Grailed vs Depop Fees: What Each Marketplace Actually Takes
List one hoodie in both apps and the payouts pull apart fast. Depop collects nothing for the sale itself — its only automatic seller fee is payment processing at 3.3% + $0.45 — while Grailed's cut arrives as a commission of 6% or 9% (the dividing line is $120, for sales on or after 2026-05-20) plus Stripe processing at 3.49% + $0.49. Below, one item runs through both stacks at $90, $125 and $200: one price under the $120 line, one just over it, one well over. Every row states what the fee applies to, because the bases — not the headline percentages — are where these two marketplaces genuinely differ.
Last updated . Dates of record: the Grailed schedule was checked 2026-11-01 against the Grailed help article “What are the fees?” (updated 2026-05-13), Grailed's payment processing help page, and the Grailed Terms; Depop's rates were last updated 2026-10-26 from Depop's Seller fees and charges page and the Boosted Listings Policy. United States, USD. Grailed processing lines assume a Stripe-onboarded seller.
Feebrief has no relationship with either marketplace and no widget to sell you here — the Depop estimator is linked as a reference, and the Grailed side is arithmetic you can check line by line. Confirm current rates on Grailed's and Depop's own fee pages before pricing an item.
What you keep on a $90 streetwear sale
On a $90 sale with no shipping and no sales tax, a Depop seller keeps $86.58 and a Grailed seller keeps $80.97. Depop's entire bill is payment processing: 3.3% of $90 ($2.97) plus the $0.45 fixed piece, $3.42 in all — there is no commission to calculate. Grailed's $90 item sits under the $120 line, so the commission is 6% ($5.40), and Stripe processing adds 3.49% + $0.49 ($3.63), for $9.03 total. The $5.61 difference is the cost of Grailed's commission layer at this price point.
Those figures hold under assumptions used everywhere below: the item price is the only money changing hands — sales tax $0, buyer-charged shipping $0 — the Grailed rows assume a Grailed Label with a Stripe-onboarded account, and the Depop rows assume Boost off. No label cost appears on either side, because neither marketplace publishes label prices on the fee pages used here, and inventing one would be worse than omitting it. Percentages are worked line by line and rounded to the nearest cent; live invoices can land a cent off. In effective-rate terms, Grailed takes about 10.0% of this $90 sale against Depop's 3.8% — and this is fees only, not a verdict on where your piece sells faster.
Fee lines that matter for this pair
| Fee | Grailed (US) | Applies to | Depop (US) | Applies to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listing an item | $0 to list; browsing and buying are free as well | — | Free | — |
| Commission / selling fee | 6% with a $1.99 minimum under $120; 9% from $120 up — for sales on or after 2026-05-20 | Listing price alone when shipped with a Grailed Label; listing price plus buyer-charged shipping otherwise; sales tax excluded under the Terms | 0% — no selling fee | — |
| Payment processing | 3.49% + $0.49 (US domestic, Stripe-onboarded); 3.49% + $0.99 if not onboarded | The whole transaction, shipping and tax included | 3.3% + $0.45 | Item price plus shipping plus applicable taxes |
| Optional Boost | Not offered on Grailed | — | 12% on listings created from 2026-03-23; the seller's choice | Item sale price excluding taxes; add shipping only when the seller ships their own way; the Depop Shipping label portion is never included. Attribution ~28 days |
| Live estimating on Feebrief | None — Grailed sits outside Feebrief's fee dataset | — | Yes — the Depop fee calculator runs live (Boost off by default) | — |
Read the two “Applies to” columns before comparing any percentages: Grailed's commission and its processing fee do not even share a base with each other, while Depop's single line already folds in shipping and applicable taxes. The Grailed schedule shown applies to sales on or after 2026-05-20, per the help article updated 2026-05-13; Depop's rates reflect fee data last updated 2026-10-26. How every rate here is sourced and dated is documented on the methodology page.
Crossing Grailed's $120 tier: the $125 and $200 nets
Above $120, Grailed's commission moves to 9% of the entire price while Depop's line is unchanged. Same assumptions as the $90 case: tax $0, no shipping charged, Grailed Label with Stripe-onboarded processing, Depop with Boost off.
| Item price | Grailed fees → net | Depop fees → net |
|---|---|---|
| $125 | $11.25 commission + $4.85 processing = $16.10 → $108.90 (9% tier) | $4.58 → $120.42 |
| $200 | $18.00 commission + $7.47 processing = $25.47 → $174.53 (9% tier) | $7.05 → $192.95 |
The keep-gap in Depop's favor widens from $5.61 at $90 to $11.52 at $125 and $18.42 at $200. And the step at $120 is a cliff, not a slope: for sales on or after 2026-05-20, a $119 item pays 6% commission ($7.14) plus $4.64 processing and nets $107.22, while a $120 item pays 9% of the whole price ($10.80) plus $4.68 processing and nets $104.52 — the seller who charges one dollar more earns $2.70 less. Depop's side has no such discontinuity: $119 nets $114.62 and $120 nets $115.59, so the extra dollar still works in the seller's favor. The curves also bend opposite ways with price — Depop's effective rate drifts down as the fixed $0.45 spreads thinner (3.8% at $90, 3.5% at $200), while Grailed's rises to about 12.7% at $200 once the 9% tier applies.
Optional Depop Boost: when 12% changes the math
Boost is Depop's optional visibility fee: 12% of the item sale price, excluding taxes, with shipping added only when the seller ships their own way and the Depop Shipping label portion never included. It applies to listings created from 2026-03-23, and Attribution is ~28 days. Switched on, it is large enough to flip this comparison: at $125, Boost adds $15.00 to Depop's $4.58 processing for ≈ $19.58 in total — $3.48 more than Grailed's $16.10 on the identical item — and at $200 the boosted total is $31.05 against Grailed's $25.47. Whether that visibility is worth 12% is a selling question, not a fee question, and this page makes no claim either way; the full mechanics, base rules and Attribution window live on the Boost fee explained page.
Shipping labels: published rules, unpublished prices
What a label itself costs is the honest unknown on this pair: Grailed does not publish a dollar price for the Grailed Label on the fee pages used here, and Depop's Shipping label price is likewise absent, so no label amount is modeled in any figure above. What is published is how the Label changes Grailed's commission base: ship with a Grailed Label and the commission applies to the listing price alone; ship on your own with buyer-charged shipping and the commission applies to listing price plus that shipping — which can itself nudge a sale across the $120 line into the 9% tier. Sales tax stays out of the commission base either way, under Grailed's Terms. Processing ignores the label choice entirely: 3.49% + $0.49 for a Stripe-onboarded US seller applies to the total including shipping and tax. The full Label-and-tier walkthrough is on the Grailed seller fees page.
Live estimating on Feebrief: Depop yes, Grailed no
The estimating power here is one-sided, and saying so plainly beats implying otherwise. Depop's side can be re-run live: Feebrief's Depop fee calculator holds the current rates with Boost off by default, so its baseline matches this page. Grailed's side cannot: Grailed is absent from Feebrief's fee dataset, so every Grailed number above is hand arithmetic from the published help-center schedule (updated 2026-05-13, fetched 2026-11-01) — checkable line by line, but not live output. No form or widget is embedded on this page. Sourcing and dating conventions are on the methodology page; commercial relationships, if any, on the disclosure page.
FAQ: Depop, Grailed and the $120 line
Is Depop actually free to sell on?
The selling fee is genuinely 0% and listing is free, but free is not the whole bill: payment processing runs 3.3% + $0.45, charged on the item price plus shipping plus applicable taxes. Boost is optional at 12% of the item sale price, excluding taxes. On a $90 item with no shipping and no sales tax, and Boost off, Depop takes $3.42 in total.
When does Grailed's 9% rate apply?
At a sale price of $120 and above, for sales made on or after 2026-05-20. Under $120 the commission is 6% with a $1.99 minimum. The 9% is charged on the whole price, not just the portion above $120, and the commission base is the listing price alone when the sale ships with a Grailed Label — listing price plus buyer-charged shipping when it does not. Payment processing of 3.49% + $0.49 (US domestic, Stripe-onboarded) is a separate line on the total including shipping and tax.
What does Depop Boost cost, and what does it apply to?
Boost is 12% of the item sale price, excluding taxes — plus shipping only if you arrange your own, and never the Depop Shipping label portion. It applies to listings created from 2026-03-23, it is optional, and Attribution is ~28 days. At a $125 sale price, Boost adds $15.00 on top of the $4.58 processing line, roughly $19.58 in total.
Can I run these numbers in a Feebrief calculator?
For Depop, yes: the Depop fee calculator at /depop/ runs live, with Boost off by default. For Grailed, no — Feebrief publishes no Grailed calculator, so every Grailed figure on this page is static arithmetic from the published help-center schedule (updated 2026-05-13, fetched 2026-11-01), not live estimator output.
Where to read next
- Grailed vs eBay fees — the 6%/9% + Stripe stack against eBay's 13.6% + $0.40 all-in rate.
- Grailed seller fees explained — the full schedule: tiers, Label base rules, Stripe onboarding variants.
- Depop Boost fee explained — the 12% in depth: base rules, exclusions, the Attribution window.
- Resale marketplace fees — the hub for every marketplace comparison on Feebrief.
Sources, with the dates we checked them
- Grailed help center, “What are the fees?” — the 6%/9% schedule, the $1.99 minimum and the 2026-05-20 effective date; article updated 2026-05-13, fetched 2026-11-01.
- Grailed payment processing help page — 3.49% + $0.49 for Stripe-onboarded US sellers and 3.49% + $0.99 otherwise, plus the processing base.
- Grailed Terms — the commission base with and without the Grailed Label, and the tax exclusion.
- Depop Seller fees and charges page, and the Depop Boosted Listings Policy — 0% selling fee, 3.3% + $0.45 processing, the Boost base and its exclusions; Depop fee data last updated 2026-10-26.
Label prices and non-US fee structures are outside this page's scope and deliberately unmodeled. How each rate is dated, verified and versioned is on the methodology page.
Disclaimer
Feebrief publishes fee math — nothing is sold here, no item, no service, no calculator embed — and it has no relationship with Grailed or Depop; neither marketplace reviewed or approved this page. The worked figures are US/USD snapshots as of the dates named above; schedules, minimums and effective dates shift without notice, and flat examples cannot capture every edge case a real invoice might carry. Read the comparison as fee arithmetic only — not tax, legal or business advice, and not a claim about which app will sell your piece faster or higher. How Feebrief sources and dates every rate is on the methodology page, and commercial relationships are on the disclosure page.