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Gumroad fee calculator
Selling digital products and downloads.
Gumroad charges a single flat rate with nothing monthly behind it, which makes it cheap to start with and expensive at volume. The rate jumps sharply when the buyer found you through Gumroad Discover rather than through a link of your own.
The sale
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On a $51.00 sale, Gumroad takes $5.60 — 11% of what the buyer paid — and $45.40 reaches you. You keep 89% of the order.
Every line of it
| Buyer pays | item + shipping | $51.00 |
Gumroad fee | 10% of $51.00 | −$5.10 |
Per-sale fee | $0.50 flat | −$0.50 |
| Total fees | −$5.60 | |
| Reaches your account | $45.40 | |
On this sale, Gumroad ranks 12 of 16 for what reaches you.
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- Payout method and currency can add costs at withdrawal that are not part of the per-sale fee.
Gumroad fees: common questions
How much does Gumroad take from a $50 sale?
$5.50 on a $50 sale, leaving you $44.50 — an effective rate of 11%. On $100 it is $10.50, leaving $89.50. The rate differs between the two because Gumroad charges a fixed amount per transaction as well as a percentage, so the flat part weighs more heavily on smaller orders.
What are Gumroad's fees, exactly?
On a $50 sale, Gumroad charges gumroad fee of $5.00 (10% of $50.00), per-sale fee of $0.50 ($0.50 flat). That comes to $5.50 in total. There is no monthly fee.
Does Gumroad charge fees on shipping?
Yes. Gumroad calculates its percentage on the order total, which includes the shipping you charged the buyer. A $50 item with free shipping costs $5.50 in fees; the same item with $10 shipping costs $6.50 — $1.00 more, on shipping money that mostly goes to the carrier. Raising your shipping price raises your Gumroad bill.
What should I charge on Gumroad to keep $50?
Work it backwards rather than guessing: at Gumroad's rates you have to charge more than $50 to keep $50, because the fee is taken from what the buyer pays. The what-to-charge calculator solves for the exact price, including the flat per-transaction fee, and rounds up to the cent so you are never left short.
What does this Gumroad calculator not include?
Payout method and currency can add costs at withdrawal that are not part of the per-sale fee.
Are these Gumroad fees up to date?
They were read from Gumroad's own published fee schedule on August 28, 2026, and the source is linked on this page so you can check it yourself. An automated check re-reads every source page weekly and flags any that have changed. Fee schedules do move without notice, so where this page and Gumroad disagree, Gumroad is right.
That is what Gumroad takes. What the unit actually earns is another question again, once shipping, advertising and the orders that come back are in the picture — work out the true margin.
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