The exact commission, transaction, and Pro fee math for marketplace and Direct sales, worked through line by line so you can run your own numbers.
Enter a sale below. Every rate is editable, so the tool stays correct if TCGplayer changes its fees.
Defaults reflect TCGplayer's standard marketplace commission, as published in the worked examples below and current as of the Jun 18, 2026 Direct restructure and the Feb 10, 2026 commission cap. TCGplayer changes its fees; verify against TCGplayer's current fee documentation before relying on this for a live pricing decision. Every rate above is editable — enter TCGplayer's current numbers if they've changed.
It depends on the channel and your enrollment. Standard marketplace sales pay one flat commission percentage. TCGplayer Direct pays a different stack entirely — a flat percentage below a price cutoff, and a mix of a flat per-item fee plus several stacked percentages above it. Pro enrollment adds its own fee on top of either channel. The worked examples below show the exact numbers at several price points.
No. TCGplayer's published fee percentages apply to the item's sale price, not to shipping. This calculator follows the same rule — shipping you enter above is added to your net proceeds without a fee taken from it.
Standard marketplace charges a single commission percentage on the sale price and nothing else. Direct charges a flat per-item fee plus several stacked percentages, and the stack itself changes shape at a specific price cutoff. The two channels aren't a small variation on the same math — they're structured differently. See the worked examples below for the exact split.
Not at the lowest price tier. This tool uses one commission rate plus one processing rate and fixed fee, which matches how standard marketplace and the upper Direct tier work. It doesn't model the flat percentage Direct charges below its price cutoff, or the cap TCGplayer places on combined commission and Pro fees at high sale prices. For those edge cases, use the worked examples table below instead of this calculator.
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.
A standard TCGplayer marketplace sale carries a 10.75% commission. Enroll in Pro and that commission drops to a reduced 9.25%, with a separate 2.5% Pro Fee added on top — 11.75% combined, not 10.75% plus 2.5%. Either way, it's percentage-only. No per-item fee, no reimbursement invoice.
TCGplayer Direct's fee structure, effective Jun 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.
Commission and Pro fees combined are capped at $75 per product, effective Feb 10, 2026. On a cheap card this cap does nothing — it only starts saving you money once 11.45% of the sale price (8.95% commission + 2.5% Pro) would otherwise exceed $75, which is a sale price north of $650.
Here's the math at five representative price points, across both channels.
| Sale price | Channel | Fees | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1.00 | Marketplace, non-Pro | $0.11 (10.75%) | $0.89 |
| $1.00 | Direct (under $2.49) | $0.50 (flat 50%) | $0.50 |
| $2.49 | Direct | $1.25 (flat 50%) | $1.24 |
| $2.50 | Direct, non-Pro | $1.41 ($1.12 + 11.45%) | $1.09 |
| $15.00 | Marketplace, non-Pro | $1.61 (10.75%) | $13.39 |
| $15.00 | Direct, non-Pro | $2.84 ($1.12 + 11.45%) | $12.16 |
| $75.00 | Marketplace, Pro | $8.81 (11.75%) | $66.19 |
| $75.00 | Direct, Pro | $11.58 ($1.12 + 13.95%) | $63.42 |
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 an easy mistake to make in cheap-card Direct pricing: treating $2.50 as "basically the same as $2.49."
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.
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 Jun 18, 2026 (Direct fees) and Feb 10, 2026 (commission cap). Fees change; check TCGplayer's current fee documentation before relying on this page for a live decision.
Hoard watches your TCGplayer listings against the market, applies the floors and guardrails you set, and logs every price change and why it happened — on a flat monthly plan, never a percentage of your sales.
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