Fiverr takes a flat 20 percent from sellers on every order, including gig extras and tips, with no tiers and no volume discount. This guide breaks down every Fiverr fee, seller side and buyer side, with worked examples, so you can price your gigs to keep the amount you actually need.
Search intent, stated plainly: you sell on Fiverr, or you are about to, and you want to know exactly what the platform takes before the money reaches your bank. The short answer is below. The full answer, including withdrawal fees and the buyer-side charges that shape what clients will pay, follows with real numbers.
How much does Fiverr take from sellers?
Fiverr takes 20 percent of every order a seller completes, and the seller keeps 80 percent. The commission applies to the full order value, including gig extras and tips, and it is the same flat rate for new sellers and top rated sellers. There are no tiers, no loyalty discount, and no lower rate for high volume.
Fiverr’s own terms put it simply: each completed gig credits your account with revenue equal to 80 percent of the purchase amount. So on a $100 order you are credited $80. On a $500 order you are credited $400. The maths never changes with order size, which makes Fiverr easy to predict and expensive to ignore when you set your prices.
That 20 percent is not the whole cost of selling on Fiverr, though. Buyers pay their own fees on top of your price, and getting your balance out of Fiverr can cost a few dollars more. Both matter, for different reasons.
Every Fiverr fee at a glance
Fees last verified: October 2026, against Fiverr’s published terms and payment terms of service.
| Fee | Who pays | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Seller commission | Seller | 20 percent of the order, including extras and tips |
| Buyer service fee | Buyer | 5.5 percent of the purchase amount |
| Small order fee | Buyer | $3.50 added to orders under $200 |
| Withdrawal to PayPal | Seller | $0 charged by Fiverr (PayPal’s own fees may apply later) |
| Withdrawal to local bank (via Payoneer) | Seller | $3 per withdrawal |
| Fiverr Revenue Card (via Payoneer) | Seller | $1 for funds in about 2 days, $3 for about 2 hours |
| Direct deposit / ACH (US only, via Payoneer) | Seller | $1 per withdrawal |
The buyer-side fees do not come out of your earnings. They are added on top of your listed price at checkout. They still affect you, because they decide what a client with a fixed budget can actually spend on your gig. A buyer with $50 to spend does not have $50 of gig budget, as the worked example below shows.
Tip: Buyer fees are charged per transaction, not per job. If a client pays for a base gig and then adds extras in separate transactions, each payment carries its own service fee. Agreeing the full scope in one order is cheaper for your client.
Worked example: a 500-dollar logo package, from both sides
Assumptions: a single order of $500, one $50 tip afterwards, seller based outside the US withdrawing to a local bank account.
What the buyer pays:
- Gig price: $500.00
- Service fee at 5.5 percent: $500 × 0.055 = $27.50
- Small order fee: $0 (the order is over $200)
- Buyer total for the gig: $527.50
- The $50 tip is a separate transaction: $50 + $2.75 service fee + $3.50 small order fee = $56.25
What the seller keeps:
- Commission on the gig: $500 × 0.20 = $100, so you are credited $400
- Commission on the tip: $50 × 0.20 = $10, so you are credited $40
- Total balance: $440
- Withdrawal to a local bank via Payoneer: $3, leaving $437 in your account
Add both sides together and Fiverr collects $137.50 on this job ($100 commission, $10 tip commission, $27.50 in buyer fees), plus the $3 withdrawal fee. The buyer spent $583.75 in total and you received $437. Run your own order values through LancerBill’s Fiverr fee calculator to see the same split for your gig prices.
What a year on Fiverr actually costs
A flat 20 percent sounds manageable on one order. It looks different across a year of steady work. Take a seller completing $2,000 of orders every month, withdrawing once a month to a local bank:
- Orders across the year: $2,000 × 12 = $24,000
- Commission at 20 percent: $24,000 × 0.20 = $4,800
- Withdrawal fees: $3 × 12 = $36
- Total kept: $24,000 − $4,800 − $36 = $19,164
That $4,836 is the price of Fiverr’s marketplace: its traffic, its payment handling, and its dispute process. Whether it is worth paying depends on how much of that work you would win anyway. For comparison, our guide to Upwork fees shows a very different structure, where the rate varies per contract from 0 to 15 percent.
The table below uses the same method as our platform fees research (verified October 2026): UK seller, new client, cheapest verified withdrawal method, US dollar fees converted at £1 = $1.35.
| Project size | Fiverr total fees | You keep on Fiverr | You keep on Upwork (typical 10 percent) | You keep if paid direct by PayPal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £500 | £102.22 | £397.78 | £449.27 | £485.20 |
| £2,000 | £402.22 | £1,597.78 | £1,799.27 | £1,941.70 |
| £5,000 | £1,002.22 | £3,997.78 | £4,499.27 | £4,854.70 |
Fiverr is the most expensive route in this comparison at every size, because 20 percent is the highest standard commission of the major platforms and it never steps down. Direct payment is cheapest, but it brings no clients with it. The honest way to read this table: Fiverr’s fee buys you demand. If the platform is not sending you buyers, you are paying for nothing.
How to price a gig so you keep what you need
The most common pricing mistake on Fiverr is setting the gig price to the amount you want to earn. Charge $100 hoping to bank $100 and you will bank $80. Work backwards instead:
Gig price = amount you want to keep ÷ 0.8
| You want to keep | Charge this gig price | Fiverr takes |
|---|---|---|
| $80 | $100 | $20 |
| $200 | $250 | $50 |
| $400 | $500 | $100 |
| $800 | $1,000 | $200 |
| $2,000 | $2,500 | $500 |
Before you set that price, check it still leaves a workable margin once your time and costs are in. LancerBill’s profit margin calculator shows the margin on any price in seconds, and if you work backwards from a target income, the method in our guide to calculating your freelance hourly rate gives you the hourly figure your gig prices need to hit.
Watch out: Pricing up to cover the fee only works if buyers still buy. Remember the buyer also pays 5.5 percent, plus $3.50 on orders under $200. A $100 gig already costs your client $109 at checkout. Push the price too far and the checkout total, not your gig page, is what loses the sale.
How to reduce what Fiverr takes
You cannot negotiate the 20 percent down, and there is no tier to climb into. What you can control is everything around it:
- Withdraw less often. A $3 bank withdrawal fee is trivial on $1,000 and painful on $30. Batch your withdrawals instead of cashing out after every order. PayPal withdrawals carry no Fiverr-side fee, though PayPal may charge for currency conversion when the money moves on.
- Sell packages, not fragments. One $500 order beats five $100 orders for your client, who pays the small order fee and a fresh service fee on every separate transaction under $200.
- Build the fee into your price from day one. Use the divide-by-0.8 formula above rather than absorbing the commission and quietly earning 20 percent less than you planned.
- Know your walk-away number. If a client found through Fiverr later hires you directly through other channels, the same work costs roughly 3 percent in payment fees instead of 20 percent. Our freelance rate calculator helps you set rates that work on both routes.
One firm boundary: do not move an existing Fiverr client off the platform to dodge the fee. Fiverr’s terms prohibit taking platform relationships outside, and a banned account loses you the reviews and ranking that made the 20 percent worth paying.
Key takeaways
- Fiverr takes a flat 20 percent from sellers on every order, including extras and tips. You always keep 80 percent.
- Buyers pay 5.5 percent on top, plus $3.50 on orders under $200, which shrinks what a fixed budget can buy from you.
- Withdrawals cost $0 to PayPal, $3 to a local bank via Payoneer, and $1 to $3 to the Fiverr Revenue Card.
- Price backwards: divide the amount you want to keep by 0.8 to get the gig price you need to charge.
- On steady volume the fee compounds: $24,000 of yearly orders costs about $4,836 in commission and withdrawal fees.
Frequently asked questions
Withdrawing to PayPal is only half the story: our PayPal fees guide for freelancers shows what PayPal itself deducts once the money lands.
Does Fiverr take 20 percent of tips?
Yes. Tips are treated like any other earnings on Fiverr, so the standard 20 percent commission applies. A $50 tip credits you $40. The buyer also pays a service fee on the tip, and the $3.50 small order fee if the tip transaction is under $200.
How much do I keep from a $100 Fiverr gig?
You keep $80. Fiverr deducts 20 percent ($20) before the money reaches your balance. If you then withdraw to a local bank via Payoneer you pay $3, leaving $77. A withdrawal to PayPal has no Fiverr-side fee, so you would keep the full $80 at that step.
Do higher earning sellers pay a lower Fiverr fee?
No. The 20 percent commission is flat across all seller levels and all order sizes. There are no volume tiers and no loyalty discount. A seller completing $500 a month and a seller completing $50,000 a month both give up the same one fifth of every order.
What fees do buyers pay on Fiverr?
Buyers pay a service fee of 5.5 percent of the purchase amount, plus a $3.50 small order fee on orders under $200. These are added on top of your gig price at checkout, so they do not reduce your earnings directly, but they do raise the total your client pays.
What is the cheapest way to withdraw money from Fiverr?
Withdrawing to PayPal costs nothing on Fiverr’s side, based on Fiverr’s payment terms of service (last updated September 2026). After that, direct deposit in the US costs $1, the Fiverr Revenue Card costs $1 to $3 depending on speed, and a local bank transfer via Payoneer costs $3. The provider’s own conversion charges can still apply after the withdrawal.
This guide is for general information only and is not financial, tax or legal advice.