Poshmark vs ThredUp Fees: What You Actually Keep
The two headline numbers point in opposite directions because they are different kinds of numbers. Poshmark's 20% is a commission on a price you chose — a flat $2.95 when a sale lands under $15 — while ThredUp Clean Out's keep-rate is a share of whatever price ThredUp's pricing finally produces, from 3% at a $5 sale to 80% at a $200 sale, with one $14.99 Standard service fee taken from the bag after items sell. This page never blends the two schedules: it works three Poshmark listings you priced ($12, $38 and $120) and one Clean Out bag built only from published anchors ($200 / $50 / $5), each to the cent.
Last updated . Poshmark rates from Feebrief's fee record, checked 2026-10-26 against the Poshmark Fee Policy (the October 2024 5.99% commission test was reverted). ThredUp Clean Out anchors from the ThredUp Clean Out guide, fetched 2026-11-01; service-fee rules from ThredUp help updated 2026-08-28 and the Seller Terms updated 2024-12-05. United States, USD.
Feebrief is independent and unaffiliated with either platform. Every net below is static, date-stamped arithmetic — no calculator is embedded on this page. Confirm current rates on the official pages before you price a listing or mail a bag.
Marketplace take vs consignment keep-rate — why the comparison is awkward
Put the two fee cards side by side and the first thing that jumps out is not a rate — it's who holds the pricing pen. On Poshmark you photograph, list and set the price, and the platform takes 20% of that item-only price once a sale reaches $15 ($2.95 flat below), with the buyer typically paying the prepaid label. On ThredUp Clean Out you mail in a bag, and everything after the mailbox — including the selling price — is ThredUp's job; your payout is a published share of each final sale, minus one service fee charged to the bag after items sell. A commission you pay and a keep-rate you receive both show up in search as "fees," but they are not the same animal.
That is why this page refuses the usual trick of stacking both rates on one axis and calling it a comparison. The honest version: the rules exactly as each platform publishes them, then each model worked with its own inputs — prices you control on Poshmark, anchor prices ThredUp publishes on Clean Out.
| What differs | Poshmark rule | ThredUp Clean Out rule | Base / charged-on note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who sets the selling price | You do, on every listing | ThredUp does — it prices, lists and marks items down on its own schedule | Poshmark's fee rides on your price; ThredUp's share rides on its own |
| Main seller charge | 20% of the item price at $15 and above | Published keep-rate anchors: $5 → 3% ($0.15), $20 → 15% ($3.00), $50 → 30% ($15.00), $100 → 60% ($60.00), $200 → 80% ($160.00) | ThredUp publishes no formula between anchors — this page never interpolates |
| Small-sale rule | Flat $2.95 when the sale is under $15 | The lowest anchor pays 3% at $5 ($0.15) | A cliff on one side, a sliver on the other |
| Upfront cost | $0 to list | $0 upfront | Nothing is owed before a sale on either path |
| Shipping | Buyer typically pays the prepaid label; the seller ships the parcel | Mail-in Clean Out kit (an optional Uber pick-up appears in ThredUp help with a charge the guide does not confirm — treat that price as unverified) | Both begin with a trip to the mailbox or a drop-off |
| Service fee | None | $14.99 Standard / $34.99 Premium, once per bag, after items sell | Deducted from bag earnings; if earnings are smaller, the difference is not charged |
| Not published | Promotional tools are outside this page | Cash-out / transfer fee amounts; any price between anchors | Feebrief writes "not published" rather than guessing |
Poshmark column: Feebrief's fee record, checked 2026-10-26. ThredUp column: the Clean Out guide fetched 2026-11-01 plus the service-fee help page updated 2026-08-28. For the payout mechanics across the whole anchor ladder, see how ThredUp pays sellers; for every ThredUp program in one place, see ThredUp fees explained.
Poshmark: what clears on a $12, a $38 and a $120 listing you priced
Three listings at three prices a seller actually picks: a $12 tee moved fast, a $38 blouse, a $120 coat. Each has exactly one fee line, charged on the item only — no listing fee, no separate processing line — and the buyer typically pays the shipping label, so no shipping dollar ever crosses the seller's ledger:
| Price you set | Fee rule | Fee taken | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $12.00 | Flat $2.95 (sale under $15) | $2.95 | $9.05 |
| $38.00 | 20% of the item price | $7.60 | $30.40 |
| $120.00 | 20% of the item price | $24.00 | $96.00 |
At $15 and above the rule is simple enough to do in your head: you keep 80% — $30.40 on the blouse, $96.00 on the coat. The flat fee bites hardest at the bottom of the range: $2.95 on a $12 sale is 24.6% of the price, easing to 19.7% at $14.99, and at $15.00 exactly the percentage rate resumes with a $3.00 fee. One historical note, because it still confuses searches: Poshmark tested a 5.99% seller fee in October 2024 and reverted it. The schedule in force at the 2026-10-26 check is the 20% / $2.95 one worked above.
Clean Out bag math with $200 / $50 / $5 anchors (and $14.99 once)
The ThredUp side needs different plumbing, because the seller controls none of the prices. The bag below assumes three items whose final sales land exactly on published anchors — $200.00, $50.00 and $5.00, for $255.00 of sales — in a Standard kit, with nothing else selling. Every share is read off ThredUp's published ladder, none of it invented:
| Sale in the bag (ThredUp-priced) | Published share | Your earnings |
|---|---|---|
| $200.00 | 80% | $160.00 |
| $50.00 | 30% | $15.00 |
| $5.00 | 3% | $0.15 |
| Bag earnings before the fee ($255.00 of sales) | — | $175.15 |
| Standard service fee, once per bag | flat | −$14.99 |
| Net to you | $160.16 |
Run the same bag as Premium once, for contrast, and only the fee line changes: $175.15 − $34.99 = $140.16. Two limits on extending this table. First, ThredUp publishes these anchor points, not a formula between them — so no other price gets a computed payout on this page, and any smooth payout curve drawn elsewhere is invention. Second, because ThredUp sets the selling prices, a seller cannot aim a bag at the $200 anchor; the ladder says what a landing is worth, not what anyone gets to control.
Shares and anchors: ThredUp's Clean Out guide, fetched 2026-11-01. The subtraction is ours. See our fee methodology for how worked examples like this are built.
Service fee amortization in plain language: $14.99 Standard, $34.99 Premium
The service fee is the one ThredUp charge that can flip a bag from fine to nearly nothing, so its rules matter. Nothing is owed upfront. The fee — $14.99 for a Standard Clean Out kit, $34.99 for Premium — is charged once per bag and deducted from the bag's earnings only after items sell. And if the earnings are smaller than the fee, ThredUp does not charge you the difference (help page updated 2026-08-28). A thin bag can end near zero; on this rule it cannot put you in debt.
Amortization is the quiet variable. Across the worked bag above, $14.99 is about 5.9% of the $255.00 in sales, or 8.6% of the $175.15 in shares — barely visible. Load a bag with more items and the per-item cost keeps shrinking; the fee is charged to the bag, not to each sale. The worst case runs the other way: a bag whose only sale lands somewhere in the middle of the ladder can watch the one-time fee absorb most of that single payout. Bag size, not any single item's price, is what tames this fee.
One amount stays deliberately blank: any cash-out or Stripe transfer fee. The pages Feebrief checked do not publish it, so this page states "not published" and moves on rather than guessing a number.
Direct Listing in one paragraph
Direct Listing is ThredUp's one self-priced corner — an in-app beta where you photograph, list, set the price (minimum $20) and ship the item yourself, and ThredUp charges you 0% in seller fees; a buyer-side facilitation fee is added on top for the buyer, its dollar amount is not published in the material checked here, and it does not count toward your earnings. In fee shape it resembles Poshmark's seller-set model far more than Clean Out does. The full conditions live on ThredUp fees explained.
Choosing: price control and shipping labor vs a hands-off bag
Poshmark's pitch is the keep: 80% of every $15-and-up price you defend, no listing fee, buyer-paid label. The cost of controlling the price is labor — photographing, listing, offers, bundling, packaging and shipping every single sale, plus the wait for a buyer to meet your number.
Clean Out's pitch is the mailbox: one kit, one drop-off, and ThredUp prices, lists, sells and ships everything after that. What you trade away is the pricing pen. Markdowns cut twice — the sale price falls, and the keep-rate share falls with it — and the service fee comes off the whole bag once, so a small or unlucky bag can net very little while a full one shrugs the fee off entirely.
There is no universal cheaper here. The question is whether 80%-of-your-price math or anchor-share-of-ThredUp's-price math describes your closet — and how much of the work you want back after the mailbox.
The live Poshmark estimator — and why Feebrief runs no ThredUp calculator
Feebrief runs a live calculator for exactly one side of this pair: the Poshmark fee calculator applies the 20% / $2.95 split — including the under-$15 cliff — to any price you give it, in real time. There is no ThredUp calculator on Feebrief, and not for lack of demand: between the published anchors, ThredUp's payout is simply not published, so any curve a calculator drew would be fabricated. This page works anchor points only and refuses to connect them. For the full Clean Out ladder and payout mechanics, see how ThredUp pays sellers.
What sellers ask about these two fee models
How do Poshmark's 20% and ThredUp's keep-rate differ in what you control?
Poshmark's 20% is a commission on a price you set yourself — a flat $2.95 when a sale comes in under $15 — charged on the item only, with the buyer typically paying the prepaid label. ThredUp's keep-rate is a share of the final selling price that ThredUp's own pricing and markdowns produce: published anchors run from 3% at a $5 sale to 80% at a $200 sale, and a once-per-bag service fee comes off the bag's earnings after items sell. You control the Poshmark price; you do not control the Clean Out price.
What does a Standard bag keep when its sales are a $200, a $50 and a $5?
Published shares pay $160.00 (80% of $200), $15.00 (30% of $50) and $0.15 (3% of $5) — $175.15 of earnings on $255.00 of sales. The $14.99 Standard service fee comes off once, leaving $160.16. Those are anchor prices only: ThredUp publishes no formula between anchors, so no in-between payout is computed, and ThredUp — not the seller — sets the selling prices.
What does Poshmark take under $15?
A flat $2.95 instead of the 20%. A $12.00 sale keeps $9.05; the flat fee is 24.6% of that price, easing to 19.7% at $14.99, and at $15.00 exactly the 20% rate resumes with a $3.00 fee. Listing is free, the fee is charged on the item only, and the buyer typically pays the prepaid shipping label.
Does ThredUp charge anything upfront?
No. Clean Out costs $0 upfront. The service fee — $14.99 Standard or $34.99 Premium — is deducted from the bag's earnings only after items sell, once per bag, and if earnings are less than the fee ThredUp does not charge you the difference. A thin bag can end near zero; on this rule it cannot put you in debt to ThredUp.
Related fee pages
- Poshmark fee calculator — the live 20% / $2.95 estimator
- How ThredUp pays sellers — the full anchor ladder and payout mechanics
- ThredUp fees explained — every program, including Direct Listing
- Does ThredUp charge sellers? — the fee timeline from kit to cash-out
- Resale marketplace fees compared — the hub for every pairing
Sources of record and check dates
- Feebrief fee record for Poshmark — 20% at $15 and above, flat $2.95 under $15, $0 listing, buyer-paid label, October 2024 5.99% test reverted — checked 2026-10-26
- Poshmark, Fee Policy — checked 2026-10-26
- ThredUp Clean Out earnings guide — keep-rate anchors $5 / $20 / $50 / $100 / $200 — fetched 2026-11-01
- ThredUp help center, Clean Out service fees — $0 upfront, $14.99 Standard / $34.99 Premium, difference never charged when earnings are smaller — page updated 2026-08-28
- ThredUp Seller Terms — payout based on the final selling price — last updated 2024-12-05
- Feebrief, methodology and disclosure — how these derivations are made and funded
Disclaimer
Feebrief is an independent reference site with no affiliation to Poshmark or ThredUp and no financial relationship with either. Every figure on this page is hand-derived from the public pages named above, on the dates named; nothing here is a quote, an invoice or a promise about any specific sale. Rates, thresholds and anchor points change without notice, ThredUp sets Clean Out selling prices and markdowns on its own schedule, and amounts marked "not published" are exactly that — not published, not guessed. US sellers, USD only. Read the methodology and disclosure pages, and confirm on the live help pages before pricing a listing or mailing a bag.