TikTok Shop Fee Calculator
CheckedThis TikTok Shop fee calculator adds the referral fee and the creator commission on a sale, and shows your profit after costs and ad spend. Free, no sign-up, and the result updates as you type.
TikTok Shop takes a 6% referral fee on the order total in most categories, with no separate per-order charge, so a $100 sale costs $6.00 before any creator commission you offer, which is charged on top of the referral fee, not out of it.
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TikTok Shop's referral fee is the number sellers quote, and almost nobody pays only that. TikTok says the referral fee covers all its own fees, with no separate charge per order, and this calculator starts it at 6%, the rate on TikTok's own fee page for most categories. The bigger cost is the creators. The affiliate commission a seller sets to attract them, a percentage of the item price that you choose, is charged on top of the referral fee, not out of it. At 6% referral and 20% commission a product is handing over 26% before a single cost of goods. That is the number that decides whether the product works, so it is an input here rather than a footnote.
How are TikTok Shop fees calculated?
Net profit = (price + shipping charged) × (1 − referral rate ÷ 100) − transaction fee − (price × creator commission ÷ 100) − item cost − your shipping − ad spend
LaTeX source
\text{Net} = (P + S_b)\left(1 - \frac{r}{100}\right) - t - P\times\frac{c}{100} - C_i - S_c - A How much are TikTok Shop fees in 2026?
| Fee | Rate | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Referral fee TikTok says this covers all its fees. Some jewellery and pre-owned categories are 5%. | 6% | TikTok says this covers all its fees. Some jewellery and pre-owned categories are 5%. |
US rates for a standard account, from the sources listed at the bottom of this page. The calculator above takes its default rates from this table.
How much do you keep from a TikTok Shop sale?
| Sale price | TikTok Shop fees | You keep | Real rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10 | $0.60 | $9.40 | 6% |
| $20 | $1.20 | $18.80 | 6% |
| $25 | $1.50 | $23.50 | 6% |
| $50 | $3.00 | $47.00 | 6% |
| $100 | $6.00 | $94.00 | 6% |
| $200 | $12.00 | $188.00 | 6% |
| $300 | $18.00 | $282.00 | 6% |
| $500 | $30.00 | $470.00 | 6% |
The referral fee in most categories, with no creator commission. Before your own item, shipping and packaging costs; enter those in the calculator above to see profit.
Worked examples
A $29.99 product with a 10% creator commission
$11.19 net profit
At a 6% referral rate TikTok takes $1.80, but the creator takes $3.00 — far more than TikTok does. Total fees are $4.80, a real rate of 16.0%. After $14 of goods and postage, $11.19 is left on a 37.3% margin.
The numbers used
- Item sold for
- 29.99
- Shipping charged to buyer
- 0
- Referral fee rate
- 6
- Per-transaction fee
- 0
- Creator commission rate
- 10
- What the item cost you
- 9
- Your shipping cost
- 5
- Ad spend per order
- 0
The same product at 20% commission with $3 of ad spend
$5.19 net profit
Doubling the commission to attract bigger creators costs another $3.00, and $3 of ads costs $3 more. Fees reach $7.80, a real rate of 26.0%, and profit falls from $11.19 to $5.19 on a 17.3% margin. Your goods and postage could rise by only $5.19 before every order loses money.
The numbers used
- Item sold for
- 29.99
- Shipping charged to buyer
- 0
- Referral fee rate
- 6
- Per-transaction fee
- 0
- Creator commission rate
- 20
- What the item cost you
- 9
- Your shipping cost
- 5
- Ad spend per order
- 3
Questions sellers ask
How much fees does TikTok Shop charge?
A referral fee on the order total, which TikTok says covers all TikTok Shop fees, so there is no separate per-order charge. That fee is 6% in most categories and 5% in some jewellery and pre-owned ones, per TikTok's own fee pages. Creator commission is separate, a percentage of the item price that you set, and it is charged on top.
How much is a 300k TikTok account worth?
Account sales are against TikTok's terms, and there is no reliable public price for one: figures quoted in resale groups are asking prices, not verified sales. For a seller the more useful measure is what the account earns. As an illustration only, if 5% of 300,000 followers saw a post and 1% of those bought, that is 150 orders a month, which at the $11.19 per order above is around $1,700 of profit.
How much do TikTok ads cost per 1,000 views?
TikTok does not publish a standard rate: ads are sold at auction, so the cost per thousand impressions depends on your audience, the season and your bid. The figure that matters for a shop is cost per order, not per thousand views — enter it as ad spend above. As an illustration, at a $10 CPM and a 0.5% purchase rate, 1,000 impressions produce five orders at $2 each.
Is selling on TikTok Shop worth it?
It can be, because TikTok Shop's referral fee of 6% in most categories is lower than eBay's 13.6% or Amazon's 15%, but the creator commission you pay comes on top. Of the marketplaces this site covers, only Depop costs less: it charges US sellers no selling fee, just 3.3% + $0.45 payment processing. The commission needed to get creators to promote you pushes the real rate to 16% or higher, as the examples above show. It works when the landed cost leaves enough of the price to absorb that fee load and your ad spend, and badly when it does not.
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