Does Etsy charge fees on shipping?

Yes. The 6.5% transaction fee and the payment processing fee apply to the total the buyer pays, item plus shipping. The calculator charges fees on reimbursed shipping for that reason.

What margin do 3D print sellers aim for on Etsy?

Sellers we read treat 40% as the floor and most run near 60%. Etsy's fees alone take about 13% of a $15 order and 11% of a $35 one, before Offsite Ads. A print that looks profitable on materials alone can lose money once you count fees.

Should I offer free shipping on Etsy?

Etsy ranks free-shipping listings higher. If you do, set shipping to what the label really costs and untick buyer pays shipping. The calculator then treats that shipping cost as yours to carry and prices accordingly.

Etsy 3D print profit calculator

Etsy takes a listing fee, a transaction fee on the item and the shipping you charge, and a payment fee on top. This calculator applies all three the way Etsy bills them, then adds the costs most sellers forget: printer wear, failed prints and your own time.

Part of 3D Print Index, a free index of what people are printing, what buyers search for and what it sells for on Etsy. Numbers come from MakerWorld, Printables, Etsy and Google Trends. See the index.

Profit per unit

$5.10

at $15.00, after fees and your time

Margin

34%

under the 40% sellers treat as their minimum

Break-even

$9.37

Sale price

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$0 to $40

You $15.00

$14.97 Etsy median

At $15.00 you keep $5.10 (34%). That is under the 40% the sellers we studied treat as their minimum. You would need $16.79.

Compare with

Your print

Example numbers for an articulated dragon. Drop your sliced file or type your own.

Drop your sliced file to fill in the grams and hours below, or type them yourself.G-code or 3MF from Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer or Cura. Read on your device, never uploaded. Made the model with Meshy, Tripo or another AI generator? Slice it first, then drop the sliced file here.

Filament used

Print time

Material

Printer

Count my time8 min per piece at $25/h8 min · $3.33

More optionsEtsy fees · $0.75 packaging · 5% failures · 1 part per plateShow

The print

$3.06filament per unit

WasteSupports, brim, purge

Parts per plate

Spool price

Spool weight

PLA starts at the usual US spool price on 2026-09-09, between the big brands and the budget ones. Bambu PLA Basic is $19.99 and Polymaker PolyLite $19.99. Elegoo is $13.99, Overture about $14 in two-packs, Sunlu $12.99.

What does parts per plate mean?Show

Two build plates: six keychains on the left, one large dragon filling the right

Print six keychains on one plate. Each keychain gets one sixth of that plate's filament, power and printer wear. Print one dragon that fills the plate. It gets all of it. Your cleanup time is per finished item, so it is never split.

The machine

$0.88wear, power, failures

Printer cost

Average power drawWhile printing, not the sticker maximum. Most desktop printers sit between 50 and 200 W.

Printer lifetimePrint hours before it is worn out. No maker publishes this, so every printer starts at 6,000 h.

Electricity price

Failure rateCost of failed prints, spread over the good ones

Selling

$2.63per unit

Packaging per unit

Shipping label

Design cost per unitAI credits, a commission, a paid file

Buyer pays shippingmarketplace fees still apply to it

Etsy fees · $0.20 listing · 6.5% transaction · 3.0% + $0.25 paymentChange

Listing fee

Transaction fee

Payment processing

Payment fixed

Sales tax on Etsy's fees

Most US sellers pay no tax on marketplace fees. Texas and Hawaii started charging it in 2025. It is a real cost, not something you reclaim. We spread it over every fee line, which is a shade more than Texas actually charges.

Etsy adsoff

Etsy charges 15% on an order it says its own advertising brought, and makes it compulsory for shops over $10,000 a year. It only costs you on the orders it lands on, so it is off until you say how many.

Preset from etsy.com/legal/fees and etsy.com/legal/etsy-payments (United States row), read 2026-09-09.

Why these numbersShow

Waste is filament you buy that never ends up in the part: supports, brim, skirt, and the purge an AMS or MMU throws away on a colour change. Leave it at 0 if the grams already include it. It raises the material cost only, never the hours, because your slicer was already printing all of that when it estimated them.

Design cost per unit is what you paid for the design divided by how many units you will sell from it. AI credits, a commission, a paid file. Leave it at 0 if you designed it yourself.

Buyer pays shipping means the buyer is charged for postage on top of the price. The marketplace still takes its percentage on that total, which is why the fee line moves when you tick it.

Change anything here and this browser remembers your printer, rate and fees for next time. They stay on your device.

Per print-hour

$1.33 before fees

Sellers aim for about $3.00 after filament

Per gram

$0.08 before fees

Sellers aim for about $0.20 for everyday items

Counting only this item’s share of the plate. The figures sellers aim for are what US sellers quote, in dollars.

Toys & games market check

See the index

Etsy median $15middle price of 46 listings for the Etsy search ‘3d printed dragon’

Price from the marketthen read your margin at that price

Your 60% price is $27.80. Compare roughly, not to the cent.

Cost per unit

$9.90

Your time34%$3.33
Filament31%$3.06
Channel fees19%$1.87
Packaging7%$0.75
Printer wear5%$0.53
Failed prints2%$0.20
Electricity2%$0.16

Your time is 34% of the cost. Electricity is 2%. Most calculators only show you the second number.

No account needed. The URL holds your numbers.

Etsy fees in this calculator

Listing fee per sale: $0.20, and the listing renews when it sells.
7% transaction fee on the item price plus any shipping charged to the buyer. US sellers are not charged it on sales tax.
Etsy Payments in the US: 3% + $0.25 per order.
Sales tax on fees: only Texas, from October 2025, and only on the transaction fee. Everywhere else in the US there is none. Set it under the fee preset.
Offsite Ads (12 to 15% on attributed sales) is not included. Add it to the transaction fee if it applies to you.

Preset read from etsy.com/legal/fees and etsy.com/legal/etsy-payments (United States row) on 2026-09-09. Rates drift. If yours differ, edit the preset under More options. The link you share carries your numbers.

Every preset is editable under More options, in Selling.

Questions

Does Etsy charge fees on shipping?: Yes. The 6.5% transaction fee and the payment processing fee apply to the total the buyer pays, item plus shipping. The calculator charges fees on reimbursed shipping for that reason.
What margin do 3D print sellers aim for on Etsy?: Sellers we read treat 40% as the floor and most run near 60%. Etsy's fees alone take about 13% of a $15 order and 11% of a $35 one, before Offsite Ads. A print that looks profitable on materials alone can lose money once you count fees.
Should I offer free shipping on Etsy?: Etsy ranks free-shipping listings higher. If you do, set shipping to what the label really costs and untick buyer pays shipping. The calculator then treats that shipping cost as yours to carry and prices accordingly.