What Amazon India actually charges sellers in 2026

Ask what Amazon charges and you'll usually be told "about 15%". That number is doing a lot of work it can't support. Amazon's referral fee depends on your category and your price band, and since March 2026 a huge share of products pay nothing at all.

The five fees, in order of what they'll cost you

1. Referral fee — % of item price, by category and price band. Often ₹0 now.
2. Closing fee — flat, by price band and fulfilment mode.
3. Shipping / weight handling — by weight slab and delivery zone.
4. FBA fees — only if Amazon fulfils: pick & pack, storage, removals.
5. GST on all of the above — 18%, reclaimable as Input Tax Credit.

1. Referral fee: the ₹1,000 cliff

Since 16 March 2026, Amazon charges no referral fee on products priced at or below ₹1,000, across 1,800+ categories. Above ₹1,000, referral fees run from about 2% to 38% depending on category.

The word "cliff" matters. This isn't a sliding scale — it's a hard threshold. A sample of the real 2026 rates:

Not every category went to zero

The 0%-under-₹1,000 rule is broad but not universal. Some categories are flat-rated at every price, and some use different thresholds entirely:

Note that Camera & Camcorder rate going down above ₹49,000. Amazon's structure is genuinely non-linear — which is exactly why "about 15%" fails as a planning assumption.

Sub-category precision matters enormously

"Electronics" isn't a rate. Amazon splits it into sub-categories that differ by 20 percentage points: Cases & Covers at 25%, Accessories at 17%, Electronic Devices at 9–11%, Mobile Phones at 5%. Pick the wrong one in any calculator and your margin estimate is fiction.

2. Closing fee

A flat charge per order, by price band and fulfilment mode. March 2026 cut these too: under ₹300 fell from ₹45 to ₹20, and ₹300–500 from ₹35 to ₹26. Items above ₹1,000 carry a ₹72 closing fee. FBA orders pay less than self-ship.

Amazon publishes the full closing-fee table as an image rather than text on its fee page, so precise per-group figures are hard to extract programmatically. Check the table on Amazon's fee page for your specific category group.

3. Shipping and weight handling

Charged by weight slab and delivery zone. Amazon defines three zones:

• Local — pickup and delivery in the same city.
• Regional — within the same region.
• National — across regions.

Amazon groups India into four regions:

Amazon's own worked example: a 700g item containing a book, shipped Delhi → Chandigarh through a fulfilment centre, costs ₹54 in weight handling.

4. FBA fees (only if Amazon fulfils)

Storage is charged by volume, not weight. A light but bulky product — cushions, bean bags, empty containers — can cost more to store than a heavy compact one. It's the fee sellers most often forget when modelling FBA.

5. GST — and the mistake nearly every calculator makes

Amazon charges 18% GST on all of its fees. That sounds like an 18% surcharge, and most calculators treat it that way. It isn't.

If you're GST-registered, that GST is reclaimable as Input Tax Credit. You pay it and you get it back. Its net cost to your business is zero.

More broadly: GST never hits your P&L at all. Your selling price includes GST that was never yours; you collect it and remit it. A calculator that subtracts GST as a cost and backs it out of revenue is counting it twice — and will understate your profit substantially on every single order.

Rates change — check before you price

Two categories changed on 10 June 2026: Tyres & Rims went from 3% to 7%, and Fans & Robotic Vacuums (₹1,000–5,000) from 4.5% to 7%. Both changes were published in advance and both were easy to miss.

Every rate on this site carries a source link and the date we last checked it. Even so: confirm against your own Seller Central before you commit to a price.