Selling plans · read November 7, 2026
Amazon Individual vs Professional selling plan calculator
$0.99 per item sold, or $39.99 a month. The Professional plan starts winning at 41 items a month — not a round number, which is why sellers guess wrong at 40. Enter your volume to see both totals, the per-item cost at that volume, and the annual figures if your year is uneven.
Professional is cheaper at 60 items a month
$19.41 less a month
Individual $59.40 · Professional $39.99 a month. That is $232.92 a year.
Individual would only be cheaper again below 41 items a month.
How the two plans are charged
The Individual plan costs $0.99 for every item sold and nothing per month. The Professional plan costs $0.00 per item and $39.99 a month. Nothing else about the fee structure differs — referral fees and every FBA fee on this site apply the same way on both plans, so the comparison really is these two lines. Public page
That makes the question a single division: $39.99 ÷ $0.99 = 40.39 items. Since items are whole and the answer is not, the crossing lands between two counts: at 40 items the Individual plan still costs $39.60 against $39.99, and at 41 items it costs $40.59. That 39¢ gap at 40 items is the whole reason this page exists.
An item fee, not an order fee
$0.99 is charged per item, so an order containing three units costs $2.97. A seller shipping multi-unit orders crosses 41 items a month at a third of the order count they might expect — which is the other half of the reason this page exists.
The monthly fee is charged in months you sell nothing
$39.99 is charged whether or not an order arrives, so $479.88 a year is committed on the Professional plan. A seasonal seller should compare annual totals rather than a busy-season average: over a year the crossing is 485 items, not 41 × 12. If you sell 485 items in a year you break even, however unevenly they fall.
What each plan costs at these volumes
Example volumes, priced with the two published rates and nothing else. The 41-item row is where Professional stops being the more expensive plan — it is the first volume at which the monthly fee is covered by the per-item fees it replaces.
| Items a month | Individual | Professional | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $9.90 | $39.99 | Individual |
| 25 | $24.75 | $39.99 | Individual |
| 40 | $39.60 | $39.99 | Individual |
| 41 | $40.59 | $39.99 | Professional |
| 50 | $49.50 | $39.99 | Professional |
| 100 | $99.00 | $39.99 | Professional |
| 250 | $247.50 | $39.99 | Professional |
| 500 | $495.00 | $39.99 | Professional |
| 1,000 | $990.00 | $39.99 | Professional |
What this page does not say
It compares fees, and only fees. It does not tell you which plan is right for your business, because the non-fee differences — what each plan lets you do — are Amazon's to describe and change, and this site does not carry that information. It also cannot see your returns, your advertising, or your margin: that is what the profit calculator is for.
Whole items only. The calculator floors a fractional entry, because a seller does not ship 40.4 of anything and a fraction should not decide the comparison.
Questions
How many items do I need to sell before the Professional plan pays for itself?
41 items a month. $39.99 divided by $0.99 is 40.39, so at 40 items the Individual plan still costs less — $39.60 against $39.99 — and at 41 it stops being cheaper. Over a year the crossing is 485 items, because the monthly fee is charged twelve times.
Is the 99¢ an order fee or an item fee?
An item fee. Three units in one order costs $2.97 on the Individual plan, not 99¢. That is why the break-even is a count of items rather than orders, and why a seller with multi-unit orders reaches it sooner than they expect.
I only sell for part of the year. Does that change the answer?
Yes, and by more than it looks. The monthly fee is charged in the quiet months too, so a seasonal seller should compare annual totals rather than a busy-month average: Individual is $0.99 for every item you sell in the year, Professional is $479.88 whether you sell anything or not. The page shows both so you can do that without a second tool.
What else do the two plans include?
This page compares the fees only. Each plan also comes with different access to Amazon’s selling tools, and that is Amazon’s to describe — the fee arithmetic here says nothing about which features you get. Check the plan page before deciding on anything but cost.
Are referral and FBA fees different on the two plans?
Not in the tables this site carries: referral fees, FBA fulfilment and the storage, aged-inventory, low-inventory and returns fees are the same on either plan. The plan decides only whether you pay per item or per month, which is why this page compares those two lines and nothing else.
When were these prices read?
On November 7, 2026, from the published pricing page. Plan prices change rarely but they do change, and the break-even moves with them — the figure on this page is computed from the two prices, not typed in.
Plan prices read on . Check the current pricing page before you switch — the break-even on this page is computed from those two prices, so it moves when they do.