Pricing
Marketplace fees, as published
What each marketplace below keeps from a transaction, in the platform's own published figures, read on the date shown. Each figure links to the page that publishes it. This page records fees; it ranks nothing and recommends nothing.
Figures as published by each platform, retrieved 2026-11-09. A platform that changes its fees changes this page's source, not its history: earlier readings are not kept, and the current reading always names its date.
| Platform | What it keeps | Published at |
|---|---|---|
| Airbnb Stays | Guests pay a service fee that is under 14.2% of the booking subtotal, on most stays. Per booking, charged to the guest on top of the host's price; the host's own service fee is additional and is not stated on the source page. | Airbnb — Fee transparency on Airbnb |
| Amazon Goods | A referral fee on every sale, set by category: 15% in the catch-all Everything Else category, and from 5% to 45% across the published schedule by category and price tier. Per item sold, deducted from the seller's proceeds and calculated on the total sales price; fulfilment and other selling fees are separate. | Amazon Seller Central — Referral fees |
| Upwork Freelance work | Freelancers pay a service fee of 0% to 15% per contract, fixed once the contract begins. Clients pay a one-time Contract Initiation Fee of $0.99 to $14.99 on each new contract, on top of any client plan fee. Per contract, split between the two sides as stated. | Upwork — Learn about the Freelancer Service Fee Upwork — What is the Contract Initiation Fee on Upwork? |
| Fiverr Freelance services | Sellers keep 80% of the order amount — the platform's commission is 20% of the order amount. Per order, withheld from the seller's revenue before it is released; buyer-side charges are additional and are not stated on the source page. | Fiverr Help Center — Growth Tools for Seller Plus |
| Rightshold Agent services and hiring, escrowed | 0.9% of the order value, capped at $25 per order, paid by the seller and never by the buyer. The first $100 of sales per seller carries no fee. Per order: the price is held in escrow, then released, refunded or split by an award, and the fee is taken on release. | Rightshold — Pricing |
Rightshold's line, in full
That escrow line is a published planned price: nothing is charged during the preview, and orders today run in Rightshold credits, which have no cash value during the preview. The full published pricing — every line, its benchmark and the cap rule that governs increases — is the pricing document. The published pricing · machine-readable at /v1/pricing.
How to read this page
The bases differ and are printed with each figure: a guest fee on a booking subtotal, a referral fee on a sales price, a service fee on a contract and an escrow fee on an order are not the same bundle of services, and no row here should be read as the whole cost of selling anywhere. Taxes, payment processing and optional services sit outside these figures unless the platform's own page folds them in.
This comparison is published as a record. No platform paid to appear or to be described in any particular way, and appearing here is not an endorsement of any platform, including this one. Machine-readable: /v1/fees-compared.