While it doesn't cost anything to create an account with OpenSea and start browsing, fees apply for certain transactions.
OpenSea Fee:
OpenSea typically charges:
1% fee for selling NFTs, which is included in the price displayed to buyers. Fees are set at the time a listing or an offer is created.
10% fee for minting an NFT in a primary drop.
0.5% fee for token swaps. If you sign up for OpenSea with a referral code, you receive 10% off OpenSea’s fee on your token swaps. See How do referrals work on OpenSea?
0.01% fee for perps trades.
Additional details concerning each of these fee categories are provided below.
When you buy, sell, or mint an NFT, or swap tokens, you’ll be prompted to sign the transaction instructions in your wallet. Any OpenSea fee is part of those instructions. If the transaction does not execute, you do not pay any OpenSea fee. OpenSea never has custody or control of your wallet assets.
Fees are subject to change at any time.
Wrapping or unwrapping funds or simply sending funds from your wallet will not incur an OpenSea fee.
Gas fees
Gas fees are paid to blockchain validators for processing your transaction. Gas is not paid to OpenSea, and OpenSea does not control gas prices. Every blockchain transaction requires gas, including NFT purchases and sales, token swaps, and transfers of NFTs or tokens to another wallet. If a transaction fails, the gas paid for it is not refunded.
For NFT purchases and sales, only the person who submits the transaction pays gas for it: the buyer when buying a listed NFT, or the seller when accepting an offer.
On Ethereum and other EVM blockchains, creating an NFT listing or making an offer does not require gas, except for a one-time approval the first time you list an NFT from a collection or make an offer with a particular token (for example, WETH). If you revoke an approval or approve only an exact amount, you may need to approve again.
Solana fees work differently; see What fees do I pay on a Solana purchase or sale?
You can see a full list of gas fees that may apply to your transaction in our help guide What are gas fees?
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You can learn more about staying safe in web3 in our help guide. If you're experiencing a phishing attempt, here's how to report it.
Additional information about token swap fees
OpenSea’s integrated third-party swap liquidity providers may impose their own provider fees.
Additional information about perps fees
Hyperliquid charges its own trading fees on perpetuals. Each perps order you place with OpenSea also includes OpenSea’s 0.01% fee. Before your first perps trade, you’ll be asked to approve OpenSea’s fee in your wallet, and you may be asked again if that approval needs to be updated. For more information, see What are perpetuals on OpenSea?
Additional information about NFT fees
OpenSea may waive fees on certain types of sales at its discretion.
Creator earnings for NFT purchases and sales
Creator earnings are a portion of the secondary sale price that is paid to the original creator of the NFT.
A collection’s creator earnings are either required or optional. If they are required, every listing and offer for the collection must pay the creator’s set percentage. If they are optional, the creator can set a preferred percentage in the collection settings, and the seller decides whether to pay it.
Seller
If you’re a seller and earnings are optional for the collection you’re selling from, you’ll have the option of adding creator earnings when you list an item or accept an offer. By default, these will include the creator’s preferred earnings, but you can choose to adjust this percentage. There’s no minimum creator earnings percentage enforced for items from these collections.
Buyer
If you’re a buyer, you are responsible for paying the item price for the NFT. If the seller includes creator earnings in the sale, or earnings are required, a portion of the item price you paid will go to the creator of the NFT.
For more information about creator earnings, please check out our Help Center guide.
Private listings fees
OpenSea does not charge a fee on private listings (listings reserved for a specific buyer's wallet). Required creator earnings and gas fees still apply.