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.