Amazon FBA fee changes for 2027: what is changing and what it costs per unit

What Amazon has announced for 2027 so far

For referral fees and FBA fees in the US: nothing yet.

Amazon has published its recent yearly fee updates in two places. There is a letter to sellers on its Selling Partner blog, and a summary page in Seller Central that the short link amazon.com/selling-fee-changes opens once you sign in. We could not open that summary to check it. No 2027 letter has been published on the Selling Partner blog.

Here is what the 2026 update promised about timing, in Amazon's words: "You have at least 90 days before any fee increases take effect." Most of those changes started on January 15, 2026. We are not going to guess at the 2027 dates or numbers. When Amazon publishes them, this page changes.

Two dates that reach into 2027 are already set:

• Holiday peak fulfillment fees end on January 14, 2027. They run from October 15, 2026. Which rates apply after that depends on Amazon's 2027 update. More on peak fees below.
• Bundles you assemble yourself. From January 11, 2027, Amazon's program policy changes page says bundles in most categories must be packaged by the original manufacturer or brand, and bundles that do not comply may be suppressed. That is a listing rule, not a fee. Our log of Amazon rule changes covers the exceptions.

What this page will show once Amazon announces

The day the 2027 update lands, this section becomes a single table: each fee that changes, the old figure, the new figure, the date it starts, and Amazon's page for it. Below it you will find the cost per unit at three price points and the size tiers that move most.

Here is how we will build those numbers, so you can judge them:

1. We copy Amazon's new tables into the same fee configuration our calculators and fee pages read, with the date we read them.
2. We run a fixed set of example products through the old and the new tables: every size tier at three prices, one under $10, one between $10 and $50, and one over $50. Those are the same price bands Amazon uses for fulfillment fees.
3. Amazon's fulfillment fee page lists a handful of example products with their fees. Our results have to match those before anything goes live.
4. A person compares every figure on this page with Amazon's page. Then this page, our FBA fees guide, each fee guide and the calculators change on the same day.

Being a few days later than a news site is fine. Being wrong about your fees is not.

What a fee change costs per unit: the 2026 example

Amazon reports its yearly change as an average, and the average hides most of what matters. For 2026, Amazon said FBA fees would rise "by an average of $0.08 per unit sold, or less than 0.5% of an average item's selling price." Its 2026 fee changes summary in Seller Central breaks that down by size tier and price band. That page needs a sign-in and we could not check its wording, so we don't repeat its figures here. Open it while signed in to see the change for your own size tiers.

What a change does to you depends on your price and your profit, not on the average. Take one example, not a benchmark: a $25 item whose fulfillment fee goes up by 25 cents, and which leaves you $3.00 of profit per unit after every cost. The 25 cents is 1% of the price, which looks small. It's about 8% of your profit. If the product sells 300 units a month, that's $75 a month, or $900 over a year, from one product.

That is why a fee change hurts most where margins are already thin: cheap items, small items and products you are only just making money on. Our guide to wholesale profit margins shows how to set the margin you need before you buy.

When Amazon announces the 2027 changes, this section will carry the same two tables with the new figures.

Which size tiers and categories changed most in 2026

Amazon's 2026 fee changes summary lists the changes tier by tier: standard-size, low-price, bulky and extra-large items, plus the storage and inbound fees. It needs a Seller Central sign-in, and we could not open it to check the current wording, so we don't quote its per-tier averages. What we can say from Amazon's public pages:

• The average was $0.08 per unit sold, from Amazon's 2026 letter to sellers, with "no new FBA fee types in 2026" and at least 90 days of notice before any increase.
• Referral fee percentages: the 2026 letter announces no change to them, and Amazon's public pricing page has the current table. Our referral fee guide copies it.
• Your own products: Amazon's Revenue Calculator and the Fee Preview report show the fee Amazon charges each of your products today, which is what matters more than any average.

For the current fee figures by tier and weight, see our guide to size tiers and fulfillment fees, which links Amazon's table.

Holiday peak fees and the fuel surcharge

Two more charges sit on top of the 2026 rates, and both change what you pay at the end of the year.

Amazon's fulfillment fee page has the peak rate cards. It needs a sign-in, and we have not copied its figures.

What that means in practice:

• Use the fee Amazon actually charges. Our profit calculator asks you for the fulfillment fee rather than working out a surcharge or a peak rate itself, so type the figure from Amazon's Revenue Calculator or your Fee Preview report for the season you are selling in.
• Peak pricing is reported to follow the ship date, not the order date. Plan stock that leaves Amazon's warehouses in late October through mid January at the peak rate, whenever it was ordered.
• Storage is a separate fee. Amazon's monthly storage fee page has the rates by season. Our storage fees guide covers how that adds up.

Check your own products

Amazon's averages tell you the direction. Only your own products tell you the cost. The quickest way to see it is to run one product twice: once at the fee you pay today, once at the new fee.

How to use it for a fee change:

1. Type the selling price and pick the fee category. The referral fee fills in from Amazon's table.
2. Type the fulfillment fee Amazon charges you today and what you pay your supplier. Note the profit per unit.
3. Add the change (an announced increase, or the peak difference) to the fulfillment fee and look again.
4. Switch to "Most I can pay", type the return you want, and see the highest supplier cost that still gets you there at the new fee. That number is what you take into a conversation with the supplier.

Amazon has its own tools for the same job. Its 2026 letter said the Revenue Calculator and the Fee and Economics Preview report were being updated with the new rates, and pointed sellers to the Profit Analytics dashboard to see how fee changes affect each product. The report and the dashboard need a Seller Central sign-in. To check a product you do not sell yet, paste its ASIN into our FBA calculator (3 free lookups, then sign in with a plan), or type every figure into the profit calculator, which is free and needs no sign-in.

What to do before a fee change starts

Amazon's yearly fee changes come with notice (at least 90 days for the 2026 increases), which gives you time to act on the products where it matters. Stef works the same way when he builds a purchase order. From Stef's lesson (Purchasing, 30:56 to 31:32): he does not stop at the profit at today's Buy Box price. He checks the 30, 60 and 90 day averages to see whether a product still meets his ROI and margin targets at its lowest point. A new fee is one more version of the lowest point. Test against it before it arrives, not after.

For the supplier conversation, our guide to negotiating with distributors helps you ask for a better price without burning the relationship. For shipments, the inbound placement fee guide compares the split options.

Earlier changes: 2026

The same URL keeps each year's changes, so this is the record of the 2026 update. Amazon's public 2026 letter gives the headline: FBA fees up an average of $0.08 per unit sold, no new FBA fee types, at least 90 days of notice, and most changes starting January 15, 2026. The detail is on Seller Central pages that need a sign-in. We list which fees changed and where Amazon describes each one, but we could not open those pages to check their figures, so we don't repeat them.

Amazon's 2026 letter promised "no new FBA fee types in 2026." The fuel and logistics-related surcharge was reported later, in April, as a percentage added on top of the fulfillment fee.

Before that: 2025

For 2025, Amazon's letter to sellers said it would not raise US referral or FBA fees and would not add new fee types. The changes it did make went the other way. From January 15, 2025, it lowered the inbound placement fee for large bulky items on minimal splits by an average of $0.58 per unit. It also waived the placement fee on up to the first 100 units of new parent ASINs that qualified for its New Selection program, in shipments created from December 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025.

How this page stays current

This page follows the same rules as the rest of our fee guides:

• Amazon's US pages are the source. A change goes on this page only once we can link Amazon's own announcement or help page for it. Figures reported by trade press or other sellers appear in a box marked Reported, with the publisher named.
• Dates are Amazon's effective dates, not the day we noticed a change.
• Fee rates live in one place. Our fee guides and the inline calculators read the same fee configuration. The FBA calculator's referral lookup still differs from Amazon's table in a few categories (it says which on its results), and where we have not copied one of Amazon's tables yet, we link Amazon's page instead of typing its numbers.
• One URL for every year. When the 2027 changes arrive, the 2026 record stays on this page below them.

Our full rules for sources, corrections and reviews are on the editorial policy page. If Amazon's page and ours ever disagree, Amazon's page is the one that counts, and we would like to hear about it.