Facebook Marketplace vs ThredUp Fees

TL;DR — the fee difference in one table

Four selling lanes sit inside this matchup, and they are not variations of one fee — they are different products. Facebook Marketplace columns come first throughout this page.

• Cheapest possible sale: a Facebook Marketplace pickup, typically $0 — nothing on ThredUp’s side has an in-person lane at all.
• Cheapest shipped sale: it depends on the price. FBM is a flat 10%; Clean Out’s payout share swings from ~3% on ~$5 items up to 80% on ~$200 items — but the service fee from earnings can erase small kits.
• You keep control of pricing: on both FBM lanes and Direct Listing. In Clean Out, ThredUp prices and you take the share.

For the wider field of platforms, start at the resale marketplace fees hub.

Two different selling models (read this first)

Most comparisons jump straight to a single percentage, and that framing fails here, because these platforms disagree about what a “sale” even is. Facebook Marketplace is a classifieds board with optional checkout: you list, you price, you meet the buyer or mail the box. ThredUp Clean Out is managed consignment: you mail a bag of clothes, ThredUp lists, prices, sells, and ships, then pays you a share. Direct Listing is a peer-to-peer marketplace inside ThredUp — closer to FBM’s shipped lane than to Clean Out. One fee is a commission on money you collect; the other is your cut of a sale someone else runs for you.

That last row is why a single-% comparison is apples-to-oranges: Clean Out’s “fee” is really a revenue split on a final selling price ThredUp usually controls — which may differ from the price you would have chosen, and may be reached on ThredUp’s timeline, not yours. Full mechanics live on the parent guides: Facebook Marketplace seller fees and ThredUp seller payout.

Facebook Marketplace fees explained

Local pickup — typically $0

Local pickup sales are paid to you in person, and none of Meta’s fee listings that Feebrief reviewed show a seller fee for that route. Expect $0 — though that reading rests on what the schedule omits rather than a stated promise, so the Meta help page under Sources is the place to re-check if policy shifts. If you’re new to the platform, does Facebook Marketplace charge sellers? covers the beginner version of this question.

Shipped with onsite checkout — 10%, $0.80 minimum

Ship the item and let Meta’s onsite checkout handle payment, and the selling fee is 10% of the total transaction value — item price plus buyer-paid shipping plus applicable taxes — with a floor of $0.80 per order, whichever is greater. The base is the part most sellers miss: the buyer’s shipping charge swells the number the 10% runs on.

On cheap shipped orders the minimum, not the percentage, often decides the math — an edge case worth knowing before you list a $4 t-shirt with checkout on. Label mechanics and further edge cases are on the parent guide.

Prepaid Meta label — a deduction you only see at print time

The 10% doesn’t buy postage. If you print Meta’s prepaid label, its cost is deducted from your payout, and no fixed label price is published — it varies by shipment and is quoted when you print. Feebrief treats that figure as not publicly available and leaves it out of the arithmetic below rather than guessing.

ThredUp fees explained

Clean Out payout-share anchors

Clean Out doesn’t quote a commission. ThredUp pays you a share of each item’s final selling price, published as anchors: items that sell around $5 return 3%, ~$20 items return 15%, ~$50 items 30%, ~$100 items 60%, and ~$200 items up to 80%. How the share is computed between anchors is not published — ThredUp does not disclose that formula, and Feebrief does not interpolate. A $35 item does not entitle you to a “22.5%” figure invented by averaging; the honest answer is that the payout is whatever ThredUp’s unpublished schedule returns. The anchor schedule and kit mechanics are detailed on ThredUp seller payout and ThredUp Clean Out kit fee.

The service fee — $14.99 Standard, $34.99 Premium

On top of the payout split, Clean Out charges a service fee — Standard $14.99 or Premium $34.99 — described as deducted from your earnings after sales. This is the line the anchor table hides: quoted alone, the anchors look like the whole story, but a kit whose items earn less than the service fee nets you nothing. Single low-value items can genuinely net $0. The fix is volume — generally you want a full kit of sellable items so the fee is spread across many earnings — and the worked examples below price this honestly.

Direct Listing — 0% seller fee

ThredUp’s other lane is peer-to-peer: you list, price, and ship the item yourself, and the seller fee is 0%. That makes it a different animal from Clean Out entirely — a sibling of FBM’s shipped lane, not of the mail-in kit. The full fork between Clean Out and Direct Listing lives on the parent page; this comparison focuses on Clean Out because that is the kit most “Facebook vs ThredUp” searchers are weighing.

Side-by-side comparison table

US individual sellers, USD, published figures as of 2026-11-02.

Net payout examples

Three baskets, both platforms, all arithmetic shown. These are derived figures, re-checked at publication. Assumptions: FBM examples ship with buyer-paid shipping of $8 (the $200 basket uses $10) and no tax — if the buyer’s order includes applicable taxes, the 10% runs on that larger total. Clean Out examples assume a single-item kit selling at the exact anchor price — a deliberate worst case, since real kits generally hold many items whose earnings share one service fee, and the final selling price is ThredUp’s to set.

Which one should you use?

• Local, bulky, or buyer-can-collect (furniture, appliances, bikes): Facebook Marketplace pickup, typically $0. ThredUp has no lane for any of this.
• Branded apparel in good, kit-ready condition that you don’t want to photograph, list, and ship yourself: Clean Out — but send a full kit, because the $14.99 service fee from earnings makes single cheap items a $0 proposition.
• Apparel you want to price and ship yourself: FBM shipped at a flat 10% (min $0.80), or ThredUp Direct Listing at 0% seller fee — the trade-offs between those two are on the ThredUp parent page.
• When neither wins: one $15 jacket into a Clean Out kit nets nothing; a $4 shipped FBM order loses 13% to the $0.80 minimum. Compare adjacent lanes: Depot vs ThredUp isn’t a page, but Depop vs ThredUp fees, Etsy vs ThredUp fees, Facebook Marketplace vs eBay fees, and Facebook Marketplace vs Grailed fees cover the alternatives.

What we don’t know

Four numbers in this matchup are not publicly available, and Feebrief leaves them blank rather than estimating:

• The Clean Out between-anchor formula. How the payout share is computed between $5/3%, $20/15%, $50/30%, $100/60%, and $200/80% is not published. Any percentage you see for an in-between price is someone’s interpolation, not ThredUp’s number.
• Meta prepaid label cost. Deducted from payout, quoted per shipment at print time; no fixed price is published.
• ThredUp cash-out (Stripe) cost. Not publicly available.
• ThredUp buyer-side facilitation fee. Not publicly available.

When a figure matters to your decision and isn’t published, the linked help pages under Sources are the final word.

FAQs

Does Facebook Marketplace charge sellers for local pickup?

Typically $0. A pickup sale is handled directly between buyer and seller, and none of the fee documentation Feebrief checked lists a seller fee for those deals. Treat $0 as your planning figure, and glance at the Meta help page under Sources if the wording changes.

What percent does ThredUp take?

It’s a payout share, not a commission: around $5 items return 3% of the final selling price to you, ~$20 items 15%, ~$50 items 30%, ~$100 items 60%, and ~$200 items up to 80%. The formula between anchors is not published, and a service fee ($14.99 Standard / $34.99 Premium) comes out of earnings after sales.

Is the $14.99 ThredUp fee per item?

No — it’s the Clean Out service fee, deducted from your earnings after sales. That’s why a kit selling one $20 item can net $0 while a full kit spreads the fee across many items. The kit-level mechanics are on ThredUp Clean Out kit fee.

Is ThredUp Direct Listing really free?

The seller fee is 0%. You list, price, and ship yourself — shipping costs and processing realities still exist, and the full fork is on the parent page.

Which is cheaper for a $200 jacket?

On arithmetic alone: FBM shipped takes 10% — about $21 on a $210 base with $10 of shipping — netting $189.00, while Clean Out returns up to 80% ($160.00) minus the $14.99 Standard fee, netting $145.01. But ThredUp sets the final selling price, so the ~$200 outcome isn’t guaranteed; FBM’s number is on a price you chose.

Does Feebrief have a calculator for this comparison?

No. Feebrief has no live calculator for this matchup — the tables and worked baskets above are static, dated arithmetic you can re-check and repeat with your own prices. Sourcing is documented on the methodology page.

Sources

• Meta commerce help — Marketplace selling fees and shipping policies, checked 2026-11-02 (facebook.com/help)
• ThredUp help center — Clean Out payout schedule and service-fee wording, checked 2026-11-02 (help.thredup.com)
• Feebrief FACTS-batch1 (Facebook Marketplace) and FACTS-batch3 (ThredUp), prepared 2026-11-02; see methodology

Related comparisons

• Facebook Marketplace seller fees — the parent guide, with label mechanics and edge cases
• ThredUp seller payout — Clean Out mechanics and the Direct Listing fork in full
• ThredUp Clean Out kit fee — service-fee and kit depth
• Does Facebook Marketplace charge sellers? — the beginner fee question
• Facebook Marketplace vs Grailed fees — $0 vs the commission cliff
• Facebook Marketplace vs eBay fees
• Depop vs ThredUp fees
• Etsy vs ThredUp fees
• Resale marketplace fees — the category hub