US referral fee schedule

Marketplace: amazon.com · Verified: 2026-09-08 · Source: sell.amazon.com/pricing

For manual mode only. In live mode, probe fees_getMyFeesEstimates instead — it returns the real referral fee and needs no category mapping.

Check the verification date. Amazon changes referral fees regularly. If this date is more than a few months behind the current date, say so in the output and prefer a live probe or a user-supplied rate.

There is no European equivalent table here. For EU manual mode, take the rate from the user or from a comparable-ASIN probe rather than guessing.

Flat 15%

Backpacks/Handbags/Luggage · Eyewear · Footwear · Home and Kitchen · Lawn and Garden · Mattresses · Media (Books, DVD, Music, Software, Video) · Musical Instruments and AV Production · Office Products · Pet Supplies · Sports and Outdoors · Tools and Home Improvement · Toys and Games · Video Games and Gaming Accessories · Everything Else

[{"up_to": null, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "marginal"}]

Other flat rates

Marginal bands

The rate applies only to the portion of the price inside each band.

Appliances, compact — 15% up to $300, 8% above

[{"up_to": 300, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.08, "mode": "marginal"}]

Electronics Accessories — 15% up to $100, 8% above

[{"up_to": 100, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.08, "mode": "marginal"}]

Furniture — 15% up to $200, 10% above

[{"up_to": 200, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.10, "mode": "marginal"}]

Jewelry — 20% up to $250, 5% above

[{"up_to": 250, "rate": 0.20, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.05, "mode": "marginal"}]

Watches — 16% up to $1,500, 3% above

[{"up_to": 1500, "rate": 0.16, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.03, "mode": "marginal"}]

Fine Art — 20% up to $100, 15% to $1,000, 10% to $5,000, 5% above

[{"up_to": 100, "rate": 0.20, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": 1000, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": 5000, "rate": 0.10, "mode": "marginal"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.05, "mode": "marginal"}]

Whole-price bands

Crossing the threshold re-rates the entire price, which creates a jump in the fee curve. A product priced just above a threshold can net less than one priced just below.

Baby Products and Beauty, Health and Personal Care — 8% up to $10, then 15% on the whole price

[{"up_to": 10, "rate": 0.08, "mode": "whole"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "whole"}]

Grocery and Gourmet — 8% up to $15, then 15% on the whole price

[{"up_to": 15, "rate": 0.08, "mode": "whole"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "whole"}]

Lawn Mowers and Snow Throwers — 15% up to $500, then 8% on the whole price

[{"up_to": 500, "rate": 0.15, "mode": "whole"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.08, "mode": "whole"}]

Clothing and Accessories — 5% up to $15, 10% up to $20, then 17% on the whole price

[{"up_to": 15, "rate": 0.05, "mode": "whole"},
 {"up_to": 20, "rate": 0.10, "mode": "whole"},
 {"up_to": null, "rate": 0.17, "mode": "whole"}]

Minimums and closing fees

The amounts are deliberately not embedded here. Which categories carry them is stable and is recorded below; what they cost is not, and the guardrail in SKILL.md — never invent a fee number — applies to these as much as to a referral rate.

A per-item referral minimum applies in most categories. Grocery and Gourmet, Media, Video Games and Gaming Accessories, and Video Game Consoles carry no minimum.

A closing fee applies to Media, Video Games and Gaming Accessories, and Video Game Consoles.

Where the category carries one, get the amount from a live fees_getMyFeesEstimates probe (which already includes both, so in live mode there is nothing to pass), from the seller, or from sell.amazon.com/pricing — then pass them as per_item_minimum and closing_fee. If you cannot source them, run without them and say in the output that the referral fee is understated by an unquantified per-item minimum, rather than guessing a figure.

Not covered here

FBA fulfilment fees by size tier, Low-Price FBA rates, apparel tables, peak uplifts, fuel surcharges, storage rates, and every European schedule. These are deliberately absent rather than approximated. Get them from a live probe, a comparable ASIN, or the user.