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Selling with FBA on the US marketplace comes with numerous benefits. For one, Amazon FBA makes you eligible to sell to over 200 million Prime members who are willing to pay more for faster delivery. You also don’t have to worry about paying for a storage facility or handling any shipping logistics.
Fulfillment by Amazon(FBA) helps you handle order fulfillment and logistics while you focus on how to generate more income for your business. However, these numerous benefits do come at a cost. In fact, Amazon has unveiled changes to its Amazon FBA fees for 2026.
So what are these Amazon FBA fee changes? In this ePlaybooks guide, we will give you a breakdown of these fees, so you can effectively create a working budget, sell with fulfillment by Amazon, and increase company sales.
Amazon updated its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) fee structure. While fees are increasing in certain areas, the goal is to reduce costs and improve fulfillment speed.
One of the biggest tasks for any Amazon FBA Seller is handling orders and shipping products to customers. This can be time-consuming, especially as Amazon sales increase and your business expands. This is where the FBA service comes in. Apart from storing your products, Amazon helps you store your products in fulfillment centers. They also ship these products to your customers. This means you can focus on other aspects of your business.
However, Amazon charges a fee for storing and shipping your products. These fees are primarily based on the product's weight.
In 2026, fulfillment fees increased by about $0.08 per unit on average. This is less than 0.5% of the average product price. The increase isn’t uniform and depends on your product's price. Amazon introduced more detailed size and price tiers. Fees now better reflect weight, dimensions, and handling complexity. This means inefficient packaging can cost you more. This excludes the Apparel product category.
One of the many benefits of using Amazon FBA is that you don’t have to store your inventory. This is beneficial, especially if you don’t have a space to store a large number of items. What’s more, you don’t need to pay to rent out a large storage facility. All you need to do is send your inventory to Amazon and have them store it for you. You can also have your supplier ship your products directly to Amazon. Of course, to get these benefits, you will need to pay for them.
Amazon storage fees remain unchanged. Off-peak monthly inventory storage fees (January-September) for standard-size products are $0.09 per cubic foot. Off-peak monthly inventory storage fees for large, bulky, or extra-large products, as well as peak monthly inventory storage fees for all product categories, remained unchanged.
Here’s a breakdown of what these fees will look like:
There are no updates to storage utilization surcharges for 2026. These fees apply when sellers hold more inventory in Amazon’s fulfillment centers than their recent sales performance justifies, essentially penalizing excess stock relative to demand.
The surcharge is determined by several factors, including the product’s size category, the time of year, total inventory volume, average daily units stored, the seller’s storage utilization ratio, and whether the item is classified as a dangerous good. Sellers can monitor their current storage utilization ratio directly from the FBA dashboard within Seller Central. This surcharge applies to Professional sellers whose storage utilization ratio exceeds 22 weeks (approximately 5 months).
The storage utilization ratio is calculated by dividing the average daily inventory volume by the average daily shipped volume over the past 13 weeks, based on size tier 15. Inventory aged between 0 and 30 days is excluded from the surcharge. Also, products auto-replenished by Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) are eligible for a storage utilization surcharge waiver.
Amazon has adjusted its long-term storage charges for older inventory. Products stored between 271 and 365 days (roughly 12 to 15 months) will now incur a higher fee, increasing by $0.15 per unit to $0.30 per unit each month.
For inventory that remains in fulfillment centers beyond 15 months (365+ days), Amazon applies a more aggressive charge: $0.35 per unit per month or $7.90 per cubic foot, whichever amount is greater. This new tier reflects Amazon’s effort to better account for the cost of storing slow-moving inventory.
To avoid these additional charges, sellers should regularly review their Inventory Age Report and take steps to improve turnover and move aging stock more quickly.
When an item is not sellable, Amazon sends the item back to the seller to dispose of. The fee charged when Amazon returns those items is called a Removal fee.
On the other hand, Disposal fees are the fees charged by Amazon to destroy items that are unsellable for the seller.
Amazon has lowered the cost of removing or disposing of standard-size aged inventory weighing less than 0.5 lb. The fee has been reduced by $0.20 per unit, bringing the new rate to $0.84.
This adjustment is designed to make it more affordable for sellers to clear out excess or slow-moving inventory on time. Here's a breakdown of the 2026 Amazon FBA removal and disposal fees in the table below:
Amazon is one of the largest ecommerce sites in the world. It has a large customer base, giving you access to a huge number of potential customers. When you sell a product on Amazon, they collect a profit. This is Amazon’s commission for letting you sell on their platform. These few vary depending on the product category. The referral fee is based on the total sales price, including the price of the item and the price of shipping and gift wrapping.
Specifically, for apparel items under $15, Amazon reduced referral fees to 5% from 17%. For items priced between $15 and $20, Amazon decreased referral fees to 10% from the previous 17%. For items above $20, the referral fee is 17%. It's important to note that referral fees for other Amazon products remained unchanged.
If you belong to other categories, your referral fees stay the same. Here are a few referral fee charges for various categories on Amazon:
It is also important to consider the taxes you will pay on your earnings from Amazon.
Amazon applies return processing fees to certain categories where customers are eligible for free returns. These charges help offset the costs associated with handling returned items, including inspection, repackaging, and returning products to inventory.
Instead of charging a fee for every individual return, Amazon now evaluates return rates at the product level. A fee will only be applied if a product’s return rate exceeds a specific threshold set for its category. This means sellers with well-performing products and low return rates can benefit from reduced or no return-related charges.
The return rate is determined by dividing the number of units shipped in a given month by the number of customer returns received during that month and the following two calendar months.
The Amazon FBA fee changes may significantly affect sellers either positively or negatively. While there is no way to bypass these fees, you can reduce their impact on your business. Here are a few ways you can do that:
At the end of the day, your goal is to make a profit selling on Amazon. Knowing the expected costs will help you create a working budget and help you make smart choices.
Hopefully, this article gives you an idea of the changes to come. If you have any questions or need professional help tracking which products are profitable to increase your profit margins, you can speak to an expert on ePlaybooks right away.
The cost of Amazon FBA per unit in 2026 varies depending on factors like product size, weight, category, and price. On average, sellers can expect to pay between $3.50 and $7.50+ per unit in fulfillment fees alone.
However, when you include referral fees, storage, inbound shipping, and other charges, total costs can rise to 30% to 40% (or more) of the product’s selling price. Lower-priced and lightweight items typically cost less, while larger or higher-priced products incur higher fees due to increased handling and logistics complexity.
Fulfillment fees and storage fees serve different purposes. Fulfillment fees cover the operational side of order delivery, picking, packing, shipping, customer service, and returns handling. These are charged per unit sold. Storage fees are charged monthly based on how much space your inventory occupies in Amazon’s warehouses. In most cases, fulfillment fees are the larger and more consistent expense, since they apply to every sale. Storage fees tend to be relatively low at first but can become expensive if inventory sits unsold for long periods, especially with aged inventory surcharges.
While FBA fees don’t directly determine your Inventory Performance Index (IPI), they are closely tied to the behaviors that influence it. Your IPI score is affected by factors such as sell-through rate, excess inventory levels, stranded inventory, and in-stock rate. High fees, especially storage and aged inventory surcharges, often signal poor inventory management, such as overstocking or slow-moving products. These issues can lower your IPI score over time.
You’ve probably already considered selling on Amazon but its way easier than you think.
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