Depop vs ThredUp Fees: What Sellers Keep

TL;DR — the model fork first, then the same $50 basket

The question "which takes a smaller cut?" hides a fork. On Depop the seller runs the store and keeps most of the revenue after a fixed processing fee. On ThredUp Clean Out the seller mails a bag and receives a share of prices ThredUp itself set. On ThredUp Direct Listing the seller lists again — and the seller fee is 0%. Three paths, one table:

United States, USD.

Same $50 basket, two nets, stated plainly: Depop ≈$52.73 of a $55.00 checkout ($50.00 item + $5.00 shipping) after processing; Clean Out $15.00 — the 30% anchor on a $50.00 final sale ThredUp priced — before amortizing the $14.99 Standard service fee across a whole bag. Those are different models with different denominators, and the rest of this page keeps them separate.

How Depop charges sellers (US)

Depop's fee card is short: no commission on your sale price, nothing to list, one processing fee. The processing base is the part sellers miss — it rides on the item price plus shipping plus applicable taxes, not the item alone:

United States, USD.

Worked example — a $50.00 item with $5.00 shipping, $0.00 tax, no Boost. The buyer pays $55.00; processing is 3.3% of $55.00 plus $0.45, ≈$2.27; the seller nets ≈$52.73 of $55.00. Rounded to the cent; the figure moves with shipping and applicable taxes because both sit in the fee base. For every line and edge case, see Depop fees explained; Feebrief's Depop hub holds the full fee card.

United States, USD.

How ThredUp Clean Out pays sellers — published anchors, nothing between

Clean Out inverts the pen: ThredUp decides the selling price, and your payout is a share of whatever that price turns out to be. ThredUp publishes the share at five anchor prices and nowhere finer. Those anchors, verbatim:

United States, USD. Share of the final selling price; the remainder stays with ThredUp.

Between these anchors there is not a published closed-form formula — ThredUp publishes no finer payout grid, and this page does not interpolate. A midpoint quoted elsewhere is somebody's estimate, not ThredUp's math. Where a sale lands varies with ThredUp's own pricing and markdowns, which the seller does not control.

The service fee is where misconceptions live. Clean Out costs $0 upfront. The fee — $14.99 Standard or $34.99 Premium — is deducted from the bag's earnings only after items sell, and never above earnings. It is charged once per bag, so its weight depends on how much the whole bag earns: a single $15.00 share cannot honestly absorb a $14.99 fee that actually spreads across every sold item in the bag. That amortization is why this page refuses one-line verdicts. Detail: the Clean Out kit fee and does ThredUp charge sellers? Payout mechanics across programs: how ThredUp pays sellers.

ThredUp Direct Listing: the 0% seller-fee fork

The counterintuitive part of this comparison: ThredUp also runs a listings model where the seller fee is 0% and you keep 100% of the sale. Direct Listing comes with constraints — a $20.00 minimum listing price and up to 30 concurrent listings — and with two amounts ThredUp does not publish on its official help pages: the buyer facilitation fee ($) is not publicly available, and the Stripe cash-out fee is not publicly available. Feebrief writes "not publicly available" rather than estimating either. So "ThredUp takes a cut" is true for Clean Out shares and, as far as published numbers go, not true of the Direct Listing seller fee — two forks, one platform.

Same $50 basket, worked side by side

One basket, each model on its own terms — Depop column first:

United States, USD.

The disclaimer that matters: these nets are different economics, not a tiebreak. Depop's ≈$52.73 is what you keep for running the listing, the pricing and the shipping on a price you chose. Clean Out's $15.00 is a share of one $50.00 sale that ThredUp priced, photographed, listed and shipped — and the $14.99 Standard fee belongs to the whole bag, so netting it against a single item would fake precision twice. No mid-anchor basket is worked here either: a $35.00 Clean Out sale, for example, has no published share, and none will be invented.

Aside: Depop's optional Boost fee

Boost is optional and off by default, so it never belongs in the base comparison — but it changes Depop's math when you switch it on. The rule: 12%, charged only when a sale is attributed to Boost, applying to new listings from 2026-03-23. The base has a nuance sellers usually learn the hard way — when you ship with your own label, that own-label shipping amount counts inside the Boost fee base, while the Depop-label shipping portion is excluded. The worked Boost version, with the attribution rules in full, lives on the Boost fee page.

Which model fits which seller

Fee structure is one input, not the verdict. Clean Out fits the hands-off seller: mail a bag, let ThredUp do everything after the mailbox, accept a share of prices you don't set, and remember the service fee is amortized across the bag's whole earnings. Depop fits the seller with time and pricing skill: more effort per item, and typically more of each checkout kept after a light processing fee. Direct Listing sits between — you list on ThredUp, keep 100% of the sale price, within the $20.00 minimum and up to 30 concurrent listings. If your items price under $20.00, that fork closes on its own.

Methodology and sources

Every figure on this page comes from Feebrief's Depop fee record and ThredUp fee record, prepared 2026-11-02, stated in USD for United States sellers. Derived arithmetic — the ≈$2.27 processing and ≈$52.73 net — is plain math on the published 3.3% + $0.45 rate, rounded to the cent. Nothing is interpolated between Clean Out anchors, unpublished amounts are labeled not publicly available rather than guessed, and that is also why this page has no calculator: Feebrief has no live calculator embedded on this doorway page, and no live calculator for ThredUp, because an honest ThredUp estimator cannot exist without a closed-form payout formula ThredUp has not published. How Feebrief sources and verifies: methodology. How this site is compensated: disclosure.