Vinted vs ThredUp: buyer fee vs Clean Out payout
Who pays the platform cut is the real comparison. Vinted bills the buyer: US sellers pay $0 in selling fees and keep 100% of the item price, while buyers usually pay 5% + $0.70 — an amount that varies by item and order. ThredUp runs two flows at once. Clean Out is consignment, so the platform's share comes out of the seller's payout through tiered anchor payouts plus service fees. Direct Listing skips that entirely with a 0% seller fee. Three invoices, one question — answered below, with a $20 worked example and the numbers nobody publishes left unlabeled-as-guesswork.
Last updated . Vinted figures come from the fee pricelist in Vinted's help center, which the marketplace itself last updated 10/08/2026; ThredUp figures come from ThredUp's own Clean Out payout and Direct Listing help pages, last verified 2026-11-02. United States, USD throughout — Vinted's seller terms differ in other markets, and no non-US figures appear on this page. The $20 example models the item price alone: $0 sales tax, $0 postage.
Feebrief is independent of both marketplaces. Where arithmetic appears, it is worked by hand from the published formulas, cents rounded half-up. Where a platform does not publish a number, this page says not publicly available rather than estimating it. Fee schedules move — confirm current figures on the platforms' own help pages before you price, list, or buy.
Fee comparison at a glance: who gets billed
Three columns, because ThredUp is two products. Vinted's cost sits on the buyer's receipt; Clean Out's sits inside the seller's payout; Direct Listing publishes a 0% seller fee. United States, USD.
| Position | Vinted (US) | ThredUp Clean Out | ThredUp Direct Listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who pays the platform cut | The buyer — the fee is added at checkout and never deducted from the seller's payout | The seller — ThredUp's share is taken from the payout, not billed at checkout | Nobody on the seller side — 0% seller fee; a buyer-side facilitation fee applies |
| Listing fee | $0 — listings are free | N/A — items arrive in a Clean Out kit, not as listings | You list it yourself; the published seller fee is 0% |
| Seller fee | $0 seller fee — no commission and no payout cut; the full item sale price lands with the seller | A payout share set by tier — anchor payouts plus service fees | 0% |
| Buyer or platform fee | Usually 5% + $0.70; the calculation varies by item and order | Not on the seller's ledger — ThredUp prices and sells the item itself | A buyer facilitation fee applies; its dollar amount is not publicly available |
| Payout model | The full item price; the buyer fee never touches it | Read from the payout-tier anchors; between-anchor payouts are not publicly available | The seller keeps the sale price at 0% seller fee |
Vinted fees: seller $0, buyer-paid platform fee
The umbrella guide at Vinted fees holds the full US picture; the two lines that matter for this comparison follow here.
Listing and selling: $0 from the seller, all of it
For US sellers the arithmetic on Vinted is unusually clean: the help-center fee pricelist Vinted stamps "Last updated 10/08/2026" lists no commission, no listing charge, and no payout deduction — $0 in seller fees, which means 100% of the item sale price is what the seller banks. Vinted collects its money at the other end of the deal instead, folding a buyer protection fee — usually 5% plus $0.70, though the exact amount varies — into checkout (breakdown at Vinted buyer protection fee). For the seller-first framing of the same question, see does Vinted charge sellers?
The Vinted fee buyers pay
The shopper's cost is the buyer fee — the line once labeled Buyer Protection — applied at checkout. In the US it is usually 5% of the item price plus $0.70, and Vinted's own pricelist says the calculation varies: treat 5% + $0.70 as the usual formula, not a guarantee, since the item and the order can move the final figure. The mechanics, hedge language kept intact, are unpacked at the Vinted buyer protection fee.
ThredUp fees: Clean Out payout tiers vs Direct Listing
ThredUp is two selling flows under one roof, and they bill so differently that collapsing them into a single "ThredUp fee" is where most comparisons go wrong.
Clean Out: consignment, paid out in tiers
Clean Out is the send-it-in flow: items go to ThredUp, ThredUp does the selling, and your money arrives as a payout the platform's share has already left. The schedule is built on tier anchors — a set payout for a set price band — plus service fees, so the seller's cost is not a percentage you can apply to any number; it is the share ThredUp keeps inside each payout tier. The anchor tables live in the ThredUp seller payout guide, and the inbound cost of the kit itself is covered at ThredUp Clean Out kit fee. Payouts between the published anchors are not publicly available, and Feebrief publishes no interpolation.
Direct Listing: 0% seller fee
Direct Listing is the do-it-yourself lane: you list the item yourself, and when it sells the published seller fee is 0% — the seller keeps the sale price. It mirrors Vinted's $0 seller-fee line, but the selling flow is different: this runs inside ThredUp's own marketplace, with its own buyer-side charge.
The buyer facilitation fee: a number ThredUp doesn't publish
On Direct Listing purchases, buyers pay a facilitation fee. Its dollar amount is not publicly available, so this page quotes none — no percentage, no flat figure, no estimate. For Clean Out items the question never reaches the seller at all: ThredUp prices and sells those items itself.
Where the platform's cut shows up: checkout vs payout
Follow the receipts and the divergence is immediate. Checkout on Vinted adds the platform's charge to the buyer's total, while the seller's payout matches the asking price exactly — same number in, same number out. Clean Out flips that: a ThredUp buyer pays just the price on the tag, because the platform's revenue is netted out of the seller's payout before the deposit lands. Direct Listing, ThredUp's peer-to-peer lane, swings back toward the Vinted pattern — 0% comes out of the seller's end, and a facilitation fee of unpublished size rides on the buyer's. So the answer depends on the lane: Vinted and Direct Listing put the charge on the buyer's receipt, Clean Out buries it in the seller's payout.
Worked example: a $20 item
One item, three outcomes. United States, USD; $0 sales tax, $0 postage modeled.
| Lane | Buyer side | Seller side |
|---|---|---|
| Vinted | Buyer fee of $1.70 on the usual formula — 5% × $20 = $1.00, plus $0.70 — so $21.70 before shipping; the exact amount varies by item and order | $20 — the whole item price; nothing deducted |
| ThredUp Clean Out | Not the seller's line — ThredUp prices and sells the item | Set by the payout-tier anchors, not by a $20 price; between-anchor payouts not publicly available, so no math is shown here |
| ThredUp Direct Listing | Facilitation fee applies; dollar amount not publicly available, so no buyer total can be worked | The sale price at 0% seller fee |
A note on different fee bases, because it matters: the $1.70 and the Clean Out payout are not parallel numbers. Vinted's fee is a percentage of the price the buyer pays; Clean Out's share is defined inside ThredUp's payout tiers on ThredUp's own pricing. Any comparison that lines them up as matching percentages is inventing one of them. Feebrief has no live calculator embedded on this doorway page, and no live calculator for Vinted or ThredUp; the published schedules sit in the fee guides linked above.
Which is cheaper — for sellers, and for buyers
For sellers: Vinted ($0 selling fees) and ThredUp Direct Listing (0%) both leave the seller's line clean, and the difference is flow — one is a P2P shipping marketplace, the other runs inside ThredUp's own storefront. Clean Out charges by giving up a payout share, in exchange for which ThredUp handles the selling. Whether that trade is cheaper depends on what your time and your items are worth; this page shows the structures, not a verdict.
For buyers: on Vinted, expect the buyer fee — usually 5% + $0.70, varying by item and order — on top of price and postage. On ThredUp Direct Listing purchases a facilitation fee applies, but its dollar amount is not publicly available, so buyers cannot pre-compute it the way Vinted buyers usually can. On Clean Out items, pricing is ThredUp's to set.
What we don't know yet
- Clean Out payouts between the published tier anchors — not publicly available; no interpolation table will appear here.
- The ThredUp buyer facilitation fee dollar amount — not publicly available.
- Any cash-out or payout-access charges on either platform — dollar amounts not published in the pages behind this comparison.
- Any EU figures — this page is US-only. Vinted's seller terms differ by market, and no EU seller percentage is quoted or implied.
Common questions
Is it cheaper to sell on Vinted or ThredUp?
On the seller's line alone, Vinted ($0 selling fees) and ThredUp Direct Listing (0%) tie. Clean Out gives up a payout share in exchange for consignment handling. The cheaper flow depends on which ThredUp lane you'd use and how much of the work you want to do yourself.
Does ThredUp charge sellers more than Vinted?
Vinted charges US sellers nothing — $0, keep 100% of the item price. ThredUp Direct Listing also publishes 0%. Clean Out is the one flow where a seller-funded cost exists, and it is a payout share set by tier anchors plus service fees, not a simple percentage.
Who pays the fee when you buy on Vinted?
The buyer. The fee in the US is usually 5% of the item price plus $0.70, and the calculation varies by item and order. The seller's payout is never touched by it.
What is ThredUp's facilitation fee?
A buyer-side charge on Direct Listing purchases. Its dollar amount is not publicly available, so Feebrief quotes none — on this page or anywhere else.
Sources and last verified
- Vinted help-center fee pricelist — seller $0; buyer usually 5% + $0.70 (varies); the document carries Vinted's own "Last updated 10/08/2026" stamp. Companion guide: Vinted fees.
- ThredUp Clean Out payout schedule (tier anchors plus service fees) and Direct Listing terms — last verified 2026-11-02. Companion guide: ThredUp seller payout.
- How Feebrief sources and hedges: methodology. Independence and advertising: disclosure.
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Feebrief is an independent fee guide. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vinted or ThredUp. Fees and payout tiers change: the figures on this page were last verified 2026-11-02, and the Vinted pricelist carries its own 10/08/2026 update stamp — confirm current numbers on each platform's help pages before selling or buying.