What that means per sale. An AED 1,500 phone at 5% costs AED 75 in referral fees — the same absolute fee as an AED 500 apparel item at 15%. Category, not price, is what decides whether Amazon.ae is a viable channel for a product.

For low-margin electronics this is the marketplace's real attraction: a 5–8% referral fee leaves room that a 15% category simply does not.

FBA in the UAE. Fulfilment by Amazon fees on Amazon.ae start at 7.5 AED per unit for items priced at or below 25 AED in the small envelope size tier, with the rate rising by size and weight band. Storage is charged monthly at 2 AED per cubic foot, with long-term storage charges on inventory that sits too long.

On a 25 AED item, a 7.5 AED fulfilment fee is 30% of the sale price before the referral fee — which is the clearest argument against using FBA for low-value goods anywhere, not just here. Model it in the Amazon FBA profit calculator before committing inventory.

UAE against the neighbouring marketplace. Most sellers evaluating Amazon.ae are also looking at Amazon.sa. The category rates and structure are close, but the subscription position and fulfilment network differ, and the customer bases behave differently — see Amazon fees for Saudi sellers for that side.

For getting paid, note that the payment route usually costs more than sellers expect once currency conversion is involved: PayPal fees in the UAE covers the alternative, and the currency converter shows what a conversion spread actually costs on a given amount.

Source: Amazon.ae selling fees (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

Amazon fees in United Kingdom

Amazon UK sellers pay three separate things: a plan, a referral fee on the sale, and a Digital Services Fee charged on top of Amazon's own fees — not on your item price. That third one is invisible in most fee guides, and from 20 March 2026 it no longer costs the same in every European store. Here is the whole 2026 picture, with the arithmetic.

The two selling plans — and the exact break-even. The Professional plan costs £25 per month excluding VAT and lets you list unlimited items. The Individual plan costs nothing monthly but charges £0.75 for every unit you sell.

So the break-even is simple: £25 ÷ £0.75 = 34 units a month. Below roughly 33 sales, Individual is cheaper; at 34 or more, the Professional plan wins and keeps winning — at 200 units a month the Individual plan would cost you £150 against £25.

Professional is also the plan that unlocks the Buy Box, bulk listing, and advertising, so most sellers who intend to grow are on it from day one regardless of volume.

Referral fees by category (the percentage Amazon takes). The referral fee comes off the total price the buyer pays, including any delivery you charge, and there is a minimum of £0.25 per item on every category. Most categories sit at 15%.

The low-value tiers matter more than sellers expect: on clothing, the rate triples between a £15 item and a £25 one.

The Digital Services Fee — the 2% almost nobody explains. Since 1 October 2024 Amazon charges UK sellers a separate Digital Services Fee. The critical detail: it is a percentage of Amazon's fees, not of your sale price. On a £4.50 referral fee, the 2% UK rate adds £0.09 — small per order, but it applies to FBA fulfilment fees too, and it compounds across every unit you ship.

From 20 March 2026 Amazon stopped applying one flat rate across Europe and began charging the Digital Services Fee at the rate of the country whose store the sale happens in. For a UK-established seller that means 2% on sales in the UK store, but 3% on sales in the French, Italian, and Spanish stores.

If you run pan-European listings, that is a real 1-percentage-point difference on your Amazon fees depending on which marketplace the order came from — and it lands quietly on the invoice, not on the listing page.

A £30 clothing sale, all in. Take a £30 top sold in the UK store on the Professional plan:

Amazon's cut is £4.59 — an effective 15.3%, not the 15% on the fee page. Add the plan at £25 a month and the true cost per unit depends on volume: across 50 units that is another £0.50 each, so £5.09 in total.

VAT on Amazon's fees. Amazon's UK seller fees carry 20% UK VAT. If you are VAT-registered you supply your VAT number and reclaim it on your return, so it is a cash-flow item rather than a cost.

If you are trading below the £90,000 UK VAT registration threshold you cannot reclaim it, and that 20% is a genuine extra cost: the £4.59 above becomes £5.51, pushing the effective rate to 18.4%. Sellers modelling margins on the headline 15% are routinely three percentage points out for exactly this reason.

Where FBA changes the maths. Everything above is the selling fee. Fulfilment by Amazon adds a per-unit fulfilment fee based on size and weight band, plus monthly storage — and the Digital Services Fee applies to those fees as well.

For a full FBA breakdown with size tiers and storage, use the Amazon FBA profit calculator, and see Amazon FBA fees explained for how the size bands are decided.

Source: Amazon UK selling plans and referral fees (official). Last reviewed August 2026.

How to use this page

Find your marketplace below. The Amazon fee calculator models the US schedule and accepts any referral rate; the Amazon FBA calculator adds fulfilment. For how Amazon's US fees have changed since 2017, including every FBA fee added, see the Amazon fee history.

Frequently asked questions

Which Amazon marketplace has the lowest seller fees?

On paper India, with 0% referral bands and no subscription for small sellers; in practice its closing fees make small orders expensive. Among established marketplaces the UK and EU carry the extra 2–3% Digital Services Fee on Amazon's fees, and the Gulf marketplaces are cheapest while their subscription waivers last.

Do I pay the US subscription if I sell on several marketplaces?

Amazon's unified accounts cover North America (US, Canada, Mexico) under one Professional subscription and Europe under another; the Middle East, India, Japan and Australia are separate. Each marketplace's referral fees apply to sales made on it.

Is the Amazon Digital Services Fee charged on the item price?

No. It is charged on Amazon's own fees — referral and FBA — at 2% for UK sales and 3% in the French, Italian and Spanish stores for a UK-established seller, so it raises an effective 15% referral fee to about 15.3% or 15.45%.

Sources

• Amazon Australia selling fees (official)
• Amazon Canada selling fees (official)
• Amazon Egypt selling fees (official)
• Amazon India fees and pricing (official)
• Amazon Japan selling fees (official)
• Amazon Mexico selling fees (official)
• Amazon.sa pricing (official)
• Amazon.sa selling fee schedule
• Amazon.ae selling fees (official)
• Amazon UK selling plans and referral fees (official)
• Amazon UK Digital Services Fee change, March 2026 (ChannelX)

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