Fiverr's seller service fee is a flat 20% of the order, including tips, with no volume tiers. On a $100 order you keep $80. The buyer separately pays roughly a 5.5% service fee plus a $2.50 small-order fee under $50, which does not affect your payout.
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Fiverr's fee is one of the simplest in the freelance marketplace world: a flat 20% cut of every completed order, no matter your seller level, order size or how long you have been on the platform. Sell a $50 gig and you keep $40. Sell a $500 package and you keep $400. The calculator above applies that math instantly and also shows the separate fee Fiverr charges buyers, so you understand the full picture of what a client actually pays versus what lands in your account.
Every gig you sell and successfully complete credits your account with 80% of the purchase amount, per Fiverr's own terms, which means the platform's cut applies uniformly across the entire order value, including any tips a buyer adds. There is no tiered structure like some marketplaces use, and no discount for high-volume or Top Rated sellers. A brand-new seller and a Fiverr Pro both pay the same 20%.
That flat rate makes Fiverr easy to plan around, since your net payout is always exactly 80% of whatever price you set. It also means the fee hits hardest on small orders in absolute terms, though the percentage itself never changes, which is why many sellers price their base gigs slightly higher than they would on a platform with no take rate at all.
Separately from the 20% sellers pay, Fiverr adds its own service fee to what buyers see at checkout, generally around 5.5% of the order plus a $2.50 small-order fee on purchases under $50. This fee is paid on top of your listed gig price and goes to Fiverr, not to you, so it does not change your payout. It is worth knowing about mainly because it affects how expensive your gig looks to a buyer once fees are added at checkout.
Since the 20% rate is fixed and cannot be negotiated, the only real levers are your price and your volume. Gig extras and paid upsells raise the average order value without requiring a new client, and a stronger portfolio and review history let you justify higher base prices over time. Beyond Fiverr itself, the biggest unlock for a freelance business is often visibility outside the marketplace entirely, since ranking for your own service keywords on Google brings clients who never pay a marketplace fee at all.
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