How much does Etsy cost?

Etsy publishes 4 tiers, from $0.2/listing for Seller Fees up to $15/percent for Offsite Ads Fee. The cheapest paid tier is $0.2/listing.

Does Etsy have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Etsy is listed as transaction. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Seller Fees and Payment Processing Fee on Etsy?

Payment Processing Fee costs $3/percent against $0.2/listing, and adds 3% of sale price plus $0.25 per transaction.

Is the Offsite Ads Fee plan on Etsy worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 15% of sale price when sale results from etsy external advertising. It costs $15/percent against $0.2/listing for Seller Fees. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which e-commerce tools can I use without paying?

7 of the 8 e-commerce tools listed alongside Etsy have a free tier: UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu, Vinted, Shein.

Does Etsy charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Etsy prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Etsy against before paying?

The closest e-commerce tools in this directory are BackToMe, UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Etsy covering price, platforms and features.

E-Commerce · pricing

Etsy pricing

Etsy publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Etsy pricing is on request across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: On request
Model: Transaction
Tiers: 4
Free tier: Not on record

Etsy plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Etsy pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Seller Fees	$0.2/listing	1	Entry tier
Payment Processing Fee	$3/percent	1	+$2.8/percent, 1 more feature
Transaction Fee	$6.5/percent	1	+$3.5/percent, 1 more feature
Offsite Ads Fee	$15/percent	1	+$8.5/percent, 1 more feature

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Seller Fees

$0.2/listing

The entry tier. It covers listing fee per item for 4 months.

Payment Processing Fee

$3/percent

Over Seller Fees, this tier adds:

3% of sale price plus $0.25 per transaction

Transaction Fee

$6.5/percent

Over Payment Processing Fee, this tier adds:

6.5% of sale price including shipping

Offsite Ads Fee

$15/percent

Over Transaction Fee, this tier adds:

15% of sale price when sale results from Etsy external advertising

What the product covers

The full Etsy feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Shop setup
Product listings
Payment processing
Shop customization
Order management
Shipping labels
Reviews & ratings
Shipping protection

People bring Etsy in for selling handmade crafts and unique items, reselling vintage goods and collectibles, marketing handpicked curated products, operating storefront with secured payment processing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Etsy are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in E-Commerce

Too few e-commerce tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Etsy entry price against other E-Commerce tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Etsy (this page)	On request	transaction	-
BackToMe	€25/month	subscription	-	vs Etsy
UnoPIM	Free	open-source	-	vs Etsy
Instacart	Free	Free to download; item markups plus delivery and service fees per order, optional subscription	-	vs Etsy
Temu	Free	Free to browse and use; pay per order, heavy promotional discounting	-	vs Etsy
Vinted	Free	Free for sellers, no commission; buyer pays a variable Buyer Protection fee at checkout	-	vs Etsy
Shein	Free	Free to browse and use; pay per order, optional paid loyalty tier	-	vs Etsy

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Etsy badges page.

Before you pay for Etsy

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between $0.2/listing and $15/percent, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Etsy against the tools that do have one before committing.

Etsy runs on web, and is published by Etsy Inc of New York, NY. The full record is on the Etsy review, and the rest of the category is under best e-commerce tools.

Etsy pricing on the vendor's own site

Etsy pricing questions

How much does Etsy cost?: Etsy publishes 4 tiers, from $0.2/listing for Seller Fees up to $15/percent for Offsite Ads Fee. The cheapest paid tier is $0.2/listing.
Does Etsy have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Etsy is listed as transaction. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between Seller Fees and Payment Processing Fee on Etsy?: Payment Processing Fee costs $3/percent against $0.2/listing, and adds 3% of sale price plus $0.25 per transaction.
Is the Offsite Ads Fee plan on Etsy worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 15% of sale price when sale results from etsy external advertising. It costs $15/percent against $0.2/listing for Seller Fees. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which e-commerce tools can I use without paying?: 7 of the 8 e-commerce tools listed alongside Etsy have a free tier: UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu, Vinted, Shein.
What am I actually paying for with Etsy?: The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for selling handmade crafts and unique items, reselling vintage goods and collectibles, marketing handpicked curated products.
Does Etsy charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Etsy prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Etsy against before paying?: The closest e-commerce tools in this directory are BackToMe, UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Etsy covering price, platforms and features.