OfferUp vs Grailed fees: what each seller pays

The short answer: $0 local, or a commission that jumps at $120

Sell a $50 piece of furniture through an OfferUp meetup and $50.00 is the entire payout — local, in-person deals carry no commission. Put a $100 jacket on Grailed instead and $9.98 comes out of it: $6.00 commission (the 6% under-$120 rate) plus $3.98 of Stripe processing, leaving $90.02.

Those two outcomes come from unrelated pricing models, not two settings of the same dial. OfferUp charges nothing per sale because the transaction happens face to face and the platform never touches the money. Grailed charges a two-step commission — 6% below $120, 9% from $120 up — plus payment processing, because the item ships and the sale runs through the platform. The rest of the page unpacks each model, then runs the same dollars through both.

At a glance: OfferUp vs Grailed (United States, USD)

Two structural facts drive every row. OfferUp never takes a cut of a local sale — and since the shipping sunset, there is no other kind of sale on the platform. Grailed's take is a commission plus processing, and the commission percentage itself depends on which side of $120 the item lands.

The catch: these aren't interchangeable marketplaces

Fee charts invite a straight comparison; this pairing resists one. OfferUp is neighborhood classifieds — furniture, electronics, appliances, kids' gear — where the buyer drives to you, pays in person, and hauls the item away. Grailed is a menswear, streetwear, and designer-fashion marketplace where every sale ships and the buyer often lives far away. An OfferUp listing can't reach Grailed's audience; a Grailed sale can't end in a cash handshake.

The shipping timeline matters for anyone reading older articles. From 2025-09-23, new OfferUp listings were restricted to local pickup, and by 2025-10-21 shipping had been fully removed from the platform. What OfferUp charged for shipped sales before that sunset is not publicly available, and this page doesn't guess at it. The practical effect: if an item can't be handed over in person, OfferUp isn't currently an option at any fee level.

OfferUp fees: $0 commission, one optional subscription

The arithmetic for a local sale is short — commission $0, so the agreed price is the payout. The full detail sits on the OfferUp seller fees page.

Promote+ — optional visibility, $19.99/mo or $99.99/yr

Promote+ is advertising, not a fee. Subscribing lifts your listings' visibility; it never adds or changes a commission, and a local sale pays $0 whether or not you subscribe. The pricing carries a gap worth knowing: twelve monthly bills at $19.99 total $239.88 a year, while the annual plan runs $99.99 up front — a derived comparison, since OfferUp publishes the two prices but not that sum. Any break-even thinking belongs in your ad budget, not your fee math. Details are on the OfferUp Promote+ cost page.

Listing allotments — free tiers, then paid

Categories carry free listing allotments, and listings beyond them are paid. Neither the per-category allotment schedule nor the overage price is published in one place — see does OfferUp charge a listing fee? for what is known. A one-time Promote option also exists, at a per-day price that is not publicly available.

Grailed fees: a 6%-to-9% cliff plus Stripe

Listing on Grailed is free. From there the take has two layers.

Commission, in two steps

For sales on or after 2026-05-20, items under $120 pay 6% with a $1.99 minimum, and items at $120 or more pay 9%. The minimum only binds on cheap sales — 6% doesn't outgrow $1.99 until the price passes roughly $33. The parent rate card is Grailed seller fees, and the under-$120 tier detail is on Grailed fees under $120.

Processing, separate

US sellers onboarded through Stripe pay 3.49% + $0.49 per sale, on top of the commission. Worked numbers below assume tax at $0 and treat the item price as the whole sale; check Grailed's help pages for the precise processing base before pricing to the cent.

One number is deliberately absent here: the price of a Grailed Label. It isn't published, so no worked example on this page quietly assumes a figure for it.

The $120 cliff and the $1.99 minimum, quantified

Price an item at $119.99 and Grailed's commission is about $7.20 (6%). Price it at $120.00 and the commission is $10.80 (9%). One cent of asking price moves the commission by roughly $3.60 — a step, not a slope — and Stripe processing lands on top of whichever figure runs.

The $1.99 minimum creates a second, quieter effect at the bottom of the scale. On a $20 sale, 6% would be $1.20, but the floor lifts the commission to $1.99 — an effective commission rate of about 9.95%, above the top tier's sticker percentage before processing even starts. Cheap items pay the minimum, not the headline rate.

Worked examples: what you keep on $20, $50, $100, and $200

Four sales, every subtraction shown. The OfferUp row is a local meetup with no Promote+ subscription; the Grailed rows assume tax at $0, the item price as the full sale, and a US Stripe onboarding. Stripe amounts are rounded to the cent.

The $50 row is the whole OfferUp case in one line. The three Grailed rows show the two effects above at work: the minimum pushing the $20 sale toward 10% in commission alone, and the 9% tier taking $18.00 of the $200 sale before processing.

Which costs less depends on what you sell

OfferUp wins the fee line every time — $0 is below any possible percentage. The real question is whether a local buyer exists for the item.

Meetup-shaped goods — sofas, desks, TVs, treadmills, anything heavy, bulky, or ordinary — fit OfferUp cleanly. The buyer was going to drive anyway, cash or an in-person payment closes the deal, and the commission line stays empty.

Audience-shaped goods — vintage denim, archival streetwear, designer outerwear — usually fit Grailed better. The platform's buyers are the reason to list there: they search for the exact piece, recognize its condition and its price, and live anywhere the mail reaches. The 6%-or-9% commission plus Stripe is what access to that audience costs.

A worked contrast for a fashion piece: the same $100 jacket can go up on OfferUp free of any commission, but it will be shown mainly to people within driving distance, many of whom won't know what it is. On Grailed it faces a concentrated market of buyers hunting that label, at a cost of $9.98 in fees you can build into the asking price before listing. When an item needs informed buyers to sell at all, the zero-fee venue and the venue that actually converts are frequently not the same place.

Promote+ sits outside this comparison on purpose. It's an ad line — $19.99 a month or $99.99 a year — that might accelerate an OfferUp sale; it never turns a local sale into a charged one. Any break-even calculation on it is about how fast inventory moves, not about fees.

What we couldn't verify (not publicly available)

Four numbers this comparison would love to have, none published as a schedule:

• OfferUp one-time Promote day rate — not publicly available (OfferUp seller fees)
• OfferUp price for listings beyond a category's free allotment — not publicly available (does OfferUp charge a listing fee?)
• OfferUp's historical shipped-sale fee — not publicly available; shipping ended between 2025-09-23 and 2025-10-21, and the old rate isn't printed here
• Grailed Label cost — not publicly available (Grailed seller fees)

Where a number is missing, this page leaves it blank rather than estimating.

Related fee comparisons

• OfferUp vs Poshmark fees — $0 local against the $2.95-or-20% commission
• Mercari vs OfferUp fees — shipped marketplace rates against the local-only lane
• Vinted vs OfferUp fees — no-selling-fee fashion marketplace against meetup classifieds
• Resale marketplace fees — the hub for every platform Feebrief has dug into

Common questions about OfferUp and Grailed fees

Does OfferUp charge a selling fee?

Not on a local sale. The commission for an in-person deal is $0 — nothing is deducted, so the price you agree on is the amount you leave with. A shipped-sale fee can't apply either: new listings were limited to local pickup starting 2025-09-23, and shipping was gone from the platform altogether by 2025-10-21. The only ongoing seller cost is the optional Promote+ subscription at $19.99 per month or $99.99 per year, which buys visibility rather than a right to sell. Free listing allotments still apply by category, and their sizes aren't published as a single schedule.

What does Grailed take at exactly $120?

The 9% tier begins at $120.00 sharp: $10.80 in commission, against roughly $7.20 at $119.99 where 6% still governs. That single cent of asking price shifts the commission by about $3.60. Stripe's 3.49% + $0.49 processing for US-onboarded sellers lands on top of whichever commission applies.

Is OfferUp always cheaper than Grailed?

On the fee line, yes — a $0 commission is below every possible percentage. On the whole outcome, not necessarily. A local sale requires a local buyer at your price, and a niche piece can wait a long time for one. Grailed's commission is the toll for a concentrated audience of fashion buyers; for some items, that toll costs less than not selling.

Does Promote+ change OfferUp's commission?

No — the two never interact. Promote+ is a fixed advertising subscription ($19.99 per month, $99.99 per year) that raises listing visibility; the commission on a local sale is $0 with it and $0 without it. The mistake to avoid is spreading the subscription across your sales and quoting it as a percentage — it's ad budget, not platform take.

Sources and freshness

Every rate on this page was checked on 2026-11-01 — OfferUp's against OfferUp's help pages, Grailed's against Grailed's fee page and help pages. Three dates fix the card in time: OfferUp made new listings local-only on 2025-09-23 and removed shipping entirely by 2025-10-21; Grailed's 6%-with-$1.99-minimum tier governs sales on or after 2026-05-20. Derived figures — the cliff jump, the effective minimum rate, the $20 and $200 nets, the Promote+ annualized comparison — were computed from those published rates, with cent rounding disclosed inline. How Feebrief gathers and re-checks rates is documented in the methodology.

Disclosure

Feebrief is independent and unaffiliated with OfferUp and Grailed; neither platform saw or approved this page. Every number above traces to a dated source, so it can be checked directly. Any advertising relationships Feebrief holds are listed in the disclosure, and they don't touch the arithmetic shown here.