Recent fee increase freezes notwithstanding, selling on Amazon keeps getting more expensive for sellers and retailers. Between referral fees, aged inventory fees, low-level inventory fees, and inbound placement fees, protecting your profitability is critical.

In this article, we’ll show you everything you need to know about Amazon Seller Fees so you can keep your business profitable on the world’s largest marketplace.

Amazon Seller Fees: Updated List for 2025

Selling on Amazon isn’t free. There are always fees associated with making transactions, though which fees apply can vary among sellers and products.

Here’s an updated list of seller fees for 2025.

Subscription Fees

Amazon provides two different options for FBA sellers:

Option 1: Individual Plan

If you’re selling items as an entrepreneur or startup, this might be the best choice. With the individual plan, Amazon charges a flat fee of $0.99 per item sold, and the fee is deducted from your Amazon seller account balance only after you make a sale. This option tends to be the best value for those who plan to sell fewer than 40 products per month.

Option 2: Professional Plan

The professional selling plan costs $39.99 each month, regardless of items sold. There are other benefits that come with the Professional plan, too, which include:

• Multiple users per account
• Bulk product listings and inventory management
• Dynamic price setting
• Enhanced product pages, a digital store, and other brand-building tools
• Ability to sell restricted products (with a successful application)
• Featured Offer eligibility
• Access to the Selling Partner API
• Promotions and coupons
• Global Selling, Local Selling, and Renewed seller programs
• Setting your own shipping fees for non-media products
• Order management, inventory, and sales reports
• B2B engagement tools

What are the benefits of FBA for individual sellers looking to go pro? Get the full breakdown in Amazon FBA Sellers: Individual vs. Professional Plans.

Per Item Fees

With an Individual plan, per-item fees apply to each and every sale: just under a dollar per customer purchase. 

This is fine for small-scale sellers, or those just creating their seller SKUs or experimenting with an Amazon storefront. But if growth on the platform or operating a business is a goal, paying $0.99 per item will catch up to the subscription fee model quickly. Paying fees per item could also mean missing out on perks only available to “professional” subscriber sellers—including the ability to utilize paid advertising tools—which can easily cancel out any potential savings.

Shipping Fees

In one way or another, shipping fees apply to every seller on Amazon.

For Individual sellers handling their own fulfillment (and qualifying media products like books, music, and video game consoles sold by Professional sellers), shipping rates on domestic sales are calculated by Amazon. 

This pricing is based on item size and product category, and typically ranges from $3.99 to $14.95 (or as much as $46.50 for International Expedited shipping). 

It’s important to note that:

• These fees are applied to the buyer’s total price at the time of purchase. However, it’s up to the seller to actually ship the product, which requires handling the physical process of packing and mailing the items. 
• This can mean spending less than the price charged to the customer or potentially more depending on the service selected.

Professional sellers can set their own shipping rates for eligible products, but the same premise applies: the actual cost paid to ship products will depend on the service used and the item itself.

For sellers using Amazon’s fulfillment services, shipping costs are included in Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) fee (see below).

Amazon Referral Fees

Referral fees are charged by Amazon on each item sold, regardless of seller plan or fulfillment method. These fees are added on top of any other fees that may apply to a particular purchase and are usually calculated as a flat percentage based on the product sold, however, the exact fee varies based on the product category. 

Most fees are around 8% to 15% but others can be as high as 96% (for example, as with extended warranties, protection plans, and service contracts).

In virtually all categories, the minimum referral fee is $0.30, regardless of the percentage that may apply. For instance, if you sell a product for $3.00 in a category with an 8% referral fee, you’ll actually be required to pay a 10% referral fee due to the category minimum.

These are some of the most common referral fee classes to keep in mind when listing products on Amazon:

• Beauty products: 8% for products $10.00 and under; 15% for products over $10.00
• Clothes and accessories: 5% for products $15 and under, 10% for products over $15 and less than or equal to $20, 17% for products over $20
• Consumer electronics: 8%
• Footwear: 15%
• Gift cards: 20%
• Media (books, DVDs, videos, music, software): 15% and a $1.80 per item closing fee in place of the referral fee (see below).
• Toys and games: 15%
• Watches: 16% for products up to $1,500; 3% for any portion of the total sales price over the $1,500 mark.

For referral fees not included above, Amazon provides a full referral fee table.

Closing Fees

In addition to referral fees, Amazon also imposes a closing fee on each sale of media products, including books, videos, DVDs, music, and software. While these fees used to be variable and percentage-based, they’ve been replaced by a fixed fee of $1.80 per product. 

Note: Especially for individual sellers, the combined cost of selling fees, referral fees, and closing fees means that media sales under $10.00 are unlikely to turn a profit.

High-volume Listing Fees

Customers with a high volume of listings that have not sold in over a year will be charged a fee of $0.005 per listing for cataloging costs. This fee is waived for the first 100,000 listings, making it rare for most sellers.

Refund Administration Fees

Amazon charges an administrative fee for refunds on sold items. This fee is deducted from the referral fee: either 20% of the referral fee or $5.00, whichever is less.

In other words, if you processed a refund on a $20.00 product with a 15% referral fee, your original referral fee would’ve been $3.00. Amazon would keep 20%, or $0.60, as an administrative fee on that return.

Make sure you’re using your Amazon RMA Number to ensure that returned items are correctly tracked and accounted for.

FBA Fulfillment Fees

When you sell with FBA, you need to consider several different types of costs and fees, including:

• Storage space
• Picking and packing
• Shipping and handling
• Returns processing
• Customer service support

There are two basic price components of standard FBA: storage space and shipping services. 

The latter is based on product weight, which is categorized into size tiers based on apparel and non-apparel products. This is then broken down by off-peak and peak time periods.

Here’s an example breakdown of the types of Amazon FBA fees you can expect:

1. You sell apparel items that fall into Amazon’s “small standard” size tier, and all weigh between 8 and 12 ounces. 
2. Based on Amazon’s current pricing, the non-peak charge for each item would be $3.72 during off-peak seasons (mid-January to mid-October) and $3.99 during peak season. 
3. If you sell 100 items during off-peak and 100 items during peak season, the cost will total $771.
4. But this doesn’t take storage into account. Say your products need 20 cubic feet of storage space. 
5. From January to September, this would cost a base rate of $0.78 per cubic foot per month, and $2.40 per cubic foot from October to December (more if you store anything for longer than 22 weeks).
6. This would come to a total of $140.40 total for the first nine months of the year and $144 for the peak season, for a total annual cost of $284.40 in storage expenses — if you don’t incur any additional fees, like utilization surcharges or aged inventory fees.

Note that the bigger and heavier items are, the higher the expenses get—often by a significant measure.

It’s also important to consider recent changes to Amazon’s FBA reimbursement policy, which may lead to additional handling costs that can eat into your margins. For assistance understanding the new policy, or help maximizing your reimbursement, work with a partner like Getida!

Other FBA Fees to Consider

In addition to the core costs for storage and service, there are a few other costs that may apply to FBA sellers. 

These include:

• Fulfillment fees: Per-unit picking and packing fees charged at the time of shipping. These are based on the size and weight of the item, and start at $3.25. For extra large and dangerous goods, fees can exceed $200.
• Monthly inventory storage fees: Calculated based on the daily average volume your inventory takes up in Amazon’s fulfillment centers, including a base rate and a surcharge, both assessed in cubic feet.
• Aged inventory surcharges (a.k.a. long-term storage fees): Fees assessed for any items stored for 181 days or longer. These range from $0.50 per cubic foot to $5.90 per cubic foot for items stored up to 365 days. For items aged 365 days or more, the fee is $6.90 per cubic foot or $0.15 per unit, whichever is greater.
• Returns processing costs: Applied to all apparel and shoes, and to all other products that exceed their category’s percentage-based return rate threshold. Fees range from $1.65 to $150 or more per unit.
• Removal and disposal fees: Fees for having Amazon destroy inventory (disposal) or return it to you (removal). Range from $1.04 per item for small, standard-size items to $15 or more for oversized items.
• Inbound placement services: A fee for sellers who choose to have Amazon spread their inventory across multiple distribution centers in order to offer customers faster shipping. Costs depend on the seller’s Shipping Plan, as well as the size and weight of items, and locations selected.
• Low-level inventory fee: Fees assessed for any product whose inventory levels relative to historical demand drop below 28 days. Ranges from $0.32 to $1.11 per unit shipped.
• Dangerous Items: Products classified as dangerous may be subject to additional charges.

Despite the expenses, there’s one big benefit of selling via FBA: products generally qualify for Prime shipping benefits. When purchases are high priority or shoppers are used to speedy shipping, buyers may default to products that are Prime-eligible, even if the costs are higher.

Streamlined order management can be key to keeping costs down. Learn the latest best practices in our Comprehensive Guide to Amazon Order Management for Sellers.

FBM Fees

Some sellers choose to handle all their fulfillment activities in-house or by partnering with a third-party logistics provider (3PL), known as Fulfillment by Merchant (FBM).

FBM sellers are only responsible for a handful of Amazon fees:

• Plan fees ($0.99 per item for Individual plans OR $39.99 monthly for Professional plans)
• Amazon referral fees (see above)
• Closing fees, rental fees, high-volume listing fees, refund administration fees, and optional services fees, where applicable

Since FBM sellers do not receive the same fulfillment services as FBA sellers, they are responsible for all costs associated with running their business, including managing inventory, fulfilling orders, processing returns and refunds, and customer service. 

Note that FBM sellers who meet certain requirements may be eligible for Premium Shipping and Seller Fulfilled Prime, but ordinary FBM sales do not qualify for Prime.

Indirect Costs of Selling on Amazon

Selling through Amazon doesn’t negate other costs that you might incur if you were selling elsewhere, like advertising and marketing. 

The seller fees also don’t account for things like the cost of goods sold, which will include the requirements to bring your product to shelves, like:

• Raw materials
• Labor costs
• Packaging costs
• Anything required to prep products for resale

While your brand is likely already tracking these costs, it’s worth looking into expected Amazon costs prior to setting up a storefront. 

For many businesses, Amazon makes sense as either a primary or secondary way to sell, but this won’t be universally true. Depending on your products and price point, the fees associated with Amazon may result in low net profits. This isn’t common, but in some cases, selling on other marketplaces, like Walmart, may be a better alternative.

Optimize Your Amazon ROI

The costs of selling on Amazon are higher than ever, even with (temporarily) frozen fees.

To grow a profitable eCommerce business, you need a data-driven strategy to optimize every dollar. Schedule a demo today to learn how Trellis can help you price, promote, and place your products for success at any cost.