OfferUp Free Listing Limit: How Many Free Listings You Get Per Month

OfferUp free listing limit at a glance

Free listings per month on OfferUp vary by category — from 1 (Cars & Trucks, Motorcycles) to 200 combined (all other categories) — and the allotment refreshes on the 1st of each calendar month; unused free listings do not roll over.

The full per-category numbers are in the table below. These allotments sit inside OfferUp's wider cost structure — see OfferUp seller fees for the complete fee picture, including the $0 commission on in-person sales.

Free listings per month by category (full table)

Prepared 2026-11-01 · updated Nov 2026. Source of record: OfferUp Help, About free listing limits (article 13072929390228), page updated 2025-04-02, checked 2026-11-01.

The "200 combined" is a shared bucket, not 200 per category. Every category not listed above draws from one common pool of 200 free listings per month. List 60 baby items and 141 books and you have used 201 slots from that single pool — the cap applies to the bucket as a whole, not to each category inside it. This shared-bucket mechanic is the part most partial answers leave out.

Curiosity footnote, clearly labeled: summing every published cap (1+1+15+15+25+25+25+200) gives a theoretical 307 free slots for a seller who maxed all seven capped categories and the shared pool. That is Feebrief's own arithmetic on the published caps — OfferUp's article lists per-category limits and states no grand total, so 307 should never be attributed to OfferUp.

When the free listing limit resets

Both halves of the refresh rule, stated together per the source article: the free-listing allotment refreshes on the 1st of each calendar month, and unused free listings do not roll over. A slot you don't use in January is gone on February 1st — it is not banked, and your count starts fresh at whatever your category's cap allows.

The practical implication is timing. Because Cars & Trucks and Motorcycles get only 1 free listing a month and jewelry, furniture and tools get 25, it pays to time high-value listings to the month you actually intend to sell. Post the car in the month it's ready; a wasted free slot in a 1-per-month category is a full month's allotment gone.

What happens when you hit your free listing limit

Hitting the cap does not lock you out of listing. Once the free allotment for a category is used, OfferUp sells paid single listings, and listing subscription packages exist in select categories. The price of paid singles varies by category, and subscription package pricing varies too — neither is publicly available on OfferUp's help pages, so this page quotes no dollar figure for either rather than publishing a guess. The app shows the price before you buy.

Also worth keeping straight: the limit governs listing slots, not what you pay on a sale. In-person local sales carry $0 commission — OfferUp states it does not charge fees or take a commission on in-person transactions (What is OfferUp, page updated 2026-08-31, checked 2026-11-01) — so a free listing in a non-capped category still costs you nothing end to end.

If your underlying question is whether OfferUp charges a fee to list at all — a separate yes/no question from how many free listings you get — see does OfferUp charge a listing fee.

Promote+ is not a listing limit

Promote+ costs $19.99 per month or $99.99 per year and is optional visibility promotion — it is not a listing allotment and does not add free listings; see Promote+ cost.

Related Feebrief guides

• Does OfferUp charge a listing fee? — the yes/no sibling to this table.
• OfferUp seller fees — the parent guide with the full fee picture.
• OfferUp seller fees explained — the deeper explainer.
• How to reduce OfferUp fees — practical cost cutting.
• Resale marketplace fees — the hub this page sits under.
• OfferUp Promote Plus vs free: Promote+ vs free allotment selling (static guide, not a live calculator).