Every marketplace will tell you selling is free to start. None of them mean it the same way, and the difference only shows up once your first listings renew. Here is the arithmetic, not the pitch.
Every marketplace that will take your digital file charges you in three places, whether it says so up front or not: a fee to put the listing up, a fee when it renews, and a cut when it sells. Skip any one of the three and you have not compared anything — you have compared a headline.
We have put the three numbers for Etsy, eBay and ourselves on one page, with a calculator that runs your own price through all three: see what each one actually keeps. Everything below links back to it, because a guide should explain how the arithmetic works and a tool should do the arithmetic.
Etsy, eBay and us, compared on one sale.
What it needs before "where" even matters.
Two real alternatives, and what each one costs.
What you give up, and what you keep.
The renewal clock: $0.60 a year, whether it sells or not.
Three charges, worked out on one sale.
The same sale, run through three fee stacks.
Two fee shapes, and where each one wins.
What a business account buys you - and what skipping it costs.
What most marketplaces ask for, and what we ask instead.
What the payout costs, and who actually pays it.
What honest disclosure actually looks like.
Two words that change what a buyer can actually do.
Work backward from what you need to keep.