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Patreon fee calculator
Memberships and digital products. 10% plus 2.9% + $0.30 processing.
Every Patreon creator page published after 4 August 2025 is on the standard plan: a 10% platform fee on each successful payment, plus payment processing of 2.9% + $0.30 for card and Apple Pay payments, and for PayPal or Venmo payments from US members. PayPal and Venmo payments from members outside the US cost 3.9% + $0.30. The rates are the same at every price, so the $0.30 takes its largest share on a cheap tier. A payment made in a currency other than your payout currency adds a 2.5% conversion fee. Creators on the older Founders plan pay a 5% platform fee and lower US-dollar processing rates. Unlike Ko-fi or Substack, Patreon processes the payment itself, so every fee below is Patreon's.
The sale
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On a $45.00 sale, Patreon takes $6.11 — 13.6% of what the buyer paid — and $38.89 reaches you. You keep 86.4% of the order.
Every line of it
| Buyer pays | item + shipping | $45.00 |
Platform fee Standard plan rate. | 10% of $45.00 | −$4.50 |
Payment processing Card or Apple Pay, any member location. | 2.9% of $45.00 + $0.30 | −$1.61 |
| Total fees | −$6.11 | |
| Reaches your account | $38.89 | |
On this sale, Patreon ranks 23 of 29 for what reaches you.
Compare all platformsWhat this calculator does not cover
- Patreon calculates processing and the conversion fee on the full payment including any sales tax or VAT it collects. Tax varies by member location and is not modelled, so on a taxed payment those fees run slightly higher than shown.
- Patreon adds applicable taxes on its own platform fee for some creators, depending on location. Not modelled.
- Purchases made through Apple's in-app system in the Patreon iOS app carry Apple's 30% App Store fee in place of Patreon's processing fee (15% after a year of continuous billing). Patreon does not state the base its platform fee uses on those purchases, so in-app purchases are not modelled.
- Legacy plans other than Founders (5%, 8% or 11%) use a separate rate table with micropayment pricing at $3 and under, and creators paid out in a currency other than US dollars use local processing rates. Only the standard plan and the Founders US-dollar rates are modelled; a Founders creator who changed payout currency pays standard processing rates.
- Moving your balance out of Patreon costs a payout fee that depends on the payout method and currency. It is charged per payout, not per payment, so it is not included here.
Patreon fees: common questions
How much does Patreon take from a $50 sale?
$6.75 in fees on a $50 sale, leaving you $43.25 — an effective rate of 13.5%. On $100 it is $13.20, leaving $86.80. The effective rate is higher on the smaller sale because part of the fee is a fixed amount per transaction, which weighs more heavily on smaller orders.
What are Patreon's fees, exactly?
On a $50 sale, the fees are platform fee of $5.00 (10% of $50.00), payment processing of $1.75 (2.9% of $50.00 + $0.30). That comes to $6.75 in total. There is no monthly fee.
What should I charge on Patreon to keep $50?
Work it backwards rather than guessing: at Patreon'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 any flat per-transaction fee, and rounds up to the cent so you are never left short.
What does this Patreon calculator not include?
Patreon calculates processing and the conversion fee on the full payment including any sales tax or VAT it collects. Tax varies by member location and is not modelled, so on a taxed payment those fees run slightly higher than shown.
Are these Patreon fees up to date?
They were read from Patreon's own published fee schedule on October 9, 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 Patreon disagree, Patreon is right.
That is what Patreon 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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