TCGplayer fees calculator: what you actually keep

Search for a TCGplayer fees calculator and you'll land on a generic multi-platform tool built for eBay and Amazon sellers with TCGplayer bolted on as an afterthought. Most of them are still running the pre-June-2026 Direct fee structure, which means every Direct number they show you is wrong.

This page is the arithmetic instead. No inputs to fill in — just the fee schedule, worked through at several sale prices, so you can do the same math on your own listings.

Standard marketplace: 10.75%, or 13.25% if you're Pro

A standard TCGplayer marketplace sale carries a 10.75% commission. If you're enrolled in Pro, add 2.5% on top, for 13.25% all-in. That's it — one number, applied to the sale price. No per-item fee, no reimbursement invoice.

Direct: a flat 50% under $2.49, a different stack from $2.50 up

TCGplayer Direct's fee structure, effective June 18, 2026, splits at a specific price point and the two sides don't resemble each other at all.

Cards priced at $2.49 and under pay a flat 50% fee. No commission, no transaction fee, no Pro fee layered on separately — half the sale price, full stop.

Cards priced at $2.50 and up pay a different stack entirely: a $1.12 Reimbursement Invoice fee, plus 8.95% commission, plus a 2.5% transaction fee, plus another 2.5% Pro fee if you're enrolled in Pro. The percentages are on the sale price; the $1.12 is flat per item regardless of price.

Worked examples

Here's the math at five representative price points, across both channels.

Look at the $2.49 and $2.50 rows again. A card priced one cent higher crosses into the $1.12-plus-commission stack and the seller keeps less money in absolute dollars — $1.09 instead of $1.24 — for selling at a higher price. That's not a rounding artifact. It's the flat Reimbursement Invoice fee overwhelming the difference at that price band, and it's the single most common mistake in cheap-card Direct pricing: treating $2.50 as "basically the same as $2.49."

Where the $75 cap actually shows up

The cap on commission-plus-Pro fees is invisible until you're selling at real dollar amounts. Take a $1,000 Direct sale with Pro enrolled: commission (8.95%) plus Pro (2.5%) would be $114.50 uncapped, but the cap holds it at $75. Add the 2.5% transaction fee ($25, not capped) and the $1.12 reimbursement fee, and total fees come to $101.12 — you keep $898.88. Without the cap, you'd have kept $859.38. On singles and lower-value sealed product this never engages. On slabs and high-end sealed, it's real money.

What this means for how you set prices, not just what you charge

None of this changes what a card is worth. It changes what you actually take home for selling it, which is the number a repricing rule should be optimizing — not the sticker price. A rule that chases the lowest listed price on a $2 card without accounting for a 50% Direct fee will happily reprice you into a loss. We go deeper on running your pricing against net margin instead of sticker price in fee-aware, net-margin repricing, and on the Direct-specific strategy questions — when Direct is worth the fee structure at all — in repricing TCGplayer Direct inventory.

Fee figures cited here reflect the schedule effective June 18, 2026 (Direct fees) and February 10, 2026 (commission cap). Fees change; check TCGplayer's current fee documentation before relying on this page for a live decision.