A flat 9% with no asterisks
Grailed charges one commission — a flat 9% of the sale price — plus payment processing of 3.49% + $0.49. No store tiers, no category matrix, no per-order surcharge, no promoted-listing surprise unless you opt into one. On the default $150 sale: $13.50 commission + $5.73 processing = $19.23, an effective 12.8% of revenue. Against eBay’s 13.25% + $0.40 on the same sale ($20.28), Grailed is about a point cheaper with none of the category-matrix anxiety — which is why streetwear and designer resellers who list both channels routinely route menswear through Grailed first and let eBay catch the overflow.
What the 9% buys — and where its ceiling is
Grailed’s fee is cheap relative to its audience specificity: it is the marketplace for menswear streetwear, designer and sneakers, with buyers who arrive pre-qualified and search by brand, size and era. The trade is category narrowness — womenswear gets a thinner market (Grailed’s sister platform for that is Grailed’s own expansion, but coverage varies), non-fashion items have no home there at all, and price discovery weakens outside core hype brands. The strategic use: Grailed is your velocity channel for in-demand menswear at the market’s fair price; eBay is your price-discovery channel for the odd sizes, the obscure labels and the $1,000+ grails where auction dynamics beat a fixed audience. The calculators here let you run the fee spread per item; comps let you run the velocity spread.
Payment processing is the line people forget
At $150, processing ($5.73) is 42% of Grailed’s total take — and unlike the commission, it does not scale favorably at the low end. A $40 sale: $3.60 commission + $1.89 processing = $5.49, an effective 13.7% — worse than eBay’s 13.4% on the same sale, because the 49¢ fixed component weighs heavier. The crossover sits around $60-80: below it, Grailed’s fee advantage evaporates; above it, the flat 9% pulls away. For sub-$50 flips, the 0%-commission channels (Mercari, Depop at 4.3%) beat both. This is exactly the per-item arithmetic that separates full-time resellers from hobbyists — same item, three channels, three different businesses.
A worked example: the $150 designer hoodie
Sourced at $45. Listed at $165, sells at $150 after a best-offer acceptance. Fees: $13.50 + $5.73 = $19.23. Net after cost: $85.77 — a 57% margin, 190% return on cost. Reverse check: to clear exactly $80 you would list at ($80 + $0.49 + $45) ÷ (1 − 0.1249) = $143.15 — meaning the actual $150 sale beat target by $5.77. Now the shipping variable: Grailed puts shipping on the buyer at checkout by default; if you offered “free shipping” by funding a $14 label, enter it in the shipping-cost field and the same sale nets $71.77 — still strong, but the $14 is the difference between your 57% and 48% margin. Sellers who don’t track funded shipping systematically understate their fee load by a full point of margin.
Grailed vs the 2026 field
In the $60-300 menswear band, Grailed’s 12.5-12.8% effective load sits between Depop (4.3%) and eBay (13.6%) — and decisively under Poshmark’s 20%. Its edge is not fee leadership (that belongs to the 0%-commission channels) but audience-price fit: designer and hype items fetch their true market on Grailed faster than anywhere cheaper. The professional pattern is a three-way split: Depop/Mercari for the fee-insensitive unique pieces, Grailed for brand-name menswear at market price, eBay for everything with auction dynamics. Run each item through two calculators before listing and the channel decision stops being a vibe — it is 12.8% versus 13.6% versus 20%, multiplied by which audience actually pays your price.
Last verified October 11, 2026. Platform fees change — always confirm against the platform’s official fee page before pricing decisions. Estimates for planning only; every calculation runs in your browser and nothing is stored.