Freelance Platform Fee Calculator, Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com & Guru

A marketplace quotes the client one price, but you take home less: each platform keeps a service fee (commission) out of every order before the money reaches you. This calculator applies each platform's published seller/freelancer fee to the order amount you enter and shows three numbers per platform, the fee, your net, and your effective take-home percentage, so you can price a gig to net the figure you actually need.

For an order amount A in US dollars, the fee on each platform is:

• Fiverr, fee = A × 20%; net = A × 80%.
• Upwork, fee = A × 10%; net = A − fee. (Fixed and hourly alike.)
• Freelancer.com (fixed), fee = max(A × 10%, $5.00); net = A − fee.
• Freelancer.com (hourly), fee = A × 10%; net = A − fee.
• Guru, fee = A × 8.95%; net = A − fee.

The effective take-home % is net ÷ A × 100, rounded to one decimal place. For percentage-only fees the take-home is a flat number, 80% on Fiverr, 90% on Upwork, but Freelancer.com's fixed-price $5 floor makes its take-home rise with order size: on a $30 job the $5 floor is a 16.7% cut, while on a $500 job the same 10% rule applies and you keep 90%. The tool flags the highest take-home platform for your exact amount, because that floor can flip the ranking on small orders.

Every row is reconciled, fee plus net always equals the order amount, and the Fiverr net is independently cross-checked by computing the retained 80% share directly, not just as A − fee. The optional LKR figure multiplies your net by an editable USD→LKR rate (defaulting to an indicative Central Bank of Sri Lanka value) and is illustrative only: it does not include withdrawal fees from Payoneer, Wise, Skrill or a bank wire, which the USD-LKR Earnings Calculator handles. This tool is the marketplace-commission step; income tax and payout fees are deliberately separate.

• Fiverr: 20% flat seller commission on every order
• Upwork: 10% flat freelancer service fee (fixed & hourly)
• Freelancer.com: Greater of 10% or US$5 on fixed; 10% on hourly
• Guru: 8.95% Job Fee on the free Basic plan
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka: daily USD/LKR indicative exchange rate

These fee rates were last cross-checked against each platform's official help-centre or pricing page on 2026-06-08. Marketplaces change fees occasionally; the page is reviewed periodically and whenever a platform announces a fee change.