Etsy vs Vinted fees compared (US)

One $50 basket, two endings: $44.80 banked vs $50.00

Assumptions, stated up front: a $50 item, $0 shipping (the Vinted-style case), $0 sales tax assumed, and no Offsite Ads attribution on the Etsy side. Only published US rates are used.

Etsy, line by line, so you can re-run it:

• Listing: $0.20, charged whether or not the item ever sells.
• Transaction: 6.5% of the $50 item = $3.25. Shipping and gift wrap would ride into this base if charged; US sales tax does not.
• Processing: 3% of $50 + $0.25 = $1.75.
• Order-side total: $3.25 + $1.75 + $0.20 = $5.20 → the seller banks $44.80, about 10.4% all-in.

On Vinted, nothing is withheld — no listing charge, no commission, no processing deduction — so the payout is the full $50.00. The cost does not disappear; it relocates. The buyer's checkout adds a Vinted fee, usually 5% + $0.70, which on a $50 item means about $3.20 on top, though the exact amount varies from order to order. For budgeting purposes, treat that fee as demand-side: many buyers quietly comparison-shop with it already included.

Run the same exercise at $70 and the shapes hold. Etsy's three lines total $7.10 — 6.5% is $4.55, processing is $2.35, listing $0.20 — leaving $62.90, with the all-in rate easing to about 10.1% because the flat $0.45 of cents weighs less against a bigger item. The Vinted seller banks all $70, and the buyer usually absorbs roughly $4.20 at checkout.

Where each fee lands

Every rate below is dated and sourced in Feebrief's fee records; see the methodology for how we check and date them. The row that usually surprises sellers is the fourth — who actually funds the platform.

Deeper per-platform treatment lives on the Etsy seller fees and Vinted fees explained pages, and the buyer-side mechanics — including how the checkout fee behaves order to order — are broken out in how much Vinted takes.

Offsite Ads: the Etsy-only line that can move the answer

Etsy carries one charge Vinted has no counterpart to: Offsite Ads, a fee applied to orders Etsy attributes to advertising it ran on your behalf. The tiers work like this — if your trailing 365-day revenue is under $10,000, attributed orders carry 15% and you may opt out of the program entirely; once you cross $10,000, the rate drops to 12% but participation becomes a condition of selling. Two guardrails bound the exposure: a single attributed order is capped at $100, and attribution reaches back only 30 days from the click.

Price it on the $50 basket. A 15% attribution adds $7.50, lifting the platform's total take to $12.70 and dropping the payout to $37.30 — an all-in rate near 25%. At the mandatory 12% tier the add-on is $6.00 and the payout $38.80. That one swing is bigger than the entire always-on gap between the two platforms on this basket ($5.20 vs $0), which is why this page keeps Offsite Ads out of its headline math and prices it separately; the full mechanics live on the Etsy Offsite Ads fee page.

Vinted's optional spend — bumps — sits on the opposite side of the transaction and the opposite side of the ledger: a seller pays a fixed amount for placement, the money never scales with the sale, and skipping it costs nothing at payout time.

When shipping isn't $0: what happens to the fee bases

The headline basket deliberately sets shipping to $0, because that is the shape of most Vinted transactions. On Etsy, charging shipping pulls the money into both percentages. Attach $8 of shipping to the $50 item and the transaction line grows to 6.5% of $58, which is $3.77, while processing becomes 3% of $58 + $0.25, or $1.99 — $5.96 in order-side charges before the $0.20 listing, with $52.04 banked on the $58 order. Gift wrap joins the 6.5% base the same way; US sales tax stays out of the transaction line but is counted by the processing base wherever it is collected.

On the Vinted side, the seller rate remains $0 however shipping is arranged, and the buyer's charge keeps its usual formula — around 5% + $0.70 — rather than growing with the label. Sellers pricing across both venues should therefore compare the buyer's all-in cost, not just the sticker price, since that is what demand actually responds to.

Where the $0 take wins, and where Etsy demand still pays its own way

For secondhand goods — clothing, vintage, peer-to-peer resale — Vinted's zero is hard to argue with. Nothing is gambled on listings that never sell, nothing is skimmed at payout, and the seller's floor is the full item price. One discipline is worth adopting: because the buyer's all-in cost usually runs about 5% + $0.70 above sticker, the fee tends to resurface as softer offers rather than as a deduction on your statement.

Etsy earns its cut in a different market. Buyers arrive with handmade and gift intent, checkout and payments are integrated, and the shop tooling is built for makers. At $50 the all-in load is about 10.4%, easing toward 10.1% at $70 as the flat cents thin out — tolerable for higher-value craft work, punishing for low-margin resale. If you are cross-shopping Etsy against other resale venues, the same lines are priced in Etsy vs Poshmark fees and Etsy vs Depop fees; the category hub is resale marketplace fees, and the seller-side zero question is answered in full on does Vinted charge sellers.

Four questions sellers keep asking

Is any commission withheld from a Vinted sale in the US?

No. A US Vinted seller's payout equals the item price — no listing charge, no commission, no processing deduction. The platform's money comes from the buyer's checkout, which adds a fee usually shaped as 5% + $0.70, though it varies by order. The only seller-side spend is optional bumps, and those buy visibility, never a share of a sale.

What does the buyer's checkout fee look like on a $50 order?

In the usual case, $3.20 on top: five percent of $50, which is $2.50, plus the $0.70 fixed. The formula can vary between orders — Vinted's US fee pricelist, last updated 10/08/2026, is the number to confirm against before pricing offers.

If I charge shipping on Etsy, do the fee percentages follow it?

Buyer-paid shipping widens both of Etsy's percentage bases. Shipping and gift wrap join the item price inside the 6.5% transaction calculation — US sales tax is the one add-on that stays out of that line — while the 3% + $0.25 processing charge starts from the whole gross, shipping and any collected tax included. On the $58 shipped example above, those bases produce $3.77 of transaction fee and $1.99 of processing before the $0.20 listing.

Can Offsite Ads be switched off?

Below $10,000 of trailing 365-day sales, yes — that tier bills 15% on attributed orders and allows opt-out. At $10,000 and above the rate becomes 12% and participation is required, though any single attributed order is capped at $100 and attribution expires after 30 days.

Related guides, sources and freshness

• Etsy seller fees — every line of the Etsy side, with bases and examples
• Vinted fees explained — the buyer-side charge in detail
• How much Vinted takes — the checkout fee order by order
• Does Vinted charge sellers — the zero, verified
• Etsy Offsite Ads fee — tiers, cap and attribution window
• Etsy vs Poshmark fees and Etsy vs Depop fees — sibling comparisons
• Resale marketplace fees — the category hub

Etsy figures on this page come from Feebrief's fee records for Etsy (FACTS-batch1): the $0.20 listing charge, the 6.5% transaction rate and its base, 3% + $0.25 processing, and the Offsite Ads tiers, cap and attribution window. Vinted figures come from Feebrief's payout annex (FACTS-wave10-payout, Annex A): the $0 US seller rate, the buyer-side checkout fee usually quoted at 5% + $0.70, optional bumps, and the US fee pricelist last updated 10/08/2026. Both records were prepared 2026-11-01. Scope is the United States in USD, and no EU Vinted seller percentages appear anywhere on this page. Rates move — confirm on the platforms' own fee pages before pricing, and read the methodology and disclosure pages for how Feebrief sources and dates every number it publishes.