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Amazon FBA fee rates as versioned JSON: dated, sourced, and free to cite.
Most FBA fee pages publish a rate. These datasets publish the rate, the effective date, the official source and a version number — so a figure can be traced, reproduced and cited, and so a change can be detected instead of discovered in a settlement report.
Key fact: Amazon's fuel and logistics surcharge is 3.5% in the US and 1.5% in the UK and the European stores, both effective 17 April 2026 — the same fee name, more than twice the rate, and a difference most 2026 fee calculators do not model at all. On top of that, US fulfilment fees carry a peak-season uplift from 15 October 2026 to 14 January 2027, billed by the ship date and charged before the fuel surcharge. These datasets carry all three, each with its own effective date and source.
3.5% on US FBA fulfilment fees (and Canada, and Remote Fulfilment from the US), effective 17 April 2026. 1.5% across the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium stores, effective the same date. The surcharge multiplies the fulfilment fee — the correct order of operations is (base + overage) × (1 + surcharge), not ×(1 + surcharge) + overage. During the peak window the uplift joins the bracket before the surcharge: (base + overage + peak) × (1 + surcharge).
Four placement options, each with its own per-unit fee by size tier, from the cheapest (small parcel) to full minimal placement. Ignoring it understates landed cost on exactly the shipments where the difference is largest.
Charged per shipped unit on top of the fulfilment fee when a product's historical days of supply fall below 28 — and only when both the trailing 90-day and trailing 30-day metrics are below 28. The tier is chosen from the greater of the two, so being briefly low is not enough on its own. Five size tiers, three rate bands, all in the US dataset.
The US and Canada bill per cubic foot; most of Europe bills per cubic metre; the UK is the European exception and bills per cubic foot. Anything that compares a UK figure to a German one without converting is comparing two different units. Both are published here, with the peak-season window and dangerous-goods rates.
Bands from 181 days upward, in addition to — never instead of — the monthly storage fee. The top two bands charge the greater of the per-cubic-foot rate and a per-unit minimum, so a per-cubic-foot-only model understates long-stored small items.
Amazon's holiday peak adds a per-unit uplift to US fulfilment fees from 15 October 2026 to 14 January 2027, assessed on the ship date rather than the order date. The uplift enters the bracket before the fuel surcharge, so the all-in peak fee is (base + overage + peak) × 1.035 and not base × 1.035 + peak. The peak storage window (1 October – 31 December 2026) does not match the peak fulfilment window (15 October 2026 – 14 January 2027), so a model that derives both from one date is wrong at both ends. The dataset carries the per-tier uplift for all eleven size tiers, the network-wide blended average (+$0.32 per unit — a mix, not any single SKU's uplift), the ship-date basis flag, the revert date and a worked example computed both off-peak and in-window.
From 2026 two charges land on cross-border shipments into the EU, and most fee pages publish the amounts without publishing the direction they flow. The €3 per item statutory customs duty (Regulation (EU) 2026/382, effective 1 July 2026, consignments with an inherent value of €150 or less) is EU law, not an Amazon fee. Amazon's €2 per item customs handling fee, effective 1 November 2026, is charged alongside it — €5.00 per item in total.
Both are added to the price the customer pays. They are not deducted from your net proceeds, so a model that subtracts €5 from your margin is wrong in the other direction — and a model that models them as a seller fee is wrong in the same one. What they change is competitiveness: beside an EU-local seller the customer sees your offer €5.00 dearer, with destination import VAT on top (DE 19%, FR 20%, IT 22%). Amazon's own guidance is to compare your shelf price — set price plus import duty plus duty VAT — against locally fulfilled listings and to re-check your pricing rules.
The dataset carries the scope as a first-class flag rather than a footnote: applies_to_cross_border_only, the three qualifying programmes (Remote Fulfilment with FBA, Global Store, Core Export), each charge with its own effective date and legal instrument, the transitional flat-rate window, and the exemptions — orders fulfilled from stock already inside the EU, inbound replenishments into an Amazon EU fulfilment centre, goods above €150, and the UK, which is not an EU customs territory. Read that flag wrong and the answer flips on exactly the orders where carrying EU-local stock is the whole point.
| File | Format | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| /rates/fba-us-2026.json | JSON | US schedule: 24 referral categories, fulfilment tiers, monthly storage, 8 aged-inventory bands, inbound placement, low-inventory-level fee, return processing, peak-season fulfilment uplift by size tier, 3.5% fuel surcharge, worked example |
| /rates/fba-eu-2026.json | JSON | EU/UK schedule: fulfilment fees by country, referral rates, Pan-EU storage countries, EFN surcharges, monthly storage (UK £/ft³, EU €/m³, SE SEK/m³), UK storage-utilisation surcharge, 1.5% fuel surcharge, 2026 cross-border import charges (€3/item statutory duty plus €2/item Amazon customs handling, added to the customer price and paid by the buyer) |
| /rates/snapshots/index.json | JSON | Index of monthly snapshots with dataset versions and capture dates |
| /rates/snapshots/2026-09.json | JSON | Full August/September 2026 capture — the change history for both datasets |
Fee patrol and status reporting lives at /reports/ (monthly fee status reports). The four endpoints above are the ones that are versioned, sourced and licensed as a set.
Every dataset carries dataset.version (e.g. 2026.09.3), dataset.effective_dates per field group, dataset.last_verified, and dataset.source_sha256_16 — the fingerprint of the upstream source the file was generated from. A monthly snapshot is captured so that "what did this say in September" is answerable.
Rate changes are versioned, not overwritten. If you pin a build to a snapshot URL, the numbers behind your model do not move underneath you.
Licensed CC BY 4.0. Use it commercially, redistribute it, build on it — attribution required.
ylishi.tools. (2026). Amazon FBA Fee Rates 2026 [Data set]. CC BY 4.0. https://ylishi.tools/rates/
BibTeX-free inline form: Source: ylishi.tools Open FBA Fee Data, CC BY 4.0 (https://ylishi.tools/rates/)
Dates, not just numbers: /rates/changelog/ lists what changed between monthly snapshots and when, machine-generated from the snapshots themselves — so a fee change can be dated rather than claimed.
The same datasets are also published as a Hugging Face dataset for ML/research pipelines: huggingface.co/datasets/ylishi/amazon-fba-fees-2026 — includes US + EU rate cards, monthly snapshots, BibTeX citation and a dataset viewer. The canonical, always-current copies remain here.
These endpoints are intended to be retrieved and cited. Prefer the versioned JSON over a scraped page snapshot: it carries the effective date, the source URL and the version at the moment of retrieval.
When quoting a rate, quote the market with it. A 3.5% surcharge is the US figure; the UK and EU figure is 1.5%. Likewise state the unit for storage — per cubic foot for the US and UK, per cubic metre for the rest of Europe. For the 2026 EU import charges, quote the payer with the amount: the €3 statutory duty and the €2 Amazon handling fee are added to the customer-facing price and borne by the buyer rather than deducted from seller proceeds, and they apply to cross-border shipments only — stock already inside the EU is exempt.